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Conferencia del Sureste

La Southeastern Conference ( SEC ) es una conferencia deportiva universitaria estadounidense cuyas instituciones miembros se encuentran principalmente en el centro sur y sureste de los Estados Unidos . Sus 16 miembros incluyen las principales universidades públicas de 12 estados, tres universidades públicas adicionales concesionarias de tierras y una universidad privada de investigación. La conferencia tiene su sede en Birmingham, Alabama . La SEC participa en la División I de la Asociación Nacional de Atletismo Universitario (NCAA) en competiciones deportivas. En fútbol , ​​es parte de la Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), anteriormente conocida como División IA.

La SEC fue fundada en 1932 por 13 miembros de la Southern Conference . Tres miembros fundadores se fueron a fines de la década de 1960, pero las incorporaciones en 1990 y 2012 hicieron que la conferencia creciera a 14 instituciones miembro. La liga se expandió a 16 miembros con la incorporación de la Universidad de Oklahoma y la Universidad de Texas en 2024. [3]

En 1992 , la SEC fue la primera conferencia de la División I de la NCAA en tener un partido de campeonato de fútbol americano y fue una de las conferencias miembro fundadoras de la Bowl Championship Series (BCS). La conferencia patrocina campeonatos de equipo en nueve deportes masculinos y 13 deportes femeninos. La conferencia distribuyó $721,8 millones a sus 14 escuelas en 2022. [4]

Universidades miembros

Miembros actuales

La SEC está formada por 16 instituciones miembro ubicadas en los estados de Estados Unidos de Alabama , Arkansas , Florida , Georgia , Kentucky , Luisiana , Misisipi , Misuri , Oklahoma , Carolina del Sur , Tennessee y Texas . La SEC anteriormente estaba dividida en Divisiones Este y Oeste, aunque la alineación divisional era estrictamente geográfica, con Misuri en la División Este a pesar de estar más al oeste que varias escuelas de la División Oeste, y Auburn en la División Oeste a pesar de estar ubicada más al este que las escuelas de la División Este, Misuri y Vanderbilt. [5] Estas agrupaciones divisionales se aplicaron solo en fútbol americano, béisbol y fútbol femenino, tanto para fines de programación como de clasificación. En fútbol americano, los dos ganadores de división se enfrentaron en el Juego de Campeonato de la SEC .

La SEC eliminó sus divisiones de béisbol y fútbol una vez que Oklahoma y Texas se unieron en 2024. [6] [7]

Notas
  1. ^ El Servicio Postal de los EE. UU. y la Oficina del Censo de los EE. UU. designan la ubicación de Ole Miss como "Universidad, Mississippi".
  2. ^ El Servicio Postal de los EE. UU. y la Oficina del Censo de los EE. UU. designan la ubicación del estado de Mississippi como "Estado de Mississippi, Mississippi".

Mapa de membresía

Miembros de la Conferencia del Sureste
300 km
200 millas
Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt
Universidad de Texas A&M
Universidad de Texas A&M
Universidad de Texas A&M
Texas
Texas
Texas
Tennesse
Tennesse
Tennesse
Carolina del Sur
Carolina del Sur
Carolina del Sur
Oklahoma
Oklahoma
Oklahoma
Misuri
Misuri
Misuri
Vieja Señorita
Vieja Señorita
Vieja Señorita
Estado de Mississippi
Estado de Mississippi
Estado de Mississippi
Universidad Estatal de Luisiana
Universidad Estatal de Luisiana
Universidad Estatal de Luisiana
Kentucky
Kentucky
Kentucky
Georgia
Georgia
Georgia
Florida
Florida
Florida
Castaño
Castaño
Castaño
Arkansas
Arkansas
Arkansas
Alabama
Alabama
Alabama
  

Antiguos miembros

Tres escuelas han abandonado la SEC, todas ellas miembros fundadores:

Notas
  1. ^ab Actualmente es una conferencia atlética de la División III de la NCAA .

Historia

Establecimiento

La SEC se estableció el 8 y 9 de diciembre de 1932 en Knoxville, Tennessee, cuando los trece miembros de la gran Conferencia Sur ubicada al oeste y al sur de los Montes Apalaches se fueron para formar su propia conferencia. Diez de los trece miembros fundadores han permanecido en la conferencia desde su inicio: la Universidad de Alabama , la Universidad de Auburn , la Universidad de Florida , la Universidad de Georgia , la Universidad de Kentucky , la Universidad Estatal de Luisiana ("LSU"), la Universidad de Misisipi ("Ole Miss"), la Universidad Estatal de Misisipi , la Universidad de Tennessee y la Universidad de Vanderbilt ("Vandy"). Los tres miembros fundadores que desde entonces han abandonado la conferencia son Sewanee , que se fue después de la temporada de 1940 para abandonar todas las becas deportivas y convertirse en independiente de la División III ; Georgia Tech , que se fue después de la temporada de 1963 y se convirtió en independiente de la División I; y Tulane , que se fue después de la temporada de 1965 y se convirtió en independiente de la División I.

En 1935, la SEC se convirtió en la primera conferencia en legalizar las becas deportivas . [16]

Integración racial

Bobby Grier jugando contra los Yellow Jackets de Georgia Tech en 1955

Los sureños blancos comprometidos con mantener la segregación crearon controversia antes del Sugar Bowl de 1956 , cuando los Pitt Panthers , con el fullback afroamericano Bobby Grier en la lista, se enfrentaron a los Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets . [17] Los segregacionistas sureños blancos crearon controversia al afirmar que Grier debería ser excluido del juego debido a su raza, y si Georgia Tech debería incluso jugar debido a la oposición del gobernador de Georgia, Marvin Griffin, a la integración racial. [18] [19] [20] Después de que Griffin enviara públicamente un telegrama a la Junta de Regentes del estado solicitando a Georgia Tech que no participara en eventos racialmente integrados, el presidente de Georgia Tech, Blake R. Van Leer, rechazó la solicitud y amenazó con renunciar. El juego continuó según lo planeado. [21]

El equipo de baloncesto masculino de Mississippi State de 1959, liderado por el All-American Bailey Howell , terminó su temporada con 24 victorias y 1 derrota, ganando el título de la conferencia. No participaron en el torneo de la NCAA porque las autoridades escolares y estatales no permitieron que el equipo jugara contra jugadores negros de las escuelas del norte. Cuatro años después, en 1963, Loyola , con cuatro titulares negros, jugó contra Mississippi State en el " Game of Change ". [22]

No fue hasta 1966 que los afroamericanos participaron por primera vez en una competencia atlética de la SEC, y los primeros atletas negros becados no jugaron en la SEC hasta el año escolar 1967-68.

