BRUCE ASATO / 2018
The Rainbow Wahine volleyball team finished second out of nine teams in the Big West standings last season to lead UH teams with 160 points in the conference’s Commissioner’s Cup standings.
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The University of Hawaii moved up one place to seventh in the Big West Conference Commissioner’s Cup standings, the league office announced Tuesday.
The Commissioner’s Cup is a measure of overall athletic success in the league for the 2018-19 academic year.
UC Santa Barbara won the cup, while last year’s champion, Cal State Fullerton, was second. The Big West began the Commissioner’s Cup in 1998-99. Standing is determined on a basis of average points accumulated through final regular-season finish in each sport and the number of competing teams.
UH was eighth in 2017-18, its lowest finish in the nine-member conference since rejoining in 2012-13. Its best finish was third in that 2012-13 season.
Fifteen of UH’s 19 NCAA-sponsored sports compete in the Big West Conference. Football competes in the Mountain West and other sports in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation. UH’s highest point totals this year came from women’s volleyball (160), women’s basketball (140), water polo (140) and softball (140).
UH is 46th in the College Directors’ Cup standings, which measure athletic success across all Division I teams in regular and postseason. Those standings will be finalized at the end of the month.
COMMISSIONER’S CUP STANDINGS
Big West sports rankings
POS. SCHOOL TEAMS AVG.
1. UC Santa Barbara 16 120.6
2. Cal State Fullerton 14 118.6
3. UC Irvine 16 106.3
4. Long Beach State 16 103.8
5. UC Davis 18 98.8
6. Cal Poly 16 97.5
7. Hawaii 15 91.3
8. Cal State Northridge 17 72.4
9. UC Riverside 15 62.7
Source: Big West Conference
