BEVERLY, Mass. – Following a successful winter sports season, the Endicott College varsity athletics program is ranked 66th overall out of more than 400 NCAA Division III schools in the 2021-22 Learfield IMG Directors' Cup.
The Learfield IMG Directors' Cup, which continues through the spring season, annually recognizes the top collegiate varsity athletic programs for overall excellence.
Standings for the Directors' Cup are based on a points system that rewards a school's finish in up to 18 sports — nine men and nine women — in NCAA Championships.
Included in the winter rankings are the following sports: men's and women's basketball, fencing, men's and women's ice hockey, rifle, skiing, men's and women's swimming, men's and women's indoor track and field, and men's wrestling.
Endicott compiled 60 points this winter behind an NCAA Tournament quarterfinal appearance in women's ice hockey.
Overall, the Gulls currently sport 163 points among their performances in field hockey (53), football (25), women's volleyball (25), and women's ice hockey (60).
NEED TO KNOW
- Endicott is ranked No. 15 in New England.
- The Gulls rank first among all Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) schools by more than 45 spots and over 60 points.
- Endicott's best finish in the Learfield IMG Directors' Cup year-end standings is No. 28 (2013-14).
- Spring Learfield IMG Directors' Cup standings will be announced on June 16.
ABOUT THE LEARFIELD IMG DIRECTORS' CUP
The Learfield IMG College Directors' Cup was developed as a joint effort between the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) and USA Today.
Points are awarded based on each institution's finish in NCAA Championships.
For NCAA Division III, whose Learfield Directors' Cup program started in 1995-96, sports included in a program's score must include men's basketball, men's soccer, women's basketball, and women's soccer, which is new to the scoring structure as of four years ago.
Previously, the top nine men's and women's scoring teams could be counted; now, regardless of whether a school's soccer and basketball teams qualify for the NCAAs, they must be counted.
Then, the next highest 14 (max.) sports scored for each institution, regardless of gender, are used in the standings to compute an overall score.
The overall champion is the institution that records the highest number of points in its division's Directors' Cup standings.
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