El primer afroamericano en competir en la SEC fue Stephen Martin, quien se unió al equipo de béisbol de Tulane en la última temporada de la SEC de esa escuela en 1966. [23] En agosto de ese mismo año, Kentucky inscribió a Nate Northington y Greg Page con becas de fútbol, ​​[24] y Vanderbilt inscribió a Godfrey Dillard y Perry Wallace con becas de baloncesto. [25] En ese momento, la NCAA no permitía que los estudiantes de primer año compitieran en equipos universitarios, lo que significó que estos pioneros no pudieron jugar hasta 1967. Page murió por complicaciones de una lesión en la médula espinal sufrida durante una práctica de fútbol antes de jugar un partido, [24] mientras que Dillard sufrió una lesión que alteró su carrera antes de tener la oportunidad de jugar para el equipo universitario de Vanderbilt y se transfirió a Eastern Michigan . [25] Los dos restantes jugaron en el año escolar 1967-68. Northington hizo su debut general contra Indiana el 23 de septiembre de 1967 [26] [27] y su debut en la SEC contra Ole Miss la semana siguiente el 30 de septiembre (el día después de la muerte de Page [24] ), mientras que Wallace hizo su debut universitario más tarde ese año. [28]

Expansión de 1990

En 1990, la SEC se expandió de diez a doce universidades miembro con la incorporación de los Arkansas Razorbacks y los South Carolina Gamecocks . Los dos nuevos miembros comenzaron la competencia de la SEC con la temporada de baloncesto 1991-1992.

Al mismo tiempo, la SEC organizó la competencia para algunos deportes en dos divisiones. La División Oeste comprendía seis de las siete escuelas miembro en la Zona Horaria Central , mientras que la División Este comprendía las cinco escuelas miembro en la Zona Horaria Este más Vanderbilt, que está en la Zona Horaria Central pero fue ubicada en la División Este para preservar su rivalidad con Tennessee. Inicialmente, el formato divisional se utilizó en fútbol americano, béisbol y baloncesto masculino. El formato divisional se abandonó para el baloncesto masculino después de la temporada 2011-2012.

Tras la expansión, la SEC fue la primera conferencia en recibir permiso de la NCAA para patrocinar un partido anual de campeonato de fútbol que no contara para los límites de la NCAA en los partidos de la temporada regular, con los ganadores de las divisiones Este y Oeste de la conferencia. [29] Los partidos de campeonato de 1992 y 1993 se llevaron a cabo en el Legion Field en Birmingham, y todos los partidos de campeonato desde 1994 en adelante se han llevado a cabo en Atlanta , primero en el Georgia Dome hasta su cierre y demolición después de la temporada 2016, y desde 2017 en el Mercedes-Benz Stadium . [29]

Expansión 2012

El 25 de septiembre de 2011, los presidentes y cancilleres de la SEC, actuando por unanimidad, anunciaron que la Universidad de Texas A&M se uniría a la SEC a partir del 1 de julio de 2012, para comenzar a competir en diecinueve de los veinte deportes patrocinados por la SEC durante el año académico 2012-13. [30] El 6 de noviembre de 2011, el comisionado de la SEC anunció que la Universidad de Missouri también se uniría a la SEC el 1 de julio de 2012. [31] Para el fútbol americano, Texas A&M estaba programado para competir en la División Oeste, y Missouri en la División Este. [32] [33] [34] [35] Texas A&M y Missouri abandonaron la Conferencia Big 12 .

Expansión 2024

El 27 de julio de 2021, Oklahoma y Texas notificaron formalmente a la SEC que buscaban "una invitación para ser miembros". En una carta conjunta, el presidente de Texas, Jay Hartzell, y el presidente de Oklahoma, Joseph Harroz Jr., escribieron: "Creemos que sería beneficioso para las universidades, por un lado, y para la SEC, por otro, que las universidades se convirtieran en miembros de la SEC". [36] El 29 de julio de 2021, los presidentes de las 14 escuelas actuales de la SEC votaron por unanimidad para extender una oferta de admisión a Oklahoma y Texas. [37] El 30 de julio de 2021, las juntas de regentes de ambas instituciones aceptaron la membresía de la conferencia y se programó tentativamente que las escuelas se unieran a la liga en 2025.

El 9 de febrero de 2023, Big 12, Texas y Oklahoma anunciaron que habían llegado a un acuerdo de compra que permitía a las escuelas unirse a la SEC en 2024. De este modo, los equipos deportivos Texas Longhorns y Oklahoma Sooners comenzaron a jugar en la liga durante el año académico 2024-25. [38]

Cronología de la membresía

Big 12 ConferenceSouthwest ConferenceUniversity of Texas at AustinBig 12 ConferenceBig Eight ConferenceUniversity of OklahomaBig 12 ConferenceBig Eight ConferenceUniversity of MissouriBig 12 ConferenceSouthwest ConferenceTexas A&M UniversityMetro ConferenceNCAA Division I FBS independent schoolsAtlantic Coast ConferenceSouthern ConferenceUniversity of South CarolinaSouthwest ConferenceUniversity of ArkansasVanderbilt UniversityUniversity of TennesseeMississippi State UniversityUniversity of MississippiLouisiana State UniversityUniversity of KentuckyUniversity of GeorgiaUniversity of FloridaAuburn UniversityUniversity of AlabamaAmerican Athletic ConferenceConference USAMetro ConferenceNCAA Division I FBS independent schoolsTulane UniversityAtlantic Coast ConferenceMetro ConferenceNCAA Division I FBS independent schoolsGeorgia Institute of TechnologySouthern Athletic AssociationSouthern Collegiate Athletic ConferenceNCAA Division I independent schoolsSewanee: The University of the South

Miembros de pleno derecho  Miembros de pleno derecho (no fútbol)  Otra Conferencia  Otra Conferencia 

Comisionados

El cargo de Comisionado fue creado en 1940. [39]

