[FRND] Friends On Top of Latest KCAC Commissioner's Cup Standings
(Release Courtesy of the KCAC)
WICHITA, Kan. - Following the 2017-18 winter athletic season, Friends University leads the Commissioner's Cup with 89.5 points after winning women's indoor track and field and women's basketball, and taking second in men's indoor track and field.
The University of Saint Mary stands in second with 87 overall points. The Spires were men's indoor track and field champions, took second in women's indoor track and field, tied for second in women's basketball, tied for third in men's basketball, and took third in men's wrestling. Kansas Wesleyan University sits in third place with 71.5 overall points, while Tabor College is in fourth with 71 points.
The winner of the sixth KCAC Commissioner's Cup will be announced directly following the spring athletic season, in which baseball, softball, men's golf, women's golf, men's tennis, women's tennis, and men's and women's outdoor track & field will be scored.
About the Commissioner's Cup
In an effort to further recognize the achievements of its student-athletes and member institutions the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference developed an award for the institution that performs the greatest over the fall, winter, and spring athletic seasons. The KCAC Commissioner's Cup will be awarded annually as a symbol of excellence in athletics representing 17 championships. Member institutions can earn points for their finish of each varsity team in those 17 officially recognized conference sports.
Points are assigned based on regular season finish for football, men's and women's soccer, volleyball, men's and women's basketball, baseball, men's and women's golf, softball, and men's and women's tennis. In cross country, indoor track & field, and outdoor track & field the conference championship meet results will determine point values. To be a conference sport there must be six member institutions competing in that sport at the varsity level.
Teams who finish in first place will be awarded a maximum number of points equivalent to the total number of teams competing in that respective sport. Point tallies will continue in reverse order until the last place team has been awarded its corresponding point value (i.e. if a sport only has seven teams, point values will be given from the maximum 7 to 1). When two or more teams tie for final placing in the conference standings, each team will be awarded the average of the respective placing. For example, if three teams tied for second place in a sport with 11 teams, those three teams will be given the score of nine points because those three teams are occupying the second (10 points), third (9 points) and fourth (8 points) positions in the standings. The sum of those three positions (27 points) divided by the three teams yields an average score of nine points for each of the teams.