List of Michigan State Spartans championships

This is a list of Michigan State Spartans' varsity and club athletic team national championships and runner-up finishes.

MSU's Breslin Center hosts varsity basketball games and other events.

Michigan State University has 29 varsity sports teams that compete under the Spartan nickname. The university participates in the NCAA's Division I and in the Big Ten Conference in all varsity sports. Michigan State offers 14 varsity sports for men and 15 for women.

The university's current interim athletic director is Bill Beekman, following the resignation of Mark Hollis.[1]

MSU's Spartan Marching Band or Spartan Brass plays the fight song at every university event. Michigan State University was the first NCAA Division I athletic program to have multiple national championships in both football and basketball, as well as the only school to have multiple national championships in football, basketball, and hockey.

Varsity Team National Championships

  • 1939 - Men's Cross Country - NCAA
  • 1948 - Men's Cross Country - NCAA
  • 1949 - Men's Cross Country - NCAA
  • 1951 - Boxing - NCAA
  • 1951 - Football - No. 1 ranking by Billingsley, Helms, Poling
  • 1952 - Men's Cross Country - NCAA
  • 1952 - Football - No. 1 ranking by AP, Billingsley, Boand, DeVold, Dunkel, Football Research, Helms, Litkenhous, NCF, Sagarin, UPI, Williamson
  • 1955 - Boxing - NCAA
  • 1955 - Men's Cross Country - NCAA
  • 1955 - Football - No. 1 ranking by Boand
  • 1956 - Men's Cross Country - NCAA
  • 1957 - Football - No. 1 ranking by Billingsley, Dunkel, Sagarin
  • 1958 - Men's Cross Country - NCAA D1
  • 1958 - Men's Gymnastics - NCAA
  • 1959 - Men's Cross Country - NCAA D1
  • 1965 - Football - No. 1 ranking by Berryman, DeVold, Dunkel, Football News, FWAA, Helms, Litkenhous, NFF, Poling, Sagarin, UPI
  • 1966 - Football - No. 1 ranking by Football Research, Helms, NFF, Poling
  • 1966 - Men's Ice Hockey - NCAA
  • 1967 - Men's Soccer - NCAA
  • 1967 - Wrestling - NCAA D1
  • 1968 - Men's Soccer - NCAA
  • 1976 - Softball - AIAW
  • 1979 - Men's Basketball - NCAA D1
  • 1986 - Men's Ice Hockey - NCAA D1
  • 2000 - Men's Basketball - NCAA D1
  • 2007 - Men's Ice Hockey - NCAA D1
  • 2014 - Women's Cross Country - NCAA D1

Varsity Team National Runners-up

  • 1941 - Wrestling - NCAA
  • 1942 - Wrestling - NCAA
  • 1943 - Boxing - NCAA
  • 1948 - Boxing - NCAA
  • 1948 - Wrestling - NCAA
  • 1949 - Boxing - NCAA
  • 1950 - Boxing - NCAA
  • 1950 - Men's Cross Country - NCAA
  • 1951 - Men's Swimming and Diving - NCAA
  • 1952 - Boxing - NCAA
  • 1957 - Men's Cross Country - NCAA
  • 1959 - Men's Ice Hockey - NCAA
  • 1960 - Men's Cross Country - NCAA D1
  • 1964 - Men's Soccer - NCAA
  • 1965 - Men's Soccer - NCAA
  • 1970 - Wrestling - NCAA D1
  • 1972 - Men's Indoor Track and Field - NCAA
  • 1972 - Wrestling - NCAA D1
  • 1987 - Men's Ice Hockey - NCAA D1
  • 2005 - Women's Basketball - NCAA D1
  • 2009 - Men's Basketball - NCAA D1

Basketball NCAA Final Four Appearances

  • 1957 - Men's Basketball - NCAA D1
  • 1979 - Men's Basketball - NCAA D1 (Champion)
  • 1999 - Men's Basketball - NCAA D1
  • 2000 - Men's Basketball - NCAA D1 (Champion)
  • 2001 - Men's Basketball - NCAA D1
  • 2005 - Men's Basketball - NCAA D1
  • 2005 - Women's Basketball - NCAA D1 (Runner-up)
  • 2009 - Men's Basketball - NCAA D1 (Runner-up)
  • 2010 - Men's Basketball - NCAA D1
  • 2015 - Men's Basketball - NCAA D1
  • 2019 - Men's Basketball - NCAA D1

