Question about the WAC
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When did a WAC team win the NCAA title in basketball?
In football, you're referring to 1984 BYU?
In football, you're referring to 1984 BYU?
The WCC. San Francisco has won a basketball and football national championship. Although the WCC isn't really a mid major league.
You're right. For some reason I thought they had won one in the fifties before they dropped the program.
I think they had a really good team, but didn't play in a bowl game because they had a couple of black players.
The WCC doesn't sponsor football. Apparently San Francisco had an undefeated season and turned down an Orange Bowl invite, but they weren't named national champions by any of the major polls.
Utah, of course, won the NCAA Tournament in 1944, before the WAC even existed. But they also played in the NIT that same season and lost to Kentucky in the quarterfinal. That's one of the four seasons that the Helms Athletic Foundation named someone other than the NCAA champion as the "true" national champion.
Oh, and after the 1944 NCAA and NIT tourneys, the champion of each tournament played each other and Utah (NCAA) defeated St. John's (NIT) in a charity game.
But Helms awarded the championship to undefeated Army.
But Helms awarded the championship to undefeated Army.
To this day that Utah team is the only team to start four freshman and win the NCAA tournament
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