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Tiger fans voted recently for their most memorable moment
or achievement in Mizzou athletics for the 2002-03 season.
More than 2,000 votes were cast, and the winning moment
went to redshirt freshman quarterback Brad Smith, who
became just the second player in NCAA Division I-A history
to throw for 2,000 yards and rush for 1,000 yards in a
season.
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Tigers
Celebrate Best Year Ever
By virtually all accounts, the 2002-03 season
has been a banner year for University of Missouri Athletics.
The Tigers have measured up in yet one more way, as Mizzou has
finished 37th overall, with a record 483.5 points, in the final
NACDA Directors’ Cup Standings, as released today by National
Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA).
The Directors’ Cup is a comprehensive
scoring system that ranks the competitive success each year
from all Division I institutions, based on each school’s
national finish in up to 20 sports: 10 women’s and 10
men’s.
The finish marks the best-ever in Mizzou
history in the standings, which date back to the 1993-94 academic
year. Mizzou’s previous best finish in the standings was
a 49th-place showing in 2000-01. This year’s point total
of 483.5 smashed the previous record of 365.5 set in 2000-01.
Mizzou improved from 53rd place and 344.5 points in 2001-02.
Since Director of Athletics Mike Alden took
over prior to the 1998-99 season, Mizzou has posted an average
yearly finish of 52nd place in the annual standings, a vast
improvement from the average yearly finish of 98th from 1993-94
through 1997-98, when MU finished 50th, 105th, 133rd, 119th
and 85th respectively. Under Alden, MU has finished 70th, 52nd,
49th, 53rd, and 37th, respectively, from 1998-99 to 2002-03.
“We’re very pleased with our
finish in the standings,” Alden said. “I think it
is an indication of the positive direction that our program
is heading. We’re doing everything we can to have one
of the nation’s top broad-based programs, one of which
everyone who is associated with Mizzou can be proud,”
he said.
The final NACDA standings cap off a season
of unprecedented broad-based success for Mizzou Athletics. A
few brag points include:
- Highest-ever finish in the NACDA standings
— 37th
- Highest-ever finish in the Big 12 all-sport
standings — 3rd
- Won the inaugural MU-KU Border War Series
— 32.0 to 8.5
- A record 17 of 20 sports had NCAA post-season
representation
- Led the Big 12 Conference in graduation
rates for the second time in three years
- Student-athletes set records for cumulative
grade point average and number of students on the Dean’s
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