Red Académica de la SEC

En 2005, las instituciones miembros de la Conferencia del Sureste formaron el Consorcio Académico de la SEC (SECAC), un esfuerzo colaborativo diseñado para promover la investigación, las becas y los logros entre las universidades. [40]

En 2011, el Consorcio Académico de la SEC se trasladó a la sede de la SEC en Birmingham, Alabama , desde su hogar original en el campus de la Universidad de Arkansas en Fayetteville, Arkansas , y pasó a llamarse SECU. La SECU rebautizó su misión para servir mejor como un medio a través del cual se promoverían y avanzarían los esfuerzos y logros académicos colaborativos de las universidades de la Conferencia del Sureste. Los objetivos de la SECU incluían destacar los esfuerzos y logros de la facultad , los estudiantes y las universidades de la SEC; promover la reputación académica de las universidades de la SEC; identificar y preparar a futuros líderes para el servicio de alto nivel en el ámbito académico ; aumentar la cantidad y el tipo de oportunidades de estudio en el extranjero disponibles para los estudiantes; y brindar oportunidades de colaboración entre el personal universitario de la SEC. [41] [42] La Conferencia Big Ten , desde 1958, ha tenido un programa similar, ahora llamado Big Ten Academic Alliance .

El componente del Simposio de la SEC de la SECU fue creado por el rector de la Universidad de Vanderbilt, Nicholas S. Zeppos , quien en ese momento era el vicepresidente del Comité Ejecutivo de la SEC y enlace con la SECU. [43] En una entrevista con el Dr. Zeppos sobre la formación de la SECU, señaló que "las instituciones miembro de la Conferencia del Sureste están comprometidas con una misión compartida de fomentar la investigación, la erudición y los logros. El Simposio de la SEC representa una plataforma para conectar, colaborar y promover un diálogo productivo que abarcará los límites disciplinarios e institucionales y nos permitirá trabajar juntos para mejorar la sociedad". [44]

La Red Académica de la SEC se creó en 2009 en asociación con ESPN . La Red Académica de la SEC era una biblioteca en línea de videos producidos institucionalmente que presentaban iniciativas académicas e historias de todas las instituciones de la Conferencia del Sureste. La Red Académica de la SEC se fusionó oficialmente con la operación de la SECU. [45]

Académica

La siguiente tabla muestra la clasificación de las universidades nacionales según US News & World Report en 2023. [46]

También se indica su membresía en la Asociación de Universidades Americanas . [47]

Ingresos del departamento de atletismo por escuela

Los ingresos totales incluyen las ventas de entradas, contribuciones y donaciones, derechos y licencias, cuotas de estudiantes, fondos escolares y todas las demás fuentes, incluidos los ingresos de televisión, los ingresos del campamento, las concesiones y las novedades.

Los gastos totales incluyen salarios de entrenadores y personal, becas, edificios y terrenos, mantenimiento, servicios públicos y tarifas de alquiler, reclutamiento, viajes del equipo, equipamiento y uniformes, cuotas de conferencias y seguros.

La siguiente tabla muestra los informes institucionales al Departamento de Educación de los Estados Unidos, tal como se muestran en el sitio web de Equidad en Atletismo del DOE para el año académico 2021-22. [48]

La siguiente tabla muestra los ingresos específicamente provenientes de distribuciones de la NCAA/Conferencia, derechos de medios y fútbol de postemporada informados por la Comisión Knight para el año académico 2021-22. [49]

Personal clave

  1. ^ Vanderbilt, que había abandonado el voleibol femenino después de la temporada de 1979 (año escolar 1979-80), restablecerá el deporte en 2025. Nelson fue nombrado entrenador en jefe el 23 de diciembre de 2022. [50]

Instalaciones

  1. ^ Se juega un partido cada año en el War Memorial Stadium en Little Rock.
  2. ^ El director deportivo de Kentucky, Mitch Barnhart, ha declarado públicamente que la capacidad del Memorial Coliseum después de la finalización de las renovaciones para 2024-25 será de entre 6.500 y 6.700 personas.
  3. ^ La capacidad indicada incluye asientos en el césped; la capacidad fija es de 2500 personas. Ampliable a 7000.
  4. ^ La capacidad oficial de asientos del Dudy Noble Field es de 7200, pero su capacidad total es de 15 000, lo que incluye asientos de propiedad privada en Left Field Lounge . Mississippi State tiene el récord de asistencia en un día de todos los tiempos de la NCAA en el campus con 15 586 personas. [72]
  5. ^ Capacidad estándar para baloncesto; ampliable a 15.000.
  6. ^ Capacidad aproximada en 2024 después de las renovaciones. [89] Vanderbilt aún no ha anunciado la capacidad exacta.

Vestir

Deportes

La Conferencia del Sureste patrocina la competición de campeonato en nueve deportes masculinos y trece femeninos sancionados por la NCAA. [90] [91] Según las reglas de la conferencia de la SEC que reflejan la gran cantidad de participantes masculinos becados en el fútbol y tratan de abordar las preocupaciones sobre la equidad de género (véase también el Título IX ), cada institución miembro debe ofrecer dos deportes universitarios femeninos más que masculinos. La NCAA adoptó recientemente una regla similar para toda la División  I. [92] [93]

Deportes masculinos patrocinados por escuela

Deportes universitarios masculinos no patrocinados por la Conferencia del Sureste que se practican en escuelas de la SEC:

  1. ^ El tiro con rifle es técnicamente un deporte masculino, pero compiten entre sí equipos masculinos, femeninos y mixtos. Kentucky tiene un equipo mixto.

Deportes patrocinados por mujeres por escuela

Deportes universitarios femeninos no patrocinados por la Conferencia del Sureste que se practican en escuelas de la SEC:

  1. ^ Vanderbilt incorporará voleibol femenino a partir de la temporada 2025 (año escolar 2025-26). [95]
  2. ^ Técnicamente, el tiro con rifle es un deporte masculino, pero compiten entre sí equipos masculinos, femeninos y mixtos. Kentucky tiene un equipo mixto y Ole Miss tiene un equipo femenino.
  3. ^ Una disciplina de porristas exclusivamente femenina que enfatiza las acrobacias y es parte del programa de Deportes Emergentes para Mujeres de la NCAA .

Campeones actuales

Fuente: SECSports.com. [96]

Fútbol americano

Para la temporada actual, consulte Temporada de fútbol de la Conferencia Sureste de 2024 .

