NSIC RELEASE
BURNSVILLE, Minn. - Behind seven conference titles this season, Augustana has won the 2010-11 Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference/U.S. Bank All-Sports Award, the conference office announced Friday. The Vikings collected 145 points--21 more than runner-up Minnesota State.
St. Cloud State was third with 100 points, and Minnesota Duluth and Winona State tied for fourth with 98 points.
Augustana won NSIC championships in men's and women's cross country, women's golf, wrestling, softball, women's outdoor track and field and women's tennis.
The Vikings fared well in other conference sports in which they did not win a title. The football squad captured a share of the NSIC South Division crown and finished tied for second overall. Both the men's and women's indoor track and field teams finished second. Men's basketball was third; men's outdoor track and field was fourth; women's basketball, soccer and baseball were fifth; volleyball was seventh; men's golf finished eighth.
It's the first all-sports title for Augustana since joining the NSIC in 2008.
Earlier this week, the Vikings checked in at No. 6 in the Learfield Sports Directors' Cup standings, a national all-sports ranking of schools in NCAA Division II.
The winner of each title in a conference-sponsored championship receives points totaling the number of teams in that sport plus one. The next-place finisher receives points totaling the number of teams less the number of places from first place. Ties in the standings at any level shall result in the totaling of points and the distribution of points equally. Indoor and outdoor track and field are computed at half the total points as listed in the aforementioned categories.
|
RK
|
School |
Points
|
Last Year |
|
1.
|
Augustana (17) |
145
|
2
|
|
2.
|
Minnesota State (17) |
124
|
1
|
|
3.
|
St. Cloud State (17) |
100
|
4
|
|
4.
|
Minnesota Duluth (14) |
98
|
5
|
|
Winona State (14) |
98
|
3
|
|
6.
|
Wayne State(14) |
91.5
|
7
|
|
7.
|
Concordia-St. Paul (15) |
84
|
6
|
|
8.
|
University of Mary (15) |
75
|
8
|
|
9.
|
MSU Moorhead (15) |
70
|
9
|
|
10.
|
Northern State (17) |
57
|
11
|
|
11.
|
SMSU (10) |
54
|
10
|
|
12.
|
Bemidji State (14) |
52.5
|
12
|
|
13.
|
Upper Iowa (12) |
46.5
|
13
|
|
14.
|
Minnesota, Crookston (10) |
21.5
|
14
|
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