WICHITA, Kan. (2021-22 Commissioner's Cup Standings) — Kansas Wesleyan University and Friends University are tied atop the standings for the 2021-22 KCAC Commissioner's Cup after the fall season, the conference office announced Thursday. The KCAC Commissioner's Cup is awarded annually as a symbol of excellence in athletics representing 20 championships. Member institutions can earn points for their finish of each varsity team in those 20 officially recognized conference sports.
Kansas Wesleyan secured a share of the top spot by claiming a share of the conference title in football, a third-place finish in women's cross country, and fourth-place finishes in men's cross country, women's soccer, and volleyball. The Coyotes tied for ninth place in men's soccer to round out their Commissioner's Cup points total for the fall season.
Friends tied Kansas Wesleyan atop the standings after the fall season behind strong finishes from several teams. Both Falcon cross country teams got second in their respective divisions at the KCAC Cross Country Championships. Friends also saw second-place finishes in the regular season for men's and women's soccer. Adding to the Falcons' points total was a ninth-place regular-season finish in volleyball and a tenth-place finish in football.
2021 KCAC Commissioner's Cup - Fall Standings (Alphabetical Order)
Max Points by Sport | 13.0 | 13.0 | 11.0 | 13.0 | 13.0 | 13.0 | |
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School | MXC | WXC | FB | Soccer-M | Soccer-W | VB | Total |
Avila | 1.0 | 1.0 | 8.0 | 1.0 | 5.5 | 4.0 | 20.5 |
Bethany | 6.0 | 5.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 8.0 | 6.5 | 28.5 |
Bethel | 8.0 | 3.0 | 10.0 | 6.0 | 5.5 | 2.5 | 35.0 |
Friends | 12.0 | 12.0 | 2.0 | 11.5 | 12.0 | 5.0 | 54.5 |
KWU | 10.0 | 11.0 | 10.0 | 4.0 | 10.0 | 9.5 | 54.5 |
McPherson | 7.0 | 8.0 | 7.0 | 10.0 | 2.5 | 11.5 | 46.0 |
OKWU | 4.0 | 2.0 | --- | 13.0 | 13.0 | 8.0 | 40.0 |
Ottawa | 3.0 | 6.0 | 5.0 | 4.0 | 7.0 | 13.0 | 38.0 |
Southwestern | 11.0 | 7.0 | 10.0 | 7.0 | 11.0 | 1.0 | 47.0 |
Sterling | 2.0 | 4.0 | 6.0 | 8.0 | 1.0 | 6.5 | 27.5 |
Tabor | 9.0 | 10.0 | 3.0 | 11.5 | 9.0 | 11.5 | 54.0 |
USM | 13.0 | 13.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 9.5 | 47.5 |
York | 5.0 | 9.0 | --- | 9.0 | 2.5 | 2.5 | 28.0 |
| | 91.0 | 91.0 | 66.0 | 91.0 | 91.0 | 91.0 | 521.0 |
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| | | | FB - Three-way tie for 1st | MSOC - Tie for 2nd | WSOC - Tie for 8th | VB - Tie for 2nd | |
| | | | | MSOC - Tie for 9th | WSOC - Tie for 11th | VB - Tie for 4th | |
| | | | | | | VB - TIe for 7th | |
| | | | | | | VB - Tie for 11th | |
Fall Standings 2021-22 Point Totals |
T1 | KWU | 54.5 |
T1 | Friends | 54.5 |
3 | Tabor | 54 |
4 | Saint Mary | 47.5 |
5 | Southwestern | 47 |
6 | McPherson | 46 |
7 | OKWU | 40 |
8 | Ottawa | 38 |
9 | Bethel | 35 |
10 | Bethany | 28.5 |
11 | York | 28 |
12 | Sterling | 27.5 |
13 | Avila | 20.5 |
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About the Commissioner's Cup
In an effort to further recognize the achievements of its student-athletes and member institutions the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference developed an award for the institution that performs the greatest over the fall, winter, and spring athletic seasons. The KCAC Commissioner's Cup will be awarded annually as a symbol of excellence in athletics representing 20 championships. Member institutions can earn points for their finish of each varsity team in those 20 officially recognized conference sports.
Points are assigned based on regular-season finish for football, men's and women's soccer, volleyball, men's and women's basketball, baseball, men's and women's golf, softball, and men's and women's tennis. In competitive cheer, competitive dance, cross country, indoor track & field, and outdoor track & field, the conference championship meet results will determine point values. To be a conference sport there must be six member institutions competing in that sport at the varsity level.
Teams who finish in first place will be awarded a maximum number of points equivalent to the total number of teams competing in that respective sport. Point tallies will continue in reverse order until the last place team has been awarded its corresponding point value (i.e. if a sport only has seven teams, point values will be given from the maximum 7 to 1). When two or more teams tie for final placing in the conference standings, each team will be awarded the average of the respective placing. For example, if three teams tied for second place in a sport with 11 teams, those three teams will be given the score of nine points because those three teams are occupying the second (10 points), third (9 points) and fourth (8 points) positions in the standings. The sum of those three positions (27 points) divided by the three teams yields an average score of nine points for each of the teams.
Previous Winners:
2012-13: Tabor College
2013-14: Ottawa University
2014-15: Friends University
2015-16: Friends University
2016-17: Tabor College
2017-18: Friends University
2018-19: Friends University
2019-20: Kansas Wesleyan University
2020-21: Kansas Wesleyan University
