Years since last NCAA championship

[billhoward]

With Denver's NCAA championship this year, now only Colorado College has suffered a worse championship drought than Cornell. Colorado College last won 47 years ago in 1957. Denver's last NCAA championship before this year was the 4-3 victory over Cornell 35 years ago. Cornell has been waiting 34 years since that 29-0 season. (Stats going back to 1948) :


Title   Team/record in title year   Years Since Championship
1957   Colorado Col. (25-5)   47 years
1970   Cornell (29-0)   34
1975   Michigan Tech. (32-10)   29
1984   Bowling Green (34-8-2)   20
1985   Rensselaer (35-2-1)   19
1986   Michigan St. (34-9-2)   18
1989   Harvard (31-3)   15
1990   Wisconsin (36-9-1)   14
1991   Northern Mich. (38-5-4)   13
1994   Lk Superior St. (31-10-4   10
1995   Boston U. (31-6-3)   9
1998   Michigan (32-11-1)   6
1999   Maine (31-6-4)   5
2000   North Dakota (31-8-5)   4
2001   Boston College   3
2003   Minnesota                       1
2004   Denver             0

[French Rage]

What about teams that never won for longer than us?  Like Clarkson. :-D

[David Harding]

[Q]billhoward Wrote:

 With Denver's NCAA championship this year, now only Colorado College has suffered a worse championship drought than Cornell...
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That's just counting the schools that have ever won.  What about the, admittedly small, number who have been playing for 50 years without any championships?

[Will]

[Q]David Harding Wrote:

That's just counting the schools that have ever won.  What about the, admittedly small, number who have been playing for 50 years without any championships?
[/q]

Which, of course, includes nine out of the twelve current ECAC teams.  ::nut::

[billhoward]

 

[billhoward]

[Q]David Harding Wrote:

 [Q2]billhoward Wrote:

 With Denver's NCAA championship this year, now only Colorado College has suffered a worse championship drought than Cornell...
[/Q]
That's just counting the schools that have ever won.  What about the, admittedly small, number who have been playing for 50 years without any championships?
[/q]

[Ignore the previous two msgs by me. I sent the same one three times.]

More have been bridesmaids than brides. Like Yale, like Brown, Clarkson, Princeton, Colgate, etcetera. Not to be cruel to Princeton, but do you sign on to the Old Nassau team in hopes of winning the NCAA championship, or earning an orange-and-black varsity P. (Okay, at Clarkson they play for keeps and they've come up short. But how many of them would be there if their SATs were 100 points higher?)

I mostly wanted to point out that for those teams that have tasted the fruit of victory, going into this past weekend three erstwhile NCAA hockey champs - Cornell, Denver, Michigan Tech -- had gone 30-plus years without another title. Who in Ithaca in 1970 would have thought more than a generation would pass and still no third NCAA title for the Big Red? And that after 1973, there'd only be two trips to the final four in the next two decades after seven trips in the previous eight years?

It's only going to get tougher because there are way more schools playing Division I hockey now. Tougher because there are more schools and tougher because you have to play more games to win it all. Used to be, you made the NCAAs, you won two games, you were champ. Now you've got to win four NCAA games (preceded by winning four ECAC games for Cornell), and with that, the law of averages sneaks up on you. Ask North Dakota this year or Colorado College last year.

[Al DeFlorio]

[Q]Will Wrote:

 [Q2]David Harding Wrote:

That's just counting the schools that have ever won.  What about the, admittedly small, number who have been playing for 50 years without any championships?
[/Q]
Which, of course, includes nine out of the twelve current ECAC teams.[/q]
And six of the nine Hockey East teams (soon to be seven of ten;-) ).

[billhoward]

[Q]David Harding Wrote:

 [Q2]billhoward Wrote:

 With Denver's NCAA championship this year, now only Colorado College has suffered a worse championship drought than Cornell...
[/Q]
That's just counting the schools that have ever won.  What about the, admittedly small, number who have been playing for 50 years without any championships?
[/q]

Here's the bridesmaids - been to the title game and came up short. Don't feel too sad for Minnesota. They've got 5 titles to go with the 6 runner-up trophies. BU has 4 champsionships.

Minnesota    6 (losses in title game)
Boston U.    5
Michigan Tech.    4
North Dakota    4
Clarkson    3
Denver    3
Maine    3
Colorado College    2
Cornell    2
Dartmouth    2
Harvard    2
Michigan    2
Michigan St.    2
New Hampshire    2
St. Lawrence    2
Wisconsin    2
Brown    1
Colgate    1
Colorado Col.    1
Lake Superior St.    1
Minn.-Duluth    1
Northern Mich.    1
Providence    1

[Avash]

So I guess this means that CC and Cornell are the Cubs and Red Sox of college hockey  ::worry::

[billhoward]

[Q]Avash '05 Wrote:

 So I guess this means that CC and Cornell are the Cubs and Red Sox of college hockey   [/q]

You mean the Cubs and the Sox. "Red Sox" is unncessary and redundant, just as "late-season Red Sox collapse" would be a triple redundancy on the order of "white rap music." There are the Sox and the White Sox. Okay? Now back to hockey and lacrosse.

You touched a raw nerve. I'm still getting over the Sox losing Fisk to the White Sox.

[Josh '99]

[Q]billhoward Wrote:
You mean the Cubs and the Sox. "Red Sox" is unncessary and redundant, just as "late-season Red Sox collapse" would be a triple redundancy on the order of "white rap music." There are the Sox and the White Sox. Okay? Now back to hockey and lacrosse. [/q]"late-season Red Sox collapse" is redundant.  "white rap music" is an oxymoron.  :p

[ninian '72]

[Q]billhoward Wrote:

 There are the Sox and the White Sox. Okay? [/q]

Whoa! Native Chicagoans might beg to differ:  ::twitch::

http://www.suntimes.com/output/sports/cst-spt-sox12.html

[billhoward]

[Q]jmh30 Wrote:

 [Q2]billhoward Wrote:
You mean the Cubs and the Sox. "Red Sox" is unncessary and redundant, just as "late-season Red Sox collapse" would be a triple redundancy on the order of "white rap music." There are the Sox and the White Sox. Okay? Now back to hockey and lacrosse. [/Q]
"late-season Red Sox collapse" is redundant.  "white rap music" is an oxymoron.  :p

[/q]

Sheesh! My fault for writing stuff late at night when I should be in bed. Of course. I meant double oxymoron for the latter.

[Steve Marciniec \'85]

You don't necessarily need to win four ECAC games before the NCAAs as long as you play well enough during the regular season to get an at-large bid, as Cornell almost did.  Denver was blown out of the WCHA tourney in the first round just as we were, but they had a 10-0 non conference record and had a decent season in the toughest league.  

It may be a long shot, but I'd sure like to see our 35 year drought broken next year as well.  If Denver can do it....