It's Over -- Cal Tech wins a conference game

[MileHigh]

No link yet, but I'm hearing that the Cal Tech men's basketball team, losers of 310 straight Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference games spanning 26 years and the focus of the movie Quantum Leaps, beat Occidental tonight to end its dubious streak.

"Caltech hit a free throw with 3 second left. missed the back end, but Oxy could only get off a wild shot."

Start the parade in Pasadena ... and the burning of Eagle Rock.

 

[LongTimeListener]

That was a very good movie, surprisingly good.

 

[MileHigh]

There's got to be Champagne flowing in that locker room.

 

[dmortimer]

LA Times link: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2011/02/caltech-basketball-snaps-310-game-conference-losing-streak.html

 

[HanSenSE]

LA Times link: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2011/02/caltech-basketball-snaps-310-game-conference-losing-streak.html

Comments are priceless!

 

[Baron Scicluna]

It's also been a while since they won a bowl game too.

 

[MileHigh]

That video is awesome from the LAT website. If ever there was a time to storm the court.

I covered a couple of their games back in the day when I was on the part-time SCIAC beat. Coaches and teams were fearful of being "the team" that lost to them to end the streak -- and that was 15 years ago. Good for them.

 

[zebracoy]

Quotes from the school website? You mean they didn't staff the game?!

 

[expendable]

Overjoyed.

 

[BYH]

That was pretty damn awesome. Got a few goosebumps watching that celebration.

The PA guy was great. Sounded like he'd been possessed by a demon: "TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AND MORE THAN 300 LOSSES!!!!"

How about the random guy screaming "WE WON!!!!!!" about a minute in?

 

[Jake_Taylor]

Quotes from the school website? You mean they didn't staff the game?!

You only cover us when we lose 300 in a row.

 

[MileHigh]

Quotes from the school website? You mean they didn't staff the game?!

Pasadena Star News/LANG has been covering the conference games this year. Their reporter stopped in after covering a prep game and was there for the last five minutes, I was told.

http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/ci_17458168?source=rss_viewed

Should have gotten more play on A1 of the Pasadena paper.

http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/hr.asp?fpVname=CA_PSN&ref_pge=gal&b_pge=1

And now the Cal Tech coach will try to end another losing streak: He'll be an honorary coach the Washington Generals against the Globetrotters on Thursday in Bakersfield.

http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/news/ci_17462227

 

[MileHigh]

Plaschke weighs in.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-plaschke-caltech-basketball-20110224,0,4852062.column

As several hundred howling fans swarmed the court in the tiny recreation center gym on Caltech's campus, freshman guard Todd Cramer was embraced by an older, distinguished-looking man.

"I thought, wait a minute, that's the school president, and he just rushed the court?" Cramer said. "How cool."

 

[Armchair_QB]

NERRRRRRRRRDDDDSSSSSSS!!!!!!!

 

[buckweaver]

Should have gotten more play on A1 of the Pasadena paper.

I think their deadline is like 9:50 p.m. at this point. ;)

 

[MileHigh]

Should have gotten more play on A1 of the Pasadena paper.

I think their deadline is like 9:50 a.m. at this point. ;)

Fixed.

 

[HanSenSE]

(Bump) to add baseball:

http://www.mercurynews.com/sports-headlines/ci_22509061/caltech-baseball-team-ends-228-game-skid

 

[dixiehack]

Big whoop. Everyone knows they're a bunch of cheaters.