Last Year’s National Champs Face the Daunting Challenge of Repeating

Last Year’s National Champs Face the Daunting Challenge of Repeating

Defending NCAA Division I national champion Texas faces one of the greatest challenges in all of sport: repeating. The Longhorns have done it before, successfully defending their 2021 championship in 2022 (and Texas coach Dave O’Neill did it previously, in 2005 and 2006, when he was Cal’s head coach). And they’ve won three of the last four, with Stanford winning in 2023 and finishing second (twice tied on points) the other three years. Washingto…