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Longest streaks of years with an NCAA championship - terry - 05-11-2014

The updated list of the longest streaks of consecutive years with an NCAA team championship:

Stanford                  38  1976-77 to 2013-14 (active)
U,S,C                      19    1959-60 to 1977-78
North Carolina        18    1980-81 to 1997-98
Arkansas                17  1983-84 to 1999-2000
UCLA                      13  1963-64 to 1975-76
UCLA                      13  1980-81 to 1992-93
UCLA                      12    2002-03 to 2013-14 (active)
LSU                        11  1986-87 to 1996-97
Denver                  10  1959-60 to 1968-69
Yale                        9    1904-05 to 1912-13
U,S,C                      9    1934-35 to 1942-43
Iowa                        9    1977-78 to 1985-86
Texas                      9    1982-83 to 1990-91

Re: Longest streaks of years with an NCAA championship - Treebound - 05-12-2014

Hi Terry,
I was visiting Princeton with my oldest son during our east coast college tour trip and they stated that they had the longest streak of years with an NCAA champions at 40-something.    I was surprised to hear this, but maybe they are taking credit for some non-NCAA sport? 

Hats off to the ladies WoPo team!  I was getting very concerned. 

Re: Longest streaks of years with an NCAA championship - Farm93 - 05-12-2014

Only 9 schools have more than 38 NCAA Team titles.  Princeton is not one of those teams.

My guess is that if you look at the history of the sports that award NCAA Team titles today, it is possible to string together 40+ years where Princeton won  national titles.  I would imagine that this would cobble together soccer, rowing, golf and perhaps football roughly starting around 1911 and then ending in the 50s.  Just a guess on the dates.  Alternatively, it looks possible that Princeton could have claims to enough national titles in football between 1869 and 1900 that with just the right mix of other titles they could have made the run at that time.

Princeton has 24 NCAA Team titles, making a run of 38 years impossible.

Re: Longest streaks of years with an NCAA championship - BobK - 05-12-2014

Total team titles

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NCAA_schools_with_the_most_Division_I_national_championships

Re: Longest streaks of years with an NCAA championship - terry - 05-12-2014

(05-12-2014, 09:24 AM)Treebound link Wrote:Hi Terry,
I was visiting Princeton with my oldest son during our east coast college tour trip and they stated that they had the longest streak of years with an NCAA champions at 40-something.    I was surprised to hear this, but maybe they are taking credit for some non-NCAA sport? 

Hats off to the ladies WoPo team!  I was getting very concerned.

Princeton has won 24 NCAA team championships. Half of those were in men's golf, all 12 of them in 1940 or earlier. The rest of them were in men's lacrosse (6, most recently in 2001), women's lacrosse (3, most recently in 2003), fencing (2, most recently in 2013), and field hockey (1, in 2012).

Princeton might be counting individual championships. Princeton athletes have won a total of 60 individual NCAA titles. It seems highly unlikely that those 60 individual titles include at least one for 40+ straight years. But I guess it's possible. As a point of reference, Stanford athletes have won 455 individual NCAA championships (as of Jan. 10), which leads all schools. U,S,C athletes are second with 378 individual championships.

Re: Longest streaks of years with an NCAA championship - larkinforever - 05-12-2014

Or, perhaps Princeton isn't drawing a distinction between team and individual NCAA titles?

Re: Longest streaks of years with an NCAA championship - terry - 05-12-2014

I found the basis for Princeton's claim of 42 straight years with a national championship.

Princeton is counting non-NCAA sports. That makes a brobdingnagian difference because most of Princeton's championships are in non-NCAA sports such as men's squash, women's squash, men's rowing, men's lightweight rowing, women's rowing (before it was an NCAA sport), and women's lightweight rowing. Squash has been especially important in this streak.

