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Virginia Places 5th in LEARFIELD Directors' Cup, First Among ACC Schools

Matt Newton

UVA athletics director Carla Williams and the Virginia swim & dive coaching staff pose with the 2024 NCAA Women's Swim & Dive National Championship trophy.
UVA athletics director Carla Williams and the Virginia swim & dive coaching staff pose with the 2024 NCAA Women's Swim & Dive National Championship trophy. / Virginia Athletics

Virginia placed fifth in the final standings for the 2023-2024 LEARFIELD Directors' Cup, a competition between all Division I schools that compares each athletic program's finishes in NCAA Championships across all sports. UVA finished with 1,066.25 points, good for fifth place nationally and first among schools in the Atlantic Coast Conference.

2023-2024 LEARFIELD Directors' Cup Final Standings

  1. Texas - 1,377.00
  2. Stanford - 1,312.75
  3. Tennessee - 1,217.00
  4. Florida - 1,189.00
  5. Virginia - 1,066.25
  6. Texas A&M - 1,059.25
  7. North Carolina - 1,035.75
  8. Michigan - 1,030.00
  9. Alabama - 1,028.88
  10. UCLA - 1,017.50

Click here to see the complete final 2023-2024 LEARFIELD Division I standings.

As a note for the scoring of the event, Directors' Cup points are awarded bases on a school's NCAA finish in 19 sports, four of which must be men's and women's basketball, volleyball, and baseball.

Powered by a fourth-consecutive NCAA women's swimming & diving championship, Final Four appearances in both field hockey and men's lacrosse, a fifth-place finish in men's golf, and another trip to the College World Series in baseball, Virginia placed in the top five for the second year in a row (4th in 2022-2023) and for the fourth time in the 31 years the LEARFIELD Directors' Cup has been awarded. UVA is one of only 10 schools in the country to rank in the top 30 in every year of the Directors' Cup's existence.

“We had another incredible season in competition and in the classroom,” said UVA director of athletics Carla Williams. “Our student-athletes, coaches and staff continue to perform at the highest level while representing themselves and this wonderful university with honor and integrity. Our continued excellence is a tribute to their hard work and dedication. We are so grateful for the opportunity to represent the University of Virginia.”

Here is a list of the sports in which Virginia scored points towards the LEARFIELD Directors' Cup:

Fall - 259.00

  • Women's Cross Country: 15th, 60 points
  • Men's Cross Country: 22nd, 52 points
  • Field Hockey: 3rd, 83 points
  • Men's Soccer: 9th, 64 points

Winter - 265.00

  • Men's Basketball: 65th, 5 points
  • Women's Swim & Dive: 1st, 100 points
  • Men's Swim & Dive: 17th, 57 points
  • Women's Indoor Track & Field: 38th, 34 points
  • Men's Indoor Track & Field: 36th, 37.5 points
  • Wrestling: 42nd, 31.5 points

Spring - 645.25

  • Baseball - 7th, 73 points
  • Women's Golf: 28th, 46 points
  • Men's Golf: 5th, 72.75 points
  • Women's Lacrosse: 9th, 53 points
  • Men's Lacrosse: 3rd, 83 points
  • Women's Rowing: 13th, 51 points
  • Softball: 17th, 50 points
  • Women's Tennis: 5th, 73 points
  • Men's Tennis: 5th, 73 points
  • Men's Outdoor Track & Field: 8th, 70.5 points

For the second year in a row, Virginia was the highest-ranked ACC school in the LEARFIELD Directors' Cup:
5. Virginia 1066.25
7. North Carolina 1035.75
10. Notre Dame 1008.50
12. Florida State 998.88
17. Duke 928.50
21. NC State 853.50
31. Clemson 675.75
44. Syracuse 538.00
48. Louisville 515.50
50. Virginia Tech 499.25
56. Wake Forest 421.00
67. Miami (FL) 368.25
68. Boston College 360.00
74. Georgia Tech 316.50
80. Pittsburgh 277.00

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Matt Newton

MATT NEWTON

Managing Editor and Publisher, CavaliersNow Email: mattnewton@virginia.eduTwitter: @mattynewtssWebsite | LinkedIn | Instagram Matt Newton is the managing editor and publisher at CavaliersNow. He has been covering UVA athletics since 2019 and has been the managing editor at CavaliersNow since launching the site in August 2021. Matt covers all things UVA sports, including Virginia basketball and football news and recruiting, former Wahoos in the pros, and coverage of all 23 of the NCAA Division I sports teams at the University of Virginia. A native of Downingtown, Pennsylvania, Matt grew up a huge Philadelphia sports fan, but has also been a UVA sports fanatic his entire life thanks to his parents, who are alums of the University of Virginia. Matt followed in his parents' footsteps and attended UVA from 2017-2021, graduating with a degree in Media Studies and a minor in Economics in May of 2021.