General | 6/25/2026 11:51:00 AM

ANNAPOLIS, Md.--Navy Athletics finished 73rd out of 361 schools in the NACDA Learfield Directors Cup for the 2025-26 athletic season.  The Mids scored 321.5 points, which was the most of any Service Academy, the most of any Patriot League school and the most of any American Athletic Conference school. It is believed to be Navy's best finish in the history of the Learfield Cup.

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.

Navy scored 78 points in the fall (51 points by football, 27 points by men's cross country), 113.5 points in the winter (32.5 points from men's gymnastics, 35 points from rifle and 46 points from wrestling) and 130 points in the spring (70 points from women's lacrosse, 25 points from men's and women's tennis and five points from men's and women's golf).

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.