The 11 Most Unbreakable Records In All Of Sports

Records are meant to be broken, and athletes are constantly setting new marks to beat. However, there are some situations where they break a record that goes untouched for ages, which is the case with some insane records that will almost certainly never be surpassed.

These Are The 11 Most Unbreakable Records In All Of Sports

Whether it be rule changes, different philosophies in the game, or just unreal performances, these are the sports records that spring to mind when it comes to being truly untouchable.

UConn Men’s Basketball: 19 Straight Wins Past The Sweet 16

Technically, UConn sits in 2nd place for this record, as UCLA won 38 straight games past the Sweet 16. However, that transpired before the tournament field expanded to 64 teams, so I’m going to give the Huskies the nod for the “modern” era.

UConn won national championships in 2011, 2014, 2023, and 2024. In that time frame, they never had a separate season where they advanced past the Sweet 16.

There are four more games to play after the Sweet 16, and the teams that make it there do so by proving they’re one of the best in the country. Breaking this record would require a team to win five national championships in a row or do what UConn did; when they were good, they were REALLY good.

UConn Women’s Basketball: 111 Straight Wins

Staying in the Nutmeg State, we move to the women’s side, who have an impressive record of their own. From 2014-2017, UConn did not lose a single game; 111 straight wins, including the NCAA Tournament, is going to be tough to break.

Considering they hold the next two longest streaks (90 and 70), if any team is to break it, odds are it’s the Lady Huskies.

Cy Young: 749 Complete Games

Throughout his legendary career, Cy Young tossed 749 complete games, a record worthy of getting an award named after himself.

This is the record I’m most confident will never be broken, mainly because managers in today’s MLB don’t want guys hurting their arms and won’t let them finish games.

Pud Galvin sits in second place, over 100 behind with 646, and only one player from 1960 and on has more than 300 (Gaylord Perry). For reference, the active leader for complete games is Justin Verlander, who has…26.

Byron Nelson: 11 Straight Wins On The PGA Tour

Simply put, if Tiger Woods couldn’t break it, it’s not happening. Tiger won seven events in a row in 2006-2007, but that feat is only good enough for second all time.

In the 1945 PGA season, Byron Nelson won 11 tournaments in a row and a total of 18 that year.

This level of dominance will never happen again; if a golfer wins back-to-back tournaments today, it’s a massive story. The last time someone even won three in a row was almost ten years ago, when Dustin Johnson did it in 2017.

Joe DiMaggio: 56 Game Hit Streak

In the 1941 season, Joe DiMaggio went 56 games in a row recording a hit. The streak lasted over two months, and he batted .408 during it. Maybe the craziest part is that he went on a 16-game streak immediately following, so the more impressive record might be going 72/73 games with a hit.

Willie Keeler strung together 45 games in a row, which was good enough for second place, but for context, that happened in 1896. Pete Rose got up to 44 in 1978, which is by far the closest anyone has gotten in “modern” MLB history.

In today’s MLB, near 20-game hit streaks are very rare, but they do happen. But the last time someone got to 30 was Freddie Freeman, whose streak stopped at 30 in 2016.

Wayne Gretzky: 2,857 Career Points

There are a handful of Wayne Gretzky stats that could land here, but 2857 career points is truly the most untouchable. Gretzky has nearly 1000 more than the next closest (Jaromir Jagr,1921), and if you took away all his goals, he’d still be the all-time points leader.

The active leader, Sidney Crosby, sits over 1,000 points behind The Great One is at the very tail end of his career. It would take an extreme feat of longevity to touch this one, because no one is getting points at the rate Gretzky did.

Bill Russell: 11 NBA Championships

Bill Russell played just 13 seasons in the league, but he racked up 11 titles. He won eight in a row and even coached the team simultaneously while playing. Russell literally has more rings than fingers to put them on.

Russell’s teammates round out the top five all-time in rings; Sam Jones won ten, and four others, including John Havlicek, won eight.

The closest non-Celtic is Robert Horry, who played for the Lakers, Rockets, and Spurs at the right times and reached seven.

The Celtics and Lakers are the only two franchises that have over ten NBA titles, so it’s reasonable to think no player will ever eclipse Russell’s 11-piece.

Henri Richard: 11 Stanley Cups

Henri Richard played in the NHL for 20 seasons, and more than half of them ended with him hoisting the Stanley Cup. Some of his teammates from this era are close to him in the record books, but recently no one has come close to the Pocket Rocket.

Like Bill Russell, Richard would rank third all-time if he were his own franchise. In today’s age, winning one Stanley Cup is hard (just ask Connor McDavid), so winning over ten is hard to imagine.

Again, like Russell, the next closest players were former teammates. But Red Kelly, who played in a similar era, managed to win eight without ever being a teammate of Richard.

Wilt Chamberlain: Averaging 50.4 Points Per Game

In the 1961-62 season, Wilt Chamberlain averaged 50 points per game for the whole year. It is the single-season average record, and no one has gotten particularly close to breaking it.

In fact, the top four seasons all belong to The Stilt. Michael Jordan snuck into the top five, however, with 37.1 ppg in 1986-87.

Wilt dropped 100 in a game that season, which is great for boosting averages, but even so, averaging over 50 for an entire year is crazy to think about. Especially when going for 50 in a single game makes the front page of the paper nowadays.

Case Keenum: 19,217 Career passing Yards (College)

Case Keenum was redshirted as a true freshman; he then started the following year and played three full seasons. He then played half of his senior year before tearing his ACL, which allowed him to return the following year with a medical redshirt.

Playing four and a half years of college ball as a starter is something that is rare to see these days. As good as Keenum was at the University of Houston, this record stands mostly because guys leave the second they are eligible for the NFL.

Dillon Gabriel recently gave Keenum a run for his money, reaching 18,722. But this was with a free year of eligibility from the COVID-19 pandemic.

James White: 14 Receptions In The Super Bowl

James White currently holds the record for most receptions in a Super Bowl. In Super Bowl LI (which featured the Patriots staging a comeback after going down 28-3 against the Falcons), White hauled in 14 catches, more than any receiver or tight end ever has.

That record could be broken, but the odds of it being broken by a running back are extremely low. Another Patriot running back, Shane Vereen, held the record before White, but his 11 receptions weren’t enough to stand.