 When the Big Ten established basketball in 1905, the Gophers won the first two conference titles.After 1907, Cooke's dominance of the national basketball scene was greatly reduced.He led the team to two more conference titles (1916–17, 1918–19), and one consensus retroactive national championship for the 1918–19 season, but the team was never the consistent winner that it was in the first decade under Cooke.