Taking advantage of exceptional postseason performances from its wrestling team, men’s and women’s indoor track teams, the men’s and women’s swim teams and the men’s and women’s basketball teams, Minnesota State has jumped to second place in rankings recently released in the US Sports Academy Directors’ Cup standings.

The Maverick wrestling team finished second at the national tournament to earn 90 Directors’ Cup points. The MSU men’s indoor track & field team finished seventh to rack up 72 points, the women’s track team was eighth for 70.5 points, the MSU women’s swim team tallied 51 points with its 22nd-place finish and the men’s swim team was 14th, which gave the Mavericks 48 points. Women’s basketball was credited with 64 points after making it to the regional championship game and the men’s basketball team, which lost in a first-round NCAA contest, tallied 25 points with its 33rd-place finish.

Grand Valley State, which tallied 315 points during the winter season, is in first place of the 2007-08 Director’s Cup standings with 719.25 total points. The Mavericks, who scored more points then any other department in the country during the winter with 420.50 points, is in second with 584.50 total points. Tampa is third with 502.00 points and Adams State is fourth with 447.50 points. There are a total of 290 schools that compete at the NCAA Division II level.

1 Grand Valley State 719.25
2 Minnesota State 584.50
3 Tampa 505.00
4 Adams State 447.50
5 Nebraska-Omaha 429.00
6 South Dakota 407.00
7 California (Pa.) 401.00
8 UC San Diego 390.00
9 Abilene Christian 379.50
10 Seattle Pacific 356.00

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–Excerpt courtesy MSU Athletics