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BYU's men's basketball still hasn't won a West Coast Conference regular season or tournament title, but the Cougars are dominating their new league in just about every other sport.

BYU won the 2015-16 WCC Commissioner's Cup for the fourth-straight year on Wednesday. The Cougars have been in the WCC five years.

This year's win was the largest in the Cup's history, 21 points over runner-up Saint Mary's. The Cougars had 109 points, the Gaels 88. Gonzaga placed third and San Diego was fourth.

Last year, BYU won by two points, the narrowest win in Cup history.

In 2013-14, BYU won by 12.5 points.

All-time, San Diego is the leader with five Cups. BYU is now in second place overall, despite only being eligible five times, with four Cups.

This year, the Cougars swept the Men's and Women's All-Sports Trophies, the third time they've done that.

BYU won outright championships in men's cross country, women's basketball, women's golf, women's soccer, softball and volleyball and shared conference titles in baseball and women's cross country.

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BYU is obviously a big fish in a small pond in the WCC. So how are the Cougars doing nationally?

A quick check of the 2015-16 Learfield Directors' Cup Division I Spring Standings, last updated on June 2, shows that BYU is in a solid 22nd place.

More than 10 Cougars are currently competing in the NCAA Track & Field Championships in Eugene, Ore., this week, so BYU will get a slight bump from that — but probably not big enough to push it into the top 20.

Failure to make the NCAA Baseball Tournament after a strong regular season, softball's poor showing in the NCAAs and the men's volleyball loss in the national championship match probably cost BYU a top-20 Directors' Cup finish.

At any rate, the expected top-25 finish is probably something BYU officials should make sure that Big 12 officials hear about.

With the football team losing to rival Utah in the Las Vegas Bowl and the men's basketball team failing to make the NCAA Tournament for just the third time in Dave Rose's 11-year tenure, it wasn't as good as it could have been for BYU athletics this past school year. But it was still quite impressive for a program without Power-5 conference resources.

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Another thing they are crowing about in Provo these days is BYU's basketball attendance.

The NCAA released the final attendance rankings for the recently completed 2015-16 season and BYU is ranked 14th in the nation and first in the West. The Cougars averaged 14,699 fans during their 18-game home schedule, with sellouts against Pepperdine and Gonzaga (18,987).

It is the seventh-straight season that BYU has been the West's leader in attendance.

BYU has ranked in the top-25 in the nation for attendance 41 times (in 45 seasons) since the Marriott Center opened for the 1971-72 season.