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BRENTWOOD, Tenn. – Southeast Missouri State University has won the Ohio Valley Conference Commissioner's Cup for the 2022-23 school year the league office announced on Tuesday.
The award is a symbol of overall athletic excellence in Conference-sponsored championships. It marks the second Cup title for the Redhawks in the past three years.
The Redhawks finished with 102.0 points, 11.5 points better than second place, and was bolstered by first-place finishes in football, women's indoor track & field, women's outdoor track & field, men's outdoor track & field and softball.
Tennessee Tech (90.5) was second and followed by Eastern Illinois (89), Little Rock (86.5), UT Martin (83.5), Tennessee State (63.5), Morehead State & SIUE (61.5), Southern Indiana (57) and Lindenwood (46.5).
The 2022-23 season marks the 15th for the re-formatted Commissioner's Cup, which was previously known as the All-Sports Trophy. The award (which started in 1962-63 for men's sports and 1980-81 for women's sports) was previously divided into a Men's All-Sport Champion and a Women's All-Sport Champion. Points were awarded for each of the 19 sponsored sports and each school was required to count its totals from each sport in its grand total.
The points system was updated in 2022-23 and schools now count 13 total sports in the final standings. Among those 13, schools are required to count the point totals of three main sports (men's basketball, women's basketball, and volleyball) as well as the highest finishing men's and women's track & field sport (either cross country, indoor track & field or outdoor track & field). Schools that sponsor football are required to count it as one of its 13 sports.
Points are distributed based on the number of schools that sponsor the sport (e.g. if 10 schools sponsor a sport, the champion will earn 10 points, 9 points for second place, 8 points for third place, etc.). For 2022-23, football (which had seven teams this season) will receive a maximum of 10 points for first place as opposed to seven (in 2023-24 the OVC-Big South association will have 10 teams).
In addition winners of OVC Tournaments (soccer, volleyball, basketball, tennis, beach volleyball, softball and baseball) get one additional bonus point.