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NCAA Preseason XC Regional Rankings for Division I from USTFCCCA

NCAA Preseason XC Regional Rankings for Division I from USTFCCCA

Aug 27, 2012 by FloTrack Staff
NCAA Preseason XC Regional Rankings for Division I from USTFCCCA

Division 1 Preseason XC Regional Rankings


NEW ORLEANS – The 2012 collegiate cross country season begins this weekend and the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) celebrates the occasion with preseason regional rankings for NCAA’s Division I.

National Preseason Poll Released Tomorrow Morning
(Could be later this evening instead once confirmed. National office trying to get ahead of TS Isaac).

 

The No. 1 men’s teams by region to start the season are Wisconsin (Great Lakes), Georgetown (Mid-Atlantic), Oklahoma State (Midwest), BYU (Mountain), Iona (Northeast), Florida State (South), Texas (South Central), NC State (Southeast), Portland (West). Top women’s teams in the preseason are Michigan (Great Lakes), Georgetown (Mid-Atlantic), Iowa State (Midwest), Weber State (Mountain), Syracuse (Northeast), Florida State (South), Arkansas (South Central), Virginia (Southeast), Oregon (West).

 

NCAA Division I Regional Championships will be held on Friday, November 9. NCAA DI Regional Championships Central.

USTFCCCA Regional Cross Country Rankings are determined subjectively by a single member coach in each respective region.

 

The regional representative is tasked with weighing returning team strength with current-season results in determining predicted team finishes at the NCAA Regional Championships.

 

 

USTFCCCA

NCAA Division I

Men's Cross Country Regional Team Rankings

2012 Preseason -- August 27

national poll release: August 28

next regional release: September 10

         

GREAT LAKES Region

Rank

School

Location

Conference

2011 Finish

1

Wisconsin

Madison, Wis.

Big Ten

1

2

Indiana

Bloomington, Ind.

Big Ten

2

3

Michigan

Ann Arbor, Mich.

Big Ten

3

4

Notre Dame

South Bend, Ind.

Big East

4

5

Michigan State

East Lansing, Mich.

Big Ten

9

6

Ohio State

Columbus, Ohio

Big Ten

5

7

Butler

Indianapolis, Ind.

Atlantic 10

6

8

Marquette

Milwaukee, Wis.

Big East

8

9

Central Michigan

Mount Pleasant, Mich.

Mid-American

7

10

Eastern Michigan

Ypsilanti, Mich.

Mid-American

16

11

Cincinnati

Cincinnati, Ohio

Big East

11

12

Indiana State

Terre Haute, Ind.

Missouri Valley

12

13

Purdue

West Lafayette, Ind.

Big Ten

10

14

Akron

Akron, Ohio

Mid-American

13

15

Kent State

Kent, Ohio

Mid-American

14

         
         

MID-ATLANTIC Region

Rank

School

Location

Conference

2011 Finish

1

Georgetown

Washington, D.C.

Big East

1

2

Villanova

Villanova, Pa.

Big East

2

3

Princeton

Princeton, N.J.

Ivy

3

4

Penn State

State College, Pa.

Big Ten

4

5

Navy

Annapolis, Md.

Patriot

5

6

La Salle

Philadelphia, Pa.

Atlantic 10

6

7

Saint Joseph's

Philadelphia, Pa.

Atlantic 10

7

8

Duquesne

Pittsburgh, Pa.

Atlantic 10

8

9

Maryland

College Park, Md.

ACC

9

10

Bucknell

Lewisburg, Pa.

Patriot

10

11

Lehigh

Bethlehem, Pa.

Patriot

11

12

Rider

Lawrenceville, N.J.

Metro Atlantic

12

13

Penn

Philadelphia, Pa.

Ivy

13

14

Marshall

Huntington, W. Va.

Conference USA

14

15

NJIT

Newark, N.J.

Great West

15

         
         

MIDWEST Region

Rank

School

Location

Conference

2011 Finish

1

Oklahoma State

Stillwater, Okla.

Big 12

1

2

Oklahoma

Norman, Okla.

Big 12

2

3

Tulsa

Tulsa, Okla.

Conference USA

3

4

Minnesota

Minneapolis, Minn.

