Bentley achieves 3d-highest-ever ranking in Learfield Cup, best in 15 years

Bentley University’s athletic department has achieved its third-highest-ever ranking in the Learfield Division II Directors’ Cup. 

With the final standings for the 2024-25 academic year now released, Bentley earned 346 points to finish 56th in the standings out of 259 total Division II programs. 

In addition to it being the department’s third-highest ever finish, it’s the Falcons’ best finish since the 2010-11 season. It was the second-highest ranking in the Northeast-10 this year.

Volleyball led all Bentley teams with 83 points after it won the East Region championship and advanced to the Final Four. Women’s basketball was next with 73 points with an NE10 championship and an Elite Eight appearance.

Softball, hockey, women’s soccer, men’s and women’s cross-country and men’s lacrosse, all of which made NCAA appearances, added to Bentley’s points tally.

Volleyball team celebrating the east region championship. Photos courtesy of Bentley University.

The Learfield Directors’ Cup honors institutions that maintain a broad-based program and achieve success in many sports, both men’s and women’s. The program began in 1993-94 for Division I schools and was expanded in 1995-96 to include Divisions II and III and the NAIA; in 2011-12 it expanded to the junior and community colleges.