Programación

Los equipos de la SEC no jugaron un número uniforme de partidos de conferencia hasta 1974. Antes de eso, el número de partidos de conferencia que jugaban los equipos variaba de cuatro a ocho, pero la mayoría jugaba un calendario de 6 o 7 partidos. La liga adoptó un calendario uniforme de 6 partidos desde 1974 hasta 1987, y agregó un séptimo partido de conferencia desde 1988 hasta 1991. Durante este período y en los años anteriores, cada escuela de la SEC tuvo cinco oponentes permanentes, lo que generó algunas rivalidades tradicionales entre escuelas, y los otros partidos rotaban en torno a los otros miembros de la conferencia.

Después de la expansión a doce programas en 1992, la SEC adoptó un calendario de conferencias de ocho partidos, en el que cada equipo jugaba contra los otros cinco equipos de su división y tres oponentes de la otra división. Los ganadores de las dos divisiones se enfrentarían en el Juego de Campeonato de la SEC .

Desde 1992 hasta 2002, cada equipo tuvo dos oponentes interdivisional permanentes, lo que permitió que continuaran muchas rivalidades tradicionales de la era anterior a la expansión (como Florida vs. Auburn, Kentucky vs. LSU y Vanderbilt vs. Alabama). Sin embargo, las quejas de algunos directores deportivos de la liga sobre el desequilibrio en el calendario (por ejemplo, los dos oponentes permanentes de Auburn del Este eran Florida y Georgia, dos de los programas de fútbol más fuertes de la SEC en ese momento, mientras que Mississippi State jugaba contra Kentucky y South Carolina todos los años) llevaron a la SEC a reducir el número de oponentes interdivisional permanentes a uno a partir de la temporada 2003. Las cadenas de televisión que televisaban los juegos de la SEC también estaban presionando para que se realizara el cambio, por lo que los enfrentamientos atractivos entre oponentes no tradicionales se producirían dos veces cada cinco años en lugar de dos veces cada ocho años. Con la posterior expansión a 14 miembros en 2012, los oponentes interdivisional no permanentes se enfrentan entre sí en la temporada regular dos veces en un lapso de doce años.

En el formato utilizado desde 2012 hasta 2023, cada escuela jugó un total de ocho partidos de conferencia, compuestos por los otros seis equipos de su división, una escuela de la otra división de manera rotatoria y una escuela de la otra división con la que juega cada año. Los enfrentamientos permanentes entre divisiones fueron: Alabama–Tennessee ; Arkansas–Misuri ; Auburn–Georgia ; LSU–Florida ; Mississippi State–Kentucky; Ole Miss–Vanderbilt ; Texas A&M–South Carolina.

El acuerdo de programación vigente en ese momento originalmente iba a expirar después de la temporada 2015, pero los presidentes de la SEC votaron 10-4 [97] en abril de 2014 para mantener el formato actual por seis a ocho temporadas adicionales más allá de 2015. [98] Además, desde 2016, los equipos de la SEC deben programar al menos un oponente cada temporada de las otras conferencias llamadas "Power Five" (ACC, Big Ten, Big 12 o Pac-12); los juegos contra escuelas independientes de fútbol seleccionadas también califican, incluido Army (que ya no cuenta a partir de 2024 debido a que se unió a la American Athletic Conference , una conferencia del Grupo de los Cinco ), BYU (antes de unirse a la Big 12 en 2023) y Notre Dame . [98] [99] [100]

En 2023, la SEC anunció que la división divisional se eliminaría cuando Oklahoma y Texas se unan en 2024. El calendario de la conferencia se mantendrá en 8 juegos en las temporadas 2024 y 2025 mientras la SEC determina su formato de programación de fútbol a largo plazo. Los equipos jugarán contra los mismos oponentes en ambas temporadas en forma de ida y vuelta. Cada uno de los 14 miembros de la conferencia en 2023 jugará contra Oklahoma o Texas en 2024 y '25, pero no ambos. Ya sea que el calendario de la conferencia se mantenga en 8 juegos o se amplíe a 9 después de 2025, cada equipo tendrá garantizado jugar contra todos los demás equipos de la conferencia en casa y fuera en un ciclo de cuatro años. El requisito de programar al menos un equipo Power Four (el Pac-12 perdió a todos menos dos de sus miembros, Oregon State y Washington State , antes de la temporada 2024; los Beavers tienen encuentros con Ole Miss programados en 2027 y 2030, mientras que los Cougars están programados para enfrentar a Mississippi State en 2030 y '31) o Notre Dame sigue vigente. El juego del campeonato contará con los dos mejores equipos en la clasificación de la conferencia, con desempates según sea necesario. [101]

Récords escolares de todos los tiempos (clasificados según porcentaje de victorias)

Hasta el final de la temporada 2023, incluido el partido por el campeonato de la SEC. Los registros reflejan los resultados oficiales de la NCAA, incluidas las derrotas por abandono o las victorias que se dejan sin efecto. [102]


Notas:

Partido de campeonato

Desde su creación en 1992 hasta 2023, el Juego de Campeonato de la SEC enfrentó al representante de la División Oeste de la SEC contra el representante de la División Este en un juego celebrado después de que se completara la temporada regular. A partir de 2024, cuando la SEC elimine sus divisiones de fútbol, ​​el juego contará con los dos mejores equipos en la clasificación de la conferencia. Los primeros dos juegos de fútbol del Campeonato de la SEC se llevaron a cabo en Legion Field en Birmingham, Alabama . Desde 1994, se ha jugado en Atlanta , primero en el Georgia Dome hasta 2016, y desde 2017 en su reemplazo, Mercedes-Benz Stadium , con el contrato de hospedaje actual vigente hasta 2027. [103] La designación de "equipo local" alternó entre los campeones de división durante la era divisional, pasando al campeón del Este en los años pares y al campeón del Oeste en los años impares. El Oeste lideró 19-13 en victorias generales en el juego de campeonato contra el Este durante la era divisional. A partir de 2023, los únicos miembros anteriores a 2024 sin una aparición en el Juego de Campeonato son Kentucky, Ole Miss, Texas A&M y Vanderbilt. [104]

Juegos de bolos

Los partidos de postemporada de la SEC para las temporadas 2014-2019 son: [105]

El pago se realiza por equipo para la temporada 2014; si es diferente para la conferencia opuesta, se muestra el pago para el equipo de la SEC. Cada miembro de la conferencia, independientemente de su participación en el bowl, también recibe una división igualitaria del pago para la conferencia de la SEC. [106] [107] [108]

^ El Sugar Bowl tiene la obligación contractual de seleccionar al campeón de la SEC si ese equipo no participa en el College Football Playoff. En los años en los que el campeón no esté disponible, el Comité de Playoffs asignará otro equipo de la SEC para que participe en el Sugar. Alternativamente, en los años en los que el Sugar sea anfitrión de un partido de playoffs, el campeón de la SEC será enviado al Fiesta, Cotton o Peach Bowl si no es seleccionado para el playoff.