Big Ten

4

5

Iowa State

Ames, Iowa

Big 12

6

6

Missouri

Columbia, Mo.

SEC

7

7

Kansas

Lawrence, Kan.

Big 12

8

8

Illinois

Champaign, Ill.

Big Ten

5

9

Iowa

Iowa City, Iowa

Big Ten

9

10

Southern Illinois

Carbondale, Ill.

Missouri Valley

10

11

Drake

Des Moines, Iowa

Missouri Valley

12

12

UMKC

Kansas City, Mo.

Summit League

13

13

Wichita State

Wichita, Kan.

Missouri Valley

18

14

North Dakota State

Fargo, N.D.

Summit League

15

15

South Dakota State

Brookings, S.D.

Summit League

17

         
         

MOUNTAIN Region

Rank

School

Location

Conference

2011 Finish

1

BYU

Provo, Utah

West Coast

1

2

New Mexico

Albuquerque, N.M.

Mountain West

4

3

Colorado

Boulder, Colo.

Pac-12

2

4

Northern Arizona

Flagstaff, Ariz.

Big Sky

3

5

Weber State

Ogden, Utah

Big Sky

6

6

Southern Utah

Cedar City, Utah

Big Sky

5

7

Air Force

Colorado Springs, Colo.

Mountain West

8

8

Utah State

Logan, Utah

WAC

7

9

Colorado State

Fort Collins, Colo.

Mountain West

10

10

Wyoming

Laramie, Wyo.

Mountain West

9

11

UTEP

El Paso,Texas

Conference USA

11

12

New Mexico State

Las Cruces, N.M.

WAC

12

13

Montana State

Bozeman, Mont.

Big Sky

13

14

Utah Valley

Orem, Utah

Great West

14

15

Idaho State

Pocatello, Idaho

Big Sky

15

         
         

NORTHEAST Region

Rank

School

Location

Conference

2011 Finish

1

Iona

New Rochelle, N.Y.

Metro Atlantic

2

2

Syracuse

Syracuse, N.Y.

Big East

1

3

Columbia

New York, N.Y.

Ivy

3

4

Providence

Providence, R.I.

Big East

4

5

Dartmouth

Hanover, N.H.

Ivy

6

6

Cornell

Ithaca, N.Y.

Ivy

8

7

Brown

Providence, R.I.

Ivy

5

8

Boston University

Boston, Mass.

America East

9

9

Harvard

Cambridge, Mass.

Ivy

15

10

Boston College

Chestnut Hill, Mass.

ACC

14

11

Buffalo

Buffalo, N.Y.

Mid-American

7

12

Connecticut

Storrs, Conn.

Big East

10

13

Fordham

Bronx, N.Y.

Atlantic 10

13

14

Central Connecticut State

New Britain, Conn.

Northeast

17

15

Army

West Point, N.Y.

Patriot

16

         
         

SOUTH Region

Rank

School

Location

Conference

2011 Finish

1

Florida State

Tallahassee, Fla.

ACC

1

2

Georgia

Athens, Ga.

SEC

3

3

Florida

Gainesville, Fla.

SEC

2

4

Middle Tennessee

Murfreesboro, Tenn.

Sun Belt

5

5

Auburn

Auburn, Ala.

SEC

4

6

Belmont

Nashville, Tenn.

Ohio Valley

10

7

Mississippi State

Starkville, Miss.

SEC

11

8

Georgia Tech

Atlanta, Ga.

ACC

6

9

Kennesaw State

Kennesaw, Ga.

Atlantic Sun

7

10

Mississippi

Oxford, Miss.

SEC

7

11

Chattanooga

Chattanooga, Tenn.

Southern

9

12

Lipscomb

Nashville, Tenn.

Atlantic Sun

13

13

Memphis

Memphis, Tenn.

Conference USA

14

14

Tennessee

Knoxville, Tenn.

SEC

12

15

Mercer

Macon, Ga.

Atlantic Sun

16

         
         

SOUTH CENTRAL Region

Rank

School

Location

Conference

2011 Finish

1

Texas

Austin, Texas

Big 12

1

2

Texas A&M

College Station, Texas

SEC

2

3

Arkansas

Fayetteville, Ark.

