Kentucky vs. Georgia Tech, 1955
College Basketball has several records that probably will never be broken, among them UCLA’s seven consecutive national championships, former Bruin coach John Wooden’s 10 national titles in 12 years and Pete Maravich’s scoring average of 44.2 points a game during his career at Louisiana State. But the safest record of all must be Kentucky’s 129-game home court winning streak, which began after a 45-40 loss to Ohio State on Jan. 2, 1943, and lasted until a 59-58 loss to Georgia Tech on Jan. 8, 1955. The Tech coach in ’55 was John (Whack) Hyder, now 81 and still living in Atlanta. “We caught Kentucky off guard that night,” Hyder says. “It was the first time I ever saw grown people cry over a basketball loss. They just sat there, too shocked to move.”