† La Big Ten y la SEC serán elegibles para enfrentar al representante de la ACC en el Orange Bowl al menos en tres de las ocho temporadas en las que no sea anfitrión de una semifinal de los Playoffs en un período de 12 años. Notre Dame podría ser elegido los otros dos años si es elegible.

° En los años en que el Big Ten coloca un equipo en el Orange Bowl, el Citrus Bowl seleccionará entre los equipos ACC restantes después de que el Comité de Playoffs y el Orange Bowl hagan sus selecciones.

‡ Big Ten y ACC alternarán entre los Music City Bowls y los Gator Bowls en años alternos.

¤ Para las temporadas 2020 a 2025, la Big Ten y la SEC alternarán qué conferencia envía un equipo al Duke's Mayo Bowl o al Las Vegas Bowl. La SEC participará en el Las Vegas Bowl durante los años pares y en el Duke's Mayo Bowl durante los años impares.

Remuneración del entrenador principal

El salario total de los entrenadores principales incluye la remuneración universitaria y no universitaria, incluido el salario base, los ingresos por contratos, los complementos de la fundación, las bonificaciones y el salario de los medios de comunicación y la radio a partir de la temporada más reciente de 2023. Como institución privada, Vanderbilt no está obligada a divulgar información salarial.

  1. ^ Se retiró después de la temporada 2023. Kalen DeBoer será el entrenador en jefe en 2024.
  2. ^ Despedido durante la temporada 2023. Mike Elko será el entrenador en jefe en 2024.
  3. ^ Despedido durante la temporada 2023. Jeff Lebby será el entrenador en jefe en 2024.

Premios a los jugadores

Cada año, la conferencia selecciona varios premios individuales . En 1994, la conferencia comenzó a honrar anualmente a exjugadores de cada escuela con el programa SEC Football Legends .

Equipo de la SEC de todos los tiempos por su 50.° aniversario

En 1982, los SEC Skywriters, un grupo de medios que cubrían la Conferencia del Sureste, seleccionaron a los miembros de su Equipo de Todos los Tiempos de la SEC para los primeros cincuenta años (1933-1982) de la SEC. [110]

Rivalidades futbolísticas dentro de las conferencias

The members of the SEC have longstanding rivalries with each other, especially on the football field. The following is a list of active rivalries in the Southeastern Conference with totals & records through the completion of the 2023 season.

Interconference football rivalries

Men's basketball

For the most recent season, see 2023–24 Southeastern Conference men's basketball season.

Since the 2012–13 season, SEC teams have played an 18-game conference schedule, which includes two games (home and away) against each of three permanent rivals and single games against the remaining ten teams in the conference. Men's basketball formerly used the East/West divisional alignment for regular-season scheduling and seeding the conference tournament, but it no longer does.

Before expansion to 14 teams, the conference schedule was 16 games. Although the divisions were eliminated beginning with the 2011–12 season, that season's schedule was still set according to the divisional alignments, with each team facing each team from its own division twice and each team from the opposite division once. As part of the proposal by SEC head coaches that led to the scrapping of the divisional structure, a task force of four coaches and four athletic directors was set to discuss future conference scheduling. At that time, options included a revamped 16-game schedule, an 18-game schedule, or a full double round-robin of 22 conference games.[111] However, these discussions came before Texas A&M and Missouri were announced in late 2011 as incoming members for the 2012–13 season, which required a format that could support 14 teams rather than twelve.

At the 2012 SEC spring meetings, league athletic directors adopted an 18-game conference schedule. Each school had one permanent opponent that it played home and away every season, and faced four other opponents in a home-and-home series during a given season, and then the remaining teams one each (four home, four away). The permanent opponents were Alabama–Auburn, Arkansas–Missouri, Florida–Kentucky, Georgia–South Carolina, LSU–Texas A&M, Ole Miss–Mississippi State, and Tennessee–Vanderbilt. The home-and-home opponents, apart from the permanent opponent, rotated each season.[112]

The 2014 SEC spring meetings saw a further change to the scheduling format. While the athletic directors voted to stay with an 18-game conference schedule, they increased the number of permanent opponents for each school from one to three. Each school retained its permanent opponent from the 2012–2014 period while adding two others.[113]

From 1966 to 1967, following Tulane's departure, through 1990–91, the year prior to the addition of Arkansas and South Carolina, teams played a double round-robin, 18-game conference schedule. No team was undefeated in this period, though three teams went 17–1 (Kentucky in 1970 and 1986, LSU in 1981). During the period from 1992 to 2012 when the league slate was 16 games, Kentucky went undefeated in SEC play in 1996, 2003, and 2012 (although only the 2003 team went on to win the conference tournament).

Since the return to an 18-game conference schedule following the 2012 conference expansion, two teams have gone undefeated in SEC play: Florida in 2013–14 and Kentucky in 2014–15.

The scheduling format will change again with the arrival of Oklahoma and Texas in 2024. The conference schedule will remain at 18 games, but each team will play three opponents home and away—two permanent and one rotating. The remaining 12 games will be single games against all other conference members, evenly divided between home and away games.[7]

Scheduling partners

The table below lists each school's permanent men's basketball-only scheduling partners from 2014–15 through 2023–24.

Basketball tournament

The SEC men's basketball tournament (also known simply as the SEC tournament) is the competition that determines the SEC's automatic bid to the NCAA men's basketball tournament. Notably, it does not determine the SEC conference champion in men's basketball—the conference has awarded its championship to the team(s) with the best regular-season record since the 1950–51 season.[114] It is a single-elimination tournament and seeding is based on regular season records.

