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Oklahoma Sooners finish 10th in Learfield Directors Cup

By Chip Rouse

Oklahoma waits for Grace Lyons (3) after she hit a home in the sixth inning during the second game of the championship series in the Women's College World Series between the University of Oklahoma Sooners (OU) and the Texas Longhorns at USA Softball Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City, Thursday, June 9, 2022.Wcws Ou Texas Champ
Oklahoma waits for Grace Lyons (3) after she hit a home in the sixth inning during the second game of the championship series in the Women's College World Series between the University of Oklahoma Sooners (OU) and the Texas Longhorns at USA Softball Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City, Thursday, June 9, 2022.Wcws Ou Texas Champ /
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Capitalizing on an especially strong spring sports season, the Oklahoma Sooners finished in 10th place in the 2022 Learfield Directors Cup standings.

This was the highest OU finish in the Learfield Directors Cup since the 2012-13 athletic year. Oklahoma finished seventh that season with 1,078.25 total points

The Sooners jumped up the board with more than half (514.5) of their 968.5 total points coming from spring sports programs and over 90 percent from winter and spring programs.

Texas won this year’s Learfield Directors Cup, its second in as many years. Stanford, which has finished first in the Directors Cup more than any school since the award was first introduced in 1993 (25 of 28 years), finished second followed by Michigan, Ohio State and Florida.

North Carolina, Arkansas, Notre Dame, Kentucky and OU rounded out the top 10. You can check out the final Learfield Directors Cup standings for 2022, including how Oklahoma did across all sports, by clicking here.

The national championships, conference titles…we certainly don’t take them for granted. But it’s the extreme dedication, determination and attention to detail of so many that leads to performance at the highest level, and that needs to also be recognized.” — OU athletic director Joe Castiglione

The Learfield Directors Cup is an annual competition recognizing U.S. colleges and universities over several divisions for success in collegiate athletics. Points are awarded for the order of finish in NCAA Championships across all NCAA-sanctioned men’s and women’s athletic programs.

Two Sooner women’s programs, gymnastics and softball — the former a winter sports and the latter a spring program — captured the maximum 100 points by winning national championships in their respective sports. For women’s gymnastics, the Sooners have now won five national titles in the last seven complete seasons (no championship was held in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic), and the OU softball team has been equally dominant with national titles in the last six seasons and national runners-up finishes in the other two years.

Ninety points are awarded for national runners-up, and Oklahoma had a three of those as well this athletic year. The men’s gymnastics team finished in second place in the 2022 NCAA Men’s Championship, The Sooner women’s tennis team advanced all the way to the championship final before falling to the team from Texas, and the OU baseball team surprised everyone by ending the season a national runner-up to Ole Miss at the Men’s College World Series.

Oklahoma has finished in the top 25 of the Directors Cup standings in 19 of the past 22 years.

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