SEC

3

4

Lamar

Beaumont, Texas

Southland

4

5

Rice

Houston, Texas

Conference USA

6

6

Texas A&M-Corpus Christi

Corpus Christi, Texas

Southland

9

7

McNeese State

Lake Charles, La.

Southland

14

8

UTSA

San Antonio, Texas

WAC

5

9

Stephen F. Austin

Nacogdoches, Texas

Southland

8

10

Houston

Houston, Texas

Conference USA

7

11

Ark.-Little Rock

Little Rock, Ark.

Sun Belt

9

12

UTPA

Edinburg, Texas

Great West

11

13

Baylor

Waco, Texas

Big 12

12

14

LSU

Baton Rouge, La.

SEC

13

15

Houston Baptist

Houston, Texas

Great West

15

         
         

SOUTHEAST Region

Rank

School

Location

Conference

2011 Finish

1

NC State

Raleigh, N.C.

ACC

1

2

Eastern Kentucky

Richmond, Ky.

Ohio Valley

2

3

William and Mary

Williamsburg, Va.

Colonial

3

4

Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, Va.

ACC

4

5

North Carolina

Chapel Hill, N.C.

ACC

5

6

Louisville

Louisville, Ky.

Big East

6

7

Duke

Durham, N.C.

ACC

7

8

Virginia

Charlottesville, Va.

ACC

9

9

UNCG

Greensboro, N.C.

Southern

8

10

Western Kentucky

Bowling Green, Ky.

Sun Belt

10

11

Davidson

Davidson, N.C.

Southern

14

12

High Point

High Point, N.C.

Big South

15

13

George Mason

Fairfax, Va.

Colonial

12

14

Clemson

Clemson, S.C.

ACC

16

15

Kentucky

Lexington, Ky.

SEC

16

         
         

WEST Region

Rank

School

Location

Conference

2011 Finish

1

Portland

Portland, Ore.

West Coast

2

2

Stanford

Palo Alto, Calif.

Pac-12

1

3

UCLA

Los Angeles, Calif.

Pac-12

6

4

Oregon

Eugene, Ore.

Pac-12

6

5

California

Berkeley, Calif.

Pac-12

5

6

Washington State

Pullman, Wash.

Pac-12

4

7

Arizona State

Tempe, Ariz.

Pac-12

8

8

Arizona

Tucson, Ariz.

Pac-12

NR

9

Cal Poly

San Luis Obispo, Calif.

Big West

3

10

Washington

Seattle, Wash.

Pac-12

11

11

Boise State

Boise, Idaho

Mountain West

14

12

Sacramento State

Sacramento, Calif.

Big Sky

20

13

UC Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, Calif.

Big West

10

14

Long Beach State

Long Beach, Calif.

Big West

9

15

Idaho

Moscow, Idaho

WAC

12

 

USTFCCCA

NCAA Division I

Women's Cross Country Regional Team Rankings

2012 Preseason -- August 27

national poll release: August 28

next regional release: September 10

         

GREAT LAKES Region

Rank

School

Location

Conference

2011 Finish

1

Michigan

Ann Arbor, Mich.

Big Ten

1

2

Michigan State

East Lansing, Mich.

Big Ten

2

3

Toledo

Toledo, Ohio

Mid-American

3

4

Notre Dame

South Bend, Ind.

Big East

5

5

Wisconsin

Madison, Wis.

Big Ten

4

6

Indiana

Bloomington, Ind.

Big Ten

7

7

Butler

Indianapolis, Ind.

Atlantic 10

10

8

Ohio State

Columbus, Ohio

Big Ten

6

9

Ohio

Athens, Ohio

Mid-American

12

10

Central Michigan

Mount Pleasant, Mich.

Mid-American

8

11

Xavier

Cincinnati, Ohio

Atlantic 10

16

12

Indiana State

Terre Haute, Ind.

Missouri Valley

15

13

Eastern Michigan

Ypsilanti, Mich.

Mid-American

13

14

Miami (Ohio)

Oxford, Ohio

Mid-American

11

15

Dayton

Dayton, Ohio

Atlantic 10

9

         
         

MID-ATLANTIC Region

Rank

School

Location

Conference

2011 Finish

1

Georgetown

Washington, D.C.

