Texas Athletics wins 2021-22 Division I LEARFIELD Directors’ Cup

Austin, Texas — With four national championships and ten NCAA Top 2 finishes, the University of Texas has won the LEARFIELD Director’s Cup for the second year in a row. The National Association of Collegiate Sports (NACDA) announced Thursday. Release the confirmed total points. Last year, UT brought Stanford University’s 25-year base to the Director’s Cup and is now joining the Cardinal as the only program in the country to win consecutive championships.

The LEARFIELD Director’s Cup was developed as a joint effort between NACDA and USA Today. A revised scoring system has been implemented for the 2017-18 season. Points will be awarded based on the finish of each institution in the NCAA Championship. Division I schools can earn points in up to 19 sports. Four of them must be baseball, men’s basketball, women’s basketball, and women’s volleyball.

Last year, Texas won the Director’s Cup with 1,252 points for the first time in program history. The victory snapped a striking run by Stanford that began in 1994-95 and lasted until 2018-19 (no cups were awarded in 2019-20 for COVID-19). North Carolina won the first cup in 1993-94. The Longhorns finished second in three rankings and won second place honors in 2001-02, 2002-03, and 2004-05 during the Cardinal’s 25-year run.

During the 2021-22 season, the Longhorns scored 1,449.50 points. Stanford finished second with 1,352.25 points and Michigan finished third with 1,245.25 points. Texas scored in all four essential sports: women’s volleyball, men’s basketball, women’s basketball, and baseball, as well as up to 15 additional sports.

Texas recorded four NCAA championships during the 2021-22 school year and set school records for most team titles in a single season set between 1985 and 1986. Longhorns has registered the NCAA team titles for Men’s Indoor Tracks and Fields, Women’s Tennis, Rowing and Men’s Golf. The titles were consecutive NCAA selections for women’s tennis and rowing, the fourth national championship for men’s golf, and Texas’ first national championship for men’s tracks and fields.

UT also achieved the finish of six NCAA runner-up teams in women’s indoor athletics, women’s swimming and diving, men’s swimming and diving, softball, men’s outdoor athletics, and women’s outdoor athletics, single season. Set a school record for. Of the school’s 20 inter-university programs, Longhorns posted the finish of 10 Top 2 NCAA teams, surpassing the previous 5 sets of marks in the UT for the 1988-89 season. In addition, UT’s Men’s Athletics / Cross Country Program was selected for the USTFCCCA John McDonnell Men’s Program of the Year by the final finish of all three seasons.

Texas produced 12 Top 5 and 14 Top 10 team finishes in the NCAA Championship during the last school year. It’s also worth noting that with both baseball and softball advancing to the College World Series, Texas was one of two schools advancing to the last eight teams of the NCAA Championship tournament in these sports. increase. This shows that it is the most finish of the NCAA Top 5 teams by the Longhorns since Texas added Rowing as a Varsity Sport in the 1997-98 season (previously at 9 in 2020-21). did). It also has the highest number of NCAA Top 10 team finishes by the Longhorns, surpassing the previous record of 13 achieved in both 2020-21 and 2002-03.

Longhorns posted the top 10 NCAA performances in volleyball (5th tie), women’s basketball (5th tie), baseball (7th tie) and men’s tennis (9th tie). UT also added NCAA Top 25 shows in women’s golf (13th), men’s cross-country (14th) and men’s basketball (17th tie), women’s cross-country (32nd tie) and women’s soccer (33rd). I got points from (Thailand).

Texas finished in 4th place in the Top 5 Directors Cup after finishing 5th in 2017-18 and 4th in 2018-19. Due to COVID-19, there were no awards in 2019-20. UT has also been the top-ranked institution for the Big 12 Conference in the Director’s Cup rankings for the eighth consecutive year, becoming the top-ranked school in each league (Big 12 or Southwest Conference) 21 times in 2017. Year history of the Director’s Cup.

Texas currently has a total of 22 Top 10 finishes in the 29-year history of the Director’s Cup: 1st (2020-21 and 2021-22), 2nd (2001-02, 2002-03 and). 2004-05)), 3rd (2005-06), 4th (1995-96 and 2018-19), 5th (2007-08 and 2017-18), 6th (2008-09, 2011-12 and 2013) -14), 7th (1993-94, 1996-97 and 2016-17), 8th (2006-07), 9th (1999-2000, 2014-15 and 2015-16) and 10th (1994-95) And 2003-04).

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