UCLA Beach Wins School’s Record-Tying 116th NCAA Division I Title

  1 Braden Keith | May 07th, 2018 | College - Beach, College - Men's Indoor, College - Women's Indoor, News, Pac-12

When UCLA fought all the way back from the elimination bracket on Sunday to beat the red-hot Florida State Seminoles and win their first NCAA Championship in beach volleyball, it marked a new era for UCLA beach and the sport. This became the first time since the NCAA began sponsoring a championship in beach volleyball in the 2015-2016 season that a team besides USC won the title; in fact, the Trojans also won the 2015 title, which was the last sponsored by the AVCA before the NCAA took over the next year.

#1 for the UCLA beach team, however, counts as #116 for the university as a whole, which ties them with Pac-12 foes Stanford for the most NCAA titles in the 112-year history of that organization. USC ranks 3rd with 104 titles, with a significant drop off thereafter down to Oklahoma State (which doesn’t sponsor beach or indoor volleyball) with 51 Division I titles. Division III Kenyon has 60 titles for 4th-most overall.

Note that the ranking only includes official NCAA titles, meaning that sports like equestrian, Division I FBS (formerly 1-A) football, and women’s AIAW championships prior to the NCAA recognizing women’s athletics in the 1980s, don’t count.

Ranking by overall titles becomes tricky math, because of certain years having different champions recognized by different newspapers or governing bodies, but one measure has UCLA in the lead in that category with 135, followed by Stanford with 129 and USC with 126. Penn State, including 7 women’s indoor titles and 2 men’s indoor titles, ranks 4th on that list with 84 titles.

UCLA, thanks in large part to their 19 men’s titles, remain on top of all-time Division I volleyball titles from the 3 disciplines (men’s indoor, women’s indoor, and beach) combined. They’ve won 4 women’s titles, 19 men’s titles, and now 1 beach title, making them the second team to have at least one of each, with their arch-rivals from USC being the first (4 men’s, 3 women’s, and 2 beach).

All-Time NCAA Titles Won by Division I Schools (Top 40)

Rank Institution Undergraduate
Enrollment
Total Men’s Women’s Co-ed† Volleyball
1 Stanford 6,980 116 64 52 0 9
1 UCLA 29,585 116 75 41 0 24
3 USC 18,740 104 84 20 0 9
4 Oklahoma State 23,459 51 51 0 0 0
5 Penn State 46,848 50 26 11 13 9
6 Texas 49,523 45 22 23 0 2
7 Arkansas 22,283 44 42 2 0 0
8 LSU 26,159 43 18 25 0 0
8 North Carolina 18,415 43 13 30 0 0
10 Cal 27,496 36 28 8 0 0
10 Michigan 28,395 36 34 2 0 0
12 Florida 39,565 40 17 18 0 0
13 Denver 5,758 33 9 0 24 0
13 Oregon 20,552 33 19 14 0 0
15 Oklahoma 22,152 30 23 7 0 0
15 Ohio State 44,741 30 24 3 3 3
15 Georgia 26,882 30 9 21 0 0
16 Maryland 27,443 29 7 22 0 0
19 Wisconsin 29,302 28 22 6 0 0
19 Yale 5,453 28 26 2 0 0
21 Colorado 26,426 26 16 2 8 0
22 Iowa 22,354 25 24 1 0 0
22 Virginia 15,669 25 18 7 0 0
24 Arizona State 50,246 24 11 13 0 0
24 Indiana 32,752 24 24 0 0 0
24 Princeton 5,391 24 19 4 1 0
27 UConn 18,395 22 6 16 0 0
28 UTEP 19,217 21 21 0 0 0
28 Utah 23,909 21 2 9 10 0
30 Michigan State 39,143 20 19 1 0 0
30 Villanova University 6,394 20 11 9 0 0
30 West Virginia 22,563 20 1 0 19 0
30 Nebraska 20,182 20 8 12 0 5
34 Notre Dame 8,448 19 7 6 6 0
34 Minnesota 30,511 19 13 6 0 0
36 Arizona 31,670 18 7 11 0 0
36 Illinois 32,878 18 18 0 0 0
38 University of Houston 34,830 17 17 0 0 0
39 Duke 6,485 16 9 7 0 0
39 Tennessee 21,451 16 6 10 0 0

 

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This is false. USC Men’s Indoor has won 4 NCAA championships. As much as I cringe, USC was the first to win in “all” disciplines.

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