ST. LOUIS — The University of Northern Iowa claimed fourth place in the race for the Missouri Valley Conference’s (MVC) All-Sport Trophy throughout the 2025-26 faculty yr, as introduced by the league workplace on Thursday.
Northern Iowa, which completed second a yr in the past, has now completed in the top-five seven instances in the final ten years. Illinois State gained the MVC All-Sports Trophy title for the second straight season and fifth time in the final six years, whereas Murray State adopted in second and Indiana State in third.
During the 2025-26 season, the Panthers swept the MVC’s common season and match championships for a fourth consecutive yr in volleyball, whereas the lads’s observe and subject group positioned first on the MVC Indoor Championships again in March for a second consecutive season. UNI additionally captured the MVC males’s basketball match crown in St. Louis, changing into the bottom seeded group and first group to start in the opening spherical of “Arch Madness” to win the title.
Northern Iowa’s 4 convention championships in 2025-26 tied with UIC for essentially the most in the league this yr, in addition to essentially the most for the college since additionally successful 4 championships throughout the 2019-20 faculty yr.
The All-Sports Trophy, which was first awarded following the 1949-50 athletic season, is predicated on a college’s common end in every of the sponsored championships by the MVC. Teams are awarded 11 factors for first, ten for second, 9 for third, and so forth., and the overall amassed factors are divided by the variety of sports activities in which a selected faculty competes. For sports activities not sponsored by each MVC faculty, the factors lower by variety of competing colleges.
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 end on the championship match or championship meet.
“On the heels of the most successful Missouri Valley Conference season in UNI Athletics history, Panther sports teams tied for the most conference titles in the league demonstrating the depth and breadth of success across the department,” mentioned UNI Director of Athletics Megan Franklin. “We celebrate those successes all the while we strive to stand apart at the top of the league as part of the strategic goals for UNI Athletics.”
Northern Iowa additionally completed in the top-five in seven different sports activities, together with runner-up finishes in each males’s and girls’s out of doors observe and subject, third place in ladies’s indoor observe and subject, fourth in ladies’s basketball and softball, in addition to fifth in ladies’s cross nation and swimming and diving.
2025-26 MVC ALL-SPORTS TROPHY STANDINGS (Top-Five) [Championships Won]
- Illinois State – 8.857 [3]
- Murray State – 8.814 [3]
- Indiana State – 7.719 [3]
- UNI – 7.252 [4]
- Drake – 7.101 [2]
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