Men's Teams That Won Multiple NCAA Championships in 40 Years Since 1975

Connecticut is suddenly the most popular orphan in college basketball.

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Sure, the Huskies are members of the American Athletic Conference, a football-playing group spun off from the Big East and other points on the competitive compass. But as fans well know, UConn was left out during recent league expansions despite public pleas for ACC inclusion by school president and Duke grad Susan Herbst.

Now the basketball program has again won championships in both men's and women's basketball, matching its unique double in 2004, and is the toast of the college game.

The dual feat isn't the most popular stat cited when discussing the success of the men's squad. Instead the year 1999 is brought up and the fact the Huskies have won four titles in the past 16 seasons, best of any men's program over that span. They're also 4 of 4 in championship contests, including victories over a pair of ACC squads - Duke in 1999 in one of the great disappointments in Blue Devil history, and Georgia Tech in 2004.

UConn's four-title, 16-year run is actually matched by the tandem of Duke and UNC. The Tar Heels won in 2005 and 2009, the Devils in 2001 and 2010.

Since the NCAA tournament field expanded in 1975 to allow multiple entrants from the same conference, 10 programs have won multiple titles - 30 of 40 that were contested during those four decades.