Chapel Hill Review

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Carolina baseball's return to Omaha for the College World Series and a fourth consecutive top-five finish in the NCAA Men's Golf Championship this spring lifted the University of North Carolina to seventh place in the final 2023-24 Learfield Directors' Cup standings.

This is the Tar Heels' fifth-consecutive top-10 finish and their eighth top-10 effort in the past nine years in the all-sports competition measuring NCAA post-season success.

Carolina compiled 1,035.75 points in 18 sports.

Texas won the title with 1,377 points, marking the third time in the last four years that the Longhorns have secured the Division I Cup. Texas, Stanford, and UNC remain the only schools to win the Directors' Cup in its 30-year history.

Texas, Stanford, Tennessee, Florida, Virginia, Texas A&M, UNC, Alabama, UCLA and Notre Dame finished one through ten. This included four SEC programs, three ACC programs, two Pac-12 programs and one Big Ten program.

Carolina's seventh-place finish marks the 25th time the Tar Heels have placed in the top ten. Only Stanford and Florida (with 30 apiece) have more.

The Tar Heels have accounted for 25 of the Atlantic Coast Conference's 51 all-time finishes in the top ten. This is also the 25th time UNC has finished among the top-two ACC teams in these standings.

Led by National Player of the Year Ryleigh Heck, UNC won the NCAA field hockey championship in fall to lead Carolina's scoring with 100 points. First-team All-America outfielder Vance Honeycutt and two-time NCAA regional champion Austin Greaser led baseball and men's golf respectively among five different Tar Heel teams to finish fifth in NCAA post-season play along with men's indoor track and field and men's and women's soccer.

ACC champion and three-sport ACC Athlete of the Year Parker Wolfe led men's cross country to sixth place at nationals while men's basketball and women's tennis placed ninth for a total of nine top-ten programs.

Wolfe added an individual national title in outdoor track in the 5,000 meters. Combined, men's cross country along with indoor and outdoor track teams amassed 188.50 points.

Three other Tar Heel teams – women's basketball, women's lacrosse and women's swimming & diving (which featured two-time NCAA diving champion Aranza Vazquez Montaño) – had top-20 finishes.

Carolina's average finish over thirty years of Directors' Cup competition is No.7; Virginia follows as next-best ACC team with an average finish at fifteenth place.

 

2023-24 NCAA DIRECTORS' CUP STANDINGS

Place | School | Points

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1 | Texas | 1377.00

2 | Stanford | 1312.75

3 | Tennessee | 1217.00

4 | Florida | 1189.00

5 | Virginia |1066.25

6 | Texas A&M|1059.25

7 | UNC|1035.75

8|Alabama|1028.88

9|UCLA|1017.50

10|Notre Dame|1008.50

2023-24 ACC DIRECTORS' CUP STANDINGS

Place School Points

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5.|Virginia 1066.25

7.|UNC 1035.75

10.|Notre Dame 1008.50

12.|Florida State 998..88

17.|Duke 928..50

21.|NC State 853..50

31.|Clemson 675..75

44.|Syracuse 538..00

49.|Louisville 515..50

50.|Virginia Tech 499..25

56.|Wake Forest 421..00

67.|Miami            368..25

68.|Boston College        360..00

74.|Georgia Tech         316..50

80.|Pittsburgh                277..00

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA'S DIRECTORS' CUP FINISHES

Year Finish

2023-24:                                                                                                                                 7th

2022-23:                                                                                        8th

2021-22:                              6th

2020-21: 4th

2019-20: no competition due to pandemic

2018-19: 10th

2017-18: 13th

2016-17: 5th

2015-16: 7th

2014-15: 5th

2013-14: 14th

2012-13: 8th

2011-12: 8th

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