UNC Tar Heels Finish 8th in Learfield Cup

CHAPEL HILL – NCAA championships by field hockey in the fall and women’s tennis in the spring provided 100 points apiece to lead the University of North Carolina to eighth place in the final 2022-23 Learfield Directors’ Cup standings, the Tar Heels’ fourth consecutive top-10 finish and seventh in the past eight years of the all-sports competition.

Carolina amassed a total of 1,068 points in 17 sports. Stanford regained the title, its 26th in the 29-year history of the competition, after Texas had won the previous two seasons (UNC was the inaugural winner in 1993-94).

Stanford totaled 1412 points. Texas, Ohio State, Virginia, Florida, Tennessee, Georgia, UNC, LSU and Southern California finished second through 10th.

The eighth-place finish is Carolina’s 24th season in the top 10. Only Stanford and Florida (with 29 apiece) have more.