Oklahoma finishes in top 25 of Director's Cup standings for 2024-25

For the 21st time in the last 24 years, Oklahoma Sooners athletic teams have finished in the top-25 of the Learfield Director's Cup standings.

The Sooners finished with a total of 805,75 points to come in 24th in this sports year's Division I standings with a big late boost from Patty Gasso's fourth consecutive softball national championship. For winning the national championship, the school's eighth overall, Oklahoma earned the maximum 100 points.

The Director's Cup is an annual athletic team competition developed as a joint effort of the NCAA, the National Association of the Directors of College Athletics and USA Today. Points are awarded for 19 Division I sports, four of which must be baseball, men's basketball, women's basketball and women's volleyball. The next highest 15 sports scored for each institution, regardless of gender are used in the scoring.

Softball was OU's highest points producer, having won the national championship. Next in line was men's gymnastics earned 85.0 points for advancing to its 24th consecutive NCAA Championship finals and placing third.

The Sooners' women's gymnastics team picked up 74.3 points for making the NCAA Women's Championship finals

The OU men's golf team earned 69.0 points for finishing ninth in the NCAA Championship and in the top-10 for seven of the last eight seasons.

Brent Venables' 2023 football team tallied 60.0 points for making the postseason and playing in the Alamo Bowl game. OU improved to 10-3 after a disappointing 6-7 in 2022 in Venables' first season as head coach.

The wrestling team finished 23rd in the NCAA Championships in head coach Roger Kish's first season at OU. That netted the Sooners 50.5 points in the standings.

Oklahoma baseball won it first and only Big 12 regular-season championship and hosted its first NCAA regional since 2010, earning the Sooners 50.0 points

OU women's basketball advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament, earning 50.0 points. That came after the Sooners winning their second straight Big 12 regular-season title and first outright since 2009.

Sooner men's and women's tennis combined to win 50.0 points in the standings with both squads advancing to the second round of the NCAA postseason competition.

Women's track and field got in on the points contribution, tallying a total of 72.0 points (42 points for 31st place in the NCAA Indoor Championships and 30 points for 44th place in the Outdoor Championships). The OU men's program added 67.0 more points (27 for 44th place indoors and 40 for 32nd place outdoors).

Veronique Drouin-Luttrell received 28 points as an individual qualifier for NCAA regional competition in women's golf.

Texas finished first in the 2023-24 Director's Cup standings, winning its third overall title. Stanford was the runner-up followed by Tennessee, Florida and Virginia.

The SEC lead all conferences with seven teams finishing in the top 25. If you were to include Oklahoma and Texas, which will officially join the SEC on Monday, that number would be nine team in the top 25.