Cortland Tops Patrick R. Damore Commissioner's Cup Standings After SUNYAC Fall Championships
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - After the completion of the 2025 SUNYAC fall championships, Cortland leads the Dr. Patrick R. Damore Commissioner's Cup standings with an average of 9.39 points. New Paltz is second and Buffalo State is third.
Cortland finished the regular season ranked No. 1 in men's soccer, women's soccer and women's volleyball while field hockey and women's tennis were ranked No. 3. The Red Dragons won four of the seven fall championships taking the crown in men's cross country, women's cross country, women's soccer and women's volleyball. Women's tennis, men's soccer and field hockey gathered additonal points for advancing to the semifinals.
New Paltz entered 2025 postseason play as the top seed in women's tennis, the second seed in field hockey, the third seed in women's volleyball, the fourth seed in men's soccer and the fifth seed in women's soccer. The women's tennis team won its fourth straight SUNYAC title while the men's cross country squad finished third at the SUNYAC championship meet. New Paltz earned additional commissioner cup points from the women's volleyball team advancing to the conference semifinals.
Buffalo State's men's soccer team clinched the No. 2 seed after regular season conference play while the women's soccer team was fourth and the volleyball team was fifth. The men's cross country team contributed points for the Bengals with a fourth place finish at the SUNYAC championship and the women's volleyball team added points for advancing to the semifinals.
The Commissioner's Cup point system is determined by the 22 different conference sports in the fall, winter and spring. A 10-point system is used in each sport. The first-place team gets 10 points, the second-place team gets 9 points and so on. A team's regular-season finish will be added to their post-season finish and divided by two for their final total for that sport. The total number of points that a school accumulates is divided by the number of conference sports it has. This school total determines the overall winner at the end of the school year.
View the complete Dr. Patrick R. Damore Commissioner's Cup list and history here
2025 SUNYAC Commissioner's Cup Fall Standings
| Rank | School | Points Avg |
| 1 | Cortland | 9.39 |
| 2 | New Paltz | 7.25 |
| 3 | Buffalo State | 6.40 |
| 4 | Oneonta | 6.18 |
| 5 | Owego | 5.93 |
| 6 | Fredonia | 5.92 |
| 7 | Plattsburgh | 5.75 |
| 8 | Morrisville | 4.00 |
| 9 | Potsdam | 1.30 |
| 10 | Canton | 1.10 |
