CLEVELAND, OH – For the sixth consecutive year, Johns Hopkins sits atop the final LEARFIELD Directors' Cup standings at the end of the fall season.  With seven teams qualifying for NCAA Championship competition, Johns Hopkins totaled 459 points to claim the top spot in the final fall standings, which were announced today.
 
2023-24 LEARFIELD Directors' Cup
Final Division III Fall Standings (12-21-2023) • Top 10
1 - Johns Hopkins (459 points)
2 – Middlebury (331)
3 – SUNY Cortland (324)
4 – Tufts (323.50)
5 – Wisconsin La Crosse (300.5)
6 – NYU (295.5)
7 – Emory (286.5)
8 – Williams (281.5)
9 – Amherst (266)
10 – MIT (264.5)
 
The Super Seven
Johns Hopkins was the only Division III school in the nation to qualify teams in all seven of the NCAA-sponsorship championships in the fall.  This is the third time Johns Hopkins has placed seven of its fall teams in the NCAAs (2018, 2021, 2023). 
 
Breakin' It Down  (the seven NCAA teams for Johns Hopkins this fall, point totals & NCAA placement)
Field Hockey (90 Directors' Cup Points) – NCAA Runner-Up
Volleyball (73) – NCAA Quarterfinals
Football (70) – NCAA Quarterfinals
Women's Cross Country  (64.5) – 12^th place at NCAA Championships
Men's Cross County (61.5) – 14th place at NCAA Championships
Men's Soccer (50) – NCAA Quarterfinals
Women's Soccer (50) – NCAA Second Round
 
JHU Now Holds Top Five
One year after setting a Division III Directors' Cup record for points accumulated in the fall with 500.5, Johns Hopkins rolled up 459 points, a mark that ranks as the fifth-best fall total in Directors' Cup history (Division III).  For the record, the Directors' Cup debuted in 1995-96 and JHU's five, 400+ point fall efforts represent five of just eight such occurrences in Division III with Hopkins holding each of the top five point totals.
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 (1995-2023)
Johns Hopkins – 500.5 (2022-23)
Johns Hopkins – 481 (2019-20)
Johns Hopkins – 475 (2018-19)
Johns Hopkins – 471 (2021-22)
Johns Hopkins – 459 (2023-24)
Williams – 443.5 (2022-23)
Williams – 412 (2004-05)
Washington-St. Louis – 410 (2016-17)
Middlebury - 397.5
Johns Hopkins – 383 (2017-18)
 
Johns Hopkins, Stanford Dominate in the Fall
Including this year's 459-point showing, Johns Hopkins has totaled more than 450 Directors' Cup points in the fall a total of five times.  JHU's five, 450+ point showings represent five of the 14 instances that this has happened across all Divisions of the NCAA and NAIA.  In fact, Stanford (7) and Johns Hopkins (5) have combined for 12 of the 14 such occurrences.
 
Most Directors' Cup Fall Points – All Divisions, All-Time (1995-2023)
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)
Johns Hopkins (Division III) – 459 (2023-24)
 
The Big Picture
There are more than 400 schools competing under the NCAA Division III banner and 178 of those schools scored points in the Directors' Cup standings in the fall.
 
About the the LEARFIELD Directors' Cup
 The LEARFIELD 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 in NCAA Championships.  New to the scoring structure six 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; the next 14 highest-scoring teams – regardless of gender – will be used.  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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