First meeting | December 20, 1950 UCLA 68, Notre Dame 60 |
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Latest meeting | December 14, 2019 Notre Dame 75, UCLA 61 |
Statistics | |
Meetings total | 50 |
Most wins | UCLA |
All-time series | UCLA leads, 29–21 |
Largest victory | UCLA, 114–56 (1971) |
Longest win streak | UCLA, 7 (1980–1983) |
Current win streak | Notre Dame, 1 (2019–present) |
The University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish and University of California, Los Angeles Bruins have a rivalry in men's basketball. They also play occasionally in football.
Series history
[edit]UCLA had a basketball rivalry with Notre Dame that started when Digger Phelps was the Notre Dame coach and John Wooden was the UCLA coach. UCLA and Notre Dame played a home-and-home meeting for several seasons in the 1970s and 1980s, which is otherwise uncommon outside conference play. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the schools met once annually. This rivalry existed from the desire of the Notre Dame athletic department to schedule the top schools for intersectional competition, much as the Notre Dame–USC football rivalry. UCLA and Notre Dame played 42 times between 1966 and 1995, and the height of the rivalry was when Notre Dame ended UCLA's consecutive game winning streak at 88 on January 19, 1974. UCLA also broke a 60-game Notre Dame winning streak in South Bend.[1]
Former UCLA head coach Ben Howland had since scheduled Notre Dame four times: in 2004, 2005, 2008, and 2009.[2] Through the 2019-20 season, UCLA leads the all-time series 29–21.[3]
Game results
[edit]Notre Dame victories | UCLA victories |
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References
[edit]- ^ Harris, Beth (December 7, 2018). "Glory days: Notre Dame, UCLA rivalry back on after 9 years". AP. Retrieved January 17, 2019.
- ^ UCLA vs. Notre Dame: A rivalry the way they used to be
- ^ "UCLA Renews Historical Rivalry with Notre Dame on CBS". Archived from the original on 2012-03-23. Retrieved 2010-03-07.