ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Indiana State completed third overall in the Missouri Valley Conference All-Sports Championship standings as introduced by the convention workplace yesterday afternoon.
The Sycamores recorded convention titles in ladies’s indoor and outside monitor & area, in addition to claiming the ladies’s swimming & diving championships on their technique to ending inside the prime three in the league standings for the third time since the 2020-21 season.
“Finishing third in the MVC All-Sports Trophy standings is a tremendous reflection of the commitment, passion and performance displayed by our student-athletes, coaches and staff throughout the year,” mentioned Director of Athletics Nathan Christensen. “We are incredibly proud of the broad-based success across Sycamore Athletics and the way our programs continue to represent Indiana State at a high level. At the same time, we remain focused on elevating every one of our programs as we continue pushing toward the top of the MVC. Our community should be proud of what we’ve accomplished, and the future of Sycamore Athletics is incredibly bright.”
Illinois State earned the 2025-26 Missouri Valley Conference All-Sports Championship. The MVC first supplied an all-sports trophy following the 1949-50 athletics season and then-member Oklahoma State (Oklahoma A&M at the time) earned the league’s first title. Notably, the Redbirds have received six of the final seven MVC all-sports crowns.
Illinois State earned staff titles this yr in males’s golf. males’s outside monitor & area, and ISU claimed a match championship in ladies’s tennis. The Redbirds additionally had top-five finishes in baseball, males’s and girls’s basketball, males’s and girls’s cross nation, males’s indoor monitor & area, ladies’s soccer, softball, ladies’s tennis, volleyball, and each ladies’s indoor and outside monitor & area.
Nine totally different establishments claimed a minimum of one regular-season or post-season league title this previous season. UIC and UNI led the league with 4 complete championships every. UIC earned regular-season titles in baseball and girls’s tennis, and the Flames earned match championships in baseball and girls’s soccer. UNI earned MVC Tournament titles in males’s basketball and volleyball and in addition had championships in males’s indoor monitor & area in addition to a regular-season volleyball crown. Four different league colleges produced three championship crowns: Belmont, Illinois State, Indiana State, and Murray State.
Murray State’s second-place exhibiting in the all-sports trophy standings is its all-time finest. Murray State, which joined the MVC for the 2022-23 season, had a earlier excessive of seventh place. Murray State earned regular-season and match titles in ladies’s basketball and in addition received the ladies’s golf championship. MSU additionally recorded top-three finishes in ladies’s soccer, softball, ladies’s tennis, baseball, and males’s golf. Indiana State completed third in this yr’s all-sports trophy race, and the Sycamores have been third thrice in the previous six seasons. Drake has completed in the Top 5 in every of the previous 4 seasons, whereas UNI, fourth this yr, has completed in the Top 5 in three of the previous 4 years.
Points — Team (Championships*)
- 8.857 — Illinois State (3)
- 8.814 — Murray State (3)
- 7.719 — Indiana State (3)
- 7.252 — UNI (4)
- 7.101 — Drake (2)
*mixed regular-season and match championships
Prior to Drake’s MVC All-Sports crown in 2024, Illinois State, Missouri State or Wichita State had earned the league’s all-sports championship trophy yearly since 1995. Illinois State received 5 of six all-sports championships from 1996-01, Missouri State has 5 titles since 1999-00, and Wichita State had a stretch the place it received 11 of 14 all-sports trophies from 2003-04 by means of 2016-17. Notably, Illinois State has 18 all-sports crowns and has completed first, second, or third in 32 of the previous 35 years.
The All-Sports Trophy is predicated on a college’s common finish in every of the sponsored championships by the Missouri Valley Conference. Teams are awarded 12 factors for first, 11 for second, 10 for third, and so forth., and the complete amassed factors are divided by the variety of sports activities in which a specific faculty competes. For sports activities not sponsored by each MVC faculty, the factors lower by variety of competing colleges (i.e., in a sport the place 10 groups compete, 12/10 = 1.20, so level totals lower by 1.20; 1st = 12, 2nd = 10.8, third = 9.6, and so forth.)
Finishes in baseball, basketball, soccer, softball, tennis, and volleyball are based mostly on regular-season competitors. However, establishments obtain three bonus factors for every league post-season championship earned in these aforementioned sports activities. All different sports activities are decided by finish at the championship match or championship meet.
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