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I have written several blog entries here about recent streaks in sports - those by the University of Connecticut women's basketball team and by NFL quarterback Brett Favre. So here's another one about a different sort of streak in sports, a bad one that just ended. On February 22, 2011, the Caltech men's basketball team won a game, which they had not done since January 23, 1985. I was alive then, but I bet some of you readers were not! Their streak of 310 losses finally ended with a come-from-behind win over Occidental College, 46-45.
Caltech (the California Institute of Technology) is a small private school in Pasadena. It is a really really good school, especially in science and engineering, and it numbers 32 alumni and faculty who have received a Nobel Prize. Goodness. Per Wikipedia, the Ohio State University can claim four Nobel laureates, and my own school, the University of Michigan, can point to seven. Add these together, multiply by three, and the Caltech Nobel accomplishment is exceeded, barely.
After the game, the Caltech coach said, "Tonight's win is a testament to the hard work [of] each member of this team." I bet that hard work will pay off in other and more important venues.
I say hail to the Beavers, and I say hail to true student-athletes.
