Seasons of Splendor in College Basketball

Kansas’ chance for an undefeated season ended Tuesday with a loss to Missouri. Here are the teams that have finished the season, including a postseason tournament (NCAA or NIT), undefeated since 1938:

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TEAM, YEAR RECORD Long Island-Brooklyn, 1939 24-0 Seton Hall, 1940 19-0 Army, 1944 15-0 Kentucky, 1954 25-0 San Francisco, 1956 29-0 North Carolina, 1957 32-0 UCLA, 1964 30-0 UCLA, 1967 30-0 UCLA, 1972 30-0 UCLA, 1973 30-0 North Carolina State, 1973 *27-0 Indiana, 1976 32-0

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* Did not play in NCAA or NIT.

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The following are teams that finished the regular season undefeated but then lost in the NCAA tournament or NIT:

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TEAM, YEAR RECORD Loyola, Ill., 1939 20-0, 21-1 Seton Hall, 1941 19-0, 20-2 Columbia, 1951 21-0, 21-1 Ohio State, 1961 24-0, 27-1 Houston, 1968 28-0, 31-2 St. Bonaventure, 1968 22-0, 23-2 Marquette, 1971 26-0, 28-1 Penn, 1971 26-0, 28-1 Indiana, 1975 29-0, 31-1 Rutgers, 1976 28-0, 31-2 Indiana State, 1979 27-0, 33-1 Alcorn State, 1979 25-0, 28-1 Nevada Las Vegas, 1991 30-0, 34-1

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Note: Teams with two losses also lost in a tournament consolation game.

Source: NCAA.