Women's Hoops Blog

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Friday, December 26, 2008

Northern Kentucky University has two NCAA championships -- both in women's basketbal -- but that's not the only athletic flower in their bonnet:

Nine of the 13 sports at NKU qualified to participate in the NCAA Division II postseason in 2008 - the most recent being the men's soccer team, which advanced to the national semifinals earlier this month. That continued a trend of broad-based athletic success at the school.

Since 2000, 12 of the 13 athletic programs have made it to at least one NCAA postseason tournament, and the only sport that didn't, women's cross country, had an individual participant. Most Norse teams have made the NCAA postseason multiple times, and NKU also has won five of the last nine all-sports trophies in the Great Lakes Valley Conference.