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Virtually every sport has at least a handful of unbreakable records that will seemingly stand until the end of time. That includes college basketball, as there are some players and teams that have managed to set some marks that will probably never be surpassed.

These are the most unbreakable college basketball records

Vanderbilt, Iowa, and Chicago are among the schools that can make a claim to being involved in the first-ever college basketball game, as that particular pastime has a history that stretches back to the 1890s.

Plenty of records have been repeatedly set and broken over the past 130 years or so, but there are some that have earned the “unbreakable” distinction based on the stars that would need to align for a changing of the guard.

For the purpose of this list, I’m going to consider the NCAA as a whole as opposed to focusing solely on Division I (I’m also looking primarily at men’s teams, but I will give the women their flowers when it’s applicable). I will also do what I can to supplement stats in situations where lower levels come into play, like…

Most Points Scored By A Player In A Game: 138—Jack Taylor

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A number of college coaches were inspired by the “run-and-gun” system that Paul Westhead famously deployed during his time at Loyola Marymount. The strategy revolved around shooting as many three-pointers as possible while maximizing the number of possessions and wearing out the opposing team, and David Arseneault harnessed a similar approach as the head coach at Grinnell College, a DII program in Iowa.

His son, David Arseneault Jr., had taken over when Jack Taylor arrived as a sophomore after transferring from UW-La Crosse. The so-called “Grinnell System” revolved around frequent substitutions to prevent players from getting tired, but the skipper decided to give the guard some extra playing time to get out of a shooting slump he was dealing with toward the start of the season in 2012.

It’s safe to say he turned a corner when Grinell faced off against Faith Baptist Bible College on November 20th of that year. Taylor ended up with 138 points while going  52-of-108 from the floor, sinking 27 of the 71 three-pointers he attempted, and adding seven free throws for good measure in his team’s 179-104 victory (all of those points, shots, and attempts—aside from the free throws —set individual NCAA records that will probably never be beaten ).

Furman’s Frank Selvy currently holds the Division I scoring record, as he became the only player to score exactly 100 points when he dropped triple digits on Newberry in 1954.

Most Points Scored By One Team In A Game: 258—Troy

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Troy coach Don Maestri also adopted Westhead’s strategy during his time with the Trojans, who were competing as a Division II school that was still known as “Troy State” when they played DeVry on January 12, 1992.

That squad had already set an NCAA record against the same team the previous year when they scored 187 points. However, they blew that total out of the water with the 258-14 victory in a contest where defense was the ultimate afterthought.

Troy’s Terry McCord ended up with a game-high 41 points, and he was one of eight Trojans who ended up with at least 20. The contest is responsible for the most combined points in a game at 399, and the 51 three-pointers the winning team made are also an NCAA record.

It’s worth noting that a video review of the game suggests Troy actually ended up with 253 points, but I think it will be safe either way.

Most Consecutive Points By A Single Player: 54—Bill Mlkvy

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There are plenty of college basketball teams that deploy an offense that revolves around their best player. That can result in those stars going on some impressive runs, but it also opens up the door for their teammates to get in on the action if the opposing team overcommits to shutting them down.

However, Wilkes College didn’t have an answer for Temple’s Bill Mlkvy when the two teams faced off in 1951. The Owls star ended up outscoring the opposing team on his own while recording 73 points—54 of which he scored during a run where he was the only Temple player to contribute to the cause while leading his team to a 99-69 win.

Most Consecutive Wins By A Team: 88—UCLA

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The legendary John Wooden constructed an unparalleled college basketball dynasty during the 27 seasons he spent as the head coach at UCLA, as the Bruins won 10 national championships in the span of 12 years starting in 1964. That included a run of seven in a row between 1967 and 1973—a stretch that encompassed a winning streak that will almost certainly never be topped.

UCLA got off to a 13-0 start during the 1967-68 season before falling to Houston in the so-called “Game of the Century.” The Bruins responded by winning 88 games in a row, as they had two undefeated seasons and ended up at 13-0 once again during the 1973-74 campaign before Notre Dame ended the streak with a 71-70 win in South Bend.

It’s worth noting that UConn’s women’s team has surpassed that mark on two different occasions, as the Huskies reached 90 wins in 2010 before outdoing themselves by going 111 games without a loss between 2014 and 2017. However, the closest anyone has come on the men’s side is the 45 wins UNLV had in the early 1990s.

Most Consecutive National Championship: 7—UCLA

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I’m going to stick with the theme here, as there are seven men’s teams that have won the NCAA Tournament in back-to-back years.

However, UCLA is the only one that’s been able to pull off a threepeat en route to winning a national championship on seven straight occasions.

Most Consecutive Wins By A Team At Home: 129—Kentucky

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Home-court advantage can give teams a sizeable edge over the rest of the competition, but no school has reaped the benefits more than Kentucky did during Adolph Rupp’s reign in Lexington.

The Wildcats kicked this streak off by bouncing back from a loss to Ohio State on January 2, 1943 with a win over Fort Knox a couple of days later.

Fans who attended a Kentucky home game would have to wait almost 12 years to the day to see them fall on their own turf again, as they won 129 contests in front of a friendly crowd before Georgia Tech handed them a 59-58 loss at Memorial Coliseum on January 8, 1955.

Most Career Points In The NCAA Tournament: 407—Christian Laettner

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No player appeared in more NCAA Tournament games than Christian Laettner, who suited up for Duke on 23 separate occasions. He was a freshman when the Blue Devils made it to the Final Four, and he helped them win two national championships as an upperclassman who competed in three title games before graduating.

The 407 points he scored during March Madness make him the only men’s player who surpassed the 400 mark, and no one has really come close when you consider Elvin Hayes has the silver medal in that category with 358.

There are eight members of the 400 Club on the women’s side, and no one has scored more points while competing in March Madness than the 492 that Caitlin Clark ended up with.

Highest Career Scoring Average: 44.2 Points Per Game—Pete Maravich

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It looked like Detroit Mercy’s Antoine Davis had the chance to break Pete Maravich’s all-time record of 3,667 points, but he ended up a three-pointer away from tying that total by the time his college career came to an end after five seasons in 2023.

However, it would have deserved a major asterisk, as “Pistol Pete” only had three seasons to set that record at LSU due to an NCAA rule that barred freshmen from being members of a varsity team.

Maravich officially averaged 44.2 points per game in the 83 contests he played as a Tiger (Davis appeared in 133 for the Titans), which puts him firmly above the second man on that list: Austin Carr, who averaged a relatively paltry 34.6 during his time at Notre Dame.

Most Consecutive Weeks In The Top 25: 231—Kansas

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I’m putting this one last because it seemed like there was a chance no one would ever surpass the 221 weeks UCLA spent in the Top 25 between 1967 and 1980; Duke came as close as anyone had with a run of 200 that began in 1997, but the Bruins were able to breathe a sigh of relief after an end in 2007.

However, Kansas kicked off a streak of its own in 2009, and when everything was said and done, the Jayhawks had a number next to their name for 231 weeks in a row before they dropped out of the AP Poll toward the start of February in 2021.

As of this writing, Houston holds the longest active streak at 108 weeks, but the Cougars still have plenty of work to do if they want to take the top spot.