HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Marshall Athletics is presently tied for No. 3 amongst Sun Belt Conference groups within the Vic Bubas Cup standings, the SBC launched on Thursday.
The Vic Bubas Cup standings are the Sun Belt Conference’s all-sports metric for figuring out its most profitable all-around packages.
Marshall presently has 64 factors, which ties the Herd for third with Coastal Carolina. Only Arkansas Sate (75.0) and James Madison (70) are forward of the Herd and Chanticleers.
The Herd has seen constant success in a lot of its packages, however essentially the most success got here from each males’s and ladies’s basketball, who scored 10.5 and 10.0 factors for the division, respectively.
Men’s Basketball completed at 19-13 total and was considered one of six groups in a tie for second place within the league standings with the Herd incomes the No. 2 seed within the SBC Tournament.
Women’s Basketball additionally acquired 10 factors for incomes the No. 5 seed within the SBC standings. The staff went on to win the WNIT Tournament lately to complete 28-9 on the yr.
Marshall additionally noticed success on the soccer fields within the fall with 16.5 factors mixed from Men’s and Women’s Soccer.
The Vic Bubas Cup is known as 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 staff 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 colleges 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 might 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 information 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 somewhat than successful share.
Vic Bubas Cup Standings (as of April 9, 2026)
1. Arkansas State 75.0
2. James Madison 70.0
3. Marshall 64.0
3. Coastal Carolina 64.0
5. South Alabama 61.0
6. Louisiana 58.5
7. Georgia Southern 57.5
8. App State 56.5
9. Southern Miss 54.5
10. Troy 51.0
11. Old Dominion 43.0
12. ULM 39.0
13. Georgia State 36.5
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