SUNY Geneseo Wins 2025-26 Empire 8 Commissioner’s Cup For Second Straight 12 months

Baseball | 5/21/2026 10:00:00 AM

SUNY Geneseo used a robust spring semester to keep up its year-long lead and win the 2025-26 Empire 8 Commissioner’s Cup, introduced by the league on Wednesday, May 20. The Knights completed with an 0.894 composite share to say their second consecutive E8 Commissioner’s Cup title.

SUNY Geneseo received 11 league championships in the course of the 2025-26 season, whereas runner-up St. John Fisher University received eight Empire 8 Championships. Overall, 9 full-time Empire 8 member establishments received not less than one league championship this season. For the entire E8 Commissioner’s Cup standings, please see beneath.

The Knights earned 45.75 out of a potential 50 factors from their spring sports activities groups, with E8 Championships in males’s and girls’s out of doors monitor and area, an everyday season crown in softball and runner-up honors in ladies’s lacrosse. In the autumn, Geneseo received the Empire 8 males’s and girls’s cross nation, area hockey and males’s soccer championships and annexed males’s and girls’s indoor monitor and area, males’s and girls’s swimming and diving, and girls’s basketball titles in the course of the winter season. Geneseo completed within the high half of the standings in 19 of the 20 sports activities they competed in in the course of the 12 months.

 

St. John Fisher was the highest Empire 8 crew in the course of the spring season, leaping from fourth after the winter season to complete second total with a 0.764 composite share. The Cardinals recorded 70 out of a potential 76 factors (0.921) in the course of the spring, on the power of Empire 8 titles in males’s tennis, males’s and girls’s lacrosse, males’s golf, and males’s volleyball along with runner-up finishes in softball and girls’s out of doors monitor and area. St. John Fisher additionally received Empire 8 ladies’s soccer and girls’s volleyball championships along with the ladies’s golf invitational crown in the course of the fall.

SUNY Brockport completed third total with a share whole of 0.715, profitable the Empire 8’s inaugural ladies’s flag soccer championship, whereas recording runner-up finishes in males’s and girls’s soccer, males’s indoor and out of doors monitor and area, males’s basketball, and males’s and girls’s swimming and diving

 

Nazareth positioned fourth total, recording a share whole of 0.675, with ladies’s hockey incomes an E8 title and advancing to the NCAA Division III Championship sport. In addition, the Golden Flyers earned runner-up honors in area hockey, ladies’s indoor monitor and area and males’s lacrosse, whereas ending because the E8 common season champion in ladies’s basketball and co-champions in males’s basketball.

 

Utica University completed fifth within the E8 standings with a composite rating of 0.603. The Pioneers received the Empire 8 crown in males’s ice hockey and have been the highest E8 full-time member scoring crew in soccer. In addition, Utica completed because the runner-up in males’s cross nation. Houghton University positioned sixth within the E8 standings with a composite rating of 0.467, incomes runner-up finishes in ladies’s basketball and girls’s cross nation, whereas Hartwick received the 2025 Empire 8 ladies’s tennis title and positioned seventh total with a share whole of 0.465.

 

Russell Sage College, Alfred University, Elmira College, SUNY Poly and Keuka College spherical out the ultimate 2025-26 Empire 8 Commissioner’s Cup standings after the winter season. Russell Sage claimed its first Empire 8 baseball championship, whereas Alfred received the softball title for the second consecutive 12 months. Keuka received its first Empire 8 Championship since becoming a member of the league in 2020, securing the boys’s basketball title.

Commissioner’s Cup factors are awarded based mostly on every crew’s end within the Empire 8 convention standings on the completion of the common season and post-season. Points are awarded on a scale dependent upon the variety of faculties that sponsor the game (affiliate members usually are not calculated into the purpose scale). A crew’s common season end can be added to its post-season end and divided by two for the ultimate whole for that sport.

Teams tied for a place within the common season standings are ranked based mostly on tiebreaker eventualities. The precise variety of factors earned is then divided by the quantity of potential factors for every faculty based mostly on conference-sponsored sports activities to find out their total share.

 

2025-26 Final Empire 8 Commissioner’s Cup Standings

 

2025-26 Empire 8 Champions

Fall

Men’s Cross Country: SUNY Geneseo

Women’s Cross Country: SUNY Geneseo

Field Hockey: SUNY Geneseo

Football: SUNY Cortland (Utica high full-member E8 finisher)

Women’s Golf (Invitational): St. John Fisher

Men’s Soccer: SUNY Geneseo

Women’s Soccer: St. John Fisher

Women’s Volleyball: St. John Fisher

Women’s Tennis: Hartwick

 

Winter

Men’s Basketball: Keuka

Women’s Basketball: SUNY Geneseo

Men’s Ice Hockey: Utica

Women’s Ice Hockey: Nazareth

Men’s Swimming and Diving: SUNY Geneseo

Women’s Swimming and Diving: SUNY Geneseo

Men’s Indoor Track & Field: SUNY Geneseo

Women’s Indoor Track & Field: SUNY Geneseo

 

Spring

Baseball: Russell Sage

Women’s Flag Football: SUNY Brockport

Men’s Golf: St. John Fisher

Men’s Lacrosse: St. John Fisher

Women’s Lacrosse: St. John Fisher

Softball: Alfred

Men’s Tennis: St. John Fisher

Men’s Outdoor Track & Field: SUNY Geneseo

Women’s Outdoor Track & Field: SUNY Geneseo

Men’s Volleyball: St. John Fisher