# Has this ever been done before? (college sports) **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [February 21, 2020, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-this-ever-been-done-before-college-sports/848276 "2020-02-21T02:31:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Thing\_Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@Thing\_Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing_Fish)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-this-ever-been-done-before-college-sports/848276/1 "2020-02-21T02:31:32Z")
The Oregon Ducks are currently just a few very winnable basketball games from going undefeated at home this year in football and both men’s and women’s basketball; their aggregate home record is currently 39-0. Has any school ever done this before? ---
**Author:** ![russian\_heel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f05b48/32.png) [@russian\_heel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/russian_heel)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-this-ever-been-done-before-college-sports/848276/2 "2020-02-21T04:08:29Z")
Wild guess maybe Connecticut? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-this-ever-been-done-before-college-sports/848276/3 "2020-02-21T12:24:49Z")
Undefeated in football is fairly common, but I’ve never heard of undefeated in basketball. Men’s and women’s basketball, and football at the same time, would I expect be unprecedented. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-this-ever-been-done-before-college-sports/848276/4 "2020-02-21T13:11:33Z")
Does it count considering that football season was technically last year? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-this-ever-been-done-before-college-sports/848276/5 "2020-02-21T16:01:51Z")
> [@russian\_heel](#): > > Wild guess maybe Connecticut? They’ve not been a particularly strong football program in recent decades (i.e., when the basketball teams have been good), and looking at [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UConn_Huskies_football), it appears that the only season they’ve had where the football team was undefeated may have been 1924, when they were 6-0-2. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-this-ever-been-done-before-college-sports/848276/6 "2020-02-21T16:05:26Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > Does it count considering that football season was technically last year? I’d say it’s all in the same academic year, so I’d count it. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-this-ever-been-done-before-college-sports/848276/7 "2020-02-21T16:13:34Z")
Note the question is about going undefeated **at home**. It’s still quite an accomplishment, but not quite the same as undefeated overall. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-this-ever-been-done-before-college-sports/848276/8 "2020-02-21T17:50:00Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > Note the question is about going undefeated **at home**. It’s still quite an accomplishment, but not quite the same as undefeated overall. Ahh, thank you for the clarification. That makes it a bit harder to research. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-this-ever-been-done-before-college-sports/848276/9 "2020-02-21T20:11:25Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Ahh, thank you for the clarification. That makes it a bit harder to research. 🙂 ESPN has each Division I school’s home records in those three sports going back to 2003. It’s probably going to be really hard to get information on women’s basketball before the NCAA started running it in, IIRC, 1981 (certainly by 1982). ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-this-ever-been-done-before-college-sports/848276/10 "2020-02-21T20:43:35Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Undefeated in football is fairly common, but I’ve never heard of undefeated in basketball. Men’s and women’s basketball, and football at the same time, would I expect be unprecedented. There have been 7 men’s basketball teams in the NCAA era who have gone undefeated; most of them were by UCLA’s dominant teams in the 60’s and 70’s (thanks, Bill Walton and Lew Alcindor), it includes a San Francisco team with Bill Russell in the paint, and the last was Bobby Knight’s Indiana Hoosiers in 1976. > **[The 7 undefeated college basketball national champions in the NCAA tournament...](https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/article/2021-03-31/7-undefeated-college-basketball-national-champions-ncaa-tournament-era?amp=)** > > Not a single NCAA Division I men's basketball national champion has finished the season undefeated since Indiana in 1976. Here are all seven undefeated national champions in college basketball in the NCAA tournament era. ---
**Author:** ![russian\_heel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f05b48/32.png) [@russian\_heel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/russian_heel)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2020, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-this-ever-been-done-before-college-sports/848276/11 "2020-02-22T02:25:54Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > They’ve not been a particularly strong football program in recent decades (i.e., when the basketball teams have been good), and looking at [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UConn_Huskies_football), it appears that the only season they’ve had where the football team was undefeated may have been 1924, when they were 6-0-2. Misread the question thought it was Mens and Womens basketball only. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2020, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-this-ever-been-done-before-college-sports/848276/12 "2020-02-22T02:43:16Z")
In division 3 UW Platteville went undefeated in men’s basketball (under Bo Ryan). No idea on the women’s team. Brian ---
**Author:** ![Pixel\_Dent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@Pixel\_Dent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixel_Dent)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-this-ever-been-done-before-college-sports/848276/13 "2020-03-03T14:34:40Z")
Cornell Men’s and Women’s hockey teams just finished their regular seasons with undefeated home records. A combined 27-0-3. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-this-ever-been-done-before-college-sports/848276/14 "2020-03-03T16:04:25Z")
Going off ESPN’s site: Austin Peay was undefeated at home in 2002-03 in both basketballs, but not football. Iowa, Ohio State (x2), BYU, Wisconsin have all been undefeated at home in MBB and Football, but not WBB. There are like 6-7 basketball teams that go undefeated at home every year, it’s not terribly uncommon. Kansas, Duke, Kentucky, Gonzaga, Ohio State, Illinois, Arizona, and others have all done it multiple times in recent memory. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2020, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-this-ever-been-done-before-college-sports/848276/15 "2020-03-08T15:05:22Z")
Oregon men’s BB won their final home game last night, so the hypothetical is now true.