NC State Newsstand: Wolfpack in top 10 of Directors’ Cup standings
After a successful winter season of collegiate athletics, NC State sits No. 7 in the LEARFIELD Directors’ Cup standings. The Wolfpack has its second-highest ranking ever after the winter, and it marks the athletic department’s third straight top-10 winter mark.
The Pack was paced to that ranking after men’s basketball and women’s basketball made Final Four appearances, while men’s swimming, women’s swimming and wrestling all made top 11 finishes.
During Athletic Director Boo Corrigan’s time in Raleigh, NC State has finished in the top 20 of the final rankings in each of the last two years. That was a first in school history, while it logged three straight top-25 finishes for the first time ever.
Full look at the Division I LEARFIELD Directors’ Cup standings:
- Stanford – 802.75
- Texas – 746.50
- North Carolina – 733.50
- Notre Dame – 698.00
- Tennessee – 652.50
- Wisconsin – 637.50
- NC State – 606.00
- Penn State – 603.50
- Alabama – 587.88
- Ohio State – 544.25
Tweets of day
Wolfpack pitcher Shane Van Dam was impressive in the team’s win over No. 2 Clemson.
NC State football continues its offseason team-building program.
Kevin Keatts earned a Coach of the Year award after the team’s Final Four run.
Quote of the day
Here’s what the Wolfpack’s Final Four run mean to graduate guard DJ Horne:
“It meant everything,” Horne said. “To come home, for Coach Keatts to give me this opportunity to go out there and make all my memories with my brothers the way we do. I don’t think we could have drew it up any better. If we won the whole thing, it would have been a story.
“I’m grateful for this experience. Not everybody gets to say they went to the Final Four. NC State did.”
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