Club Team National Championships

  • 1989 - Equestrian - Western - IHSA
  • 1990 - Equestrian - Western - IHSA (co-champion)
  • 1998 - Archery - Mixed Men and Women's Olympic Style - USCA USIAC
  • 1998 - Archery - Women's Olympic Style - USCA USIAC
  • 1999 - Roller Hockey - NCRHA
  • 2000 - Men's Water Polo - CWPA NCCC
  • 2000 - Roller Hockey - NCRHA
  • 2001 - Women's Water Polo - CWPA NCCC
  • 2002 - Women's Water Polo - CWPA NCCC
  • 2003 - Women's Ice Hockey - ACHA
  • 2005 - Men's Ice Hockey - ACHA D2
  • 2006 - Women's Water Polo - CWPA NCCC
  • 2006 - Men's Water Polo - CWPA NCCC
  • 2007 - MAPP Pompon
  • 2007 - MAPP High Kick Pompon
  • 2007 - Men's Ice Hockey - ACHA D2
  • 2008 - MAPP Pompon
  • 2008 - MAPP High Kick Pompon
  • 2008 - Men's Water Polo - CWPA NCCC
  • 2009 - MAPP High Kick Pompon
  • 2009 - MAPP Pompon
  • 2009-10 - Equestrian - Intermediate Flat - IHSA
  • 2010 - MAPP Pompon
  • 2010 - MAPP High Kick Pompon
  • 2011 - MAPP High Kick Pompon
  • 2011 - Women's Ice Hockey - ACHA
  • 2012 - MAPP High Kick Pompon
  • 2012 - MAPP Pompon
  • 2012 - Men's Club Soccer NIRSA NCCS
  • 2012 - Women's Club Soccer NIRSA NCCS
  • 2013 - Men's Ice Hockey - ACHA
  • 2013 - MAPP High Kick Pompon
  • 2015 - Men's Ice Hockey D3 - ACHA
  • 2016 - MAPP High Kick Pompon
  • 2017 - MAPP High Kick Pompon
  • 2018 - MAPP Pompon
  • 2018 - Men's Lacrosse - MCLA D1

Club Team National Runners-up

  • 1982 - Men's Bowling - USBC Collegiate
  • 1998 - Men's Bowling - USBC Collegiate
  • 1999 - Men's Ice Hockey - ACHA D2
  • 2000 - Women's Water Polo - CWPA NCCC
  • 2002 - Roller Hockey - NCRHA D1
  • 2002 - Synchronized Skating - USFA Collegiate Division
  • 2003 - Women's Water Polo - CWPA NCCC
  • 2003 - Roller Hockey - NCRHA D1 or Premier Division
  • 2005 - Men's Water Polo - CWPA NCCC
  • 2005 - Women's Ice Hockey - ACHA
  • 2006 - Roller Hockey - NCRHA D1
  • 2007 - Men's Water Polo - CWPA NCCC
  • 2007 - Men's Triathlon - USAT Collegiate Division
  • 2007 - Synchronized Skating - USFA Collegiate Division
  • 2010 - Women's Ice Hockey - ACHA
  • 2011 - MAPP Pompon
  • 2013 - NCDA Dodgeball
  • 2013 - MAPP Pompon
  • 2013 - Roller Hockey NCRHA D1
  • 2014 - Roller Hockey NCRHA B (MSU Green)
  • 2014 - MAPP Pompon

Varsity Team Conference Championships

Fall Sports

Football

  • 8 Big Ten Titles
1953196519661978
1987199020102013
2015
  • 2 Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Titles
19031905

Men's Cross Country

  • 14 Big Ten Titles
1951195219531955
1956195719581959
1960196219631968
19701971

Women's Cross Country

  • 6 Big Ten Titles
1981200120102011
20132014

Field Hockey

  • 4 Big Ten Titles
2001200320042009
  • 2 Big Ten Tournament Titles
20092013

Men's Soccer

  • 1 Big Ten Title
2008
  • 3 Big Ten Tournament Titles
200420082012

Volleyball

  • 2 Big Ten Titles
19951996

Winter Sports

Men's Basketball

  • 15 Big Ten Titles
1957195919671978
1979199019981999
2000200120092010
201220182019
  • 6 Big Ten Tournament Titles
1999200020122014
20162019

Women's Basketball

  • 3 Big Ten Titles
199720052011
  • 1 Big Ten Tournament Title
2005

Men's Ice Hockey

  • 7 Central Collegiate Hockey Association Titles
1985198619891990
199819902001
  • 2 WCHA Tournament Titles
19661967
  • 5 Big Ten Titles
19591967197119731976
  • 11 CCHA Tournament Titles
1982198319841985
1987198919901998
200020012006

Men's Indoor Track

  • 3 Big Ten Titles
196619721999

Men's Swimming

  • 1 Big Ten Title
1957

Wrestling

  • 8 Big Ten Titles
1961196619671968
1969197019711972

Spring Sports

Baseball

  • 4 Big Ten Titles
1954197119792010
  • 5 Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Titles
1888188918931894
1902

Men's Golf

  • 4 Big Ten Titles
1969200520072008

Women's Golf

  • 11 Big Ten Titles
1974197519761977
1978198220012007
201120122014

Men's Outdoor Track

  • 3 Big Ten Titles
196519661972
  • 15 Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Titles
1889189018921895
1897189818991900
1901190219031904
190519061907

Women's Outdoor Track

  • 1 Big Ten Title
1982

Rowing

  • 3 Big Ten Titles
200520082009

Men's Tennis

  • 2 Big Ten Titles
19511967
  • 1 Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Title
1907

Women's Tennis

  • 2 Big Ten Titles
19731974

Notes

  1. "Michigan State names Bill Beekman as interim athletic director". Lansing State Journal. Retrieved 2018-03-26.
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