With the expansion to 14 members in 2012, the 2013 tournament was the first with a new format covering five days. The teams seeded eleven through fourteen play on the first day, with the winners advancing to play the No. 5 and No. 6 seeds on Thursday. The top four teams receive a "double bye" and do not play until the quarterfinals on Friday. The expansion to 16 teams in 2024 will result in two additional tournament games, but the top four teams will continue to receive "double byes" into the quarterfinals.[7]

As of the 2022–23 season, the tournament has most often been held at two venues that have each hosted twelve times. Louisville Gardens in Louisville, Kentucky, served as the regular host from 1941 until the tournament was discontinued after the 1952 edition. The Georgia Dome in Atlanta first hosted the tournament in 1995 and most recently hosted in 2014. Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee, is now the regular host, with that venue hosting the tournament from 2015 through 2030, except in 2018 and 2022 (years in which it instead hosted the SEC women's basketball tournament).[115] Sometimes, the tournament will take place at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, or Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida. The 2018 tournament was held at Scottrade Center, now Enterprise Center, in St. Louis, Missouri, and the 2022 tournament was at Amalie Arena.[116]

Prior to moving to the Georgia Dome, the tournament (during its modern, post-1979 era) was most often contested at the venue now known as Legacy Arena in Birmingham, Alabama, home of the SEC's headquarters and centrally located prior to the addition of Arkansas and South Carolina. Other sites to host include on-campus arenas at LSU, Tennessee, and Vanderbilt; Rupp Arena in Lexington; and the Orlando Arena.

NCAA tournament champions, runners-up and locations

† denotes overtime games. Multiple †'s indicate more than one overtime.

Awards

The SEC Men's Basketball Player of the Year is awarded to the player who has proven himself, throughout the season, to be the most exceptional talent in the Southeastern Conference. Various other awards, such as the best tournament player in the SEC tournament and all conference honors are given out throughout the year.

Baseball

Schools play a 30-game league schedule (10 three-game series). Since 1996, schools have played all five schools within their division and five schools from the opposite division. Before the addition of Missouri and Texas A&M in advance of the 2013 season, schools missed only one opponent from the opposite division in a given season; each school now misses three opponents from the opposite division.

Since 1990, the SEC has become the most successful conference on the college baseball diamond. That year, Georgia captured the conference's first national championship at the Men's College World Series (MCWS). Following that, LSU won six of the next 19 titles, including five of ten between 1991 and 2000 and its sixth title in 2009. This was followed by South Carolina winning back-to-back titles in 2010 and 2011, Vanderbilt winning its first title in 2014, Florida winning its first title in 2017, Vanderbilt winning again in 2019, Mississippi State claiming its first title in 2021, Ole Miss winning its first title in 2022, LSU winning again in 2023, and Tennessee winning its first title in 2024. During that same span, 13 teams have also been runners-up at the MCWS. The MCWS final series featured two SEC teams in 1997, 2011, 2017, 2021, 2023, and 2024, and the 2022 final involved a current member and a future member.[a] The 2022 MCWS featured four current members, all from the SEC West, and both future members. Every current member has appeared at least 5 times except Kentucky, which made its first MCWS appearance in 2024. The only pre-2024 SEC member that has not appeared in the MCWS as an SEC member is Missouri, which has yet to make the NCAA tournament as an SEC member, although it made six MCWS appearances in the 1950s and 1960s while in the Big Eight Conference. Both Georgia Tech and Tulane have made appearances in the MCWS after leaving the SEC. One of the two newest SEC members, Texas, leads all schools in MCWS appearances with 38, and its 6 titles trail only USC (12 titles) and LSU (7). The other new member, Oklahoma, has two titles from 11 MCWS appearances.

SEC teams have also become leaders in total and average attendance over the years. In 2022, the top seven programs in average home attendance and the top eight programs in total home attendance were all SEC members, with the exception of future member Texas. The only SEC members to place outside the top 30 in both measures of attendance were Kentucky and Missouri, with the latter being the only one outside the top 50.[117]

The NCAA automatic berth is given to the winner of the SEC Baseball Tournament, which was first started in 1977. It is a double-elimination tournament and seeding is based on regular season records. Since 1998, the tournament has been held at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium in Hoover, Alabama and contested under the format used at the MCWS from 1988 through 2002, with two four-team brackets leading to a single championship game. The winner receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Division I baseball tournament.

SEC presidents and athletic directors voted to expand the SEC Tournament to ten teams starting in 2012. The division winners received a bye on the first day of competition, and the tournament became single-elimination after the field is pared to four teams.

With the addition of Missouri and Texas A&M for the 2013 baseball season, the tournament was expanded to 12 teams. The top four seeds receive a bye on the first day, with seeds 5–12 playing single elimination. The tournament is double-elimination for the next three days, then reverts to single elimination when four teams are remaining.

The arrival of Oklahoma and Texas in 2024–25 will result in further changes to the conference schedule. The SEC schedule remains at 30 games, but the divisional alignment was scrapped. Each team plays 10 three-game series—two against permanent opponents, and eight against rotating opponents. The future format for the baseball tournament has yet to be determined.[7]

In addition to the winner of the SEC Baseball Tournament, the Southeastern Conference usually gets several at-large bids to the NCAA tournament. Many teams have qualified for the NCAA tournament despite failing to win a game in the SEC Tournament. Two of these reached the MCWS despite going 0–2 in the SEC Tournament — Mississippi State in 2007 and Texas A&M in 2024, with Texas A&M reaching the MCWS championship series.

Men's College World Series champions, runners-up, and scores

Note: Teams in bold are current SEC members who advanced to the MCWS while in the conference. Teams in bold italics are current SEC members who were either in another conference or an independent at the time of their appearance.

