INDIANAPOLIS – The University of Missouri-St. Louis finished sixth in the Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) Commissioner's Cup standings for the 2023-24 season.
Points are allocated for the Commissioner's Cup based on the athletic department's finish in the GLVC's postseason tournaments and league standings in men's soccer and women's soccer, volleyball, men's basketball and women's basketball, softball, women's cross country, women's indoor and outdoor track and field and baseball. All 14 Conference members sponsor these sports at the intercollegiate level.
The Tritons totaled 70.5 points, finishing a half point behind McKendree for fourth and were 8.5 points behind Drury for third.
UMSL made the GLVC Championship Tournament in nine of the 10 core sports this year, highlighted by a second-place finish in volleyball.
Instituted prior to the 2002-03 season, the Commissioner's Cup has had six different institutions stake claim to the award. Former league member Bellarmine became the sixth school in 2018-19 with its first win in its final year of league membership, while former member Southern Indiana earned its second Cup in 2017-18 and first in 2003-04. Rockhurst picked up its first honor in 2016-17. UIndy scored its second Cup in 2015-16 after the first came in 2013-14, which was bookended by other first-time winners Drury (2014-15) and Lewis (2012-13). Drury also won last year's Cup. Following the 2011-12 season, former GLVC member Northern Kentucky took home its fifth-straight and eighth overall Cup over a 10-year span, while SIU Edwardsville – another former member – earned the Commissioner's Cup in 2007. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic that suspended spring sport competition in 2020, the 2019-20 Cup was not awarded.
The standings for the 2023-24 GLVC Commissioner's Cup are as follows:
| 1. |
Lewis |
113 |
| 2. |
Indianapolis |
91.5 |
| 3. |
Maryville |
83.5 |
| 4. |
Drury |
79 |
| 5. |
McKendree |
71 |
| 6. |
Missouri-St. Louis |
70.5 |
| 7. |
Missouri S&T |
68.5 |
| 8. |
Illinois Springfield |
68.25 |
| 9. |
Rockhurst |
61 |
| 10. |
Truman State |
53.5 |
| 11. |
Upper Iowa |
47.25 |
| 12. |
Southwest Baptist |
46.5 |
| 13. |
Quincy |
46 |
| 14. |
William Jewell |
43.5 |
