NACDA Directors' Cup

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill won the award in its inaugural year, but then Stanford University won the Division I award for 25 straight years until the streak was broken in 2020–21 by the University of Texas. Texas repeated in 2022, Stanford regained the cup in 2023, and Texas won again in 2024 and 2025. In Division II, UC Davis won six of the first eight awards, but its athletic program moved to Division I in 2003 and Grand Valley State has won 17 of the 20 awards since as of 2025 (the title went unawarded for two years due to COVID-19). The only other current Division II member with an award is 1999 winner Adams State. All other Division II winners (Bakersfield, California Baptist, and Grand Canyon) are now members of Division I. Williams College has had by far the most success in Division III, having won the Cup 22 of the 28 times it has been awarded for that division. The only other D-III member with more than one Cup is 2023 and 2024 winner Johns Hopkins. The NAIA division was dominated by Simon Fraser University of British Columbia in its early years, but in 2002, SFU transferred most of its sports programs to Canada's college athletics federation, then known as Canadian Interuniversity Sport and now as U Sports. SFU left U Sports in 2011 and has since become a full member of NCAA Division II. From 2004–05 to 2011–12, Azusa Pacific University assumed the mantle at the NAIA level, winning eight consecutive championships before moving to NCAA Division II in the 2012–13 season. Oklahoma City University has been the most successful school since that year, with three Directors' Cups in the 2010s and four overall. For two-year colleges, Iowa Central Community College has been the most successful school, winning five of the 10 titles. ==Scoring system==

• NCAA Division I: Counts top 19 sports at each school with the following breakdowns: • Five of which must be baseball, men's basketball, women's basketball, women's soccer and women's volleyball • The next highest 14 sports scored for each institution, regardless of gender, will be used in the standings (except men's water polo) • For FBS Football: the top 25 teams are awarded points based on their final rank in the Coaches Poll. 26th place is considered a tie between every non-ranked bowl winner, and the next available rank is considered a tie between every non-ranked bowl loser. • NCAA Division II: Counts top 15 sports at each school with the following breakdowns: Multiple suggestions have been made to change the scoring system. Some of the most popular of these include making each sport worth a proportional number of points to the number of schools that compete in it, to get rid of the limit on the number of sports counted, then divide a school's total points by the number of sports it sponsors, and to count the median number of teams per division instead of the average (the median number of teams at a Division I school, for example, is 16, which is substantially lower than the 19 sports that are currently counted). However, NACDA has never seriously considered any of these suggestions. Past scoring system From the creation of the award until the 2017–18 season the scoring was as follows: • NCAA Division I: Counted up to 20 total sports at each school, with a maximum of 10 sports counted for each gender • NCAA Division II: Counted up to 14 total sports at each school, with a maximum of 7 sports counted for each gender • NCAA Division III: Counted up to 18 total sports at each school, with a maximum of 9 sports counted for each gender • NAIA: Counted up to 12 total sports at each school, with a maximum of 6 sports counted for each gender • Junior/Community Colleges: Same as current ==Past winners==

• Results for years and schools shown in italics represent current standings and are not yet final. • These results are for the "final" standings, calculated after spring sports end. NCAA Division I Stanford and Florida are the only schools to finish within the top 10 every season. Stanford has never finished below third. NCAA Division II Schools in italics no longer compete in Division II. NCAA Division III Schools in italics no longer compete in Division III. NAIA Schools in italics no longer compete in the NAIA. Two-year colleges ==See also==