Carthage College was tied for 79th place in the 2014-15 Learfield Sports Directors' Cup NCAA Division III standings thru the fall championship season. Carthage was led by its it's women's volleyball team with an appearance in the regional finals of the NCAA Division III Women's Volleyball Championship.  Carthage's best finish in the Learfield Sports Directors Cup was a 28th-place showing in 2009-10.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technologyleads the current NCAA Division III directors' cup standings, followed by Williams College second,  Christopher Newport University third, John Hopkins University fourth, Tufts University fifth, Calvin College sixth, Amherst College and Washington University (Mo.) tied for seventh place, with Emory University and the University of Mount Union tied for ninth place.  Carthage is the fourth-ranked College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin school.  Wheaton College (Ill.) was ranked 12th, North Central College 29th, Illinois Wesleyan University 59th, Carthage 79th, Elmhurst College tied for 94th place, and both Millikin University and North Park University tied for 135th place.
 
The Directors' Cup is a program that honors institutions that maintain a broad-based program both in men's and women's sports.  The Directors' Cup began in 1993-94 for NCAA Division I by the National Association of College Directors of Athletics (NACDA) and USA Today. It was expanded in 1995-96 to include NCAA Division II, Division III and NAIA institutions.

Each institution is awarded points in a pre-determined number of sports for men and women. The overall champion is the institution that records the highest number of points in their division's Directors' Cup standings. Williams had won the last 12 Division III titles before Middlebury snapped that string this year. The scoring formula uses a formula of team and individual scoring with selected sports only counting as 50 percent.