CLEVELAND - The 2022-23 LEARFIELD Directors' Cup season is coming to a close in the next few weeks and we have finalized the three NCAA winning institutions and the winning NAIA institution:

• Division I - Stanford University (baseball is still playing the College World Series, so final standings will be done following the championship)
  • Overall Standings ----- Conference Standings
• Division II - Grand Valley State University
  • Overall Standings ----- Conference Standings
• Division III - Johns Hopkins University
  • Overall Standings ----- Conference Standings
• NAIA - Indiana Tech
  • Overall Standings ----- Conference Standings

Complete Release ----- With one championship left, baseball, the Stanford Cardinal has clinched the 2022-23 LEARFIELD Directors' Cup for 26^th. While baseball still needs to finish, Stanford has advanced to the Baseball College World Series, and there are not enough points remaining for the University of Texas to catch the Cardinal who have 1,339.00 total points to Texas' 1,306.50 points.
 
Stanford claimed three national titles – men's gymnastics, women's rowing and women's water polo - while also tallying five top-3 finishes (women's swimming and diving, women's golf, softball, women's tennis, and men's outdoor track and field). Overall, Stanford has scored in 2 of 4 countable sports (baseball not included), along with 15 additional total sports. The following scores were removed – women's cross country and soccer, women's gymnastics, men's indoor track and field, wrestling, women's outdoor track and field, and fencing - due to the maximum additional sports to be counted is 15.
  Complete Release ----- For the 15^th time in the LEARFIELD Directors' Cup history, Grand Valley State University (GVSU) will take home the hardware after compiling 936.75 total points in 17 total sports, including one of the four sports that must be counted. The Lakers tallied two runner-up finishes – women's cross country and softball – along with two third-place finishes (men's indoor track and field and women's lacrosse). Due to scoring in the max number of 11 additional sports being counted, the following scores were omitted in the final total – women's soccer, swimming, golf and tennis, and men's tennis. Complete Release ----- For the fifth-straight year, Johns Hopkins University has finished in the top-10 of the LEARFIELD Directors' Cup standings, this time as the overall champion with 1282.00 total points. This is the first Cup win for Johns Hopkins, having scored in 19 total sports (all 4 countable sports), including 14 teams with top-10 finishes. The Blue Jays took home national championships in women's soccer and women's cross country.
  Complete Release ----- Indiana Institute of Technology (Indiana Tech) becomes just the ninth different institution to take home the LEARFIELD Directors' Cup, capturing first for the 2022-23 year with 867.50 overall points. The Warriors have finished in the top-five each of the last two seasons, finishing fourth overall in the 2021-22 final standings and placing second overall in 2020-21.
 
Overall, Indiana Tech scored in 11 total sports, including all 4 sports that must be counted towards the final standings (women's basketball, men's basketball, men's soccer, and women's volleyball). Two sports were omitted in the final standings – men's volleyball and softball – due to Indiana Tech scoring in more (11) than the maximum number of countable sports allowed (9). The Warriors took home the women's indoor track and field title.   

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 based on each institution's finish in NCAA Championships.
 
Please note, standings published midseason are unofficial. Official standings will be published upon the completion of the spring season. Complete standings and the scoring structure can be found on NACDA's website at www.directorscup.org. In addition, please visit www.thedirectorscup.com and follow us on Twitter @ldirectorscup.
 
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