History of undefeated NCAA basketball champions – NBC Connecticut

The South Carolina ladies’s basketball staff is 2 wins away from perfection.

Daybreak Staley’s Gamecocks are coming into their fourth consecutive Remaining 4 having not misplaced a single sport all season.

That is truly the second straight NCAA Event the place South Carolina carried an ideal document within the Remaining 4. Final 12 months, the then-36-0 Gamecocks had been surprised by Caitlin Clark and the Iowa Hawkeyes within the nationwide semifinals.

Whereas South Carolina may nonetheless run into Clark and Co. once more, it will not be within the Remaining 4. This time round, the 36-0 Gamecocks are up towards No. 3 NC State, which is making simply its second Remaining 4 look and first since 1998.

Earlier than the Gamecocks and Wolfpack sq. off, this is a take a look at the historical past South Carolina is closing in on:

What number of undefeated NCAA ladies’s basketball champions have there been?

There was an undefeated champion 9 instances in ladies’s NCAA Event historical past. The uncommon feat has been achieved by 4 totally different packages: Baylor, Tennessee, Texas and UConn.

The 1985-86 Longhorns had been the primary to drag it off.

When was the final undefeated NCAA ladies’s basketball champion?

UConn is the one program with a number of unblemished championship seasons. Geno Auriemma’s Huskies went unbeaten a staggering six instances, with two coming in consecutive seasons.

This is a full take a look at every undefeated ladies’s champion:

Texas, 1985-86: 34-0

UConn, 1994-95: 35-0

Tennessee, 1997-98: 39-0

UConn, 2001-02: 39-0

UConn, 2008-09: 39-0

UConn, 2009-10: 39-0

Baylor, 2011-12: 40-0

UConn, 2013-14: 40-0

UConn, 2015-16: 38-0

What number of undefeated NCAA males’s basketball champions have there been?

There have been even fewer good championship seasons on the boys’s facet. It has been carried out a mixed seven instances by 4 totally different packages: Indiana, North Carolina, San Francisco and UCLA.

San Francisco turned the primary undefeated males’s champ in 1955-56.

When was the final undefeated NCAA males’s basketball champion?

It has been practically 50 years because the final unbeaten males’s champ, which was the 1975-76 Hoosiers. Gonzaga was getting ready to ending the drought in 2020-21, however the Bulldogs fell to Baylor within the nationwide title sport.

This is a full take a look at every time it has been carried out:

San Francisco, 1955-56: 29-0

North Carolina, 1956-57: 32-0

UCLA, 1963-64: 30-0

UCLA, 1966-67: 30-0

UCLA, 1971-72: 30-0

UCLA, 1972-73: 30-0

Indiana, 1975-76: 32-0

There’s a lot on the road within the 2024 males’s Remaining 4. UConn is trying to go back-to-back as champions whereas the opposite groups are searching for their first win, or first win in over 4 a long time.