‘Big Ten Dominance’: Which NCAA championships have conference teams won this school year?

Hail to Michigan. ” He could have added, “Hail to the Big Ten,” too. With Michigan’s national championship victory, the Big Ten didn’t just end its 26-year men’s basketball title drought.

It also became the first conference to have three different schools win a national title in football and men’s and women’s basketball in the same school year since the NCAA started a women’s basketball tournament in 1982. The SEC is the only other conference to win all three titles in the same school year, with Florida winning in football and men’s basketball and Tennessee in women’s basketball in 2006-07. The Big Ten is reveling in the success.

On its website, the conference sells a T-shirt for $39. 99 that declares “Big Ten Dominance” and spells out the details of the national championships for Indiana football, Michigan men’s basketball and UCLA women’s basketball. And that’s not all.

Across social media after Michigan’s win, the conference touted that Big Ten institutions had won nine national championships this school year, though two of those — Wisconsin women’s ice hockey and UCLA men’s water polo — were in sports the Big Ten doesn’t sponsor and another, Ohio State pistol, was in a non-NCAA-sanctioned sport. USC women’s water polo, another sport not sponsored by the conference, has since won a 10th national championship by a Big Ten school. The current conditions of college sports in the transfer portal era undoubtedly have a hand in the success.