The University of Utah Utes have consistently been one of the most successful basketball programs in the NCAA. They are currently an NCAA Division I program that plays in the Mountain West Conference. The school has made the NCAA Tournament 26 times, which ranks 16th in NCAA history and 2nd behind UCLA in the Western United States. They last made the tournament in 2009. Utah won the NCAA Championship in 1944, defeating Dartmouth College 42–40, it...
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The University of Utah Utes have consistently been one of the most successful basketball programs in the NCAA. They are currently an NCAA Division I program that plays in the Mountain West Conference. The school has made the NCAA Tournament 26 times, which ranks 16th in NCAA history and 2nd behind UCLA in the Western United States. They last made the tournament in 2009. Utah won the NCAA Championship in 1944, defeating Dartmouth College 42–40, it is the school's only basketball championship. They have also won the NIT once, defeating Kentucky in 1947.
Utah is currently the 10th winningest program in NCAA history. They began play in 1908, finishing with a record of 3–8, however, by 1916, they won their first national championship, winning the National AAU Tournament. The team would compete in the tournament two other times, in 1918 and 1919. But it wasn't until 1927 that Utah really began laying the foundation for what would become one of the winningest programs in college basketball....
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