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March Madness, that postseason basketball binge of million-dollar sponsorships under the guise of amateur athletics, is upon us once again. The players at Caltech, who compete in the NCAA's Division III, its lowest rung, will never get an invite to that party. Playoffs? Caltech coach Roy Dow is looking for kids who can hang on to the ball. The team just finished 1-24 and, for the 23rd straight season, failed to win a game in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. The legendary science-and-engineering school may have 31 Nobel Prize winners to its name...
...applied-math major, Travis Haussler knows plenty about probability. But when asked to explain how the universe could allow Caltech, the college basketball team on which he plays, to lose 273 straight league games since 1985, Haussler is stumped. The Beavers--nature's engineers--had just dropped another heartbreaker, an overtime defeat to the University of La Verne, 80-74. Playing on its home court in Pasadena, the California Institute of Technology (Caltech's full name) had a 9-point lead in the first half. Yet the Beavers kept the most infamous streak in college hoops alive. "One little rebound...
Just eight of Caltech's 15 players even played on their high school hoops team. And if they gain any attention on the court now, it's just for being part of a spectacular losing tradition; the team and their coach are featured in a strangely inspiring documentary, Quantum Hoops, which will be out on dvd this spring...
...Will Caltech ever shine on the court? Dow is a committed coach. He just wishes the administration would show more support for sports. "The school strives for excellence in so many endeavors," he says. "Why should this other experience be so poor?" At other Division III schools, coaches and admissions officers often work together to identify potential players and set aside spots for a few who may not qualify academically for the school. Dow says he has a "nonexistent" relationship with the Caltech admissions office. "People here aren't comfortable with any guarantees," says Caltech admissions director Rick Bischoff...
...working on it,” Pak said. “It’s a great time to see what you like and find out what’s interesting you.” Another student, Sophie Rengarajan ’10, presented the work she did at Caltech last summer to study the effects of smells on neurons. “I think [research] really exposes you to a side of science you can’t get in the classroom,” Rengarajan said. “It allows students to be a lot more creative...