HARRISONBURG, Va. – James Madison University leads the Sun Belt Conference’s Vic Bubas Cup standings by the 2025 fall sports activities season. The Bubas Cup is the Sun Belt’s all-sports championship, awarded to the highest athletics division within the convention based mostly on a factors system.
 
In the autumn sports activities season, James Madison captured its first Sun Belt soccer title after incomes the league’s high convention report at 8-0 to win the common season and earn 15 factors. Volleyball additionally earned an everyday season title to seize 14 factors. Additional factors included 10 for ladies’s soccer, eight for cross nation and one for males’s soccer. JMU doesn’t earn factors for area hockey’s fourth-place end within the MAC.
  
Arkansas State gathered 45.0 factors within the Bubas Cup Standings, which places them forward of Coastal Carolina, Louisiana and Marshall in a tie for third (36.5).
 
The Vic Bubas Cup is called after the Sun Belt Conference’s first Commissioner. Bubas was appointed the convention’s commissioner on Oct. 6, 1976, and served for 14 years till his retirement in 1990. He led the convention throughout a interval by which its membership elevated from six to eight members and its sport sponsorship grew from 4 to 10 sports activities. Bubas was a three-time ACC Coach of the Year at Duke within the Sixties, taking his crew to 3 Final Fours. In 2007, he was inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame. Bubas handed away in April 2018 on the age of 91.
 
Points for the Bubas Cup are awarded based mostly on regular-season end for sports activities which have an everyday season convention schedule. Points are awarded based mostly on Sun Belt Championship end if that sport doesn’t have a regular-season convention schedule. Points are awarded based mostly on the variety of faculties sponsoring the game. Institutions not sponsoring a sport don’t obtain factors in that sport. Institutions tying for positions cut up the mixed factors of their positions.
 
For sports activities which have each a regular-season schedule and a convention event, one extra level will likely be awarded to the winner of the convention event, together with a further level for successful the Sun Belt Conference Football Championship.
 
For sports activities with divisions, the convention data of all groups are ranked and factors are awarded no matter divisional end. Standings for the sports activities of males’s and ladies’s soccer are decided by factors quite than successful proportion.

 



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