[NU Sports] Northwestern and the National Championship

[Mark S. Ament]

That really makes us the ultimate answer to a basketball trivia question -
name the only national champion never to play in the NCAA tournament.  It's
rather sad,  really.

Mark
Mark S. Ament
prplehaze at insightbb.com
 

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From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
Behalf Of Jim Bendat
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 7:03 PM
To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: [NU Sports] Northwestern and the National Championship

Not that I've ever watched a lacrosse game (or does one call it a match?),
but I'm definitely aware that our women's team is presently undefeated and
ranked #1 in the country.  This got me to wondering how many national
championships we've ever won.  The NCAA basketball championship officially
began in 1939, but eight years earlier -- in 1931 -- Northwestern won the
mythical championship, as determined by the Helms Athletic Foundation:
http://www.rauzulusstreet.com/basketball/college/helmscollegechampionship.ht
m

To the best of my knowledge, Northwestern has only won one official NCAA
championship -- in fencing, and I'm not sure what the year was.  We've
probably had some individual champions here and there -- tennis with Riessen
and Graebner, and golf's Luke Donald certainly come to mind.  But NCAA
champions don't come around Evanston too often.  Our 1962 football team was
ranked #1 six games into the season, but that didn't last.  The women's
lacrosse championship game will be on CSTV on May 22nd.  If we're in it, I
promise to watch.

Jim B.

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