List of Michigan State Spartans championships

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This is a list of Michigan State Spartans' varsity and club athletic team national championships and runner-up finishes.

Michigan State University has 29 varsity sports teams that compete under the Spartan nickname. The university participates in the NCAA's Division I and in the Big Ten Conference in all varsity sports except men's ice hockey, which competes in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association. Michigan State offers 14 varsity sports for men and 15 for women.^[1]

The university's current athletic director is Ron Mason, who served as head hockey coach from 1979 to 2002 and retired with a 608-261-64 record at MSU.^[2]

MSU's Spartan Marching Band or Spartan Brass plays the fight song at every university event. Michigan State University was the first NCAA Division I athletic program to have multiple national championships in both football and basketball.

Contents 1 Varsity Team National Championships 2 Varsity Team National Runners-up 3 Basketball NCAA Final Four Appearances 4 Club Team National Championships 5 Club Team National Runners-up 6 Varsity Team Conference Championships 6.1 Fall Sports 6.2 Winter Sports 6.3 Spring Sports 7 Notes 8 External links

[edit] Varsity Team National Championships

• 1939 - Men's Cross Country - NCAA
• 1948 - Men's Cross Country - NCAA
• 1949 - Men's Cross Country - NCAA
• 1951 - Boxing - NCAA
• 1951 - Football - No. 1 ranking by Billingsley, Helms, Poling, Whalen
• 1952 - Men's Cross Country - NCAA
• 1952 - Football - No. 1 ranking by AP, Billingsley, Boand, DeVold, Dunkel, Football Research, Helms, Litkenhous, NCF, Sagarin, UPI, Williamson
• 1953 - Football - No. 1 ranking by Massey, Fleming
• 1955 - Boxing - NCAA
• 1955 - Men's Cross Country - NCAA
• 1955 - Football - No. 1 ranking by Boand, Jessen, Sorenson, Fleming
• 1956 - Men's Cross Country - NCAA
• 1957 - Football - No. 1 ranking by Billingsley, Dunkel, Sagarin
• 1958 - Men's Cross Country - NCAA D1
• 1958 - Men's Gymnastics - NCAA
• 1959 - Men's Cross Country - NCAA D1
• 1965 - Football - No. 1 ranking by Berryman, DeVold, Dunkel, FB News, FW, Helms, Litkenhous, NFF, Poling, Sagarin, UPI
• 1966 - Football - No. 1 ranking by Football Research, Helms, NFF, Poling, Kirlin
• 1966 - Men's Ice Hockey - NCAA
• 1967 - Men's Soccer - NCAA
• 1967 - Wrestling - NCAA D1
• 1968 - Men's Soccer - NCAA
• 1976 - Softball - AIAW D1
• 1978 - Football - No. 1 ranking by Kirlin
• 1979 - Men's Basketball - NCAA D1
• 1986 - Men's Ice Hockey - NCAA D1
• 2000 - Men's Basketball - NCAA D1
• 2007 - Men's Ice Hockey - NCAA D1

[edit] Varsity Team National Runners-up

• 1943 - Boxing - NCAA
• 1948 - Boxing - NCAA
• 1948 - Wrestling - NCAA
• 1949 - Boxing - NCAA
• 1950 - Boxing - NCAA
• 1950 - Men's Cross Country - NCAA
• 1951 - Men's Swimming and Diving - NCAA
• 1952 - Boxing - NCAA
• 1957 - Men's Cross Country - NCAA
• 1959 - Men's Ice Hockey - NCAA
• 1960 - Men's Cross Country - NCAA D1
• 1964 - Men's Soccer - NCAA
• 1965 - Men's Soccer - NCAA
• 1970 - Wrestling - NCAA D1
• 1972 - Men's Indoor Track and Field - NCAA
• 1972 - Wrestling - NCAA D1
• 1987 - Men's Ice Hockey - NCAA D1
• 2005 - Women's Basketball - NCAA D1

[edit] Basketball NCAA Final Four Appearances

• 1957 - Men's Basketball - NCAA D1
• 1979 - Men's Basketball - NCAA D1 (Champion)
• 1999 - Men's Basketball - NCAA D1
• 2000 - Men's Basketball - NCAA D1 (Champion)
• 2001 - Men's Basketball - NCAA D1
• 2005 - Men's Basketball - NCAA D1
• 2005 - Women's Basketball - NCAA D1 (Runner-up)

[edit] Club Team National Championships

• 2000 - Men's Water Polo - CWPA NCCC
• 2001 - Women's Water Polo - CWPA NCCC
• 2002 - Women's Water Polo - CWPA NCCC
• 2003 - Women's Ice Hockey - ACHA
• 2005 - Men's Ice Hockey - ACHA D2
• 2006 - Women's Water Polo - CWPA NCCC
• 2006 - Men's Water Polo - CWPA NCCC
• 2007 - Men's Ice Hockey - ACHA D2

[edit] Club Team National Runners-up

• 1999 - Men's Ice Hockey - ACHA D2
• 2000 - Women's Water Polo - CWPA NCCC
• 2003 - Women's Water Polo - CWPA NCCC
• 2005 - Men's Water Polo - CWPA NCCC
• 2005 - Women's Ice Hockey - ACHA
• 2007 - Men's Water Polo - CWPA NCCC

[edit] Varsity Team Conference Championships

[edit] Fall Sports

Football

• 6 Big Ten Titles

1953	1965	1966	1978
1978	1990

Men's Cross Country

• 14 Big Ten Titles

1951	1952	1953	1955
1956	1957	1958	1959
1960	1962	1963	1968
1970	1971

Women's Cross Country

• 2 Big Ten Titles

1981

2001

Field Hockey

• 3 Big Ten Titles

2001

2003

2004

Men's Soccer

• 1 Big Ten Title

2004

Volleyball

• 1 Big Ten Title

1995

[edit] Winter Sports

Men's Basketball

• 10 Big Ten Titles

1957	1959	1967	1978
1979	1990	1998	1999
2000	2001

• 2 Big Ten Tournament Titles

1999

2000

Women's Basketball

• 2 Big Ten Titles

1997

2005

• 1 Big Ten Tournament Title

2005

• 1 Final Four

2005

Men's Ice Hockey

• 7 CCHA Titles

1985	1986	1989	1990
1998	1990	2001

• 11 CCHA Tournament Titles

1982	1983	1984	1985
1987	1989	1990	1998
2000	2001	2006

Men's Indoor Track

• 3 Big Ten Titles

1966

1972

1999

Men's Swimming

• 1 Big Ten Title

1957

Wrestling

• 8 Big Ten Titles

1961	1966	1967	1968
1969	1970	1971	1972

[edit] Spring Sports

Baseball

• 3 Big Ten Titles

1954

1971

1979

Men's Golf

• 4 Big Ten Titles

1969

2005

2007

2008

Women's Golf

• 3 Big Ten Titles

1982

2001

2007

Men's Outdoor Track

• 3 Big Ten Titles

1965

1966

1972

Women's Outdoor Track

• 1 Big Ten Title

1982

Rowing

• 2 Big Ten Titles

2005

2008

Men's Tennis

• 2 Big Ten Titles

1967

2000

[edit] Notes

[edit] External links

• MSU Athletics

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