Virginia Extends Director’s Cup Lead

Thursday, December 17 2009 by Tim

The newest set of standings for the Director’s Cup has been released and Virginia remained on top of the pile with a strong performance from Women’s Soccer (9th place) and a National Championship from Men’s Soccer. The final sport added in this round, Men’s Water Polo only gave points to four schools. That makes for six sports being included at this point, with Virginia scoring in five of the six (Women’s Cross Country, Men’s Cross Country and Women’s Field Hockey were the other three).

There are two more fall releases: December 23rd and January 13. Those releases will add Football and Women’s Volleyball to the mix. We will not score in either of those, so this is likely our final fall total as well. As a reference point, last year we were in 11th place at the end of the fall with 244 points. We’re 93 points ahead of that pace right now. Our 337 points currently would have been good enough for 2nd place last year behind Stanford with 394 points. Stanford this year is more than 100 points off of last year’s pace (in large part due to Men’s Water Polo), though they’ll recover some of that from football. I think we’re looking at a top 5 finish here in the Fall, I just haven’t done enough research to figure out exactly where.

Also of interesting note: Of the top 14 teams in the current standings, an amazing seven of them are from the ACC. Sadly you have to look all the way down to 47th place to find the 8th (NC State)

    Fall W. CC   M. CC   W. FH   W. SOC   M. SOC   M. WP  
Rank School Total Pl. Pts. Pl. Pts. Pl. Pts. Pl. Pts. Pl. Pts. Pl. Pts.
1 UVA 337.00 15 45 15 45 3 83 9 64 1 100 0 0
2 UNC 283.00 0 0 0 0 1 100 1 100 3 83 0 0
3 Stanford 281.00 16 42 10 60 9 25 2 90 9 64 0 0
4 Princeton 230.50 5 75 0 0 3 83 0 0 33 25 3 47.5
5 UMD 227.00 0 0 0 0 2 90 9 64 5 73 0 0
6 UCLA 226.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 83 5 73 2 70
7 WFU 216.00 0 0 0 0 5 60 5 73 3 83 0 0
8 Portland 188.00 0 0 13 51 0 0 5 73 9 64 0 0
9 Villanova 182.00 1 100 11 57 0 0 33 25 0 0 0 0
10 FSU 177.00 2 90 30 14 0 0 5 73 0 0 0 0
11 Duke 173.00 8 66 28 18 0 0 33 25 9 64 0 0
12 UW 173.00 3 85 18 38 0 0 17 50 0 0 0 0
13 MSU 169.00 26 22 31 12 5 60 33 25 17 50 0 0
14 BC 162.00 0 0 0 0 9 25 5 73 9 64 0 0
15 UND 161.00 23 28 0 0 0 0 3 83 17 50 0 0