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Directors Cup Thread
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Women's Golf with the best round of the day to move up into 2nd place, behind the 1 seed in the regional Wake Forest. The only thing that matters is being in the top 5 and with only 1 round remaining, The odds are good for Texas to do just that.
They are 10 strokes ahead of 6th place and with decent leads over 4th and 5th place as well. One more solid round and they should be through to the NCAA Championship.
Stanford is running away with their regional as expected.
Texas with the 2nd best round of the day, over taking Wake Forest and dropping 1 stroke behind Ole Miss to finish 2nd in the regional. The exact finish has no relevance, importantly they played great golf this week and advance to the NCAA Championships.
This clinches a finish of no worse than 30th place, which equates to 44 points in the Directors Cup.
At times, the Golf regionals throw Texas a bone and see some top teams knocked out prior to the NCAA Championships. This wasn't the case this year. No team ranked above #10 Texas was eliminated, in fact the top 15 teams all advanced. Only teams ranked 16, 18, 23, 27 and 28 were eliminated unexpectedly. They were replaced by teams ranked 33, 40, 43, 45 and 47. The field did not get much easier going forward.
Stanford also advances after absolutely crushing their regional.
Stanford also advances after absolutely crushing their regional.
We won the regular season softball title but not the tournament title, so the math isn't adding up or am I reading it incorrectly?
It gets a bit confusing because some sports have regular and tournament champions. For Texas they won:
Volleyball
Soccer - Tournament
Football
W Swim and Dive
M Swim and Dive
Womens Basketball (Reg season)
W Indoor Track
W Outdoor Track
M Outdoor Track
M Tennis (Reg season and Tournament)
Softball (Reg season)
W Golf
M Golf
13 out of 18 sports have won 14 championships.
Two out of three rounds in and Texas is 10 strokes ahead of 2nd place, 24 strokes ahead of the all important 6th place. Need to remain in the top 5 overall to advance to the NCAA Championshop round.
3 individuals tied for 2nd, 1 stroke behind the leader. The individual win doesn't do anything for the director's cup but always nice to see a horn finish on top.
I'll come back and edit this with the screenshot of the scoreboard once the round is finished but Stanford is off the course 3 strokes behind 6th place in their regional. They rank 29th overall so missing the field of 30 that make the NCAA championship wouldn't be a huge upset. Even if they advance, they need a top 12 finish to contribute meaningful points for Stanford. Them being eliminated now just closes the book on the sport for them and their chances to make up ground on Texas (in the predicted finish) shrink.
After shooting one of the worst rounds of the day Stanford did finish 3 back of 5th place.
Texas building a nice lead in the predicted finish. Would take some big fluctuations in multiple sports for Stanford to come out on top.
Texas men's tennis and Stanford W tennis are both ranked #2 and start quarterfinal play tomorrow. Anything less than a 2nd place finish would decrease the predicted points.
Clinching point came from #2 ranked Eliot Spizzirri who knocked off the #1 player in the nation.
Men's Tennis beats Wake Forest to advance to the finals against TCU. We lost to TCU in indoor earlier this year but have beaten them twice during the outdoor season.
We were the two seed entering the tourney, so finishing 2nd, with 90 pts, was expected. Winning it all, which we should be favored to do, would add 10 to that.
We were the two seed entering the tourney, so finishing 2nd, with 90 pts, was expected. Winning it all, which we should be favored to do, would add 10 to that.
A very strong day by Women's Golf helps them move above the cut line to 13th place. The cut occurs after tomorrows round, top 15.
The top 15 then plays 1 more round and the top 8 advance to match place. Texas is 7 strokes away from the top 8.
The top 15 then plays 1 more round and the top 8 advance to match place. Texas is 7 strokes away from the top 8.
Texas is currently predicted to score 1413
Ladies golf had improved their standing in recent weeks and was ranked in a way as to make the match play quarterfinals. That is unlikely currently. Still, finishing at worst top 15 won't hurt the score by more than 12 points.
All in all, Texas continues to be a strong position.
Texas men's tennis was expected to finish 2nd, though had a great opportunity to win today. No harm done to the final score prediction with their 2nd place finish.
Ladies golf had improved their standing in recent weeks and was ranked in a way as to make the match play quarterfinals. That is unlikely currently. Still, finishing at worst top 15 won't hurt the score by more than 12 points.
All in all, Texas continues to be a strong position.