“I’d probably like to scream with happiness into the microphone. I am extremely happy that in my career, when USK absolutely dominates the whole time, we did it and we beat them,” Petra Záplatová from Brno’s Žabin told TV Nova.
In the second final, they won 71:69 at home with their teammates, leveling the series at 1:1. And above all, they ended the unprecedented winning streak of USK Prague!
It lasted almost 11 years and 301 matches.
The ČTK agency published that USK had long since broken the record of their Monday killers. The well-known club from Žabovřesk ruled the whole of Europe at the turn of the millennium and did not lose at home in 256 matches between February 1998 and February 2007, narrowly surpassing the players of Slovakia’s Ružomberok with 253 triumphs.
Among the men, Nymburk won the longest continuously on home boards, having triumphed “only” 93 times in a row.
Other popular domestic team sports? Phe, where are they digging at USK!
Photo: Patrik Uhlíř, CTK
Žabin Brno basketball players are celebrating. They didn’t win the title, but the first game in the title series against USK Prague.
Slavia football players won 23 games in a row between 1929 and 1930, Liberec hockey players collected 14 victories in a row in the 2015/16 season. The undefeated series is not significantly longer either – the Slavist football team has 54 matches between March 2020 and October 2021, the Vsetin hockey team 19 duels in the year 1998/99.
The longest winning streak in the overseas NBA, which was taken care of by the players of the Los Angeles Lakers, is in similar numbers. At the turn of 1971 and 1972, they won 33 matches in a row. The University of California basketball players went undefeated through the NCAA competition for three years, during which time they collected 88 consecutive wins.
Monday’s conclusion of the impressive Prague series highlights the course of the second final. The home Brňans were still losing by 15 (!) points in the final quarter.
That is why the win was celebrated as a title in the Rosnička hall.
“Nothing is impossible,” Brno pivot Natálie Stoupalová marveled in front of the CT camera. “I am most proud of our team and happy. We deserved it. It’s like winning the title for us.”
By the way, he is still being played for.
The streak of three victories moves to Prague on Friday, the fourth duel is scheduled for Sunday again in Brno.
USK, led by coach Natália Hejková, has been one of the top European teams for years, and now they are aiming for the fourteenth domestic gold in a row. If he gets it, it won’t be without hesitation for more than a decade.
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