Kansas University shared the Big 12 Conference men’s basketball title with Texas. The Jayhawks did not win any other conference titles. If you care more about the first sentence than the second, don’t feel bad. You no doubt have plenty of company in that regard.

Although some crazed men’s basketball fans might not care, KU does compete in 16 other Big 12 championship sports.

Now that Big 12 regular-season competition is over, it’s time to look at how the schools stacked up in the mythical all-sports rankings compiled by the Journal-World.

Not surprisingly, Texas won by a landslide with 194 points, and KU remained a second-division finisher with 104 points, good for eighth place. Texas either won outright or had a share in 11 titles. No other school had more than two conference championships to its name.

Kansas University's Brandon Rush, at left, helped lead the Jayhawks to a share of the Big 12 regular-season men's basketball title this winter, the lone conference title for KU during the 2005-06 sports year.

The Longhorns compete in nine men’s sports and finished first or second in every one of them, amassing 105 points to second-place Oklahoma’s 72 and third-place Nebraska’s 70.5 in men’s sports. Nebraska was the leader in women’s sports with 103.5 points, finishing ahead of Texas A&M (93) and Texas (89).

The eighth-place finish qualifies as modest progress by KU, which placed ninth a year ago and 11th two years ago.

The Jayhawks’ strongest finishes outside of men’s basketball came in women’s soccer, where they placed in a four-way tie for second, and men’s cross country, where they finished in third place.

KU placed ninth in the men’s standings and eighth in women’s sports.

The top women's team finish was turned in by Caroline Smith and the KU soccer team, which finished in a four-way tie for second.

The formula used in compiling the overall standings awards 12 points for first place, 11 for second, 10 for third, etc.

Not that it’s any consolation to quarterback Brad Smith, harassed into a horrific day by coordinator Bill Young’s defense, but Missouri placed well ahead of KU in men’s and women’s standings and finished fourth overall, despite again not winning a single Big 12 title. Meanwhile, KU’s rival to the west placed last. K-State was last in the men’s calculations and tied with Oklahoma State for last in the women’s.

Based on data available on a U.S. Department of Education Web site, there is a correlation between the size of a school’s athletic budget and its performance in overall men’s and women’s sports championships. For example, based on year-old data (the most updated available), Texas athletics generated $89,651,683 in revenues and had $74,435,447 in expenses. At the other end of the overall performance standings, K-State generated $39,029,024 in revenues and had $33,539,425 in expenses. KU, a middle-of-the-road performer, generated $49,938,178 in revenue and had expenses of $39,873,516.