NCAA Leaders

Sporting News, The, Jan 4, 1999

NO PLACE LIKE HOME

Entering the week, Murray State owned the nation's longest home-court winning streak, at 33 games. Arkansas (29), Duke (28) and Mississippi (27) were just behind.

But even if you combine all four of those runs, you still fall 12 games short of those all-time record of 129, which Kentucky set between 1943 and '55. Here are the top 10 NCAA Division I home-court win streaks.

Wins    Team                Seasons      Ended by             Score

129     Kentucky            1943-55      Georgia Tech         59-58
 99     St. Bonaventure     1948-61      Niagara              87-77
 98     UCLA                1970-76      Oregon               65-45
 86     Cincinnati          1957-64      Bradley              87-77
 81     Arizona             1945-51      Kansas State         76-57
        Marquette           1967-73      Notre Dame           71-69
 80     Lamar               1978-84      Louisiana Tech       68-65
 75     Long Beach St.      1968-74      San Francisco        94-84
 72     UNLV                1974-78      New Mexico          102-98
 71     Arizona             1987-92      UCLA                 89-87

GAMES TO WATCH

NORTH CAROLINA AT CLEMSON, 2 RM. ET SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, CBS: UNC, which already fell at Georgia Tech, tries to right itself in the ACC against the Tigers--7-0 at home. Clemson point Terrell McIntyre and center Harold Jamison will match up well with Ed Cora and Brendan Haywood.

ARIZONA AT UCLA, 10:30 RM. ET SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, FX: In a year or two, this may be the hottest college ticket around. For now, it's a chance to see whose top 30 recruits are maturing more quickly--Arizona's Richard Jefferson and Michael Wright or UCLA's Jerome Moiso, Dan Gadzuric (who is slowed by tendinitis) and JaRon Rush.

DUKE AT MARYLAND, 1:30 RM. ET SUNDAY, JANUARY 3, ESPN2: Two of college basketball's most exciting scorers in Duke's sharpshooting Trajan Langdon and Maryland's slashing Steve Francis go head-to-head when two of the country's top offenses meet. But take note, both offenses key off stunning defenses.