Big East

1

2

Princeton

Princeton, N.J.

Ivy

5

3

Villanova

Villanova, Pa.

Big East

1

4

West Virginia

Morgantown, W. Va.

Big 12

3

5

La Salle

Philadelphia, Pa.

Atlantic 10

6

6

Penn State

State College, Pa.

Big Ten

4

7

Navy

Annapolis, Md.

Patriot

7

8

Bucknell

Lewisburg, Pa.

Patriot

12

9

Duquesne

Pittsburgh, Pa.

Atlantic 10

8

10

Saint Joseph's

Philadelphia, Pa.

Atlantic 10

13

11

Penn

Philadelphia, Pa.

Ivy

11

12

American

Washington, D.C.

Patriot

NR

13

Maryland

College Park, Md.

ACC

9

14

Loyola (Md.)

Baltimore, Md.

Metro Atlantic

10

15

Monmouth

West Long Branch, N.J.

Northeast

16

         
         

MIDWEST Region

Rank

School

Location

Conference

2011 Finish

1

Iowa State

Ames, Iowa

Big 12

1

2

Oklahoma State

Stillwater, Okla.

Big 12

2

3

Minnesota

Minneapolis, Minn.

Big Ten

3

4

Northwestern

Evanston, Ill.

Big Ten

5

5

Iowa

Iowa City, Iowa

Big Ten

4

6

Missouri

Columbia, Mo.

SEC

7

7

Tulsa

Tulsa, Okla.

Conference USA

8

8

Illinois

Champaign, Ill.

Big Ten

15

9

Illinois State

Normal, Ill.

Missouri Valley

11

10

North Dakota State

Fargo, N.D.

Summit League

13

11

Bradley

Peoria, Ill.

Missouri Valley

17

12

Loyola-Chicago

Chicago, Ill.

Horizon

24

13

Wichita State

Wichita, Kan.

Missouri Valley

12

14

Kansas

Lawrence, Kan.

Big 12

9

15

Kansas State

Manhattan, Kan.

Big 12

14

         
         

MOUNTAIN Region

Rank

School

Location

Conference

2011 Finish

1

Weber State

Ogden, Utah

Big Sky

3

2

Colorado

Boulder, Colo.

Pac-12

1

3

BYU

Provo, Utah

West Coast

4

4

Northern Arizona

Flagstaff, Ariz.

Big Sky

7

5

New Mexico

Albuquerque, N.M.

Mountain West

1

6

Utah

Salt Lake City, Utah

Pac-12

8

7

Texas Tech

Lubbock, Texas

Big 12

6

8

Colorado State

Fort Collins, Colo.

Mountain West

5

9

New Mexico State

Las Cruces, N.M.

WAC

10

10

Wyoming

Laramie, Wyo.

Mountain West

12

11

Idaho State

Pocatello, Idaho

Big Sky

9

12

Air Force

Colorado Springs, Colo.

Mountain West

13

13

UTEP

El Paso,Texas

Conference USA

14

14

Southern Utah

Cedar City, Utah

Big Sky

11

15

Montana

Missoula, Mont.

Big Sky

16

         
         

NORTHEAST Region

Rank

School

Location

Conference

2011 Finish

1

Syracuse

Syracuse, N.Y.

Big East

1

2

Providence

Providence, R.I.

Big East

5

3

Boston College

Chestnut Hill, Mass.

ACC

2

4

Cornell

Ithaca, N.Y.

Ivy

3

5

Yale

New Haven, Conn.

Ivy

6

6

Connecticut

Storrs, Conn.

Big East

7

7

Dartmouth

Hanover, N.H.

Ivy

10

8

Columbia

New York, N.Y.

Ivy

4

9

Iona

New Rochelle, N.Y.

Metro Atlantic

8

10

Stony Brook

Stony Brook, N.Y.

America East

9

11

Brown

Providence, R.I.

Ivy

11

12

New Hampshire

Durham, N.H.

America East

12

13

Vermont

Burlington, Vt.

America East

13

14

Harvard

Cambridge, Mass.

Ivy

14

15

Boston University

Boston, Mass.

