Reconstruction · 1990 NCAA Championships

1990 team scores

The team standings fans should quote are the NCAA’s published ones. This page shows the working behind them: every program’s points recomputed from the recorded matches, and how close that comes to the published total.

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Reconstructed points against the published standings

Points are recomputed from the 1990 recorded matches under the 1988 rules: advancement (including byes), bonus, guaranteed-place increments, and any curated adjustments. 97 of 99 programs match the published total exactly; 2 differ; 35 are not listed in the published standings.

Wrestlers from College Division, later Division II and III, programs competed at these championships but their points did not count toward the team title, so the NCAA’s published standings do not list those programs.

1990 reconstructed team scores with published place, points and difference
Rank	Program	Reconstructed	Advancement	Bonus	Placement	Published place	Published points	Difference
1	Oklahoma State	118.75	37.5	13.25	68	1	117.75	+1
2	Arizona State	104.75	33.5	7.25	64	2	104.75	0
3	Iowa	102.75	30	11.75	61	3	102.75	0
4	Northwestern (IL)	66.75	20	4.75	42	4	66.75	0
5	Nebraska	64.25	25.5	6.75	32	5	64.25	0
6	Penn State	57.5	27	5.5	25	6	57.5	0
7	Oklahoma	48.25	16.5	1.75	30	7	48.25	0
8	Indiana (IN)	45.5	22	4.5	19	8	45.5	0
9	Iowa State	43.5	18	0.5	25	9	43.5	0
10	Minnesota	42.25	15.5	2.75	24	10	42.25	0
11	Northern Iowa	40.5	16.5	3	21	11	40.5	0
12	California-Bakersfield	30.5	18.5	4	8	12	30.5	0
13	Navy (MD)	29	12	0	17	13	29	0
14	Ohio State	27	12.5	3.5	11	14	27	0
15	Clarion (PA)	26.25	8.5	1.75	16	15	26.25	0
16	North Carolina	23.5	13.5	3	7	16	23.5	0
17	Lehigh (PA)	21.5	5	0.5	16	17	21.5	0
18	West Virginia	17.5	11.5	1	5	18	17.5	0
19	Illinois	15	4.5	1.5	9	19	15	0
19	Portland State (OR)	15	7	1	7	not listed	not listed	not listed
21	Cornell (NY)	14	6	1	7	20	14	0
22	Bloomsburg (PA)	13	11	2	0	T21	13	0
22	Stanford (CA)	13	3.5	2.5	7	T21	13	0
22	Wisconsin	13	8.5	2.5	2	T21	13	0
25	California-Fullerton	12.5	4.5	1	7	24	12.5	0
26	New Mexico	11.75	7	1.75	3	25	11.75	0
27	William & Mary (VA)	11.5	7	1.5	3	26	11.5	0
27	Missouri	11.5	9	0.5	2	27	11	+0.5
29	Syracuse (NY)	9.5	7	0.5	2	28	9.5	0
30	Clemson (SC)	9	9	0	0	29	9	0
31	Morgan State (MD)	8.5	4	1.5	3	T30	8.5	0
31	Oregon	8.5	4.5	3	1	T30	8.5	0
33	Michigan	8	7.5	0.5	0	T32	8	0
33	Notre Dame (IN)	8	8	0	0	T32	8	0
33	Purdue (IN)	8	6	1	1	T32	8	0
36	George Mason (VA)	7.5	5.5	0	2	T35	7.5	0
36	North Carolina State	7.5	5	2.5	0	T35	7.5	0
36	Wyoming	7.5	6.5	1	0	T35	7.5	0
39	Eastern Illinois	7	5	2	0	T38	7	0
39	Kent State (OH)	7	5.5	1.5	0	T38	7	0
39	Miami (OH)	7	3.5	1.5	2	T38	7	0
42	Lock Haven (PA)	6	6	0	0	41	6	0
43	Michigan State	5.5	4.5	1	0	42	5.5	0
43	Nebraska Omaha	5.5	3.5	1	1	not listed	not listed	not listed
45	Edinboro (PA)	5	4	1	0	43	5	0
46	Pittsburgh (PA)	4.5	3	1.5	0	44	4.5	0
47	Brigham Young (UT)	4	3.5	0.5	0	T45	4	0
47	Bucknell (PA)	4	3.5	0.5	0	T45	4	0
49	Maryland	3.5	3	0.5	0	T47	3.5	0
