On the strength of five team titles by Florida, the Gators on Monday won the overall title along with the men’s and women’s titles in the 2016-17 GateHouse Media Southeastern Conference All-Sports titles.
The final figures came after baseball finished play on Saturday, the final sport to award a champion in this academic year. Florida and LSU shared the 2017 SEC baseball title, which was Florida’s fifth SEC championship in 2016-17, which tied Arkansas for the season’s high for team titles.
The formula is determined by the total points for a school’s finish in each SEC sport it competes in divided by the total number of teams competing in sports a school fields.
It is the 16th time the Gator program has taken each of the three titles: overall, men and women. UF is the only school to collect the three titles in a single season.
The overall SEC All-Sports title is the 27th for Florida, while the Gator program also earned its 23rd women’s and 20th men’s titles.
2016-17 GateHouse Media Southeastern Conference Overall All-Sports Standings
Place School Quotient
1. Florida 0.8101
2. Texas A&M 0.67892
3. Kentucky 0.60577
4. Georgia 0.58491
5. Arkansas 0.55556
6. Alabama 0.55048
7. South Carolina 0.53431
8. LSU 0.51923
9. Auburn 0.50472
10. Tennessee 0.45
11. Vanderbilt 0.44817
12. Mississippi 0.43258
13. Missouri 0.43077
14. Mississippi State 0.40449
A former newspaper veteran, Keith Farner is a news manager for Saturday Down South.