Also, Princeton is counting both individual and team championships, which again makes a brobdingnagian difference.

http://www.goprincetontigers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=10600&ATCLID=208063418



Re: Longest streaks of years with an NCAA championship - Farm93 - 05-12-2014

OK, using that mix and match of NCAA and non-NCAA and then layering in team and individual too I would have to think that USC, UCLA, and maybe even Stanford all could have streaks that extend well beyond 42 years.  It would not even shock me to learn that Oklahoma State, Texas, Arkansas and LSU could join that party as they were/are major forces in a few team sports that assign a large collection of individual honors too (wrestling, swimming, track & field, etc).

And all of those schools might be able to get to 42 without resorting to using non-NCAA sports to bridge gaps.

Re: Longest streaks of years with an NCAA championship - FarmBoy - 05-12-2014

Stanford Athletics tweet on the topic: https://twitter.com/GoStanford/status/465904762513149952/photo/1

Of note:
* 106 team championships during the streak (they must be including non NCAA)
* Only 18 national championships prior to the streak (based on 124 all time for Stanford)
* 20 different teams earned a national championship (pretty amazing diversity)
* The 90's were pretty incredible. By my count, the graph shows 39 championships in that decade alone. '96-'98 included 13!

Re: Longest streaks of years with an NCAA championship - Farm93 - 05-12-2014

I understand that the AD wanted to include all of their teams in the announcement.  However the claim is related to NCAA team titles and therefore all of the tallies should have only included NCAA team titles.  Or alternatively, they should have created a graph that listed NCAA team title accomplishments and then added a different symbol or line to show the tally with NCAA and non-NCAA tallies combined.

Oh well.. 



A new motto across the Bay. - Redrum - 05-12-2014

"Kal...Only 68 national titles behind Stanford and closing fast.  Oh, and Skov is scum"

You're right about Princeton - Mick - 06-02-2014

The streak of 42 years with at least one championship does include individual achievements and non-NCAA sponsored sports.  For example, last year they list four NCAA champions in fencing (one team and one individual/sabre championship), one in field hockey and one in men's distance running (indoor medley run).

They cited that statistic at this morning's P'ton graduation, but it's really the only NCAA stat they mention.  They are far more interested in Ivy titles and Olympic participation, based upon the athletic awards given out and their AD's speech.  What was most interesting to me is that two athletes weren't at the graduation ceremony, but the AD called out both of them for awards.  One was at the Detroit Lions rookie camp (5th round draftee Caraun Reid), said announcement of which received a very small round of applause.  I was surprised, Princeton rarely puts a player in the NFL.  They had one free agent make it last year.  But one of the other athletes was at the national championships for some Ivy-ish sport, squash or crew or something and that person received war-victory applause..

Incidentally, the speaker was Al Gore.  In prior years you had news personalities and comedians (Katie Couric, Jerry Seinfeld, Jon Stewart, Bill Cosby, etc.).  Gore did three minutes of self-deprecating, which was actually quite funny (big laugh for comparing his popular vote win/electoral vote loss to the grade deflation policy at P'ton).  Then he launched into the sermon.  Ugh.  I don't care about political stripe, I was wondering how this guy ever got elected to anything, he was such a boring speaker.  Also of interest, all of the honorary degree honorees put on the University beer jacket when they received their degrees, Gore (a Harvard grad) declined to do so.  NICE.

Re: Longest streaks of years with an NCAA championship - 81alum - 06-02-2014

If only Judo counted....SJSU would be high on the list, winning 45 championships in 51 years. 

I presume the NCAA list is a function of how many colleges compete in a sport?  So, for example, women's badminton, women's bowling, and coed rifle are on the list but judo is not.  That is an odd assortment.

Are we (Stanford) any good in badminton, bowling, or rifle?

Re: Longest streaks of years with an NCAA championship - Treebound - 06-02-2014

"...it's all theater."

Politician, know thine audience.    Regarding Cory Booker, I'vemet him and seen him speak twice here in the Valley.  Once he took the podium at a gathering at the Rosewood and once at a reunion event on k-12 education in Maples.  He was a fantastic speaker at both events and I can see him making a bid at some point. 

Mike F - WoPo = water polo on the west coast.  The women's wopo team kept the streak alive and I'm sure we are all hoping that with tonight's win, the baseball team will extend our W total!  Walk off home run!

