Undefeated teams in college basketball history: How Miami (Ohio) can join UCLA, others with perfect regular season

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As the college basketball regular season winds down, there is just one lone undefeated team remaining. That title goes to the Miami (OH) Redhawks, who have yet to lose a game all season, and are currently ranked No. 21 in the country.

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The RedHawks are the favorites to win the MAC, as well as finish the regular season undefeated. If Miami and head coach Travis Steele’s team pulls it off, it’ll mark the first time since the 2020-21 season to have a team go undefeated through the regular season.

Let’s take a look back at some of the previous undefeated teams in college basketball history, and how they fared in the NCAA Tournament.

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There have been a total of 20 teams to finish the regular season undefeated and enter the NCAA tournament unbeaten. The first one was the 1950-51 Columbia team, coached by Lou Rossini. The Lions finished a perfect 21-0, but fell in the first round of the NCAA tournament to No. 5 Illinois, 79-71.

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In the rest of the 1950s, we saw two more programs do it in the 1955-56 San Francisco team, and the 1957 North Carolina team, both of which won a national title. In the 1960s there were five teams that went undefeated, including Fred Taylor’s 1961 Ohio State team, and two of John Wooden’s UCLA teams in 1964 and 1967. Houston went unbeaten during the 1967-68 regular season, and Larry Weise’s  St. Bonaventure team went 22-0 the same year.

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