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EMPORIA STATE IN TOP 50 OF DIRECTOR’S CUP STANDINGS

Complete Rankings

June 22, 2008--With six of 15 sports programs finishing the season in the top 20, Emporia State University placed 35th in the final 2008-09 Learfield Sports Director’s Cup standings with 379.50 points. It is the fifth straight year ESU has finished in the top 50 nationally out of nearly 300 NCAA Division II schools. The Director's Cup is a program that honors institutions maintaining a broad-based athletics program, achieving success in many sports, both men's and women's.

The Hornet baseball team led the way with a national runner-up finish at the NCAA Division II World Series, with a 49-14 overall record. They were one of three MIAA Regular season champions for ESU. The ESU volleyball team went 34-4 on the season, winning their first MIAA championship and advancing to the regional championship match. The Lady Hornet basketball team won their sixth MIAA regular season title. The men’s indoor track and field team were second in the MIAA but placed 11 th nationally.

ESU was among five MIAA schools in the top 50 out of 291 active NCAA Division II member institutions. Ten MIAA schools (90.9%) were ranked in the top 100 nationally, the highest percentage of membership of the 22 NCAA Division II conferences. The MIAA joined the Great Lakes Intercollegiate (GLIAC) and the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) as the only conferences with at least ten schools to have all of their schools score points in the Director’s Cup.

In addition to the on field success, ESU will have 19 student-athletes named MIAA Scholar-Athletes with GPA’s of 3.50 and All-MIAA status while 128 Hornets will be named to the MIAA Academic Honor Roll with a 3.00 cumulative GPA. Seven Hornet student-athletes earned ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District honors. ESU had a department wide GPA of 3.00 in the spring of 2008.

Emporia State student-athletes also help out in the Emporia community, donating over 2100 hours of their time in community engagement projects throughout the Flint Hills.

For the sixth straight year over 100,000 people attended home contests for Emporia State with the volleyball team ranked second and the Lady Hornet basketball team ranked fourth in the nation in average attendance.

The Learfield Sports Director's Cup honors institutions maintaining a broad-based program, achieving success in many sports, both men's and women's, in which all sports that the NCAA offers a championship and all student-athletes that compete in those sports, are treated equally. Institutions use the top-seven (7) sports for each gender in Division II. Points will automatically be awarded to an institution in the first seven sports per gender in which it scores. If an institution scores in more than seven sports per gender, points will be awarded for the seven sports which received the highest point total.

ESU Year by Year in the Director’s Cup Year Place Points 2008-09 35th 379.50 2007-08 11th 568.50 2006-07 37th 367.75 2005-06 12th 413.5 2004-05 44th 291.00 2003-04 54th 251.25 2002-03 95th 153.25 2001-02 113th 110.00 2000-01 56th 187.50 1999-00 63rd 152.50 1998-99 31st 150.00 1997-98 34th 110.00 1996-97 72nd 134.50 1995-96 57th 170.00

2008-09 Top Ten and MIAA Schools   Institution Pts 1. Grand Valley State ( Mich.) 1014.50 2. Minnesota State-Mankato 800.25 3. Central Missouri 776.00 4. Abilene Christian 721.00 5. Indianapolis ( Ind.) 695.00 6. Ashland ( Ohio) 613.75 7. UC-San Diego 613.75 8. Adams State 585.00 9. California ( Pa.) 583.25 10. Western Washington 549.00 14 Neb.-Omaha 465.75 34 Pittsburg State 381.75 35 Emporia State 379.50 40 Truman State 362.50 68 Northwest Missouri 275.00 81 Missouri Southern 248.75 85 Washburn 242.50 92 Southwest Baptist 225.50 94 Fort Hays State 223.00 199 Missouri Western 50.00

 

Top 10 D-II Conferences by % of schools in Top 100

Rank	Conference	Total Schools	Schools in Top 100	Percentage
1.	MIAA	11	10	90.9%
2.	PSAC	16	11	68.8%
3.	Sunshine State	9	6	66.7%
4.	GLIAC	11	7	63.6%
5.	NSIC	14	8	57.1%
6.	CCAA	11	6	54.5%
7.	GLVC	13	7	53.8%
8.	Peach Belt	13	6	46.2%
9.	SAC	9	4	44.4%
10.	RMAC	14	6	42.9%
10.	NE10	14	6	42.9%

 

Top 10 D-II Conferences by schools in Top 100

Rank	Conference	Schools in Top 100
1.	PSAC	11
2.	MIAA	10
3.	NSIC	8
4.	GLIAC	7
4.	GLVC	7
6.	CCAA	6
6.	RMAC	6
6.	Sunshine State	6
6.	NE10	6
6.	Peach Belt	6

 

Average Finish of MIAA schools over the last four years

Rank	School	Ave. Finish	Per year finish 05-06, 06-07, 07-08, 08-09
1.	*Neb.-Omaha	7.75	3, 7, 7, 14
2.	Central Missouri	8.50	7, 7, 18, 3
3.	Emporia State	23.75	12, 37, 11, 35
4.	Truman	26.50	26, 16, 24, 40
5.	Northwest Missouri	40.00	19, 29, 44, 68
6.	Washburn	51.25	33, 50, 37, 85
7.	Missouri Southern	59.75	80, 46, 32, 81
8.	Pittsburg State	70.50	74, 68, 106, 34
9.	# Ft. Hays State	84.50	66, 74, 104, 94
10.	Southwest Baptist	103.75	100+, 156, 67, 92
11.	Missouri Western	156.50	100+, 128, 199, 199

*UNO’s first year of MIAA competition was 2008-09
#FHSU’s first year of MIAA competition was 2006-07
+Only Top 100 ranked in 2005-06

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