Indiana University Athletics
Hoosiers Finish 40th in NACDA Cup
7/8/2005 12:00:00 AM | General
June 30, 2005
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - In the final standings release, Indiana finished in 40th place in the United States Sports Academy/National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics Cup standings, as announced by NACDA on June 29. Men's golf, men's track and field and women's tennis are the sports incorporated into the Hoosiers' ranking. Stanford claimed its 11th consecutive victory in the series.
Standings for the 2004-05 Sports Academy Directors' Cup are based upon the size of the bracket. A minimum of five (5) points will be awarded to any team that places 65th or lower. The national team champion receives 100 points, while the second-place team gets 90, third place receives 85, and the fourth-place team finishes 80. Consistent with this scale, IU received 25 points for its 33rd-place finish in women's tennis.
Claiming its best finish at a NCAA Regional since the 1996-97 squad tied for 15th place, the 2004-05 Indiana men's golf team tied for 18th at the NCAA East Regional. The Hoosiers carded their best round to end the season at the 54-hole event, shooting a 5-over-par 289 and finishing at 875 (294-292-289) in the 27-team Regional at the par-71 Golf Club of Tennessee. Previously, Jeff Overton won the Big Ten individual title, the first Hoosier to do so since 2003 PGA Champion Shaun Micheel claimed the league crown in 1991. Additionally, the squad finished second at the conference championship, the best finish under Indiana head coach Mike Mayer and highest since winning the title in 1998. Earlier in the season, Overton also shot the second-lowest round in NCAA history with a 61 en route to his second consecutive title at the Xavier Invitational.
The track and field squads closed out a successful campaign during the outdoor season as Indiana sent nine individuals to the NCAA Outdoor Championship, the most it had sent since the 2003 season, while Aarik Wilson, the Mideast Region Athlete of the Year (triple jump/long jump), Sean Jefferson (1,500m) and Stephen Haas (5,000m) each earned All-American honors in their respective events at NCAA Championships. Previously at the Big Ten Outdoor Championship, the Hoosier men and women earned six individual titles (four men, two women) and six second-place finishes (three men, one woman and a relay team on each side). It marked the fourth time in five years that IU men and women have won at least five individual event titles. The tale of the tape for conference titles reads as follows: Wilson (long jump, triple jump), Lorian Price (100m hurdles), Stacey Clausing (200m), David Neville (400m) and Tom Burns (3,000m steeplechase). Additionally, the men's track and field team posted its highest finish at the conference championships in 13 years as the Hoosiers took a runner-up finish with 111 points. The last time the Hoosiers posted a second-place showing was during the 1992 season. Meanwhile, assistant coaches Robert Chapman (distance) and Wayne Pate (jumps) were honored as the Mideast Region Coaches of the Year. Pate went on to win National Assistant Coach of the Year for the second time in his career.
Indiana head coach Lin Loring's charges made their 22nd appearance in the NCAA Championships to close out the year. The women's tennis team was the No. 3 seed in the Lexington, Ky., region but dropped a close 4-3 decision to No. 2 Wake Forest on May 13. The loss dropped women's tennis to 14-12 on the campaign. Earlier in the season, Batty was named to the All-Big Ten first team on May 4. The Chesterfield, England, product earned her first conference accolade and the 68th such honor for the Hoosier program under the direction of IU head coach Lin Loring. Additionally, Dora Vastag was named Big Ten Player of the Week on March 4, and Sarah Batty earned the league honor on April 27.
IU's best winter placement in the series came in 2001-02 when the Cream and Crimson took 14th place heading into the spring championships. That season, Indiana boasted an incredible NCAA Tournament run by the men's basketball team to claim second, while women's track and field captured eighth at the indoor meet and women's swimming tied for 10th. Indiana's greatest seasonal performance in the NACDA Cup came in the fall of 1998, when men's soccer captured the national championship and women's soccer and volleyball both finished 17th in the nation to bolster IU's eighth-place finish.
UNITED STATES SPORTS ACADEMY/NACDA CUP STANDINGS
INDIANA UNIVERSITY
| YEAR | IU FINAL | IU WINTER | IU FALL |
| 2004-05 | 40 | 22 | 24 |
| 2003-04 | 40 | 26 | 20 |
| 2002-03 | 33 | 15 | 21 |
| 2001-02 | 28 | 14 | 46 |
| 1999-2000 | 36 | 31 | 25 |
| 1998-99 | 35 | 21 | 8 |
| 1997-98 | 51 | 45 | 27 |
| 1996-97 | 34 | 32 | 37 |
| 1995-96 | 37 | 41 | 49 |
| 1994-95 | 36 | 39 | 50 |
| 1993-94 | 29 | 30 | 71 |
| HIGHS | 28 | 14 | 8 |
