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Which Coach Has Won The Most Big Ten Championships

Which Coach Has Won The Most Big Ten Championships

Ahead of the 2025 Big Ten wrestling championships check out which coach has won the most team titles.

Feb 12, 2025 by Cameron Belcher
Which Coach Has Won The Most Big Ten Championships

The Big Ten has long been recognized as the toughest conference in college wrestling. The 2025 Big Ten Wrestling Championships are happening on March 8-9 in Evanston, IL, at Welsh-Ryan Arena, Northwestern's home arena.

Penn State wrestling will look to tack on another title in 2025.

Which Coach Has Won The Most Big Ten Titles

  • Former Iowa Coach Dan Gable led the Hawkeyes to an astonishing 21 Big Ten championships from 1976 to 1997.
  •  Penn State Coach Cael Sanderson has won the most conference titles among active coaches, leading the team to seven Big Ten titles in his 14 seasons.

What Team Has The Most Big Ten Championships

  • Iowa wrestling has won the most Big Ten titles at 37 with its most recent win coming in 2021.

How To Watch The 2025 Big Ten Wrestling Championships

The Big Ten is the premier conference in collegiate wrestling, and the conference’s talented teams are a big draw for viewers on the Big Ten Network and the FOX Sports App, which are scheduled to air two dozen duals and the Big Ten Wrestling Championship during the 2024-2025 season.

More than 80 additional contests will be broadcast on BIG+ (the Big Ten Network’s subscription service for non-televised events). 

The Big Ten Wrestling Championships, specifically, on March 8-9, will air on the Big Ten Network.

Big Ten Wrestling Championship Television Schedule

The Big Ten Network air three segments of coverage from the 2025 Big Ten Wrestling Championships on March 8-9.

All Times Eastern

March 8

11 a.m. – Session I

8 p.m. – Session II

March 9

5:30 p.m. – Championships 

When Are The 2025 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships?

The 2025 collegiate wrestling season will come to a close with the 2025 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships, set for March 20-22.

The event will take place at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. 

Penn State is the three-time defending national team champion in Division I wrestling and has won the title 11 of the 13 times the competition has been held since 2011. The Nittany Lions won in four consecutive times twice during the streak. 

A team from the Big Ten has won the team title 17 consecutive times. The last non-Big Ten team to win was Oklahoma State, which won four straight championships from 2003-2006.

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