Wisconsin ranks No. 12 in newest Learfield Directors’ Cup standings

MADISON, Wis. – Following the winter sports activities season, Wisconsin ranks No. 12 within the newest Division I Learfield Directors’ Cup standings, offered by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) and LEARFIELD.

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After top-two finishes from each the ladies’s and males’s hockey groups, the Badgers closed out the winter season with 380.00 factors, bringing their general complete to 616.00.

Wisconsin ranks fifth amongst Big Ten colleges, with Michigan (2), Ohio State (4), Penn State (5) and Nebraska (8) the one different colleges within the convention to rank forward of the Badgers.

The ladies’s hockey staff led the best way for Wisconsin, including on to its file National Championship complete after beating Ohio State, 3-2 for this system’s ninth title. The staff additionally produced its seventh Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award winner, honoring the most effective feminine athlete in faculty hockey, with defender Caroline Harvey taking house the honors. Women’s hockey secured 100 factors within the standings for UW.

Following carefully behind was the lads’s hockey staff, who completed No. 2 within the standings after the staff made its ninth official National Championship look. Entering the match as a three-seed of their regional, the Badgers beat No. 8 Dartmouth, No. 3 Michigan State, and No. 2 North Dakota of their good run. They secured 90 factors within the standings.

The males’s and ladies’s swimming and diving groups each recorded top-35 finishes on the NCAA Championships, with the lads accumulating 42.0 factors from thirty second place, and the ladies accumulating 63.0 factors from thirteenth place. The ladies’s staff was Wisconsin’s third-highest finisher within the standings after ending their season with two All-American honors, together with a runner-up end from Maggie Wanezek within the 200 backstroke.

The males’s basketball staff recorded 24 wins, and made its fifth NCAA Tournament look in six seasons. The staff completed thirty third within the Directors’ Cup standings, incomes 25.0 factors.

Wisconsin additionally earned 36.5 factors from wrestling, after the staff despatched eight wrestlers to NCAAs – ending thirty seventh within the nation.

Placing forty eighth and incomes 23.5 factors was the ladies’s observe staff, whose NCAA indoor Championships was highlighted by an All-American honor from seventh-place weight throw finisher Taylor Kesner.

Wisconsin completed twenty sixth nationally within the 2025 Director’s Cup and is looking for its first top-20 end since checking in at No. 16 in 2018-19.

The Learfield Directors’ Cup was developed as a joint effort between the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) and USA Today. Points are awarded primarily based on every establishment’s end in NCAA Championships.

Wisconsin’s historical past within the LEARFIELD Directors’ Cup might be considered right here.