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The Cowboy golf team ended its UCLA basketball-esque streak in Ann Arbor on Saturday when it finished +11 at the NCAA golf regionals, 14 shots back of 5th place TCU (top five from each regional make the NCAA tournament).
OSU hasn’t missed the NCAA Championships since it introduced golf as a varsity sport in 1947. Like, literally never missed them.
Here are a few other stats from the streak:
- In a cruel twist of irony, Ann Arbor is actually where the streak began, when the Cowboys finished 5th at the’47 NCAAs, 12 shots behind LSU.
- From then until now they’ve posted 55 top tens, 51(!) top fives, 29 top threes, and won it 10 times.
- Over a 14-year span from 1975 to ’88, OSU finished first or second at the NCAA Championship 13 times.
- In its 65 previous NCAA Championship appearances, OSU’s average finish is 5.2, an NCAA record.
- OSU’s wrestling team missed the NCAAs once from 1947-2012 also. So in the last 132 wrestling/golf championships, OSU has played for the title in 130 of them. Is that good?
Also, just to give you some better context on how long it’s been, here are some facts and figures from the year 1946 (the last time OSU wasn’t in the NCAA Championships):
Cost of new house – $5,600
Average salary – $2,500 (a year!)
Gas – $0.15 (a gallon!)
Cost of a new car – $1,120
Men’s ties – $1.50 (some of you probably still pay this)
Here were your popular musicians…
Frank Sinatra
Bing Crosby
Duke Ellington
And here are a few people who weren’t even born yet…
Stephen King
Elton John
George W. Bush
David Letterman
O. J. Simpson
When I first saw the “UCLA basketball-esque streak ended” quote I thought you were crazy down right nuts comparing anything to that!!! But you know what your exactly right. That streak is amazing and the 14 yr run of finishing 13 times 1st or 2nd is beastly! Kinda makes it even more sad its over but at the same time I dont think most people including myself knew the streak was going on for that long or just how amazing it was!!!