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Oklahoma broke the NCAA file for the longest win streak in DI softball historical past with an 8-7 win on Might 27, 2023, its forty eighth in a row, to shut out an excellent regional sweep over Clemson.
The Sooners’ streak surpassed Arizona, who received 47 straight video games throughout the 1996-97 seasons. Oklahoma would proceed its streak to 71 consecutive wins, together with a 2023 WCWS title run and 18 straight wins to open the 2024 season, earlier than shedding to Louisiana at house on March 3, 2024.
This is a deeper take a look at the longest successful streaks in DI faculty softball historical past.
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Oklahoma received 71 video games <\/strong>in a row throughout the 2023-24 seasons, together with 53 straight wins to shut out the 2023 season with a Ladies’s School World Collection title adopted by 18 straight victories to start out the 2024 common season. The Sooners’ file forty eighth straight win got here in Sport 2 of the 2023 tremendous regionals \u2014 the Sooners trailed 7-4 within the seventh and have been all the way down to their final out and final strike when Kinzie Hansen despatched an 0-2 pitch over the fence for a game-tying three-run bomb. OU then got here again to take the lead within the high of the ninth and held off Clemson to advance to its seventh-straight journey to the WCWS. The record-breaking win, that beat Arizona’s file set in 1997, was much more vital as a result of it was the Sooners’ final sport performed on Marita Hynes Discipline.\u00a0
The Wildcats owned the longest streak in NCAA softball historical past till 2023 Oklahoma got here round. Arizona received 47 video games<\/strong> in a row from April 5, 1996 to March 23, 1997. The staff took house the championship in\u00a0each seasons, and completed with a mixed 119-16 file in these two seasons.
Oklahoma’s win streak ended\u00a0at 41\u00a0video games<\/strong> after the Sooners misplaced to Wisconsin of their third NCAA match sport. OU was creeping up on Arizona’s all-time streak of 47 however fell six quick. Oklahoma’s completed convention play with a pristine 18-0 file. The Sooners’ 41\u00a0consecutive wins is the longest win streak within the span of a single season.
Oklahoma put\u00a040 wins <\/strong>collectively, a run that began within the 2021 WCWS Finals, together with successful the nationwide title, and prolonged to a 38-0 begin within the 2022 season \u2014 breaking the file to greatest begin to a season. Star Jocelyn Alo also broke the career home run record<\/a> through the streak as OU received 31 of their 38 video games in 2022 by run-rule. However Texas halted the streak with a 4-2 win on April 16.
The Sooners received 40 video games<\/strong> in a row, beginning after they received their final seven video games of the 2020 season, which acquired halted as a consequence of COVID-19. OU then continued to win in 2021, not falling till Georgia upset the No. 1 Sooners on April 20. Oklahoma would finish the season 56-4 with a nationwide championship.
The Gamecocks went 38 video games<\/strong> and not using a loss or tie proper across the identical time Arizona was by itself streak. South Carolina\u00a0went 63-5 that season. After securing its first SEC common season and match championships, the Gamecocks superior\u00a0to their first ever Ladies’s School World Collection, the place they bowed out after shedding to\u00a0Washington and Michigan.
Florida’s 37-game<\/strong> win streak from March 12 to Might 18\u00a0helped the staff make its\u00a0first Ladies’s School World Collection. The Gators went 70-5 general and 27-1 in SEC play. In a present of simply how a lot expertise this group had, Stacey Nelson, Kim Waleszonia, Aja Paculba, Francesca Enea, and Ali Gardiner all made the All-America staff.
The Tigers notched what was then an NCAA file with 37 wins<\/strong> in a row from March 20 to April 28 earlier than shedding 3-1 to Brown. In fact, Princeton would not maintain onto this file for lengthy. However just a few groups have handed them within the 20-plus years since.\u00a0The 1996 staff additionally completed the yr ranked No. 1 within the Northeast Area for the second straight yr. Earlier than that, the Tigers had been the highest ranked staff solely as soon as earlier than in 1985.
The latest staff on the checklist acquired right here with a 35-game<\/strong> win streak that lasted from February 9 to April 4. The Geese tied an NCAA record<\/a> as a result of their win streak got here within the first 35 video games of the season. They did not register a loss on the yr till April 7, when UCLA handed Oregon the primary of back-to-back losses. The Geese completed 54-8 on the season.
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UCLA’s 35-game <\/strong>win streak is considered one of just a few on this checklist to return in a championship-winning season. The Bruins broke college data for wins, runs, whole bases, house runs, RBIs, doubles, hits, walks and steals. They ended the season with a 63-6 file.
Beneath coach Mike Rappl, Canisius ripped off a then-NCAA file\u00a035-game<\/strong> win streak that put each the coach and the staff on the map. The staff went 36-3 that season. The Golden Griffins additionally had their win streak come within the first 35 video games of the season. After shedding sport two of a doubleheader towards UMass on Might 8, the staff went 1-2 the remainder of the best way.
Cal State Fullerton was the first<\/em> staff in NCAA softball historical past\u00a0to get to 35 consecutive wins<\/strong>. The Titans have been no strangers to the highlight by then, having received a nationwide championship in 1986. They’d get there once more in 1987 after going undefeated from March 6 to April 21.
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One other current winner, the Gators had a 34-game <\/strong>successful streak. They did not match their 37-game win streak from 2008, however this Florida staff outdid its predecessor the place it counts: these Gators took house the nationwide championship with a win over Michigan within the Ladies’s School World Collection remaining.
Arizona’s personal 34-game<\/strong> win streak was bookended by losses to Washington. The Wildcats went on to tear off a 13-game successful streak earlier than shedding within the opening spherical of the Ladies’s School World Collection. It was solely the second time since 1990\u00a0that the Wildcats did not<\/em> make the nationwide title sport.<\/p>\n