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Next up for me in priority would be an indoor track facility. Always seemed weird that there wasn't one and seems like it would help for training and recruiting. T&F is 4 of the included sports. Btw, Stanford upset A&M in 2nd round of men's tennis so that is now an unexpected scoring sport for them. They get #6 TCU in next round. Let's go Frogs.

At least water polo (M/W), fencing (M/W), wrestling (M), gymnastics (M/W), lacrosse (W). volleyball (M), and soccer (M). Water polo is certainly a niche sports, as is men's volleyball (only 23 Div 1 programs).. Men's wrestling has a surprisingly large number of schools which compete. There are only 12 division 1 men's gymnastics programs. There are 70 men's D1 lacrosse programs but only 30 women's D1. Out of these sports, Stanford is projected to use the scores from M SOC (64), W Fencing (60 - might be excluded), M wrestling (73.5), gymnastics (100 & 71.25), and maybe W lacrosse (60). I've read that Ohio State has an even larger number of Div 1 sports, but they're not that competitive in DC.

Yep, they drop 10 from the #1 seeding position there, but UT also dropped 7 from the #2 seeding by missing the finals, so close to a wash in terms of projections. Big difference between UT's and Stanford's overall position is that UT doesn't have extra scoring sports to cover a big unexpected letdown. Stanford has solid scores which are currently outside the 20 sport cutoff (5 50+ scores) which would just slide into place in case of an unexpectedly poor performance in some sport. UT doesn't have that buffer, so all the spring sports really have to perform in order to grab the DC.

I have Stanford with a much higher projection (1314.5), so I'm wondering what's amiss. I have fall/winter subtotal at 917.5 as at thedirectorscup.com, then spring projections of 83 (W WP - final), 100 (BVB), 60 (one of W LAX or M Golf), 100 ( W Golf), 90 (Row), 64 (Softball), and then excluded scores for M/W tennis (50,50),one of W LAX or M Golf (60), and W T&F (50). Those scores further cause the fall/scores for M WP (55) and M Fencing (45) to be excluded, so that's 917.5-100+497=1314.5, so we're about 60 points apart. which is suspicious. btw, #1 UCLA got upset in the qf of men's VB, so they dropped 40 projected points there. I think.