It somehow became the stock phrase for every basketball pundit and sportscaster this year. To win the national championship "All you gotta do is win six games in a row." It's a gross oversimplification, but has that nice bit of folksy obviousness people like to quote, so it spread like wildfire. One of ESPN commentators, as loathe as I am to admit it, I believe it was Jay Bilas, responded to the line with "Well, what teams managed to win six games in a row during the regular season?"
Good question. And I'm just the idiot with the spare time to answer it. So:
- North Carolina - 12 game winning streak
- Kansas - 10 and 11 (ongoing) game streaks
- Florida - 6 and 17
- Ohio State - 6 and 17 (ongoing)
- Texas A&M - 7 and 9
- Georgetown - 7 and 11
- Wisconsin - 17
- UCLA - 14
- Memphis - 22 (ongoing)
- Duke - 9
- Maryland - 7 and 8
- Pittsburgh - 7 and 10
- Michigan State - 7
- Louisville - 7
- Texas - 6
- Notre Dame - 6 and 12
- Kentucky - 11
- Oregon - 6 (ongoing) and 13
- Purdue - 6
- Arizona - 12
- Illinois - 7
- Butler - 9 and 10
- Marquette - 8 and 8
- Washington State - 7
- Xavier - 9
- Southern Illinois - 13
- Tennessee - 9
- Boston College - 6 and 6
- Virginia - 7
- Vanderbilt - 7
- UNLV - 7 (ongoing) and 10
- Brigham Young - 7 and 8
- Nevada - 7, 9 and 10
- Old Dominion - 12
- Winthrop - 18 (ongoing)
- Virginia Commonwealth - 7 and 10
- Davidson - 12 and 13 (ongoing)
- George Washington - 8 (ongoing)
- Oral Roberts - 9
- New Mexico State - 13
- Wright State - 9
- Holy Cross - 12
- Pennsylvania - 10 (ongoing)
- Texas A&M Corpus Christi - 6 (ongoing) and 10
- Long Beach State - 6 (ongoing) and 9
- Albany - 8
- Niagra - 11 (ongoing)
- Central Connecticut - 12
- Eastern Kentucky - 7
- Kansas - 11 (ongoing)
- Florida - 11
- Ohio State - 17 (ongoing)
- Georgetown - 11
- Wisconsin - 7
- Maryland - 7
- Louisville -7
- Texas - 6
- Notre Dame - 6
- Oregon - 6 (ongoing)
- Marquette - 8
- Virginia - 7