Brigham Younger Cougars athletic director Tom Holmoe watches the sport through the Vegas Kickoff Basic in Las Vegas on Saturday, Sept. 4, 2021. BYU gained 24-16. Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret Information
After a robust fall sports activities season left them ranked No. 1 within the nation within the Learfield Administrators’ Cup standings, the BYU Cougars failed to keep up their torrid tempo and completed No. 29 within the annual metric that awards factors based mostly on every establishment’s placement in NCAA championships.
The ultimate standings had been launched final week after the 2022 Males’s School World Collection baseball championships concluded in Omaha, Nebraska.
Texas gained the Cup for the second straight 12 months on the energy of three nationwide championships this spring and 4 general titles.
Stanford was second, adopted by Michigan, Ohio State and Florida.
Regardless of the drop-off in NCAA outcomes because the 2021-22 faculty 12 months wore on, BYU nonetheless completed greater than every other Utah establishment.
BYU has by no means been knocked out of the Beehive State’s high spot for the reason that award originated in 1993.
Utah had the most effective years in its athletics historical past and completed forty fourth, whereas Utah State was 116th, Southern Utah was 159th, Utah Valley was 248th and Weber State was 258th out of 295 faculties.
The Ivy League’s Princeton was the best non-Energy 5 finisher, at 18th. BYU was second in that class, after being No. 1 most years.
Spurred by runner-up finishes in ladies’s soccer and ladies’s cross-country final fall, BYU was No. 1 when the primary rankings had been launched on Jan. 13 with 368 factors.
It was in thirteenth place after the winter sports activities seasons concluded in April.
The Cougars completed with 738.75 factors, getting late factors from males’s monitor and area (32.5), males’s golf (52.5), ladies’s golf (33.5) and ladies’s monitor and area (68.25) however none from males’s volleyball, a standard nationwide energy that had a uncommon down 12 months.
Baseball, softball, and males’s and ladies’s tennis additionally failed to supply factors after lacking out on NCAA play.
Final 12 months, BYU ranked No. 17 within the closing standings, its highest end since 2000-01, when it was additionally seventeenth.
The varsity’s highest end ever was in 1998-99, when it completed No. 12.
The Cougars will be part of the Large 12 in all sports activities in 2023. Together with No. 1 Texas, present Large 12 faculties that completed forward of BYU had been No. 10 Oklahoma and No. 23 Oklahoma State.