Winning Ways: KU, UK, Penn and Carolina Have Posted Most League Titles

It shouldn't be any surprise North Carolina is accustomed to capturing conference crowns as the Tar Heels rank fourth among all schools for most regular-season league titles. Kansas leads for most championships, collecting 61 regular-season conference titles in its illustrious history. KU's streak of 14 straight Big 12 titles came to a halt, but the Jayhawks remain atop the following list of schools with more than 25 regular-season major-college league championships:

• Kansas - 61 (13 of the 21 Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association titles from 1908 through 1928, 30 in Big Eight and 18 in Big 12)
• Kentucky - 53 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.