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Due to Connecticut's recent flurry of NCAA DI national championships (6 in the past four years) I thought it would be interesting to see how Connecticut stacks up nationally against all the other states.
It appears that UCONN presently has 19 national championships, although one of our soccer titles (1948) came before the NCAA had sanctioned soccer as a sport. It also appears that Yale is credited with 28 national titles. Even if you subtract UCONN's 1948 title, that's a total of 46 for Conn. Then if you add Yale's NCs in football, you get a number in the low 70's. I'm not going to get into the methodology of how they used to decide those things in ancient times when Yale racked all of those up, but it appears that they're credited with either 26 or 28. If you split the difference at 27 and add it to 46, you get a total of 73 overall national titles at the highest level for Conn.
How does that compare with other states? Predictably, California leads em' all by a wide margin, just like they do in population. However, Conn. compares very favorably or leads many states which are much larger in population. These numbers are as of March, 2011, not including football in most cases:
MI - 76
OK - 74 + 7 NCs for Sooner football (fantastic accomplishment for a state barely larger than CT in pop.)
PA - 71
NC - 62
NY - 55
CO - 53 (thanks in part to 21 skiing championships for the University of Denver)
LA - 49
IN - 49
FL - 43
NJ - 14 (Princeton with 11, plus football NCs equivalent to Yale...apparently not much help from Rutgers)
IA - 42
MD - 41
AZ - 40
GA - 37
OH - 36
AL - 29 + quite a few football NCs
VA - 34
IL - 31
MA - 17 + 10 Harvard NCs in football
MN - 25
WS - 24
TN - 22
KY - 16
MO - 12
WA - 10
SC - 7
Those are all larger states than CT, a few of which being three to five times larger, and quite a few that are at least twice as large. Yet we are kicking ass against most of them, and we're in the ballpark with a few of the largest states. One could argue that Yale's location and success in athletics is a mere accident of geography, but it all counts.
There has to be something terribly wrong with those Massachusetts numbers. A state twice Connecticut's size with only 27 titles? We should be embarrassed to be next door, although Harvard did win the 1920 Rose Bowl.
Honorable mention to Nebraska, about half the size of CT, with 21 + the Cornhusker's football titles. They blow away all the other under 2 million population states. Also, Alaska has 10, thanks to 10 NCAA rifle championships for the Alaska - Fairbanks Nanooks. Don't mess with those folks. They can put several rounds through a gnat's ass at 1,000 yards.
Dishonorable mention: South Dakota and Mississippi are 0-fer forever, unless they've won any in the last three or four years.
These numbers come from a website called sportsdelve.com, and have not been updated since March, 2011.
It appears that UCONN presently has 19 national championships, although one of our soccer titles (1948) came before the NCAA had sanctioned soccer as a sport. It also appears that Yale is credited with 28 national titles. Even if you subtract UCONN's 1948 title, that's a total of 46 for Conn. Then if you add Yale's NCs in football, you get a number in the low 70's. I'm not going to get into the methodology of how they used to decide those things in ancient times when Yale racked all of those up, but it appears that they're credited with either 26 or 28. If you split the difference at 27 and add it to 46, you get a total of 73 overall national titles at the highest level for Conn.
How does that compare with other states? Predictably, California leads em' all by a wide margin, just like they do in population. However, Conn. compares very favorably or leads many states which are much larger in population. These numbers are as of March, 2011, not including football in most cases:
MI - 76
OK - 74 + 7 NCs for Sooner football (fantastic accomplishment for a state barely larger than CT in pop.)
PA - 71
NC - 62
NY - 55
CO - 53 (thanks in part to 21 skiing championships for the University of Denver)
LA - 49
IN - 49
FL - 43
NJ - 14 (Princeton with 11, plus football NCs equivalent to Yale...apparently not much help from Rutgers)
IA - 42
MD - 41
AZ - 40
GA - 37
OH - 36
AL - 29 + quite a few football NCs
VA - 34
IL - 31
MA - 17 + 10 Harvard NCs in football
MN - 25
WS - 24
TN - 22
KY - 16
MO - 12
WA - 10
SC - 7
Those are all larger states than CT, a few of which being three to five times larger, and quite a few that are at least twice as large. Yet we are kicking ass against most of them, and we're in the ballpark with a few of the largest states. One could argue that Yale's location and success in athletics is a mere accident of geography, but it all counts.
There has to be something terribly wrong with those Massachusetts numbers. A state twice Connecticut's size with only 27 titles? We should be embarrassed to be next door, although Harvard did win the 1920 Rose Bowl.
Honorable mention to Nebraska, about half the size of CT, with 21 + the Cornhusker's football titles. They blow away all the other under 2 million population states. Also, Alaska has 10, thanks to 10 NCAA rifle championships for the Alaska - Fairbanks Nanooks. Don't mess with those folks. They can put several rounds through a gnat's ass at 1,000 yards.
Dishonorable mention: South Dakota and Mississippi are 0-fer forever, unless they've won any in the last three or four years.
These numbers come from a website called sportsdelve.com, and have not been updated since March, 2011.
