Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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Under the Dome Notre Dame Finishes No. 4 In Directors' Cup Fall Standings In the Learfield Directors' Cup rank- Eight, highlighted by upsets of top-10 ings, Notre Dame finished the fall foes Wake Forest and Florida, before sports season No. 4 among both Foot- falling 1-0 at Florida State. ball Bowl Subdivision (FBS) and FootMen's Soccer (64) — Head coach Bobby ball Championship Subdivision (FCS) Clark's Fighting Irish were the No. programs. 1 overall seed in the 64-team NCAA A total of 188 schools scored points Tournament, but lost in the third round during the fall season, which featured to eventual champion Indiana, which nine different sports: men's and wom- they had defeated in Bloomington duren's cross country, men's and women's ing the regular season. Ryan Finley and soccer, women's volleyball, women's Dillon Powers both were first-round field hockey, men's water polo, FBS selections in the MLS SuperDraft. football and FCS football. Women's Cross Country (60) — The 15thThe maximum a sport can score place finish at the NCAA Championis 100 points for a national title, and ships was the program's highest since thereafter points are awarded based No. 7 in 2005. Senior Rebecca Tracy, on runner-up, third place or semifinal, sophomore Gabby Gonzales and juquarterfinal or first-round advance- nior Alexa Aragon all placed in the top ment in NCAA Tournament competi- 100. tion. Men's Cross Country (46) — The Irish Notre Dame scored points in all six managed a 28th-place finish at the fall sports in which it competes, with NCAA Championships despite the abthe breakdown as follows: sence of All-American Jeremy Rae beFootball (85) — This was for third place cause of an injury. Junior Martin Grady in the final BCS poll (Oregon received finished 52nd to lead the team. 90 for second place). Alabama finished Women's Volleyball (25) — Notre Dame received an at-large tied for 53rd overall — Rk. School Points NCAA Tournament bid with all 100 points com1. Stanford 398.00 ing as the FBS national but lost in the first round 2. Michigan 373.00 to No. 14 Ohio State. title winner. 3. Florida State 358.50 Women's Soccer (73) — Sophomores Toni Alug4. Notre Dame 353.00 After a disappointing bue and Jeni Houser were 5. North Carolina 342.00 10-8-3 campaign in 2011, named AVCA honorable 6. Oregon 334.00 head coach Randy Walmention All-Americans. 7. UCLA 331.00 drum's squad — national Michigan was the lone 8. Penn State 323.50 champs in 2004 and 2010 cold-weather school to do 9. Florida 275.50 — regained some mojo better than Notre Dame 10. Texas 274.00 by advancing to the Elite in the overall standings.