49	Toledo (OH)	3.5	3.5	0	0	T47	3.5	0
49	Central Missouri	3.5	3	0.5	0	not listed	not listed	not listed
52	Boston (MA)	3	3	0	0	T49	3	0
52	California-Poly	3	3	0	0	T49	3	0
52	Fresno State (CA)	3	3	0	0	T49	3	0
52	Old Dominion (VA)	3	2	1	0	T49	3	0
52	Rider (NJ)	3	3	0	0	T49	3	0
52	Slippery Rock (PA)	3	2.5	0.5	0	T49	3	0
58	Duke (NC)	2.5	2.5	0	0	T55	2.5	0
58	Northern Illinois	2.5	2	0.5	0	T55	2.5	0
58	North Dakota State	2.5	2	0.5	0	not listed	not listed	not listed
61	Air Force (CO)	2	2	0	0	T57	2	0
61	Appalachian State (NC)	2	2	0	0	T57	2	0
61	Tennessee-Chattanooga	2	2	0	0	T57	2	0
61	Virginia Military	2	2	0	0	T57	2	0
61	Ithaca (NY)	2	2	0	0	not listed	not listed	not listed
61	Virginia State	2	1	1	0	not listed	not listed	not listed
67	Central Connecticut	1.5	0.5	1	0	61	1.5	0
68	Boise State (ID)	1	1	0	0	62	1	0
68	South Dakota State	1	1	0	0	not listed	not listed	not listed
70	American (DC)	0.5	0.5	0	0	T63	0.5	0
70	Virginia	0.5	0.5	0	0	T63	0.5	0
70	Cornell College (IA)	0.5	0.5	0	0	not listed	not listed	not listed
73	Army (NY)	0	0	0	0	not listed	not listed	not listed
73	Augsburg (MN)	0	0	0	0	not listed	not listed	not listed
73	Boston College (MA)	0	0	0	0	not listed	not listed	not listed
73	Brown (RI)	0	0	0	0	not listed	not listed	not listed
73	Central Michigan	0	0	0	0	not listed	not listed	not listed
73	Citadel (SC)	0	0	0	0	not listed	not listed	not listed
73	Cleveland State (OH)	0	0	0	0	not listed	not listed	not listed
73	Columbia (NY)	0	0	0	0	not listed	not listed	not listed
73	Drake (IA)	0	0	0	0	not listed	not listed	not listed
73	Drexel (PA)	0	0	0	0	not listed	not listed	not listed
73	East Stroudsburg (PA)	0	0	0	0	not listed	not listed	not listed
73	Eastern Michigan	0	0	0	0	not listed	not listed	not listed
73	Franklin & Marshall (PA)	0	0	0	0	not listed	not listed	not listed
73	Grand Valley State (MI)	0	0	0	0	not listed	not listed	not listed
73	Hofstra (NY)	0	0	0	0	not listed	not listed	not listed
73	Liberty (VA)	0	0	0	0	not listed	not listed	not listed
73	Lycoming (PA)	0	0	0	0	not listed	not listed	not listed
73	Marquette (WI)	0	0	0	0	not listed	not listed	not listed
73	Millersville (PA)	0	0	0	0	not listed	not listed	not listed
73	New Hampshire	0	0	0	0	not listed	not listed	not listed
73	North Dakota	0	0	0	0	not listed	not listed	not listed
73	Ohio	0	0	0	0	not listed	not listed	not listed
73	Oregon State	0	0	0	0	not listed	not listed	not listed
73	Southwest Missouri	0	0	0	0	not listed	not listed	not listed
73	St. Cloud State (MN)	0	0	0	0	not listed	not listed	not listed
73	Wilkes (PA)	0	0	0	0	not listed	not listed	not listed
73	Wisconsin-Parkside	0	0	0	0	not listed	not listed	not listed

Difference is the reconstruction minus the published total. Rank is the program’s position among reconstructed totals, which can differ from its published place.

Published standings: NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships Records Book, All-Time Team Results, 1990. Programs the book lists without an archive entry that year are not shown.