The Conference of Champions enjoyed another wonderful weekend in March. The Stanford women’s swimming and diving team successfully defended its NCAA title, giving the Pac-12 a 505th national championship.
So disregard anything that happened in that other little exercise being conducted by the NCAA this month. The Pac-12 performed poorly in the men’s basketball tournament, notably Arizona’s 21-point loss in the first round as a No. 4 seed. But that event awards only one trophy, just like the sports of men’s soccer and women’s swimming that the Pac-12 keeps dominating.
The Pac-12′s combined 1-11 showing in football bowl games and the NCAA Tournament distinguishes Utah as the conference’s only athletic department to deliver a win during the 2017-18 school year.