Conference Kingpins: KU and UK Collaborate for 116 Regular-Season Titles
March 9th, 2020 - 18:13
It shouldn't be any surprise that league titlists Kansas and Kentucky are accustomed to capturing conference crowns as each school has won more than 50 regular-season league titles. The Jayhawks lead for most championships, collecting 62 regular-season conference titles in their illustrious history despite having a streak of 14 straight Big 12 titles come to a halt last year. KU and UK are atop the following list of schools with more than 25 regular-season major-college league championships:
- Kansas - 62 (13 of the 21 Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association titles from 1908 through 1928, 30 in Big Eight and 19 in Big 12)
- Kentucky - 54 in SEC
- Pennsylvania - 40 in EIBL/Ivy League
- North Carolina - 39 (7 in Southern and 32 in ACC)
- Princeton - 37 in EIBL/Ivy League
- UCLA - 35 in Pacific-12
- Connecticut - 29 (19 in Yankee and 10 in Big East)
- Western Kentucky* - 28 (19 in Ohio Valley and 9 in Sun Belt)
- Arkansas - 26 (22 in SWC and 4 in SEC)
- Texas - 26 (22 in SWC and 4 in Big 12)
*WKU's total is 42 if include 14 titles won in the KIAC/SIAA in the 1930s and 1940s. All current members of the SEC (except for Arkansas) previously were in the SIAA and six ACC members comprised a portion of the former alliance.