Directors Cup with just baseball to go : SEC schools edition : 8 in Top 25

B1G schools

#2 Ohio State
#4 Michigan
#7 Penn State
#15 Wisconsin

#27 Minnesota
#36 Northwestern
#37 Illinois
#38 Nebraska
#41 Purdue
#47 Indiana
#49 Maryland
#50 Michigan State

#52 Iowa

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#113 Rutgers

PAC schools

#1 Stanford
#3 Southern California
#8 Oregon
#9 UC Los Angeles
#12 UC Berkley
#20 Washington

#34 Colorado
#42 Arizona State
#43 Arizona

#51 Utah

#79 Oregon State
#97 Washington State

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Looks like the Pac-12 owns this competition...guess they're truly the overall best conference for all of college athletics

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Not really. It is somewhat bullshite how they do this. THe pac-12 plays multiple sports in which they are pretty much the only competitors.

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Not really. It is somewhat bullshite how they do this. THe pac-12 plays multiple sports in which they are pretty much the only competitors.

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Which sports are those? It appears to be accurate to me. Are you complaining about the degree of importance ascribed to each sport?

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I think water polo is one where it is just the PAC and another west coast conference. I think M volleyball is another. The general debate is counting any sport where at least 3 of the 5 power conferences do not play it. Seems even more obvious when 4 of the 5 do not play it.

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Thanks. I wonder what the rankings would look like if water polo and men's volleyball weren't in the calculations. Pac-12 still seems to be the leader.

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I think beach volleyball as well

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Beach volleyball is being played nation wide now. Hell, LSU, FSU and South Carolina were ranked in the top-10 this year.

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I wonder what the rankings would look like if water polo and men's volleyball weren't in the calculations. Pac-12 still seems to be the leader

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Yes, but this is how it works: The Directors Cup only counts the top 10 sports in each gender for a school (20). Some SEC schools do not have 10 sports in each gender. All Pac-12 schools do. The net result is that nearly all SEC schools must count all of their sports, and PAC-12 programs like Stanford with their 37 sports can drop their bottom 17 performing sports and only count their top 10 in each gender even if they have championships in rifle, nose picking, and snowflake debate. Those championships count the same as a football, basketball or baseball title but might have a dozen schools competing in those sports.

For example, only 21 division 1 schools compete in mens and womens fencing. Those schools, even if they finish last, earn points for a top 25 finish in the sport. So, if their football basketball and baseball teams finish lower than their placement in fencing, they can replace those sports with fencing, but an SEC school has to count theirs.

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Beach volleyball is being played nation wide now. Hell, LSU, FSU and South Carolina were ranked in the top-10 this year.

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Yes and LSU, USCe are the only two SEC schools that participate in it as far as I know. Wasn't trying to say only PAC12 schools participate.

How many of the 47 D1 teams get points?

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Here are NCAA sports stanford competes at that lsu does not

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And the list gets longer depending on what SEC school you pick