General | 5/30/2023 9:41:52 PM
St. John Fisher University used a tremendous spring semester to maintain its year-long lead and win the 2022-23 Empire 8 Commissioner’s Cup, announced by the league on May 31. The Cardinals finished with a 0.878 composite percentage to claim their fourth straight E8 Commissioner’s Cup title.
St. John Fisher and runner-up Nazareth College combined to win 16 league championships during the 2022-23 season, including five of the six winter titles and seven of the eight spring crowns. For the complete E8 Commissioner's Cup standings, please see below.
The Cardinals recorded 58.25 of a possible 64 points in the spring (.910 percentage total) to maintain its lead in the league standings on the strength of E8 baseball, softball, men’s golf and men’s and women’s lacrosse championships, while finishing as the runner-up in women’s outdoor track and field. Overall, St. John Fisher claimed nine Empire 8 Championship titles in 2022-23, earning men’s and women’s basketball titles during the winter season in addition to women’s volleyball and women’s cross country titles in the fall.
Nazareth enjoyed a strong 2022-23 season, recording seven Empire 8 Championship titles to finish with a composite percentage of 0.797. The Golden Flyers men’s and women’s outdoor track and field teams both won their first E8 titles in the spring to go along with runner-up finishes in men’s and women’s lacrosse. Nazareth claimed women’s swimming and diving and men’s and women’s indoor track and field championships during the winter season, in addition to team titles during the fall in men’s cross country and women’s soccer. The Golden Flyers led all Empire 8 institutions during the winter season by recording a 0.909 team percentage total (40 of a possible 44 team points).
Utica University finished third overall with a percentage total of 0.666 after a runner-up finish in men’s outdoor track and field and strong women’s outdoor track and baseball finishes in the spring. In addition, the Pioneers made their first NCAA appearance in football and made the NCAA Division III Men’s Basketball Tournament. Houghton University placed fourth overall in 2022-23 with a composite score of 0.568 on the strength of its second E8 men’s tennis title in the last three seasons. Alfred University rounded out the top five with a percentage total of 0.539, just ahead of Hartwick College, who placed sixth with a percentage total of 0.533. Hartwick won Empire 8 Field Hockey and Women’s Tennis titles in the fall.
Russell Sage College, Elmira College, Medaille University and Keuka College round out the final 2022-23 Empire 8 Commissioner’s Cup standings. Medaille won the 2022 Empire 8 Men’s Soccer Championship.
Commissioner’s Cup points are awarded based on each team's finish in the Empire 8 conference standings at the completion of the regular season and post-season. Points are awarded on a scale dependent upon the number of schools that sponsor the sport (affiliate members are not calculated into the point scale). A team's regular season finish will be added to its post-season finish and divided by two for the final total for that sport.
Teams tied for a position in the regular season standings are ranked based on tiebreaker scenarios. The actual number of points earned is then divided by the number of possible points for each school based on conference-sponsored sports to determine their overall percentage.
Final 2022-23 Empire 8 Commissioner’s Cup Standings
| Institution |
Actual |
Possible |
Percentage |
| St. John Fisher |
147.5 |
168 |
0.87797619 |
| Nazareth |
133 |
167 |
0.79640719 |
| Utica |
115.25 |
173 |
0.66618497 |
| Houghton |
77.25 |
136 |
0.56801471 |
| Alfred |
80.25 |
149 |
0.5385906 |
| Hartwick |
76.75 |
144 |
0.53298611 |
| Russell Sage |
64.75 |
158 |
0.40981013 |
| Elmira |
35.25 |
88 |
0.40056818 |
| Medaille |
51.5 |
146 |
0.35273973 |
| Keuka |
30.25 |
117 |
0.25854701 |
2022-23 Empire 8 Champions
Fall
Men’s Cross Country: Nazareth
Women’s Cross Country: St. John Fisher
Field Hockey: Hartwick
Football: SUNY Cortland (Utica top full-member E8 finisher)
Men’s Soccer: Medaille
Women’s Soccer: Nazareth
Women’s Volleyball: St. John Fisher
Women’s Tennis: Hartwick
Winter
Men’s Basketball: St. John Fisher
Women’s Basketball: St. John Fisher
Men’s Swimming and Diving: Alfred
Women’s Swimming and Diving: Nazareth
Men’s Indoor Track & Field: Nazareth
Women’s Indoor Track & Field: Nazareth
Spring
Baseball: St. John Fisher
Men’s Golf: St. John Fisher
Men’s Lacrosse: St. John Fisher
Women’s Lacrosse: St. John Fisher
Softball: St. John Fisher
Men’s Tennis: Houghton
Men’s Outdoor Track & Field: Nazareth
Women’s Outdoor Track & Field: Nazareth
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