OSU dominates Big Ten from baseball to gymnastics
Commentary
Josh Ellis
Issue date: 5/29/07
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Despite the early exits of many OSU athletic teams in the NCAA tournament, this academic year of OSU sports will go down as one of the best ever.
OSU sports teams won a combined 12 conference championships in nine different sports. This led the Big Ten conference, with Minnesota coming in second with five titles in five sports. No other team had more than three championships. After a record-setting season in 2005-06 - when OSU became the first Big Ten team to win conference championships in football, men's basketball and women's basketball - this year's teams repeated the feat and won each title outright.
Other than the three major sports, the OSU men's volleyball, tennis and gymnastics teams won conference tournaments or regular season championships, as well as the OSU women's field hockey and softball teams. The number of great teams at OSU cannot be matched by any other college in the country. To have this many championships in nine different sports is something to be proud of.
In the past few years at OSU, winning has become just as much of a tradition as dotting the "i" at football games. Of the nine sports teams that were conferences champions, five (football, men's and women's basketball, tennis and men's gymnastics) all defended their championships from one year ago, creating a dynasty in their respective sports.
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