With national championships in women’s basketball and baseball, as well as top-10 finishes in gymnastics, beach volleyball and men’s and women’s outdoor track and field, LSU finished No. 9 in the final Directors’ Cup standings for the 2022-23 academic year.
It’s the school’s highest finish since 2009 and second-highest of all time behind 2008 when it finished eighth.
Stanford ultimately won the Cup, which is given to the top overall athletics department in the country. The Tigers edged out USC, which rounds out the top 10. LSU ranks fourth among SEC schools behind Florida, Tennessee and Georgia.
Eight SEC schools finished in the top-25 overall, which was the most of any conference.
National Championships from @LSUwbkb and @LSUbaseball lead #LSU to its highest Directors' Cup finish since 2009.
Standings: https://t.co/s7zdqti6iO pic.twitter.com/lvXMHcj1tu
— LSU Tigers (@LSUsports) June 28, 2023
LSU has now won 51 total national championships with this year’s additions, and it’s the 11th time the Tigers have captured two in the same year. LSU will hope to add to that total under [autotag]Scott Woodward[/autotag], whose tenure as athletics director has been very successful so far.
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