NCAA basketball titles by division

[UConnNick]

UCONN leads Division I with 13 titles combined, followed by UCLA with 11 and Kentucky with 8.

I checked to see if any D-II or D-III schools had a greater combined number of titles. Only Kentucky Wesleyan in D-II is remotely close, with 8, all men's. I think all the other D-II and D-III schools have fewer than 8, even when you combine numbers for the few schools that have won on both the men's and women's side.

Even if you give UCLA credit for its one AIAW women's title in the late 1970's, they still trail us by one. It will be quite difficult for them to catch or surpass us because of two things: we are likely to keep winning women's titles regularly, and the NCAA's longevity henceforth may be clocked with an egg timer, after they take another beating in court in the O'Bannon case, combined with the Northwestern football union movement.

It therefore becomes very likely that upon the NCAA's inevitable and probably not-too-distant demise, UCONN may be the leader in basketball national championships for all of the NCAA's divisions, and we will have done it in the top division. That would be an astounding accomplishment, especially considering where we were just 30 seasons ago on both the men's and women's sides.

 

[Huskyforlife]

UCONN leads Division I with 13 titles combined, followed by UCLA with 11 and Kentucky with 9.

I checked to see if any D-II or D-III schools had a greater combined number of titles. Only Kentucky Wesleyan in D-II is remotely close, with 8, all men's. I think all the other D-II and D-III schools have fewer than 8, even when you combine numbers for the few schools that have won on both the men's and women's side.

Even if you give UCLA credit for its one AIAW women's title in the late 1970's, they still trail us by one. It will be quite difficult for them to catch or surpass us because of two things: we are likely to keep winning women's titles regularly, and the NCAA's longevity henceforth may be clocked with an egg timer, after they take another beating in court in the O'Bannon case, combined with the Northwestern football union movement.

It therefore becomes very likely that upon the NCAA's inevitable and probably not-too-distant demise, UCONN may be the leader in basketball national championships for all of the NCAA's divisions, and we will have done it in the top division. That would be an astounding accomplishment, especially considering where we were just 30 seasons ago on both the men's and women's sides.

I see what you mean but no one outside Connecticut or Tennessee gives a rats about women's basketball. And I say this as a fan of the women's team.

 

[dante]

I see what you mean but no one outside Connecticut or Tennessee gives a rats a about women's basketball. And I say this as a fan of the women's team.

I don't know about that this pass season Tennessee lead the country in attendance for women's BBall with 11,000 plus, but UConn is not 2nd in attendance it's also not 3rd not 4th but 5th Purdue was 6th. The 12-13 season it was Purdue 5th and UConn 6th.

http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/w_basketball_RB/reports/Attend/14att.pdf

 

[mcs333]

There are less than 60 men teams in D1 that ave 8K. So the top 5 women teams would be in the top 20% even in men's D1.