Following the conclusion of the winter athletic calendar last night with the men's basketball national championship game in Indianapolis, Indiana, the Emory University Eagles stand eighth overall in the 2025-26 Learfield Directors' Cup race.
With four programs earning postseason points for the Eagles, Emory ends the winter season with 612.00 points and eighth place in the team standings out of the 271 Division III schools that have earned at least one point to this point. Emory is one of four University Athletic Association programs inside the top eight for the winter standings.
New York University leads the race with 812.25 points followed by Williams College (811.50), WashU (787.50), Johns Hopkins (764.00), Tufts University (739.50), UW-La Crosse (699.50), University of Chicago (689.50) and Emory inside the top eight of the overall standings.
The winter season saw Emory turn in a pair of national runners-up performances from men's basketball and women's swimming & diving, with both programs collecting 90 points towards the Eagles' team total. Men's swimming & diving grabbed 75 points with its fifth place national showing and men's indoor track & field scored 46 points after taking 25th at nationals in mid-March.
The Directors' Cup was developed as a joint effort between the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) and USA Today with points being awarded based on each institution's finish in NCAA Championships. Overall, 18 sports are counted in the final DIII standings, four of which must be men's and women's soccer and men's and women's basketball. The next highest (14 max.) sports scored for each institution, regardless of gender, are used in the standings. Learfield has been the title sponsor for the award since 2008.
The spring edition of the Learfield Directors' Cup standings are set to be produced in early June following the end of the spring seasons.
