The Holy Land of Hoops

All-sports standings by year


(Note: In each sport, 10 points are awarded for first, 9 for second, etc. Score is total points divided by number of sports offered.)

2016-17

Combined – 1, Marquette 7.73; 2, Villanova 7.00; 3, DePaul 6.59; 4, BUTLER 6.47; 5, Creighton 6.32; 6, Georgetown 6.30; 7, Providence 5.98; 8, St. John’s 5.96; 9, Xavier 5.41; 10, Seton Hall 5.07.

Men – 1, BUTLER 7.64; 2, Marquette 7.17; 3, Providence 7.10; 4, Villanova 6.71; 5, Creighton 6.50; 6, Georgetown 6.21; 7, Seton Hall 5.92; 8, Xavier 5.71; 9, DePaul 5.60; 10, St. John’s 4.12.

Women – 1, Marquette 8.40; 2, tie, DePaul and Villanova 7.29; 4, St. John’s 6.88; 5, Georgetown 6.38; 6, Creighton 6.17; 7, BUTLER 5.44; 8, Providence 5.18; 9, Xavier 5.11; 10, Seton Hall 4.36.

Sources: Big East and IndyStar.

http://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/butler/2017/08/20/scrappy-butler-climbing-big-east-sports-despite-small-budget/572502001/

Overall athletic budgets / basketball budgets also listed for 15/16.

Big East sports budgets

Total/School, men’s basketball budget

$39.5 million Villanova, $9.4 million

$37.7 million Georgetown, $11.3 million

$35.9 million St. John’s, $9.2 million

$32.4 million Marquette, $11.3 million

$30.7 million Providence, $7.9 million

$24.4 million DePaul, $5.6 million

$22.9 million Seton Hall, $6.3 million

$22.2 million Creighton, $7.3 million

$21.3 million Butler, $4.8 million

$17.8 million Xavier, $5.7 million

Source: U.S. Department of Education’s equity in athletics data analysis for 2015-16 school year.

As I communicated with the author, standings like this are interesting but useless at the same time because all sports are counted equally. When we did our Big East strength of athletic departments several years we used a multiplier for the "big" sports to more accurately reflect how each program was competing. Stated otherwise, men's basketball and track aren't the same and shouldn't each be worth 10 points.

Agree. If DePaul won multiple league titles in Olympic sports and was awarded some sort of all league trophy but finished last in both men's and women's basketball, soccer and so on I don't think I'd be boasting about having the best athletic department.

All I know is that Xavier is getting excellent results for monies spent. Great work X.

Someone tell us what the standings would be only counting men's hoops, men's soccer, baseball, women's hoops, and volleyball. With a few exceptions those get 99% of the resources.

xman wrote:Someone tell us what the standings would be only counting men's hoops, men's soccer, baseball, women's hoops, and volleyball. With a few exceptions those get 99% of the resources.

Volleyball?

EMT wrote:

xman wrote:Someone tell us what the standings would be only counting men's hoops, men's soccer, baseball, women's hoops, and volleyball. With a few exceptions those get 99% of the resources.

Volleyball?

Volleyball is getting pretty popular i think its on par with college soccer as far as coverage.

Jet915 wrote:

EMT wrote:

xman wrote:Someone tell us what the standings would be only counting men's hoops, men's soccer, baseball, women's hoops, and volleyball. With a few exceptions those get 99% of the resources.

Volleyball?

Volleyball is getting pretty popular i think its on par with college soccer as far as coverage.

We will have to agree to disagree here....

Yeah, volleyball will never be on par with soccer. I'd imagine its value is somewhere below track and field, overall.

Edrick wrote:Yeah, volleyball will never be on par with soccer. I'd imagine its value is somewhere below track and field, overall.

Im talking about collegiate soccer vs womens volleyball. If u look at the coverage ESPN gives both of them its about the same.