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Originally posted by phikappapsiman
What is the best overall conference in the NCAA's? Big East? Big 10? Big XII? SEC? ACC? Big West? The answer is... None of those!! The Pac-10 will always reign supreme over ALL conferences in terms of the best in the country. Let me hear it!!
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EXACTLY!! Pac-10 rules!! (With the exception of one LA team that resides in Westwood...
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Did you all know that...
"Pac-10 members have claimed an incredible 59 NCAA team titles over the past seven seasons, for an average of more than eight championships per academic year.
"Even more impressive is the breadth of the Pac-10's success, as those 59 team titles over the past seven seasons have come in 21 different men's and women's sports.
The Pac-10 has now led the nation in NCAA Championships 36 of the last 41 years and finished second four times.
"Spanning nearly a century of outstanding athletics achievement,
the Pac-10 has captured 311 NCAA titles (238 men's, 73 women's), far outdistancing the runner-up Big Ten Conference's 185 titles.
"The Conference's reputation is further proven in the annual Sears Directors' Cup competition, the prestigious award that honors the best overall collegiate athletics programs in the country. Stanford continued its remarkable run in the 2000-01 season, winning its seventh consecutive Sears Directors' Cup.
In the 2000-01 final standings, five of the Top 10, and seven of the top 14 Division I programs, were Pac-10 members.
"For its outstanding efforts in football and men's basketball in 2000-01,
the Pac-10 became just the second conference in history to have three teams ranked in the Top 10 in the final Associated Press Football Poll and three teams reach the 'Elite Eight' of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament in the same season." -- From the Pac 10 site.
Though I must disagree with you, phikappapsiman, over the Trojans...USC rocks. We are the second most winningest NCAA team in terms of collegiate championships...I forget who's the number one team though. (It's not UCLA...UCLA's after USC, haha.)
I don't understand how come there is all that "East Coast" influence. With the exceptions of Duke, Maryland, I honestly don't get all the hype surrounding the ACC. And as for the SEC, what is that all about?
They are powerhouses in football, that's for sure...but I'm sure most Pac-10 teams could beat most any SEC team on any given day in any other sport.
I get so bored if a matchup is not Pac-10 or at least interesting (e.g., the UCLA-Kansas b-ball game...too bad the wrong team won!).
I must say though that after the Pac 10, I like the Big Ten.