Michigan finishes #25 in Director's Cup
Director's Cup final standings (pdf) were released today.
A look at the top 5, the Big Ten, and Nebraska/Notre Dame:
1. Stanford (16th straight)
2. Florida
3. Virginia
4. UCLA
5. Florida State
8. Ohio State
11. Penn State
17 Nebraska
18. Minnesota
21. Wisconsin
25. Michigan
27. Notre Dame
35. Illinois
39. Michigan State
43. Indiana
50. Northwestern
54. Purdue
55. Iowa
Also, in D2, Grand Valley mafia are the #1.
May the signature heat off our solar car burn your ass!
Stanford tallied points in 28 total sports, but could only count the maximum 10 men’s and 10 women’s sports. Stanford boasted an impressive 17 top-10 finishes this season - taking home the men’s volleyball and women’s tennis titles. The points from the sports of women’s cross country, women’s field hockey, football, men’s and women’s indoor track and field, women’s lacrosse, baseball and softball did not count toward the overall total.
Florida finished second overall with 1310.25 points, scoring in eight men’s sports and the
maximum 10 women’s sports. The Gators had 14 top-10 finishes, most notably capturing the
women’s swimming title and men’s indoor track and field championship.
Scoring in 20 of a possible 20 sports, in third place is Virginia with 1253.25 points. The
Cavaliers claimed the men’s soccer and women’s rowing titles and finished in the top-10 for 10 sports.Scoring 1124.00 points for a fourth place finish is UCLA. The Bruins scored in eight men’s sports and 12 women’s sports, but only the maximum of 10 women’s sports were counted. Points scored in women’s indoor track and field and rowing were removed from the final total. UCLA captured the women’s gymnastics and softball titles and had 10 top-10 finishes.
Rounding out the top five is Florida State with 1087.50 points. The Seminoles scored in the maximum 10 women’s sports and tallied points in nine men’s sports, including 10 top-10 finishes. This is the first time in school history that Florida State has finished in the top five.
Florida only has 8 men's events but still placed 2nd. Interestingly enough they have only 8 men's teams, but 10+ women's teams. Interesting.
Football teams usually need more than one women's team to offset scholarship #s.
Didn't Michigan finish 2nd the last couple of years? Surprised to see them that low...
...2008-09, Michigan finished 5th. In 2007-08, Michigan finished 3rd. Historically, this is a very low finish for Michigan.
Damn you Bill Martin, damn you.
blame your ex AD for the demise. Like he had anything to do with it.
Yeah, this is the worst we've finished in the 15 years since I've been keeping an eye out for the standings... sucks, hopefully we'll be back to Top 2 status soon
David Brandon's going to have at least ten before all is said and done.
The Director's Cup, brought to you by [the former CEO of] Domino's Pizza?
Lower than I can remember Michigan ever being.
An they might as well rename it the Stanford Cup since they have won it since it's inception.
I think UNC won the first one.
...in1993-94, UNC finished first and Stanford was second (Michigan finished ninth).
Stanford has won every single Director's Cup since.
You are correct as confirmed by good ole Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NACDA_Directors'_Cup
Other notables. Michigan finished #2 in '03-'04. I remember them leading until the Spring points were tallied.
Overall, Michigan has 14 top 10 finishes. Only Stanford and Florida have finished in the top 10 all 17 years.
...a diary documenting the historical Director's Cup performance of Big Ten schools (plus Nebraska and Notre Dame). Here's some basic data on Michigan historical performance:
| Michigan Director's Cup Historical Performance | ||
| Year | Final Points | Finish |
| 1993-94 | 656.00 | 9 |
| 1994-95 | 657.50 | 7 |
| 1995-96 | 689.00 | 5 |
| 1996-97 | 610.50 | 11 |
| 1997-98 | 620.00 | 5 |
| 1998-99 | 520.00 | 6 |
| 1999-00 | 965.00 | 3 |
| 2000-01 | 864.50 | 4 |
| 2001-02 | 917.00 | 6 |
| 2002-03 | 1034.30 | 4 |
| 2003-04 | 1226.30 | 2 |
| 2004-05 | 1064.25 | 4 |
| 2005-06 | 643.38 | 24 |
| 2006-07 | 1135.25 | 4 |
| 2007-08 | 1161.00 | 3 |
| 2008-09 | 1131.80 | 5 |
| 2009-10 | 768.50 | 25 |
Even with the two outlier seasons (2005-06 and 2009-10), our mean and median finishes are 7.5 and 5 respectively.
There will be much more to chew on in the diary.
that Michigan finished with 125 points more than in '05-'06 but still finished a spot lower. Did the scoring system get tweaked or did the top finishers dominate across the board?
gotta be our worst finish in 20 years.
Because it's been around that long too, amirite? Usually it looks as though one hasn't pulled a statement out of one's ass if one does a little research.
Historically it's our lowest finish and is an outlier with one other year; we'll bounce back.
Yes, it is a very low finish. Thank God for gymnastics, tennis, softball, etc. We didn't get it done in the "major" sports such as football, men's basketball, baseball, women's basketball(?) etc. Even hockey was down in the regular season so if not for the other sports it could have been worse!
I do believe that hockey points are determined based on their showing in the Frozen Four and not final standings. Therefore, Michigan received as many points as every other team that got kncoked out in the second round, regardless of the season record.
...Director's Cup points are granted based on finishes in NCAA tournaments depending on whether the tournaments are bracketed or non-bracketed and the size of the field, or in the case of football, final USA Today rankings and/or participation/success in bowl games.
- 1st place - 1-25 using the USA Today poll, point breakdown is as follows: We will be using the 64-team non-bracket point system for the top-25 teams with 25th place receiving 49 points.
- 26th place - Bowl game winners not ranked in poll (45 points)
- Next Available Place - Bowl game losers not ranked in the poll (25 points)
UNACCEPTABLE!
Michigan has routinely done extremely well despite this being practically speced for Stanford.
I guess if you have been following Michigan athletics (like all of us have been) we should not be too shocked...although it is very shocking to see the 25th ranking.