America East

15

         
         

SOUTH Region

Rank

School

Location

Conference

2011 Finish

1

Florida State

Tallahassee, Fla.

ACC

1

2

Vanderbilt

Nashville, Tenn.

SEC

2

3

Florida

Gainesville, Fla.

SEC

3

4

Mississippi

Oxford, Miss.

SEC

4

5

Georgia

Athens, Ga.

SEC

5

6

Alabama

Tuscaloosa, Ala.

SEC

6

7

Lipscomb

Nashville, Tenn.

Atlantic Sun

7

8

Mississippi State

Starkville, Miss.

SEC

8

9

North Florida

Jacksonville, Fla.

Atlantic Sun

9

10

Belmont

Nashville, Tenn.

Ohio Valley

10

11

USF

Tampa, Florida

Big East

11

12

UAB

Birmingham, Ala.

Conference USA

12

13

Tennessee

Knoxville, Tenn.

SEC

13

14

Georgia State

Atlanta, Ga.

Colonial

14

15

Auburn

Auburn, Ala.

SEC

15

         
         

SOUTH CENTRAL Region

Rank

School

Location

Conference

2011 Finish

1

Arkansas

Fayetteville, Ark.

SEC

1

2

Texas

Austin, Texas

Big 12

2

3

Texas A&M

College Station, Texas

SEC

3

4

Baylor

Waco, Texas

Big 12

6

5

TCU

Fort Worth, Texas

Big 12

11

6

UTSA

San Antonio, Texas

WAC

8

7

Rice

Houston, Texas

Conference USA

5

8

SMU

University Park, Texas

Conference USA

4

9

Lamar

Beaumont, Texas

Southland

7

10

Stephen F. Austin

Nacogdoches, Texas

Southland

9

11

Texas A&M-Corpus Christi

Corpus Christi, Texas

Southland

10

12

Arkansas State

Jonesboro, Ark.

Sun Belt

13

13

Texas State

San Marcos, Texas

WAC

NR

14

Ark.-Little Rock

Little Rock, Ark.

Sun Belt

15

15

UTPA

Edinburg, Texas

Great West

16

         
         

SOUTHEAST Region

Rank

School

Location

Conference

2011 Finish

1

Virginia

Charlottesville, Va.

ACC

1

2

NC State

Raleigh, N.C.

ACC

2

3

North Carolina

Chapel Hill, N.C.

ACC

3

4

Clemson

Clemson, S.C.

ACC

4

5

Duke

Durham, N.C.

ACC

5

6

Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, Va.

ACC

6

7

James Madison

Harrisonburg, Va.

Colonial

8

8

William and Mary

Williamsburg, Va.

Colonial

9

9

Kentucky

Lexington, Ky.

SEC

12

10

Richmond

Richmond, Va.

Atlantic 10

14

11

Charlotte

Charlotte, N.C.

Atlantic 10

10

12

Wake Forest

Winston-Salem, N.C.

ACC

13

13

Elon

Elon, N.C.

Southern

21

14

High Point

High Point, N.C.

Big South

18

15

Liberty

Lynchburg, Va.

Big South

22

         
         

WEST Region

Rank

School

Location

Conference

2011 Finish

1

Oregon

Eugene, Ore.

Pac-12

4

2

Washington

Seattle, Wash.

Pac-12

1

3

Stanford

Palo Alto, Calif.

Pac-12

3

4

Arizona

Tucson, Ariz.

Pac-12

2

5

San Francisco

San Francisco, Calif.

West Coast

6

6

Portland

Portland, Ore.

West Coast

10

7

Arizona State

Tempe, Ariz.

Pac-12

7

8

UC Davis

Davis, Calif.

Big West

8

9

Cal Poly

San Luis Obispo, Calif.

Big West

9

10

California

Berkeley, Calif.

Pac-12

5

11

Boise State

Boise, Idaho

Mountain West

12

12

UCLA

Los Angeles, Calif.

Pac-12

18

13

Long Beach State

Long Beach, Calif.

Big West

11

14

Idaho

Moscow, Idaho

WAC

13

15

Gonzaga

Spokane, Wash.

West Coast

15

 

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Tom Lewis

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