Streak Smarts

From a USC press release about men's water polo:

OK... everyone is wondering where the Trojans’ 44-game winning streak that spanned the 2005 and 2006 seasons stands. By hitting win No. 35 with its win over UCLA, the team passed up the USC football program’s storied win streak, which was snapped in the 2005 national championship game just a month after the USC water polo team claimed the 2005 NCAA title. Water polo’s 44-game run well overtook the program’s previous best winning streak of 17 games, but it was still seven wins short of the all-time longest men’s water polo winning streak in the country — held at 51 by Stanford (1985-87). At Troy, USC women’s volleyball put up a 52-match winning streak across the 2002-03-04 seasons.