FOREST, Va. – Guilford College Athletics finished ninth in the year-end Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) Commissioner's Cup for the 2025-26 athletic year, as announced by the conference offices on Tuesday morning.
Regular season standings in addition to championship finishes in individual and meet sports factor into the point system used to determine the standings with a boost awarded for team conference titles. The Commissioner's Cup is intended to reflect a school's overall standing within the league across all sports collectively.
"As determined by the ODAC Board of Directors, points for the ODAC Commissioner's Cups are based on regular-season standings in team sports and championship team finishes in individual/meet sports," the conference release explains. "Each institution has a total number of possible points it can collect based on its sport sponsorship. The total number of points earned is then divided by the total number of possible points to determine the rating for each institution."
In the women's standings, the Quakers finished eighth this year out of the 13 full-time women's institutions, matching 2023-24 and 2019-20 for their highest rank in the gender since 2011-12. The Quakers came away with a net rating of .369 with their top contributing team being women's basketball with 8.0 points after finishing fifth in the regular season standings. The breakout Guilford squad of 2025-26 was women's tennis as they nabbed 7.5 points and were followed by volleyball, who contributed 7.0 points, rounding out the top-three point-getters for GC on the women's side.
Guilford's men's teams took 11
th out of the 12 full-time schools with a net rating of .303. The ODAC Champion men's golf squad really buoyed the Quakers as they claimed the full-10.0 points in their sport, heading all GC teams in points contributed to the cup. Men's basketball followed up securing 5.0 points ahead of a handful of teams that contributed 3.0 tallies to the effort.
Cumulatively, Guilford recorded 72.5 points and a .336 net rating, ranking ninth of the 11 full-time ODAC schools.
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