GENESEO, N.Y. – The SUNY Geneseo Department of Intercollegiate Athletics and Recreation captured the Empire 8 Commissioner's Cup title for the second-straight season, announced on Thursday y, May 21 by the conference. The Knights captured 11 league championships during the 2025-26 season with a 0.894 composite score, while St. John Fisher came in second with a composite score of 0.764.

The Knights earned 45.75 out of a possible 50 points from their spring sports teams, with E8 Championships in men's and women's outdoor track and field, a regular season crown in softball and runner-up honors in women's lacrosse. In the fall, Geneseo won the Empire 8 men's and women's cross country, field hockey and men's soccer championships and annexed men's and women's indoor track and field, men's and women's swimming and diving, and women's basketball titles during the winter season. Geneseo finished in the top half of the standings in 19 of the 20 sports they competed in during the year.

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.

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2025-26 Final Empire 8 Commissioner's Cup Standings
 

Institution	Actual	Possible	Percentage
SUNY Geneseo	168	188	0.89361702
St. John Fisher	162.75	213	0.76408451
SUNY Brockport	141.5	198	0.71464646
Nazareth	141	209	0.67464115
Utica	121.75	202	0.60272277
Houghton	78.5	168	0.4672619
Hartwick	88.25	190	0.46447368
Russell Sage	75	181	0.41436464
Alfred	78.25	196	0.39923469
Elmira	42.25	109	0.38761468
SUNY Poly	39.25	135	0.29074074
Keuka	33.5	138	0.24275362