CLEVELAND, OH – For the fifth consecutive year, Johns Hopkins sits atop the final Learfield Directors' Cup standings at the end of the fall season.  With six teams qualifying for NCAA Championship competition, Johns Hopkins totaled a record 500.5 points to claim the top spot in the final fall standings, which were announced today.
 
2022-23 Learfield Sports Directors' Cup
Final Division III Fall Standings (12-22-2021) • Top 10
1 - Johns Hopkins (500.5 points)
2 - Williams (443.5)
3 – MIT (348)
4 – Wartburg (308)
5 – Christopher Newport (305)
6 – Carnegie Mellon (302)
7 – Tufts (291.5)
8 – Chicago (289)
9 – Calvin (272.5)
10 – Washington-St. Louis (252.5)
 
The Super Six
Johns Hopkins had six teams qualify for the NCAA Championships this fall.  This is the fifth consecutive year that at least six Blue Jay teams have qualified for the NCAAs in the fall.  The school record for most fall teams qualifying for the NCAAs is seven (2018, 2021).
USA Water Polo, not the NCAA, sponsors the Division III Water Polo championship, and thus Johns Hopkins' recent fourth-place finish at that championship does not accumulate Directors' Cup points.
 
Breakin' It Down  (the six NCAA teams for Johns Hopkins this fall, point totals & NCAA placement)
Women's Cross Country  (100 Directors' Cup Points) – NCAA Champion
Women's Soccer (100) – NCAA Champion
Field Hockey (90) – NCAA Runner-Up
Volleyball (73) – NCAA Quarterfinals
Men's Soccer (73) – NCAA Quarterfinals
Men's Cross County (64.5) – 12th place at NCAA Championships
 
JHU Now Holds Top Four
Johns Hopkins broke its own Division III Directors' Cup record for points accumulated in the fall with its 500.5 this year.  Hopkins set the previous record with 481 points in the fall of 2019 after punching up 475 just a year earlier in 2018. For the record, the Directors' Cup debuted in 1995-96 and JHU's four, 400+ point fall efforts represent four of just seven such occurrences.  While the 481 points accumulated in 2019 stand as the second-most in Directors' Cup history, there were officially no final standings in 2019-20 after the COVID pandemic shut down all athletic competition in March 2020.
 
Most Directors' Cup Fall Points – Division III History (1995-2022)
Johns Hopkins – 500.5 (2022-23)
Johns Hopkins – 481 (2019-20)
Johns Hopkins – 475 (2018-19)
Johns Hopkins – 471 (2021-22)
Williams – 443.5 (2022-23)
Williams – 412 (2004-05)
Washington-St. Louis – 410 (2016-17)
Middlebury (397.5)
Johns Hopkins – 383 (2017-18)
Williams – 376 (2013-14)
Williams – 376 (2002-03)
Washington-St. Louis (372) – 2013-14
 
Sixth-Best Fall, All Divisions – All-Time
In addition to posting the highest fall total in Division III Directors' Cup history, the 500.5 points Johns Hopkins totaled this fall rank as the sixth-highest total among all Divisions of the NCAA and NAIA in Directors' Cup history.  The 500.5 points JHU accumulated this fall are also the most ever by a non-NCAA Division I program; Stanford's 594.5 points in 2019-20 stand as the best ever (Division I standings for 2022-23 will not be announced until after the FCS Championship game in January).  In fact, Johns Hopkins now joins Stanford as the only two programs- regardless of division – to accumulate 500+ Directors's Cup points in the fall.
 
Most Directors' Cup Fall Points – All Divisions, All-Time (1995-2022)
Stanford (Division I) – 594.5 (2019-20)
Stanford (Division I) – 545 (2014-15)
Stanford (Division I) – 541 (2018-19)
Stanford (Division I) – 523 (2017-18)
Stanford (Division I) – 504.5 (2016-17)
Johns Hopkins (Division III) – 500.5 (2022-23)
UCLA (Division I) – 497.5 (2014-15)
Michigan (Division I) – 482 (2003-04)
Johns Hopkins (Division III) – 481 (2019-20)
Stanford (Division I) – 479.5 (2015-16)
Johns Hopkins (Division III) – 475 (2018-19)
Johns Hopkins (Division III) – 471 (2021-22)
Stanford (Division I) – 461.25 (2013-14)
Colorado School of Mines (Division II) – 448.5 (2022-23)
Williams (Division III) – 443.5 (2022-23)
Grand Valley State (Division II) – 440 (2005-06)
 
Eight of 10
The Johns Hopkins women's cross country team claimed its eighth national championship in the last 10 years and grabbed 100 Directors' Cup points.  The eight titles are now the most in Division III Women's Cross Country history.
 
Streaking to its First
The Johns Hopkins women's soccer team has qualified for the NCAA Tournament in each of the last 17 years, that's the longest active streak by a Johns Hopkins fall team.  The Blue Jays capped their 17^th straight trip to the NCAAs with the first national championship in program history and earned 100 Directors' Cup points.
 
Program Best … Again
The Blue Jay field hockey team made its second straight trip to the national championship game after back-to-back appearances in the NCAA Semifinals in 2018 and 2019.  Head coach Jane Wells' team grabbed 90 Directors' Cup points for its runner-up finish.
 
The Big Picture
There are more than 400 schools competing under the NCAA Division III banner and 187 of those schools scored points in the Directors' Cup standings in the fall.
 
About the the Learfield Directors' Cup
 The Learfield IMG Directors' Cup was developed as a joint effort between the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) and USA Today.  Through the course of the year, Directors' Cup points are awarded based on a school's finish in up to 18 sports – nine men and nine women – in NCAA Championships.  New to the scoring structure five years ago in Division III, men's and women's soccer and men's and women's basketball must be included by every school in their scoring total.  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.
                                                                         
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