Written by Matt Zemek at Bloguin
The new college basketball season begins with a number of amazing streaks intact.
In two seasons, Kansas is likely to surpass North Carolina (27, from 1975 through 2001) for the most consecutive NCAA tournament appearances. The Jayhawks sit at 26 and show no signs of slowing down.
Currently, Stephen F. Austin is working on a streak of three straight seasons with at least 16 conference wins, 17 if one includes the conference tournament. That’s a remarkable feat. Other schools at all levels of college basketball manage to amaze us with their yearly feats. Everyone continues to aim at them, but they continue to thrive.
One can continue to provide examples of active college basketball streaks which deserve our highest respect and admiration. Three of them, however, acquire a particularly lofty place, and those are the ones we’ll unpack below:
3 – TWO STRAIGHT SEASONS IN WHICH THE SEC CHAMPION HAS GONE 21-0 IN LEAGUE PLAY
Is the SEC God’s gift to basketball? Anything but.
With that having been said, last year’s SEC produced five NCAA tournament teams. True, only one joined Kentucky in the round of 32, and none accompanied the Wildcats beyond that point. Still, it’s not as though every team other than Big Blue was the Little Sisters of the Poor. Moreover, every team that hosted Kentucky treated the occasion as its Super Bowl. Furthermore, it’s not as though Kentucky would have been a No. 2 seed (or a 1 seed shipped to the West) had it lost one of those SEC roadies. Yet, the Wildcats stayed on the wire every single time. They wobbled a few times but never fell off.
That’s extremely impressive.
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