LOCK HAVEN, Pa. – With some help from a women's basketball conference title, IUP has moved up to second place in the race for the 2016-17 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference's Dixon Trophy after the completion of the winter season. The PSAC released the updated standings on Tuesday morning.
 
IUP has an average of 12.42 points in its 13 fall and winter sports, just 0.40 points behind overall leader Shippensburg (12.82). West Chester (12.27) sits in third place, with Bloomsburg (11.88) in fourth and California (11.27) in fifth.
 
Edinboro (11.00), which led after the fall season, dropped six spots to seventh.

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RELATED | Current 2016-17 Dixon Trophy Standings 

The three IUP women's winter sports averaged 13.33 points, with women's basketball posting 18 points with its PSAC championship in March. Women's swimming scored 13 points for finishing fourth at the conference championship meet, and women's track & field added nine points with their ninth place finish at the indoor championships.
 
The same three IUP men's sports averaged 12.33 points, with basketball scoring 16 with its PSAC semifinal finish. Men's swimming (fourth of seven) brought it 12 points and track & field scored nine (fifth of 12).
 
Overall, IUP has the highest men's averaged of the 18 PSAC schools at 13.25. IUP women's sports have averaged 11.71 points so far, fifth most in the conference.
 
PSAC's Dixon Trophy
In its 22nd year of existence, the award is named in honor of F. Eugene Dixon, Jr., former chairman of Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education's Board of Governors. The Dixon Trophy is awarded annually to the top performing school in the conference, with scores given for each PSAC championship sport that a school sponsors. Point values are earned in descending order, with 18 going to the conference champion in each sport, and the average of all scores determines the champion.

RELATED | All-time Dixon Trophy Standings
 
Up next
The 2016-17 Dixon Trophy champion will be announced in May at the PSAC year-end meeting in Harrisburg.
 
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