Double champs?

[MSUCostanza]

So how many schools have won a Division I national championship in both basketball and football?

A quick wiki shows Florida, Ohio State, Michigan, Cal, Wisconsin, Michigan State, Maryland, UCLA, Syracuse, Arkansas. Villanova might join them.

 

[dosequisdawg]

Ohio State and Michigan are the only ones that have won the CWS, according to my quick search. I only saw CWS champions dating back to 1947, not sure how college baseball champs were determined before that. Anybody know? Todd?

 

[RebelBruiser]

They lost the 2005 title series in baseball to Texas 2 games to 0. That was June 2005. They won the basketball title I'm assuming in April of 2006, and they won the football title in January of 2007.

Texas won that baseball title in June of 2005, the football title in January of 2006, and they made the Elite Eight in basketball in March of 2006, so they were 3 basketball wins from pulling off the trifecta in about a 10 month period.

Those are by far the two most impressive 3 sport short time periods I've seen from any school.

 

[dosequisdawg]

LSU had a pretty impressive run as well. I don't remeber the dates exactly but they must have had a football national title, mens final four appearance, womens final four appearance, and baseball CWS appearance (not counting last years title), all within a year or two of each other.</p>

 

[memphisbulldog]

My son goes to Texas (MSU did not have his major) and a few years ago, they were the reigning NCAA baseball and football champ at the same time and were top 5 in basketball during the season.

 

[inforeb]

...in the preseason Collegiate Baseball magazine poll. Pretty good for the richest university in the world.