We've tracked this in the past: https://forums.dukebasketballreport...19-20-edition)

This is a bit of an interesting year in walton belt tracking, as for the first time since bakeries were handing out fake titles, we don't have a national champion to hold the belt. So, by a stroke of luck, the walton national champion was

USC

Who took it from UCLA in the bill walton national title bout on march 7. Congrats guys for that title. I encourage you to hang a banner. I know bill is ate up about how close the bruins came to hanging another banner in pauley pavilion (if you didn't know, they ONLY hang banners for national championships).

In any case, it remained in the conference of champions through the entirety of the shutdown.

USC beat baptist a few days ago, so is still the rightful champs. The first real test will be BYU on 12/1.

With the awkwardness of this year, we have a very good chance of the unprecedented scenario where the belt spends the ENTIRE season in a single conference, especially if march madness ultimately doesn't happen.

Happy walton belt tracking!