[Papa John]

Texas wins the rowing championship, and Stanford places second for a less-painful consolation prize.

Yes, a lot of results like rowing add up. That's 100 DC points for Texas and 90 for Stanford, so a 20 point swing if the results are reversed. More examples: #1 women's soccer finishes 2nd (90 points instead of 100), and beach volleyball and women's water polo were real possibilities for more points. But those kinds of unexpected results happen every year and are usually offset by unexpected gains.

As we've already discussed, what really hurts are the 0 points scored by three of the five mandatory sports: men's and women's basketball and baseball. Making the NCAA tournament in two of those three--which used to happen all the time--would have likely wrapped up the Directors' Cup for Stanford.

[Papa John]

Texas wins the rowing championship, and Stanford places second for a less-painful consolation prize.

Yes, a lot of results like rowing add up. That's 100 DC points for Texas and 90 for Stanford, so a 20 point swing if the results are reversed. More examples: #1 women's soccer finishes 2nd (90 points instead of 100), and beach volleyball and women's water polo were real possibilities for more points. But those kinds of unexpected results happen every year and are usually offset by unexpected gains.

As we've already discussed, what really hurts are the 0 points scored by three of the five mandatory sports: men's and women's basketball and baseball. Making the NCAA tournament in two of those three--which used to happen all the time--would have likely wrapped up the Directors' Cup for Stanford.