Men's College World Series appearances

Rivalries

Several baseball rivalries have developed in the SEC:

Historically these schools were arch-rivals in all sports, but following Tulane's decades-long de-emphasis of sports, including its exit from the SEC in 1966, baseball is the only sport in which the two schools are relatively evenly matched. On several occasions match-ups between the two have drawn national record-setting attendances. Tulane reached its first College World Series in 2001 by defeating LSU in three games in the NCAA Super Regional. In 2002, the Tigers and Green Wave drew an NCAA regular season record crowd of 27,673 to the Louisiana Superdome.
Before the arrival of Skip Bertman as LSU's baseball coach in 1984, Mississippi State had long dominated the conference in baseball, with most of that success coming under coach Ron Polk, who returned to coach the Bulldogs in 2002 after retiring in 1997. When Bertman arrived in Baton Rouge, LSU's long-dormant program took off, winning eleven SEC championships and five College World Series championships between 1984 and 2001.
This instate rivalry is an intense local affair, with the Gamecocks and Tigers meeting each regular season, and has gained national prominence as both teams are often ranked in the top ten nationally. The highlights of the rivalry include the 2002 and 2010 meetings in the final four of the College World Series. Each time, South Carolina emerged from the losers bracket to beat Clemson twice and advance to the national championship series.
The Gamecocks and Tar Heels met five times in the NCAA tournament between 2002 and 2013, including the 2002 NCAA Regional, 2003 NCAA Super Regional, 2004 NCAA Regional and 2013 NCAA Regional, with the Gamecocks holding a 3–2 edge.

Women's basketball

The SEC has historically been a strong conference in women's basketball.[118] Since the 2009–10 season, teams have played a 16-game conference schedule with a single league table; prior to that time the conference schedule was 14 games, again in a single table.[119] Like SEC men's basketball, women's basketball used the divisional alignment for scheduling purposes through the 2011–12 season; however, the women's scheduling format was significantly different from the men's. Each team played home-and-home games against five schools—one permanent opponent, two teams from the same division, and two teams from the opposite division; the non-permanent home-and-home opponents rotated every two years.[120] The remaining games were single games against the six other schools in the conference, with three at home and three away.

The league voted to keep a 16-game league schedule even after the addition of Missouri and Texas A&M. Arkansas and LSU are no longer permanent opponents, with the Razorbacks picking up Missouri and the Lady Tigers picking up Texas A&M. The other permanent opponents are the same as men's basketball, except for Florida-Georgia and Kentucky-South Carolina (both pairs had been permanent women's basketball opponents before the 2012 expansion). Each school plays two others home-and-home during a given season and the other ten once each. The divisional alignments no longer play any role in scheduling.[121]

The conference schedule will remain at 16 games after the 2024 arrival of Oklahoma and Texas. Each team will play home and away against one permanent opponent, with single games against all other teams, evenly divided between home and away games.[7]

SEC women's basketball was historically dominated by Tennessee, who won regular-season and/or conference tournament championships in 25 seasons through 2015, as well as eight national championships since 1987. In more recent times, the dominant team has been South Carolina, winning eight regular-season and eight tournament titles since 2014, as well as national titles in 2017, 2022 and 2024. In the 28 seasons the NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament has been held, SEC schools have reached the Final Four 32 times, more than twice as often as any other conference.[122]

Basketball tournament

The SEC women's basketball tournament is currently held a week before the men's basketball tournament. Like the men's version, it is a single-elimination tournament involving all conference members, with seeding based on regular season records. With the expansion to 14 schools, the bottom four teams in the conference standings play opening-round games, and the top four receive "double byes" into the quarterfinals. The winner earns the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA women's basketball tournament. Also paralleling the men's tournament, the women's tournament does not determine the SEC champion; that honor has been awarded based on regular-season record since the 1985–86 season.[123] The expansion to 16 teams will result in the addition of two extra games, but the top four teams in the conference standings will continue to receive "double byes" into the quarterfinals.[7]

The tournament, inaugurated in 1980, was originally held on campus sites; the first tournament to take place at a neutral site was in 1987. The three most frequent sites for the tournament have been McKenzie Arena in Chattanooga, Tennessee (seven times), the Albany Civic Center in Albany, Georgia (six times), and Bridgestone Arena in Nashville (six times). However, the only one of these venues to have hosted the tournament in the 21st century is Bridgestone Arena. Because demand for women's tournament tickets is generally lower than for the men's tournament, it is typically played in a smaller venue than the men's tournament in the same season. The most frequent venues since 2000 have been Bridgestone Arena, Gas South Arena at Duluth, Georgia (four), and Simmons Bank Arena in North Little Rock, Arkansas (four).

NCAA tournament champions, runners-up and locations

† denotes overtime games. Multiple †'s indicate more than one overtime.

Teams in bold represented the SEC at the time of their championship appearance. Teams in bold italics made their appearances before joining the SEC.

Rivalries

The Lady Vols have historically been one of the nation's dominant programs in that sport. Starting in the mid-1990s, UConn has emerged as Tennessee's main rival for national prominence. The Huskies won four national titles between 2000 and 2004; in three of those years, their opponent in the NCAA final was Tennessee. Connecticut also defeated Tennessee in the 1995 Championship game, the Huskies' first-ever title. The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame brokered a deal that saw the teams renew their rivalry with a home-and-home series in 2020 and 2021, and both schools extended the series through 2023.

Other sports

Besides football, basketball, and baseball, there are a number of other sports in which the Southeastern Conference actively competes.

Rivalries

These two storied programs have often butted heads for not only SEC titles, but NCAA titles as well. Georgia has won ten national championships to Alabama's six. For decades the rivalry was dominated by two long-standing coaches, Suzanne Yoculan at Georgia and Sarah Patterson at Alabama. Yoculan and Patterson have since retired, bringing their personal rivalry to an end.
These two nationally acclaimed softball programs have proven to be the elite of the SEC and the nation. While consistently being ranked in the nation's Top Ten, both teams find their way to the SEC Tournament Finals and often clash once more in the Women's College Softball World Series.
One of the youngest rivalries featuring an SEC team, the Tigers and Texas Longhorns are the two most successful swimming and diving programs in the country. The two have combined for 17 NCAA National Titles since 1981 (nine for Texas, eight for Auburn) and between 1999 and 2007 won every national title awarded. The two regularly face off in a meet during the regular season, Auburn's men own a 12–9 record over the Longhorns. The women just recently began an annual series, with the Tigers winning the series so far 3–1. Texas was the only team to beat the Auburn men between 2001 and 2007.[124]

National team championships

Since the SEC's founding in December 1932, the varsity athletic teams of its current 14 members have won 261 (38 in addition are current SEC teams that weren't SEC teams when they won a national championship) national team sports championships.

