Quantum Hoops

Quantum Hoops is a 2007 documentary film directed by Rick Greenwald, that follows the California Institute of Technologys basketball teamthe Caltech Beaversin their attempts to end a 21year losing streak during the final week of the 2006 basketball season.

As a college in NCAA Division III, the California Institute of Technology Caltech does not award athletic scholarships. While known for its high quality of faculty and research, it is small by comparison with other colleges, with just 2,200 total students and fewer than 900 undergraduates the NCAA generally restricts athletic eligibility to undergraduates. The school has a modest annual athletic budget of 1.1 million. It is therefore at a concerted disadvantage in college sports, being more academically minded than most colleges. Peter Roby, director of Northeastern Universitys Center for the Study of Sport in Society, said It is a tribute to their unwillingness to compromise their academic standards that they have endured for as long as they have. The basketball team was a product of what one writer described as perhaps the worst college basketball program ever.The Caltech mens basketball team, the Beavers, compete in the NCAA Division III and the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. Since their previous victory in 1985, the Beavers had not won a conference game inyearsa 259game losing streak the streak ended at 310 games when the team won a conference game against Occidental on February 22, 2011. The team had not won an NCAA Division III game foryears, and had not won any gameleague or nonleaguefor 60 games. ........

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