Last week we rankled an Associate Commissioner of the Big East Conference by suggesting that Heps had surpassed his conference for Eastern supremacy. He called such a notion “laughable.”
Though he has since scrubbed his Twitter feed clean of his assertions, one of the things that he’d discovered was that Heps had out-pointed the 13-team Big East at each of the last NCAA track & field championship — indoor and outdoor. And at those two meets, the Ivy League had five national champions — five more than the Big East.
As the Big East is slated to divide for good in little more than a month, leaving the Ivy League as the undisputed power of the Northeast, we wanted to take a look at where Heps stands nationally, based on entrants to the NCAA Champs in Eugene, Ore.
Conference | Per School | Men | Women | Total | Schools |
SEC | 14.64 | 109 | 96 | 205 | 14 |
Big 10 | 10.83 | 77 | 53 | 130 | 12 |
PAC-12 | 10.17 | 48 | 74 | 122 | 12 |
Big 12 | 10.00 | 53 | 57 | 110 | 11 |
ACC | 6.00 | 35 | 37 | 72 | 12 |
Big East | 4.00 | 22 | 30 | 52 | 13 |
HEPS | 3.75 | 19 | 11 | 30 | 8 |
C-USA | 3.58 | 13 | 30 | 43 | 12 |
MWC | 2.78 | 9 | 16 | 25 | 9 |
Mo Valley | 2.60 | 11 | 15 | 26 | 10 |
WAC | 1.78 | 9 | 7 | 16 | 9 |
Big Sky | 1.73 | 12 | 7 | 19 | 11 |
Sun Belt | 1.50 | 11 | 7 | 18 | 12 |
MAC | 1.42 | 5 | 12 | 17 | 12 |
Southland | 1.30 | 10 | 3 | 13 | 10 |