Winning Ways: No Surprise UK and KU Were in NCAA Championship Contest

It shouldn't have been any surprise that Kentucky and Kansas opposed each other in this year's NCAA title game. The two schools are all about winning championships, combining for 105 regular-season conference crowns. KU's streak of eight straight Big 12 titles, catapulting the Jayhawks to a staggering average of almost 33 victories annually over the last six years, enables them to be atop the following list of schools with more than 25 regular-season major-college league championships:

• Kansas - 55 (13 of the 21 Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association titles from 1908 through 1928, 30 in Big Eight and 12 in Big 12)
• Kentucky - 50 in SEC
• Pennsylvania - 39 in EIBL/Ivy League
• North Carolina - 36 (7 in Southern and 29 in ACC)
• Princeton - 36 in EIBL/Ivy League
• UCLA - 34 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 of the 12 ACC members comprised a portion of it.