The most important shocker of the week — if not longer — in school basketball transpired within the Pacific Northwest on Thursday evening when Loyola Marymount upset No. 6 Gonzaga 68-67 at The Kennel.
Gonzaga entered the night with the longest dwelling successful streak in males’s Division I basketball. The NCAA formally acknowledged it to be 76 video games, although the streak was 75 in a row at The Kennel. Earlier this season, Gonzaga beat Kentucky at close by Spokane Enviornment, which contributed the +1 to the streak, which is now kaput.
The win for LMU (14-7, 4-3 WCC) marked the primary time a customer beat the Bulldogs (16-4, 5-1) on the McCarthey Athletic Middle since Saint Mary’s virtually 5 years in the past to the day: Jan. 18, 2018.
The Lions, who had been 16.5-point underdogs, ended a 32-year drought of futility on Gonzaga’s campus. Their final win at GU got here in 1991, when LMU was on the descent from its peak as a program within the late ’80s. LMU additionally snapped a 25-game general shedding streak to the Zags; its final win on this collection got here on Feb. 18, 2010, at LMU.
Auburn‘s 28-game dwelling successful streak is now the longest within the nation.
Thursday evening additionally marked the primary time in 93 video games that Gonzaga misplaced to an unranked opponent; it final occurred in November 2019 towards Michigan within the Battle 4 Atlantis event within the Bahamas.
An upset of this magnitude means streaks and droughts galore acquired detonated Thursday evening. To beat a top-10 crew is uncommon for a program like Loyola Marymount, which final pulled off the feat within the 1961 NCAA Event towards USC, based on ESPN Stats and Data.
The outcome dropped Gonzaga from ninth to 14th at KenPom.com.
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