{"id":8136,"date":"2015-04-23T21:58:58","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T01:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=8136"},"modified":"2015-04-23T22:02:42","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T02:02:42","slug":"carolina-third-in-learfield-sports-cup-acc-well-represented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=8136","title":{"rendered":"Carolina third in Learfield Sports Cup; ACC well represented"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/tarheelslogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/tarheelslogo.jpg\" alt=\"tarheelslogo\" width=\"254\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8138\" \/><\/a>Seven Atlantic Coast Conference schools rank among the top 26 of the 2014-15 Learfield Sports Directors\u2019 Cup Division I Standings following the completion of the fall and winter sports seasons.<\/p>\n<p>The ACC is tied for the most among all conferences with four schools ranked among the top 12 and seven ranked among the top 30. The ACC\u2019s 12 schools ranked among the top 65 also tie for the most of  any conference. Nine ACC schools rank among the top 50, while 13 of the conference\u2019s 15 schools earned sports among the top 84.<\/p>\n<p>The Duke men\u2019s NCAA basketball championship highlighted the winter season for the ACC, which also saw the Notre Dame women\u2019s basketball team place second nationally. A total of 18 teams from ACC schools posted national top-10 finishes in the sports of basketball, fencing, swimming and diving, wrestling and ice hockey.<\/p>\n<p>North Carolina holds third place in the overall scoring with 823.5 points and is joined in the top-10 by Notre Dame in ninth place with 601.5.<\/p>\n<p>Florida State ranks 11th with 597.5 points, followed by Virginia in 12th place with 571.<\/p>\n<p>NC State (22nd place with 466.5 points), Duke (25th place with 450.5) and Louisville (26th with 449.5) round out the ACC\u2019s representation among the top 30.<\/p>\n<p>Virginia Tech ranks 41st (392 points), Syracuse 48th (344.5), Miami 58th (248), Clemson 59th (244.5),  Boston College 65th (217), Pitt 84th (145), Georgia Tech 105th (110) and Wake Forest 172nd (50).<\/p>\n<p>Complete standings and the scoring structure can be found on NACDA&#8217;s website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.directorscup.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.directorscup.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The Learfield Sports Directors&#8217; Cup was developed as a joint effort between the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) and USA Today.  Points are awarded based on each institution&#8217;s finish in up to 20 sports &#8212; 10 women&#8217;s and 10 men&#8217;s. <\/p>\n<p>The first standings of the spring sports season will be released on Thursday, May 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven Atlantic Coast Conference schools rank among the top 26 of the 2014-15 Learfield Sports Directors\u2019 Cup Division I Standings following the completion of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,79,81,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-duke-blue-devils","category-featured-stories","category-n-c-state-wolfpack","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-82-id","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-81-id","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8139,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8136\/revisions\/8139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}