PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Caltech has ended a 310-game conference losing streak in men’s basketball, beating Occidental College 46-45 in its season finale Tuesday night.
Ryan Elmquist hit the go-ahead free throw with 3 seconds left for the Beavers, who had lost every Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference game they had played since Jan. 23, 1985.
Division III Caltech is a famed private research university with a heavy emphasis on science and engineering. The school has just 950 undergraduates, but 31 alumni and faculty have won the Nobel Prize.
The Beavers finished the season 5-20, its best record in 15 years.
Back in 2007, Caltech ended an NCAA-record 207-game losing streak.
