In a showdown of the top two teams in California, No. 1 Mount San Antonio College (8-0) and No. 2 Ventura College (7-0) meet Sunday at 4 p.m. in the final of the VC-Kiwanis Tournament of Champions at the VC Athletic Event Center.

The Ventura College women's basketball team is 7-0 for the first time since 2002-03, which is incidentally the last time the Pirates defeated Mount SAC.

The Mounties have won the past five VC-Kiwanis Tournament of Champions and have won six straight games over the Pirates dating back to Nov. 30, 2002, when 16 points from Kelly Fay and 13 rebounds from Kristine Gleisberg led VC over Mount SAC in overtime, 76-70, in the TOC's third-place game.

The Pirates had just had their 41-game winning streak snapped by Orange Coast in the tournament's semifinals, 53-48.

Mount SAC, now the three-time defending state champions, as the Pirates were then, has won 45 straight games, which may just be a state record.

Ventura won 42 straight games from 1995-96, in the middle of its first two state championship, and 39 straight games from 1999-2000, when it produced the greatest season in California Community College basketball history, men or women, by going 38-0.

That streak was snapped in the first game of the 2000-01 season by Mount SAC in another No. 1 versus No. 2 showdown.

Ventura defeated Mount SAC in the 2002 state title game, 63-59, behind 16 points each from Monique Taylor and Monica Hang.