Wildcats by the numbers
992
NCAA APR (Academic Progress Rate) score by student-athletes in Fall 2020
3.21
Cumulative student-athlete GPA in Fall 2020
7
Number of Southland Conference championships won by Wildcat teams since ACU rejoined the league in 2013
6
Number of NCAA Division I postseason appearances by Wildcat teams since ACU rejoined the Southland Conference in 2013
7
Wildcats who have won Student-Athlete of the Year honors in the Southland Conference in the past three years
3
Division I universities winning both men’s and women’s conference basketball tourneys and advancing to the NCAA Tournament in 2018-19: ACU, Buffalo and New Mexico State
64
Team national championships won by ACU, the fifth most in NCAA history (behind Stanford, UCLA, USC and Kenyon College)
62
Number of Wildcats named first-team Academic All-America
28
World records set by Wildcats in track and field
40
Number of Wildcat Olympians (representing 20 nations, including 39 Olympians in track and field)
12,000
Yards passing in a collegiate career, eclipsed by back-to-back ACU quarterbacks Mitchell Gale (2009-12) and Billy Malone (2005-08) matching the feat by Houston’s Case Keenum (2007-11) and Kevin Kolb (2003-06), and Hawaii’s Colt Brennan (2005-07) and Timmy Chang (2001-04) – the only three pairs of quarterbacks to do so in NCAA history
14
Sprint titles won by Bobby Morrow in 100- and 200-meter races while competing for the Wildcats at NCAA Division I, NAIA and U.S. national championships
69
World record 69-yard field goal kicked by Ove Johansson in 1976
6
Olympic medals in track and field won by Wildcats (3 gold by Bobby Morrow, 1 gold by Earl Young, silvers won by Albert Lawrence and Greg Meghoo)
11
Wins in a football season (11-1 in 2010 and 11-1-1 in 1950)
10
Individual national championships won by Delloreen Ennis – the only woman to win all eight short hurdle NCAA titles (55 meters indoors and 100 meters outdoors) in a career
13
Individual NCAA titles won by Nicodemus Naimadu (nine in track and field distance races and four in cross country). He is the only athlete to win cross country titles four straight years (2004-07); no one else has won more than two.
49
Home-court winning streak for women’s basketball in Moody Coliseum (1995-98)
44
Home-court winning streak for men’s basketball in Moody Coliseum (1984-88)
31
Home-court match-winning streak for women’s volleyball in Moody Coliseum (2005)
11
Indoor world records set by pole vaulter Billy Olson
49
Most points scored in a game by an ACU women’s basketball player (Jamie Meyer in 2009)
44
Most points scored in a game by an ACU men’s basketball player (David Baxter in 2005)
12
Shutouts by women’s soccer team among its 15 wins in 2018, and another in a scoreless tie
20
NCAA-record golf tournaments won in a career by Alex Carpenter (2010-13)
130
Most points scored in a game by an ACU men’s basketball team in Moody Coliseum (1976)
147
Most points scored in a game by an ACU women’s basketball team in Moody Coliseum (2009)
2
Three-time Olympians: Delloreen Ennis for Jamaica (2000, 2004, 2008) and Tim Bright for U.S. (1984, 1988, 1992)
93
Points scored by ACU in 93-68 win over West Texas A&M in 2008 NCAA Division II football playoff game that set more than 40 national, conference and school records