Re: Longest streaks of years with an NCAA championship - fullmetal - 06-02-2014

(06-02-2014, 02:25 PM)81alum link Wrote:Are we (Stanford) any good in badminton, bowling, or rifle?

Bowling, Ice Hockey, Rifle, and Skiing are the full NCAA sports in which Stanford doesn't field teams, according to the ncaasports.org drop-down menu.

Re: Longest streaks of years with an NCAA championship - Mick - 06-03-2014

(06-02-2014, 05:05 PM)garvin link Wrote:
Quote:  Ugh.  I don't care about political stripe, I was wondering how this guy ever got elected to anything, he was such a boring speaker.

Well, that's an interesting question. Way back when -- I believe it was 1982 -- I went to Tennessee to write a story on a backwoods congressional race that pitted two political dynasties against one another. Cissy Baker, the Republican, was the daughter of Senator Howard Baker; Jim Cooper, the Democrat, was the grandson of former Governor Prentice Cooper. They were both very young and neither of them had ever even run for anything before, much less held office.

Neither was much a speaker, but Cooper was especially a dud -- and after several years on a Rhodes scholarship and Harvard Law School, he didn't even sound like he came from Tennessee. That was a serious problem in a rural district where the biggest town may have been Lynchburg, where they distill Jack Daniel's. (Cissy Baker did an appearance at the distillery, which I looked forward to all week, only to discover the county was dry and there were no free samples.) There was not much in the way of media buying; everything was long days of kaffee klatsches and stump speeches, and the candidates had to form some personal connection.

The Cooper campaign decided to bring in a hired gun -- a wildly popular young congressman from a neighboring district named Al Gore. And he was a huuuuuuuge hit. He talked a blue streak joked in a pronounced accent (though I noticed when he talked to out-of-state reporters like me, it diminished quite a bit), studded with jokes and colorful hog-jowlish similes, and the crowds absolutely loved him, whereas they were merely polite to Cooper. Cooper's numbers jumped and he was elected.

But the guy who really had my attention was Gore. I was not the least bit surprised when he was elected to the Senate, or named Bill Clinton's running mate. I was absolutely stunned, though, when I heard him out on the 1992 campaign trail. What happened to the friendly, folksy guy I'd seen in Tullahoma and Mulberry and those places? Somebody Stepfordized him, I guess.


Frankly, I was wondering if it was because his father had been so popular.  Al Gore Sr. was in the House and Senate for a combined 33 years or so.

Re: Longest streaks of years with an NCAA championship - Bruce Wang - 06-03-2014

I've heard that Gore is personable and even funny in small private settings.  He only turns into a robot stiffer than C-3PO in large groups.

Re: Longest streaks of years with an NCAA championship - terry - 06-03-2014

(06-02-2014, 10:52 PM)fullmetal link Wrote:[quote author=81alum link=topic=9976.msg90538#msg90538 date=1401744320]Are we (Stanford) any good in badminton, bowling, or rifle?

Bowling, Ice Hockey, Rifle, and Skiing are the full NCAA sports in which Stanford doesn't field teams, according to the ncaasports.org drop-down menu.
[/quote]

Also men's lacrosse.

Re: Longest streaks of years with an NCAA championship - Nan3cy - 06-03-2014

(06-03-2014, 12:20 PM)Publius link Wrote:I've heard that Gore is personable and even funny in small private settings.  He only turns into a robot stiffer than C-3PO in large groups.

I found the same to be true of George Shultz. I took a short seminar from him in the spring of 1975 and he was absolutely delightful. (The session where William Safire - who was visiting the Shultzes at the time - came with him to class was wonderful.) But when he gave a speech, it was a real snoozefest. Not robotic, necessarily, but I can't think of a better term.

Re: Longest streaks of years with an NCAA championship - washingtonismoney - 06-03-2014

Public speaking is hard, even among people have the greatest incentive to master it. (Same for writing, singing, acting, and a lot of other artistic/performing endeavors.) I think the ability is just rare.