Where Girls' Basketball Rules: The Panhandle & South Plains: The Panhandle & South Plains

For nearly a century the Panhandle & South Plains of Texas has ruled girls' basketball in the state of Texas. The Panhandle & South Plains of Texas with nine percent of the high schools in Texas has won forty percent of the UIL state championships and played in the state finals nearly sixty percent of the time.



The four universities have been just as dominating. Wayland Baptist University won ten AAU national championships and nine runners-up, holds the national collegiate record with 1,682 victories, and finished as the NAIA Division I national runner-up twice. Texas Tech University boasts an NCAA Division I national championship. West Texas A & M is the only university in Texas with an NCAA Division II national runner-up and has done it twice. Lubbock Christian University is the only university in Texas with an NCAA Division II national championship, and LCU has won two of these championships plus an NAIA Division I runner-up.