Drinking the Directors’ Cup
June 26th, 2008, 1:41 pm · Post a Comment · posted by Mark Heller
It’s a Mardi Gras (sort of ) at Arizona State, as Lisa Love’s athletic department earned a fourth-place finish in the Directors’ Cup standing, best in school history.
The long-awaited totals have been added, and Arizona State finished a school-best fourth place in this academic year’s Directors’ Cup standings.
The Sun Devils were hovering around ninth place most of the year, but a national championship in softball, a second-place finish in women’s track and field, fifth place from the women’s golf team and sixth place from men’s track and field pushed ASU into the top five for the first time in school history.
Baseball and men’s golf also combined for another 110 points.
The rest of the Pac-10 did its part and more. The conference won 13 NCAA titles in the 2007-08 academic year, one short of the all-time record set by the Pac-10 in 1996-97.
The Big Ten was second place with five total championships. ASU and UCLA were the only Division I schools to win three national championships.
In addition, Pac-10 women’s teams compiled eight national championships, easily the most of any Division I conference.
