College Team Breaks 26-Year Losing Streak

CalTech's basketball squad finally wins a conference game

California Institute of Technology's sports teams are no strangers to losing. The baseball team has lost more than 400 consecutive conference games, and the women’s volleyball team hasn’t earned a single conference win since its inception in 2000, notes FailureMag. But yesterday, CalTech’s men’s basketball team beat Occidental College 46-45, giving the program its first Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference win since 1985. See the video in the gallery. (More college basketball stories.)

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