We have an update to our national championship tracker after Virginia’s recent men’s basketball title.
With Notre Dame’s title last year in Women’s Basketball, the ACC became the only conference with national titles all 4 major sports (Football, Men’s Basketball, Women’s Basketball, and Baseball) since 2013. That’s a significant accomplishment for a conference that won only 2 from 2006-2012.
Those were the men’s basketball titles of UNC – 2009, and Duke -2010.
The ACC also leads all conferences with 8 titles in these 4 sports. The SEC and AAC (led by UCONN women’s basketball with 4) are second with 5 national titles. The Big 10, Pac 12, and Big 12 have a together 4 national titles in this time. One can argue the ACC is the biggest conference at 15 teams in these sports other football, but I will counter that with there are 36 teams in the Big 10, Pac 12, and Big 12 across 3 different regions and the ACC has 4 more titles than those 3 conferences combined. The Big 12 finally got on the board with Baylor winning a national title in women’s basketball recently.
This speaks to the balance of the conference across the major sports. If you are playing in the ACC you are competing at a nationally elite level. We wrote the last year about the ACC being in the middle of a golden age of their major sports. This golden age certainly shows no signs of slowing down.
Last year the the Florida State women won the NCAA softball title in that growing sport.
The number of teams appearing in national title games, without winning the title is noteworthy too.
Football – Clemson 2015
Men’s Basketball – UNC 2016
Women’s Basketball – Notre Dame 2014, 2015, and 2019; Syracuse 2016
Baseball – Virginia 2014
That’s a national title participant in 15 of the last 26 national title games. It’s a very impressive run indeed for the conference, and just in time for the ACC Network.
| Football | Men’s Basketball | Women’s Basketball | Baseball | |
| 2013 | ACC – Florida State | Big East – Louisville | AAC – UCONN | Pac 12 – UCLA |
| 2014 | Big 10 – Ohio State | AAC – UCONN | AAC – UCONN | SEC – Vanderbilt |
| 2015 | SEC – Alabama | ACC – Duke | AAC – UCONN | ACC – Virginia |
| 2016 | ACC – Clemson | Big East – Villanova | AAC – UCONN | Big South – Coastal Carolina |
| 2017 | SEC – Alabama | ACC – UNC | SEC – South Carolina | SEC – Florida |
| 2018 | ACC – Clemson | Big East – Villanova | ACC – Notre Dame | Pac 12 – Oregon State |
| 2019 | ACC – Virginia | Big 12 – Baylor | ||
| Conference | Titles | |||
| ACC | 8 | |||
| SEC | 5 | |||
| AAC | 5 | |||
| Big East | 3 | |||
| Pac 12 | 2 | |||
| Big 10 | 1 | |||
| Big South | 1 | |||
| Big 12 | 1 |
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