ROCHESTER, NY – Following the fall portion of the athletics season, Nazareth currently sits in second place for the Empire 8 Fall Commissioner's Cup standings, collecting 50 of a possible 66 points for a .758 percentage overall. St. John Fisher University is atop the standings with a .854 percentage after tabulating 59.75 of a possible 70 points. Utica University currently is in third place (.686), followed by Houghton (.659), and Hartwick (.636).
 
Commissioner's Cup points are awarded based on each team's finish in the Empire 8 conference standings at the completion of the regular season and post-season. Points are awarded on a scale dependent upon the number of schools that sponsor the sport (affiliate members are not calculated into the point scale). A team's regular season finish will be added to its post-season finish and divided by two for the final total for that sport.

Teams tied for a position in the regular season standings are ranked based on tiebreaker scenarios. The actual number of points earned is then divided by the amount of possible points for each school based on conference-sponsored sports to determine their overall percentage.
 
Nazareth was aided by the women's soccer team winning its second-straight conference title, while the men's cross country squad collected its third-straight Empire 8 Conference Championship in the fall. The Golden Flyers also had runner-up finishes for the women's cross country and women's tennis teams.
 
The full standings are listed below.
 

Institution	Actual	Possible	Percentage
St. John Fisher	59.75	70	0.85357143
Nazareth	50	66	0.75757576
Utica	48	70	0.68571429
Houghton	43.5	66	0.65909091
Hartwick	44.5	70	0.63571429
Alfred	27.5	60	0.45833333
Russell Sage	26	66	0.39393939
Medaille	25.25	66	0.38257576
Keuka	18.25	58	0.31465517
Elmira	8	40	0.2