2010-11 Highlights
• NCAA championships in men’s basketball (Connecticut) women’s cross country (Villanova) and women’s soccer (Notre Dame)
• NCAA runner-up finishes in women’s basketball (Notre Dame) and men’s soccer (Louisville)
• Villanova’s Sheila Reid won four NCAA individual championships in the academic year - she was the 2010 individual cross country champion, a member of the winning distance medley relay in indoor track & field and won the 5,000 and 1,500 titles in outdoor track & field.
• Louisville’s Matt Hughes repeated as the NCAA champion in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the outdoor track & field championships.
• Connecticut extended its NCAA-record women’s basketball winning streak to 90 games and joined Notre Dame in the Women’s Final Four.
• Connecticut’s Maya Moore (basketball) won the Honda Broderick Cup as the nation’s top female collegiate athlete. Moore, Notre Dame’s Melissa Henderson (soccer) and Villanova’s Sheila Reid (cross country) won Honda Sports Awards as the top performers in their respective sports.
• Maya Moore won the John R. Wooden Award and the Wade Trophy as the nation’s top women’s basketball player. She became the first three-time winner of the Wade Trophy.
• Villanova’s Brian Karalunas (lacrosse) and Connecticut’s Maya Moore (basketball) won the Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award in their respective sports.
• Maya Moore was chosen as the Capital One Academic All-America of the Year in women’s basketball for the second straight year.
• The BIG EAST had 22 Capital One Academic All-America selections. Maya Moore (Connecticut basketball), Peter Bolgert (Marquette track & field), Olivia Johnson (Marquette track & field), Tim Abromaitis (Notre Dame basketball), Lauren Fowlkes (Notre Dame soccer), Caitlin Saxton (Rutgers volleyball), Brian Karalunas (Villanova lacrosse) Sheila Reid (Villanova track &field) and Liz Repella (West Virginia basketball) were all first team selections.
• The BIG EAST had seven NCAA Postgraduate Scholars in 2010-11: Michael Eaton (Louisville cross country), Rachel Gehret (Louisville track & field), Lauren Fowlkes (Notre Dame soccer), Caitlin Saxton (Rutgers volleyball), Amy Zhang (Rutgers tennis) and Liz Repella (West Virginia basketball).
Overall Highlights
• Thirty-one national team champions and 133 NCAA individual champions
• Seventeen Final Four appearances in men’s basketball, including NCAA titles by Connecticut in 1999, 2004 and 2011, Syracuse in 2003, Villanova in 1985 and Georgetown in 1984.
• NCAA women’s basketball titles by Connecticut in 1995, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2009 and 2010 and Notre Dame in 2001.
• Eighteen Final Four appearances in women’s basketball (Connecticut 1991, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011; Notre Dame 1997, 2001, 2011; Rutgers 2000, 2007; Louisville 2009).
• National championships in football by Miami in 1991 and 2001.
• Ten NCAA women’s cross country titles (nine for Villanova, including the 2009 and 2010 championships, and an NCAA-record six straight from 1989 94, and one for Providence in 1995).
• NCAA men’s soccer titles by St. John’s in 1996 and Connecticut in 2000.
• NCAA women’s soccer titles by Notre Dame in 1995, 2004 and 2010.
• Appearances in the NCAA Men’s College World Series by Notre Dame in 2002 and Louisville in 2007.
• NCAA Women’s College World Series appearances by Connecticut in 1993 and DePaul in 2007.
• Two NCAA Woman of the Year award winners (Nnenna Lynch, Villanova, 1993; Rebecca Lobo, Connecticut, 1995).
• Six Honda-Broderick Cup winners recognizing collegiate athletic achievement among women (Vicki Huber, Villanova, 1988-89; Rebecca Lobo, Connecticut, 1994-95; Jennifer Rizzotti, Connecticut, 1995-96; Cindy Daws, Notre Dame, 1996-97; Maya Moore, Connecticut, 2009-10 and 2010-11).
• Eight women’s basketball Wade Trophy winners (Shelly Pennefather, Villanova, 1987; Rebecca Lobo, Connecticut, 1995; Jennifer Rizzotti, Connecticut, 1996; Sue Bird, Connecticut, 2002, Diana Taurasi, 2003; Maya Moore, Connecticut, 2009, 2010 and 2011).
• Two consensus National Players of the Year in men’s basketball (Walter Berry, St. John’s, 1986; Patrick Ewing, Georgetown, 1985).