When it comes to conference reputation, all that really matters is football and basketball, with perhaps baseball on occasion. As a former college sprinter, you have to accept that track and field, and other sports, take second, or third/fourth, fiddle to the money programs, the track team had to do parking for the football and basketball games to get money to travel. Case in point, BYU is currently first in the Directors Cup. Pop quiz, “How did BYU do in fall sports?”. Here is the run down, women’s cross-country took second as a team and had the individual nation champion in Whittni Orton, the women’s soccer team played were national runners up losing on penalty kicks, the women’s volleyball team made the Sweet Sixteen, the men’s cross country took 7th with Connor Mantz winning the individual title.
Stats Corner: Breaking Down the Basketball Conferences
