Zeroes add up as costly in Director's Cup tally

[jbcarol]

Florida was the top SEC school in the final standings, finishing second behind Stanford with 1,314 points. The other conference schools finishing ahead of Tennessee were LSU (13th, 967.75 points), Georgia (18th, 833.25), Arkansas (20th, 811), Alabama (23rd, 750.50), Auburn (28th, 648) and Kentucky (29th, 643).

With the scoring system based on final rankings or qualifying and performing in NCAA tournaments, the Vols suffered for football, men's basketball and baseball, which failed to score a point.

Of the 20 teams that counted toward UT's final total, the Vols didn't get a point in eight of them. Six of the eight were men's teams.

In football, Tennessee finished 5-7 and didn't qualify for a bowl. With both the men's and women's cross country teams also getting shut out, UT was in 80th place after the fall season with just 75 points.