05-12-2014, 11:56 AM
Very interesting graph, Terry. And it answers a question I was going to ask - how close did Stanford ever get to UCLA. I think that chart says within 2, but it's hard enough to read I'd put a +/- 1 on that.
One thing I found interesting was that UCLA was at 0 championships until 1950, though Stanford had about 10 at that time. In fact the UCLA Bruin Wikipedia page lists their first title as 1950 men's tennis. Stanford's first was apparently Track and Field in 1924.
The UCLA championship wikipedia page lists 111 titles for UCLA. That appears to include the 1995 softball championship which was then negated by the NCAA - I think that was the Tanya Harding (no, the other one) imported ringer fiasco.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCLA_Bruins
There is a wikipedia page on "List of NCAA schools with the most Division 1 championships". They eventually rank schools by their own choice of "Total Team Titles" which adds to NCAA championships "Recognized Football Championships", AIAW championships, and those awarded by other organizations that were once NCAA sports. Makes me think an SC grad put the page together to get SC into second place. Archery doesn't make the cut, so ASU only gets to add 20 "other team titles". That sort of counting pushes the Ivies way up, as they excel in obscure sports and in the long-ago days when the NCAA didn't dominate the scene so much. Cornell gets 70 "other team titles", most in forms of rowing.
It is an interesting page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NCA...mpionships
One thing I found interesting was that UCLA was at 0 championships until 1950, though Stanford had about 10 at that time. In fact the UCLA Bruin Wikipedia page lists their first title as 1950 men's tennis. Stanford's first was apparently Track and Field in 1924.
The UCLA championship wikipedia page lists 111 titles for UCLA. That appears to include the 1995 softball championship which was then negated by the NCAA - I think that was the Tanya Harding (no, the other one) imported ringer fiasco.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCLA_Bruins
There is a wikipedia page on "List of NCAA schools with the most Division 1 championships". They eventually rank schools by their own choice of "Total Team Titles" which adds to NCAA championships "Recognized Football Championships", AIAW championships, and those awarded by other organizations that were once NCAA sports. Makes me think an SC grad put the page together to get SC into second place. Archery doesn't make the cut, so ASU only gets to add 20 "other team titles". That sort of counting pushes the Ivies way up, as they excel in obscure sports and in the long-ago days when the NCAA didn't dominate the scene so much. Cornell gets 70 "other team titles", most in forms of rowing.
It is an interesting page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NCA...mpionships