  {"id":96899,"date":"2019-05-20T15:22:13","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T01:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=96899"},"modified":"2019-05-20T15:25:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T01:25:21","slug":"directors-cup-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/05\/20\/directors-cup-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa athletics jumps to No. 46 in Directors\u2019 Cup Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/manoa-athletics-img-ranking.jpg\" alt=\"U H Manoa volleyball, water polo, beach volleyball players\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-96904\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/manoa-athletics-img-ranking.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/manoa-athletics-img-ranking-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/manoa-athletics-img-ranking-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With three teams finishing in the Top 5 of their respective <abbr title=\"National Collegiate Athletic Association\">NCAA<\/abbr> Championships, the <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa Athletics department<\/a> jumped to No. 46 in the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.learfield.com\/\">Learfield <abbr>IMG<\/abbr> College<\/a> Directors\u2019 Cup Standings.<\/p>\n<p><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa moved up 49 places by accumulating 205 points in the spring season\u2019s first three sports. <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> was runner-up in men\u2019s volleyball (90 points), top four in beach volleyball (55 points), and quarterfinalist in women\u2019s water polo (60 points) to tie with <abbr title=\"University of Southern California\">USC<\/abbr> for the most points during that span.<\/p>\n<p>With its 46th place ranking, <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa is tops in the Big West Conference and has the fourth-highest point total among non-Power 5 conferences trailing only <abbr title=\"Brigham Young University\">BYU<\/abbr> (West Coast Conference, 19th), Princeton (20th, Ivy League) and Denver (41st, Summit League).<\/p>\n<p>The department\u2019s highest all-time Directors&#8217; Cup ranking is No. 53 set in 2007&#8211;08, the same year <abbr>UH<\/abbr> collected its highest-ever point total (385).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2019\/5\/20\/general-uh-athletics-jumps-to-no-46-in-learfield-directors-cup-rankings.aspx\">Learn more at the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa Athletics website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With its 46th place ranking, <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa is tops in the Big West Conference and has the fourth-highest point total among non-Power 5 conferences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,911,9,550],"class_list":["post-96899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-program-recognition","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96899"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96906,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96899\/revisions\/96906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}