So your team goes all the way. You win the NCAA national championship. You hoist the trophy above your head. The glory is all yours. Right? Well, not exactly. Sure, you might have your photo in the local paper, but you won't be making national headlines.

Unfortunately, people just don't care about skiing the way they do about football, baseball, soccer, and basketball. They're really attached to those sports for some reason.

There are about eight events and each school team competes in these events and racks up points according to their degrees of success. At the end of the races, the scores are tallied up and the school with the most overall points wins (source). So while each skier does his or her absolute darnedest on the slopes, every title that's won is purely a team effort. No individual gets all the glory in the end.

Also, the schools seem to keep winning. The University of Denver has won 22 titles, followed by the University of Colorado, which has won 19 (source). Since the best young skiers all want to go to the best skiing schools, the concentration of talent is drawn toward the same places, year after year. This means that if you want the glory, as in winning the national championship, look toward the Rocky Mountains.