List of Michigan State Spartans championships

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

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

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.[1]

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[edit]

* 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 - Cheerleading - UCA Co-ed D1A
* 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[edit]

* 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[edit]

* 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[edit]

* 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
* 2021 - Men's Water Polo - CWPA NCCC

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* 2022 - Roller Hockey - NCRHA D2
* 2023 - NCDA Men’s Dodgeball
* 2024 - NCDA Men’s Dodgeball

## Club Team National Runners-up[edit]

* 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
* 2024 - Roller Hockey NCRHA D2

## Varsity Team Conference Championships[edit]

### Fall Sports[edit]

Football

* 9 Big Ten Titles

1953 | 1965 | 1966 | 1978

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1987 | 1990 | 2010 | 2013
2015

* 2 Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Titles

1903 | 1905

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Men's Cross Country

* 14 Big Ten Titles

1951 | 1952 | 1953 | 1955

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1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959
1960 | 1962 | 1963 | 1968
1970 | 1971

Women's Cross Country

* 6 Big Ten Titles

1981 | 2001 | 2010 | 2011

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2013 | 2014

Field Hockey

* 4 Big Ten Titles

2001 | 2003 | 2004 | 2009

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* 2 Big Ten Tournament Titles

2009 | 2013

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Men's Soccer

* 1 Big Ten Title

2008

* 3 Big Ten Tournament Titles

2004 | 2008 | 2012

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Volleyball

* 2 Big Ten Titles

1995 | 1996

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### Winter Sports[edit]

Men's Basketball

* 16 Big Ten Titles

1957 | 1959 | 1967 | 1978

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1979 | 1990 | 1998 | 1999
2000 | 2001 | 2009 | 2010
2012 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020

* 6 Big Ten Tournament Titles

1999 | 2000 | 2012 | 2014

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2016 | 2019

Women's Basketball

* 3 Big Ten Titles

1997 | 2005 | 2011

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* 1 Big Ten Tournament Title

2005

Men's Ice Hockey

* 7 Central Collegiate Hockey Association Titles

1985 | 1986 | 1989 | 1990

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1998 | 1990 | 2001

* 2 WCHA Tournament Titles

1966 | 1967

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* 5 Big Ten Titles

1959 | 1967 | 1971 | 1973 | 1976

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* 11 CCHA Tournament Titles

1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985

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1987 | 1989 | 1990 | 1998
2000 | 2001 | 2006

Men's Indoor Track

* 3 Big Ten Titles

1966 | 1972 | 1999

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Men's Swimming

* 1 Big Ten Title

1957

Women’s Gymnastics

* 2 Big Ten Titles

2022 | 2023

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Wrestling

* 8 Big Ten Titles

1961 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968

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1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972

### Spring Sports[edit]

Baseball

* 4 Big Ten Titles

1954 | 1971 | 1979 | 2010

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* 5 Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Titles

1888 | 1889 | 1893 | 1894

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1902

Men's Golf

* 4 Big Ten Titles

1969 | 2005 | 2007 | 2008

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Women's Golf

* 11 Big Ten Titles

1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977

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1978 | 1982 | 2001 | 2007
2011 | 2012 | 2014

Men's Outdoor Track

* 3 Big Ten Titles

1965 | 1966 | 1972

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* 15 Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Titles

1889 | 1890 | 1892 | 1895

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1897 | 1898 | 1899 | 1900
1901 | 1902 | 1903 | 1904
1905 | 1906 | 1907

Women's Outdoor Track

* 1 Big Ten Title

1982

Rowing

* 3 Big Ten Titles

2005 | 2008 | 2009

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Men's Tennis

* 2 Big Ten Titles

1951 | 1967

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* 1 Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Title

1907

Women's Tennis

* 2 Big Ten Titles

1973 | 1974

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## Notes[edit]

1. ^ "Michigan State names Bill Beekman as interim athletic director". Lansing State Journal. Retrieved 2018-03-26.
2. ^ "From Worst to First: No. 2 Michigan State University Claims Fourth Men's National Collegiate Club Championship by Downing No. 1 University of California-San Diego, 12-11". 14 November 2021.

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