The Texas Longhorns have gained their 4th Administrators Cup in 5 seasons, narrowly beating out USC and Stanford in one of the crucial aggressive battles within the historical past of the award. The highest three groups had been separated by solely 4.5 factors on the finish of the season.
The award, originated in 1993, evaluates athletic division successes throughout the NCAA sporting spectrum to see which faculties prepared the ground in numerous athletic packages.
Stanford owns 26 of the 31 awards given all-time. The one different two Division I faculties to win are Texas, which has now gained 4 of the final 5, and North Carolina, which gained the primary version within the 1993-1994 season.
The win for the Longhorns was secured, mockingly, by their long-time rivals Texas A&M. When the Aggies tied USC with 41 factors to be named co-champions of the boys’s outside monitor & discipline championships, the Trojans had been knocked out of competition for the title. If that they had gained the monitor & discipline championship outright, they might have additionally gained the Administrators Cup title.
High 10 Standings – 2024-2025 Division I Administrators Cup Standings
Texas – 1,255.25
USC – 1,253.75
Stanford – 1,251
North Carolina – 1,195.25
UCLA – 1,149
Tennessee – 1,078
Florida – 1,072
Ohio State – 1,032.25
Oklahoma – 1,017.20
Duke – 1,010
The Virginia Cavaliers, winners of the ladies’s NCAA title, completed twelfth total.
Groups rating factors based mostly on the nationwide finishes of their greatest 19 athletics packages. 5 of these have to be males’s and girls’s basketball, ladies’s volleyball, ladies’s soccer, and baseball, whereas the opposite 14 might be any NCAA sanctioned championship sport (together with swimming & diving, and water polo).
The Longhorns scored huge factors in swimming this 12 months, with their males securing their record-setting sixteenth crew title and the ladies ending third. That accounted for 185 of Texas’ factors.
The Longhorns made their huge transfer within the spring season, although, despite a disappointing early exit for the baseball crew by the hands of UTSA within the Austin regional ultimate because the #2 total seed within the match. USC was additionally eradicated within the regional ultimate, although for the Trojans that end was better-than-seed.
The Texas softball crew, although, got here away with a clutch NCAA title late within the 12 months, upending their former Large 12 rivals from Texas Tech within the Ladies’s School World Collection.
As faculty athletics evolve submit Home settlement, with faculties allowed to share income with athletes, the Administrators Cup will turn into a vital measure of which faculties are sustaining and financially supporting broad athletics departments, and that are siphoning off assets from low-revenue sports activities like swimming & diving to fund extra high-profile sports activities like soccer and basketball.
Full Listing of 2024-2025 NCAA Division I Crew Nationwide Champions
Ladies’s Swimming & Diving: Virginia
Males’s Swimming & Diving: Texas
Males’s Water Polo: UCLA
Ladies’s Water Polo: Stanford
Males’s Basketball: Florida
Ladies’s Basketball: UConn
Baseball: LSU
Males’s Cross Nation: BYU
Ladies’s Cross Nation: BYU
FCS Soccer: North Dakota State
FBS Soccer:Â Ohio State
Be aware: The FBS soccer championship is just not, technically, an NCAA Championship, however it’s used for Administrators Cup standings, alongside the FCS soccer championship, which is an NCAA Championship.
Males’s Golf: Oklahoma State
Males’s Gymnastics: Michigan
Ladies’s Gymnastics: Oklahoma
Males’s Ice Hockey: Western Michigan
Ladies’s Ice Hockey: Wisconsin
Males’s Indoor Monitor & Subject: USC
Ladies’s Indoor Monitor & Subject: Oregon
Males’s Wrestling: Penn State
Males’s Tennis: Wake Forest
Ladies’s Tennis: Georgia
Males’s Outside Monitor & Subject: USC & Texas A&M (co‑champions)
Ladies’s Outside Monitor & Subject: Georgia
Softball: Texas
Males’s Soccer: Vermont
Ladies’s Soccer: North Carolina
Males’s Volleyball: Lengthy Seaside State
Ladies’s Volleyball: Penn State
Ladies’s Seaside Volleyball: TCU
Ladies’s Bowling: Youngstown State
Subject Hockey: Northwestern
Ladies’s Rowing: Stanford
Rifle (Co‑ed): West Virginia
Snowboarding (Co‑ed): Utah
Fencing (Co‑ed): Notre Dame
NCAA Division II, Division III, and NAIA
The Administrators Cup for NCAA Division II athletics, which counts as much as 15 groups that should embrace males’s and girls’s basketball, males’s baseball, and girls’s volleyball, was gained by Grand Valley State. The Lakers had a 4th place nationwide end in males’s swimming and an Eighth-place nationwide end in ladies’s swimming.
GVSU has gained 5 consecutive Administrators Cups, 9 out of the final ten, and 16 total. No different college has gained greater than six (UC Davis). The truth is, just one different Administrators Cup has been gained by a faculty nonetheless in Division II Athletics – Adams State in 1998-1999.
Nova Southeastern, which gained the ladies’s swimming & diving title, completed ninth, whereas Drury, which gained the boys’s title, completed simply 57th total. Males’s swimming & diving scored virtually 30% of their complete factors (100/344).
In NCAA Division III athletics, Johns Hopkins gained the Administrators Cup for the third-straight season. Division III faculties can rely as much as 18 groups, 4 of which have to be males’s and girls’s basketball and males’s and girls’s soccer.
Williams, who completed Eighth this 12 months within the standings, is the dominant crew in Division III historical past with 22 wins. JHU is the one different college with a number of titles.
Ladies’s swimming & diving champions MIT completed sixth on this 12 months’s total standings, whereas males’s swimming & diving champions Denison had been twentieth within the ultimate Division III Administrators’ Cup standings.
In NAIA, 13 groups can rating, 4 of which have to be males’s and girls’s basketball, males’s soccer, and girls’s volleyball. The College of the Cumberlands in Kentucky gained the NAIA Administrators’ Cup this 12 months, their second-straight title and second total title.
That was one other college boosted by huge swimming & diving factors, with each their males’s and girls’s packages ending 4th on the NAIA Championships and selecting up 80 factors every.
SCAD Savannah, which gained each the boys’s and girls’s NAIA titles in swimming & diving this 12 months, completed eleventh within the Administrators’ Cup standings.
