These Are the National Sports Titles Connecticut Colleges and Universities Have Won

This has been a good year for college sports in Connecticut.

The UConn men’s basketball team won the national 2023 NCAA championship and the Quinnipiac University men’s hockey team won its first national title.  

Through the years, college teams across the state have won national titles in many sports.

Our college athletes have won national championships in basketball, hockey, soccer, lacrosse and more.

Here is a look at which local college teams have won titles, according to records from the NCAA.

Basketball

Men’s Basketball

UConn has won five national Division I titles.

• 2023: UConn defeated San Diego State
• 2014: UConn defeated Kentucky
• 2011: UConn defeated Butler
• 2004: UConn defeated Georgia Tech
• 1999: UConn defeated Duke

Division II

• 1986: Sacred Heart defeated Southeast Missouri State

Women’s Basketball

UConn has won 11 national titles

Division I

• 2016: UConn defeated Syracuse
• 2015: UConn defeated Notre Dame
• 2014: UConn defeated Notre Dame
• 2013: UConn defeated Louisville
• 2010: UConn defeated Stanford
• 2009: UConn defeated Louisville
• 2004: UConn defeated Tennessee
• 2003: UConn defeated Tennessee
• 2002: UConn defeated Oklahoma
• 2000: UConn defeated Tennessee
• 1995: UConn defeated Tennessee

Division II

• 2007: Southern Connecticut State University defeated Florida Gulf Coast
• 1987: University of New Haven defeated Cal Poly Pomona

Men’s Hockey

Division I

Quinnipiac University and Yale University won titles 10 years apart.

• 2023: Quinnipiac University defeated Minnesota.
• 2013: Yale University defeated Quinnipiac University

Division III

• Trinity College: 2015. Trinity defeated University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point

Field Hockey

Division 1

• 2017: UConn defeated Maryland
• 2014: UConn defeated Syracuse
• 2013: UConn defeated Duke
• 1985: UConn defeated Old Dominion
• 1981: UConn defeated Massachusetts

Football

Yale won 17 times between 1874 and 1909.

• 1909: Yale
• 1907: Yale
• 1900: Yale
• 1894: Yale
• 1892: Yale
• 1891: Yale
• 1888: Yale
• 1877: Yale
• 1886: Yale
• 1884: Yale
• 1883: Yale
• 1882: Yale
• 1881: Yale
• 1880: Princeton, Yale
• 1877: Yale
• 1876: Yale
• 1874: Yale

Soccer

Men’s Soccer

Division I

• 2000: UConn defeated Creighton
• 1981: UConn defeated Alabama A&M

Division II

• 1999: Southern Connecticut State University defeated Fort Lewis
• 1998: Southern Connecticut State University defeated South Carolina, Upstate
• 1995: Southern Connecticut State University defeated South Carolina, Upstate
• 1992: Southern Connecticut State University defeated Tampa
• 1990: Southern Connecticut State University defeated Seattle Pacific
• 1987: Southern Connecticut State University defeated Cal State Northridge

Division III

• 2021: Connecticut College defeated Amherst

Women’s Soccer

Division II

• 2018: Bridgeport defeated Grand Valley State

Squash

Men's Squash

Men’s National Team Champions/Potter Cup Winners

Trinity College has won national 17 championships. Yale has won 12 national championships.

• 2018: Trinity College
• 2017: Trinity College
• 2016: Yale University
• 2015: Trinity College
• 2013: Trinity College
• 2011: Trinity College
• 2010: Trinity College
• 2009: Trinity College
• 2008: Trinity College
• 2007: Trinity College
• 2006: Trinity College
• 2005: Trinity College
• 2004: Trinity College
• 2003: Trinity College
• 2002: Trinity College
• 2001: Trinity College
• 2000: Trinity College
• 1999: Trinity College
• 1990: Yale University
• 1989: Yale University
• 1961: Yale University
• 1958: Yale University
• 1953: Harvard University and Yale University
• 1952: Yale University
• 1950: Yale University
• 1949: Yale University
• 1948: Yale University
• 1947: Yale University
• 1943: Yale University

Men's Hoehn Cup Winners

• 1990: Trinity College

Men's Summers Cup Winners

• 2001: Wesleyan University
• 1997: Wesleyan University

Men's Conroy Cup Winners

• 2017: Wesleyan University
• 2014: Connecticut College
• 2011: Connecticut College
• 2010: Connecticut College
• 2009: Connecticut College
• 1992: Wesleyan University
• 1991: Wesleyan University

Men's Chaffee Cup Winners

• 1997: Connecticut College
• 1995: Connecticut College

Men's Six-Man Team Trophy

• 1963: Yale University
• 1962: Yale University
• 1961: Yale University

Women's Squash

Women's Howe Cup Winner

• 2014: Trinity College
• 2011: Yale University
• 2006: Yale University
• 2005: Yale University
• 2004: Yale University
• 2003: Trinity College
• 2002: Trinity College
• 1992: Yale University
• 1986: Yale University
• 1977: Yale University

Women's Walker Cup Winner

• 2001: Connecticut College

Women's Epps Cup Winner

• 2020: Connecticut College
• 2019: Connecticut College
• 2016: Wesleyan University
• 2002: Wesleyan University
• 2001: Wesleyan University

Swimming and Diving

Men’s, Division I

• 1953: Yale defeated Ohio State
• 1951: Yale defeated Michigan State
• 1944: Yale defeated Michigan
• 1942: Yale defeated Michigan

Baseball

Division III

• 2022: Eastern Connecticut State University defeated Salisbury
• 2008: Trinity College defeated Johns Hopkins
• 2002: Eastern Connecticut State University defeated Marietta
• 1998: Eastern Connecticut State University defeated Montclair State
• 1990: Eastern Connecticut State University defeated Aurora
• 1982: Eastern Connecticut State University defeated Cal State Stanislaus

Golf

Men’s, Division I

• 1943: Yale defeated Michigan
• 1936: Yale defeated North Shore
• 1933: Yale defeated Buffalo
• 1932: Yale defeated Hot Springs, Va.
• 1931: Yale defeated Olympia Fields
• 1926: Yale defeated Merion
• 1925: Yale defeated Montclair
• 1924: Yale defeated Greenwich
• 1915: Yale defeated Greenwich
• 1912 Yale (fall) defeated Huntingdon Valley
• 1912 Yale (spring) defeated Ekwanko
• 1911: Yale defeated Baltusrol
• 1910: Yale defeated Essex County
• 1909: Yale defeated Apawamis
• 1908: Yale defeated Brae Burn
• 1907: Yale defeated Nassau
• 1906: Yale defeated Garden City
• 1905: Yale defeated Garden City
• 1902: Yale (spring) defeated Garden City
• 1898: Yale (fall)

Lacrosse

Men’s, Division I

• 2018: Yale defeated Duke

Men’s Division III

• 2018: Wesleyan defeated Salisbury

Women’s, Division III

• 2012: Trinity College defeated Salisbury

Rowing

Division III

• 2014: Trinity defeated Williams

Softball

Division III

• 1990: Eastern Connecticut State University defeated The College of New Jersey
• 1986: Eastern Connecticut State University defeated Central (Iowa)
• 1985: Eastern Connecticut State University defeated The College of New Jersey
• 1982: Eastern Connecticut State University defeated The College of New Jersey

Tennis

Women’s

Division III

• 2019: Wesleyan defeated Claremont-Mudd-Scripps