Administrators’ Cup Standings – June 16

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Six extra NCAA Event appearances, together with a trio of top-10 nationwide finishes, elevated Arkansas up two spots to eighth within the newest version of the 2021-22 Learfield Administrators’ Cup Standings launched on Thursday by the Nationwide Affiliation of Collegiate Administrators of America (NACDA).

Arkansas ranks third amongst all Southeastern Convention packages and is one in all seven league packages within the high 25 of the standings. Arkansas has received eight Southeastern Convention common season or event championships in 2021-22 and has recorded a complete of eight top-10 nationwide finishes. The Razorbacks presently have 967.75 Administrators’ Cup factors.

Arkansas ranked 10^th within the earlier standings and is in place to achieve much more factors within the last standings with baseball included within the factors whole. Arkansas is one in all solely three colleges (Texas and Stanford) presently within the high 10 of the Administrators’ Cup standings with groups which have superior to the School World Sequence. The Razorbacks need to eclipse a program-best eighth-place end within the Administrators’ Cup achieved within the 2020-21 athletic season.

The Administrators’ Cup tracks the nation’s most profitable intercollegiate athletics packages for his or her performances all year long. The standings launched on Thursday included males’s and girls’s basketball, girls’s seaside volleyball, girls’s bowling, males’s and girls’s cross nation, fencing, girls’s area hockey, soccer, males’s and girls’s golf, males’s and girls’s gymnastics, males’s and girls’s hockey, males’s and girls’s lacrosse, rifle, snowboarding, girls’s rowing, males’s and girls’s soccer, softball, males’s and girls’s swimming and diving, males’s and girls’s tennis, males’s and girls’s indoor and outside monitor and area, males’s and girls’s volleyball, males’s and girls ‘s water polo and wrestling.

Razorback softball as soon as once more was on the forefront nationally, profitable a second-straight SEC common season championship after which capturing the SEC Event for the primary time in class historical past. Coach Courtney Deifel’s squad hosted each a NCAA Regional and Tremendous Regional at Bogle Park. The Hogs completed the season tied ninth nationally. Arkansas earned 64 factors for its historic season.

One other Razorbacks girls’s squad added a top-10 nationwide end of its personal. Arkansas completed sixth on the NCAA Out of doors Observe and Subject Championships, giving Coach Lance Harter and his workforce 73.5 factors within the Administrators’ Cup standings. The Razorbacks additionally captured the celebrated Terry Crawford Ladies’s Division I Program of the Yr award, recognizing the nation’s high program within the 2021-22 season primarily based on championship outcomes on the NCAA cross nation, indoor and outside championships.

After profitable the SEC Triple Crown (cross nation, indoor and outside monitor) within the 2021-22 season, Coach Chris Bucknam and the Razorback males’s monitor and area workforce earned 50.5 factors within the Administrators’ Cup standings. Arkansas completed 23^rd on the NCAA Out of doors Observe and Subject Championships.

Coach Brad McMakin and the Razorback males’s golf workforce notched a top-10 nationwide end. Arkansas superior via the NCAA Regional and completed ninth on the NCAA Males’s Golf Championship in Scottsdale, Arizona. The end earned 69 Administrators’ Cup factors and was the very best nationwide end for this system since Arkansas was the nationwide runner-up in 2009.

Arkansas’ girls’s golf workforce additionally superior via the regional spherical to compete on the NCAA Ladies’s Golf Championship in Scottsdale. Coach Shauna Taylor’s workforce completed 22^nd within the nation and contributed 51.5 factors to the Razorbacks’ Administrators’ Cup whole.

Coach Cristina Sanchez-Quintanar made probably the most of her first season on the helm of the Arkansas girls’s tennis program, main her squad to a berth within the NCAA Event. The Razorbacks earned 25 factors for making it to the NCAA Event draw.

Arkansas continued its latest momentum in gymnastics. Arkansas superior to the regional last for a second-consecutive season. The Razorbacks completed second in its session of the NCAA Norman (Oklahoma) Regional and superior to the Candy Sixteen. Coach Jordyn Wieber and the GymBacks concluded their workforce season, only one step shy of advancing to compete for a nationwide championship. Arkansas earned 60.75 factors for the NCAA end.

Coach Eric Musselman and the Razorback males’s basketball workforce made a deep run into the NCAA Event for the second consecutive yr. The Razorbacks received three video games within the draw, together with a win over No.1 Gonzaga within the Candy Sixteen to advance to the Elite Eight and the West Regional Ultimate. It marked the primary time Arkansas has superior to the Elite Eight in back-to-back seasons because the 1993-94 and 1994-95 campaigns. For its efforts, Arkansas earned 73 Administrators’ Cup factors.

The Razorbacks continued their custom of excellence in monitor and area through the indoor season. Each the boys’s and girls’s squads received the SEC Indoor Observe and Subject workforce titles earlier than advancing to top-10 finishes on the NCAA Indoor Observe and Subject Championships. Coach Lance Harter led the ladies’s workforce to a fourth-place end on the nationwide meet. The rostrum end produced 80 factors. Coach Chris Bucknam and the boys’s workforce earned a seventh-place end to earn 72 factors towards this system’s Administrators’ Cup level whole.

Arkansas’ girls’s swimming and diving workforce secured a top-30 end on the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships. Coach Neil Harper’s squad completed 28^th within the nationwide meet, incomes 46 Administrators’ Cup factors.

Arkansas made a return journey to the NCAA Ladies’s Basketball Event, after qualifying for the Massive Dance in 2020-21 as nicely. If not for a pandemic shortened 2019-20 marketing campaign, the Razorbacks would have earned three-straight NCAA appearances. Coach Mike Neighbors and the Razorbacks tallied 25 factors for incomes a berth within the NCAA Event area.

Arkansas began the autumn season with a pair of SEC championships and top-10 NCAA finishes in cross nation. The boys’s cross nation workforce earned 80 factors for a podium end on the nationwide meet, ending in fourth place. The Razorback girls’s cross nation workforce additionally dented the highest 10 with an eighth-place end, incomes 70.5 Administrators’ Cup factors.

Arkansas received its third straight SEC common season crown, earlier than advancing to the Elite Eight spherical of the NCAA Ladies’s Soccer Event for the primary time. This system file postseason run landed 73 factors for the Hogs.

Coach Sam Pittman and the Razorback soccer workforce turned in among the best gridiron seasons in latest historical past in 2021. Arkansas capped a outstanding 9-4 season with a 24-10 win over Penn State within the Outback Bowl. The Razorbacks earned a last nationwide rating of No. 20 within the USA Right now / AFCA Coaches ballot, tallying 54 factors within the Administrators’ Cup standings.

In 2020-21, Razorback Athletics turned in one of the crucial profitable years in class historical past, together with a program-best eighth place end within the 2020-21 Learfield IMG Administrators’ Cup. Arkansas’ earlier finest end was 14^th. The Administrators’ Cup program has been monitoring the success of the nation’s high intercollegiate athletics packages since 1993-94.

The Razorbacks received an NCAA title (Ladies’s Indoor Observe & Subject), earned eight High-10 NCAA finishes and a outstanding 10 Southeastern Convention common season and event championships, together with SEC triple crown sweeps in each males’s and girls’s cross nation & monitor and area, a second-straight soccer common season crown, this system’s first softball common season title and a baseball common season and event championship. Arkansas’ championship whole led the league and doubled the following closest SEC program.