The following is the list of the national team championships claimed by current SEC member schools, including those tournament championships currently or formerly sponsored by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).[125][126] The NCAA has never sponsored a tournament championship for major college football, the championship game for which is currently part of the College Football Playoff (CFP) system. Prior to 1992, championships for major college football were determined by a "consensus" of major polling services, including the Associated Press and United Press International college football polls. Recognized women's championships from 1972 to 1982 were administered by the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW), not the NCAA. There was a one-year overlap period during the 1981–82 school year, when both the AIAW and the NCAA operated women's championship tournaments; since 1982, only the NCAA has sponsored women's championship tournaments. National equestrian tournament championships are currently sponsored by the National Collegiate Equestrian Association (NCEA), not the NCAA. Those national championships dating from before 1933 predate the founding of the SEC in December 1932; championships won by Arkansas and South Carolina before the 1992–93 school year predate their membership in the SEC; championships won by Missouri and Texas A&M before the 2012–13 school year predate their membership in the SEC; championships won by Oklahoma and Texas before the 2024–25 school year predate their membership in the SEC.

* A championship marked by an asterisk (*) indicates that the institution was not a member of the SEC at the time of the championship.

  1. ^ For this purpose, "future member" is defined as a school that, at the time of the relevant MCWS, was confirmed to be joining the SEC in the future. Oklahoma and Texas combined for 49 MCWS appearances through 2022, but their 2022 appearances were their first after the SEC announced both as future members.
  2. ^ Due to COVID-19 issues in the 2020–21 school year, the NCAA moved its women's volleyball championship from its normal fall 2020 schedule to spring 2021. It designated the championship as "2020", but the season as "2020–21".

National team titles claimed by current SEC institutions

The fourteen members of the Southeastern Conference claim over 200 national team championships in sports currently or formerly sponsored by conference members. The following totals include national team championships sponsored by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) from 1906 to present, the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) from 1972 to 1982, and, in football, the Bowl Alliance, Bowl Coalition, Bowl Championship Series (BCS) and College Football Playoff (CFP) since 1992, as well as consensus national championships determined by the major football polls prior to 1992.[127]

NCAA and AIAW national tournament team titles won by current SEC institutions

The following totals include national team tournament championships sponsored by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) from 1906 to the present and the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) from 1972 to 1982. The NCAA did not sponsor tournament championships in women's sports before the 1981–82 academic year, and the NCAA has never sponsored a national championship playoff or tournament in major college football. To date, the fourteen members of the SEC have won 216 NCAA and four AIAW championships:[128]

Broadcasting and media rights

SEC sports are televised by ABC, ESPN, and the SEC Network, a joint venture between the SEC and ESPN. Each season, one football game and a few men's basketball games for each team are broadcast on ESPN+ and SEC+, the online component of the SEC Network. Most other sports are broadcast on the SEC Network or on SEC+. Unlike many other conferences ESPN broadcasts, SEC games cannot be televised by ABC because CBS holds exclusive over-the-air broadcast rights.

For football scheduling, ABC has the first pick for a game, which is usually broadcast as the game of the week at 3:30 EST, and ESPN then assigns the remaining games among ESPN, ESPN2, and the SEC Network. During two weeks each year, ABC gets an additional game as a double header, with one week having a game at noon before the 3:30 game and another week having a primetime game, which is designated the game of the week, after the 3:30 game.[129] When ABC is airing its game of the week, ESPN is prohibited from showing an SEC game on ESPN or ESPN2. CBS also broadcasts the SEC Championship Game.

All SEC schools broadcast their radio play-by-play through Sirius XM, and the conference carries its own full-time radio network on satellite channel 374, and via Sirius XM Online.

History

The SEC created the College Football Association in 1977 with other major conferences to negotiate contracts for broadcasting college football games.[130]

Jefferson Pilot Sports began syndicated television coverage of men's basketball games in 1986 and football games in 1992, which were picked after the CFA allocated games for its national contract.[131]

In 1994, the SEC became the first conference to leave the CFA when it announced a deal with CBS to televise one game each week. CBS paid about $17 million per season for the right to show the best game of the week. The network was required to televise each team at least once per season. The Conference soon reached a deal with ESPN to broadcast games in primetime.[130]

In August 2008, the SEC announced an unprecedented 15-year television contract with CBS worth an estimated $55 million a year. This continued the previous deal that made CBS the exclusive over-the-air broadcaster of SEC sports.[29] In the same month, the league also announced another landmark television contract with ESPN worth $2.25 billion or $150 million a year for fifteen years. The ESPN deal replaced the syndicated contract and ensured that all SEC football games would be televised nationally. The deal also committed ESPN and the conference to the creation of the SEC Network, which was finally created in 2014 and allowed for a significant increase in television coverage of SEC sports. Together, these contracts helped make the SEC one of the most nationally televised and visible conferences in the country.[132]

In 2020, the SEC announced a new deal that made ESPN the sole televisor of SEC sports starting in 2024. The ten-year contract was reported to be about $300 million per year and will allow ESPN to broadcast the SEC on ABC as well as rights to the SEC Championship Game.[133]

SEC Network

The SEC Network is a television and multimedia network that features exclusively Southeastern Conference content through a partnership between ESPN and the SEC.[134] The network launched on August 14, 2014, with the first live football game scheduled for two weeks later between Texas A&M and South Carolina on Thursday, August 28 in Columbia, South Carolina.[135]

The network is part of a deal between the Southeastern Conference and ESPN which is a 20-year agreement, beginning in August 2014 and running through 2034. The agreement served to create and operate a new multiplatform television network and accompanying digital platform in the hope of increasing revenue for member institutions and expanding the reach of the Southeastern Conference.

Awards and honors

Athlete of the Year

The conference has presented athlete of the year awards in men's sports since 1976 and women's sports since 1984.[136][137] The award was named the Roy F. Kramer Athlete of the Year Award in 2004 after the former commissioner.

NACDA Learfield Sports Directors' Cup rankings

The NACDA Learfield Sports Directors' Cup is an annual award given by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics to the U.S. colleges and universities with the most success in collegiate athletics.

2022–23 Capital One Cup standings

The Capital One Cup is an award given annually to the best men's and women's Division I college athletics programs in the United States. Points are earned throughout the year based on final standings of NCAA Championships and final coaches' poll rankings.

Conference champions

The Southeastern Conference sponsors nine men's sports and 13 women's sports, and awards a conference championship in every one of them.

See also

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