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Nebraska Athletics No. 7 in Latest Directors' Cup Standings

Top 10 finishes from Men's Gymnastics, Bowling, and Wrestling boost Huskers

Kaleb Henry

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Nebraska Athletics has made a jump in the latest Learfield Directors' Cup standings.

The Huskers are up to No. 7 nationally. NU was No. 33 after the fall sports season.

Stanford, Texas and North Carolina the top three nationally. Nebraska is No. 3 in the Big Ten behind Michigan and Penn State.

The Big Red picked up points from the winter sports season with NCAA Tournament appearances out of both men's and women's basketball. Men's gymnastics finished fourth nationally while bowling took fifth.

Other sports to contribute points from the latest season were women's gymnastics, rifle, women's swimming, women's indoor track and field, men's indoor track and field, and wrestling.

Nebraska has not finished in the Top 25 of the Directors' Cup since 2014 and has not finished in the Top 10 since 2000.

The full standings with the points from each winter sport can be found here.

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Kaleb Henry
KALEB HENRY

Kaleb Henry is an award-winning sports reporter, covering collegiate athletics since 2014 via radio, podcasting, and digital journalism. His experience with Big Ten Conference teams goes back more than a decade, including time covering programs such as the Nebraska Cornhuskers, Oregon Ducks, and USC Trojans. He has contributed to Sports Illustrated since 2021. Kaleb has won multiple awards for his sports coverage from the Nebraska Broadcasters Association and Midwest Broadcast Journalists Association. Prior to working in sports journalism, Kaleb was a Division I athlete on the Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville Track and Field team where he discussed NCAA legislation as SIUE's representative to the Ohio Valley Conference Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. 

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