Missouri S&T posted its highest finish ever for a season in the United States Sports Academy Director's Cup standings as it ended up in 70th place for the 2007-08 season out of the 272 institutions in NCAA Division II.
The final standings for the 2007-08 season were announced at the National Association of Collegiate Directors of America convention and the program is sponsored by NACDA, the United States Sports Academy and USA Today. The point totals are based on the team performances at NCAA championship events throughout the year.
S&T finished with a total of 247 points for the recently completed season, scoring the bulk of those points with the swimming team taking second at the NCAA Division II Championships and the women's basketball team reaching the championship game of the NCAA Great Lakes Regional. The men's track and field team scored at its national meet as well to add to S&T's final total.
Missouri S&T, whose highest finish prior to this year was 78th in the inaugural year of the program in 1995-96, finished fifth among the 14 Great Lakes Valley Conference schools in the final standings.
The highest ranked team from the GLVC was Southern Illinois Edwardsville, which finished 14th in its final year as a member of NCAA Division II. Indianapolis finished right behind SIUE in 15th place, while Drury was 19th and Northern Kentucky, whose women's basketball team beat the Lady Miners in that regional title game on its way to the national championship, came in 21st place.
Other GLVC schools who earned points in the Director's Cup standings were Lewis (72nd), Wisconsin-Parkside (95th), Southern Indiana (96th), Bellarmine (154th), Saint Joseph's (162nd), Quincy (170th), Kentucky Wesleyan, Missouri-St. Louis and Rockhurst (all tied for 215th).
Grand Valley State, which scored points in 17 NCAA events this season finished first overall in Division II with a record total of 1,028.75 points, followed by Abilene Christian and Minnesota State.
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