Winning Ways: KU Been Jayhawking Conference Crowns For Decades
It shouldn't be any surprise Kansas and Penn are accustomed to capturing conference crowns as they join Kentucky as the only three schools with 40 or more regular-season league titles. The Jayhawks are all about winning championships, collecting 61 regular-season conference titles in its illustrious history. KU's streak of 14 straight Big 12 titles, catapulting the Jayhawks to a staggering average of almost 33 victories annually over the last 12 years, enables Kansas to be 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 - 38 (7 in Southern and 31 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.