ANNAPOLIS, Md.--Navy Athletics finished 98 out of 365 schools in the NACDA Learfield Directors Cup for the 2024-25 athletic season. The Mids scored 191.8 points, which was the most of any Service Academy, the second-most of any Patriot League school (Boston University finished 73rd with 314.5 points) and the second-most of any American Athletic Conference school (USF finished 78th with 294.75 points).
The Learfield Directors Cup is given annually by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics to the colleges and universities with the most success in collegiate athletics. Points for the NACDA Directors' Cup are based on order of finish in various championships sponsored by the NCAA or, in the case of FBS football, the coaches' poll and bowl wins.
A first-place finish in a sport earns 100 points, second place 90 points, third place 85 points, fourth place 80 points, and lesser values for lower finishes (exact numbers beyond fourth place depend on the sport.
NCAA Division I counts the top 19 sports at each school with the following breakdown: Four sports that must be counted are baseball, men's basketball, women's basketball and women's volleyball. The next highest 15 sports scored for each institution, regardless of gender, will be used in the standings (except men's water polo, which is the only NCAA sponsored sport that NACDA does not give points for. For FBS Football: the top 25 teams are awarded points based on their final rank in the coaches poll, while 26th place is considered a tie between every non-ranked bowl winner and the next available rank is considered a tie between every non-ranked bowl loser.
Navy scored 72 points in the fall (27 points by men's cross country, 45 points by football), 85.5 points in the winter (32.5 points from men's gymnastics and 53 points from wrestling) and 34.3 points in the spring (9.3 points by women's golf and 25 points by women's lac
