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USTFCCCA DI XC Regional Rankings: Week 1

USTFCCCA DI XC Regional Rankings: Week 1

Sep 10, 2012 by FloTrack Staff
USTFCCCA DI XC Regional Rankings: Week 1

USTFCCCA DI Cross Country Regional Rankings: Week 1

September 10, 2012

 

NEW ORLEANS – The latest regional rankings for NCAA Division I cross country have been released. Still early in the season, many rankers decided to keep several teams in their preseason standing. The lone change among No. 1s comes in the Mid-Atlantic region where the Princeton men have been promoted from their initial No. 3 slot.

 

Current No. 1 teams by region as selected by regional representatives: Wisconsin (Great Lakes), Princeton (Mid-Atlantic), Oklahoma State (Midwest), BYU (Mountain), Iona (Northeast), Florida State (South), Texas (South Central), NC State (Southeast), Portland (West). Top women’s teams by region: 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.

 

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 Week #1 -- September 10

national poll release: September 11

next regional release: September 10

         

GREAT LAKES Region

Rank

School

Location

Conference

Last Week

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

5

6

Ohio State

Columbus, Ohio

Big Ten

6

7

Butler

Indianapolis, Ind.

Atlantic 10

7

8

Central Michigan

Mount Pleasant, Mich.

Mid-American

9

9

Marquette

Milwaukee, Wis.

Big East

8

10

Eastern Michigan

Ypsilanti, Mich.

Mid-American

10

11

Indiana State

Terre Haute, Ind.

Missouri Valley

12

12

Purdue

West Lafayette, Ind.

Big Ten

13

13

Cincinnati

Cincinnati, Ohio

Big East

11

14

Kent State

Kent, Ohio

Mid-American

15

15

Akron

Akron, Ohio

Mid-American

14

         
         

MID-ATLANTIC Region

Rank

School

Location

Conference

Last Week

1

Princeton

Princeton, N.J.

Ivy

3

2

Georgetown

Washington, D.C.

Big East

1

3

Villanova

Villanova, Pa.

Big East

2

4

Penn State

State College, Pa.

Big Ten

4

5

La Salle

Philadelphia, Pa.

Atlantic 10

6

6

Navy

Annapolis, Md.

Patriot

5

7

Duquesne

Pittsburgh, Pa.

Atlantic 10

8

8

Saint Joseph's

Philadelphia, Pa.

Atlantic 10

7

9

Bucknell

Lewisburg, Pa.

Patriot

10

10

Lehigh

Bethlehem, Pa.

Patriot

11

11

Penn

Philadelphia, Pa.

Ivy

13

12

Rider

Lawrenceville, N.J.

Metro Atlantic

12

13

Marshall

Huntington, W. Va.

Conference USA

14

14

NJIT

Newark, N.J.

Great West

15

15

Monmouth

West Long Branch, N.J.

Northeast

NR

         
         

MIDWEST Region

Rank

School

Location

Conference

Last Week

1

Oklahoma State

Stillwater, Okla.

Big 12

1

2

Oklahoma

Norman, Okla.

Big 12

2

3

Minnesota

Minneapolis, Minn.

Big Ten

4

4

Tulsa

Tulsa, Okla.

Conference USA

3

5

Iowa State

Ames, Iowa

Big 12

5

6

Missouri

Columbia, Mo.

SEC

6

7

Kansas

Lawrence, Kan.

Big 12

7

8

Illinois

Champaign, Ill.

Big Ten

8

9

Iowa

Iowa City, Iowa

Big Ten

9

10

Southern Illinois

Carbondale, Ill.

Missouri Valley

10

11

South Dakota State

Brookings, S.D.

Summit League

15

12

Drake

Des Moines, Iowa

Missouri Valley

11

13

Wichita State

Wichita, Kan.

Missouri Valley

13

14

North Dakota

Grand Forks, N.D.

Big Sky

NR

15

UMKC

Kansas City, Mo.

Summit League

12

         
         

MOUNTAIN Region

Rank

School

Location

Conference

Last Week

1

BYU

Provo, Utah

West Coast

1

2

New Mexico

Albuquerque, N.M.

Mountain West

2

3

Colorado

Boulder, Colo.

Pac-12

3

4

Northern Arizona

Flagstaff, Ariz.

Big Sky

4

5

Weber State

Ogden, Utah

Big Sky

5

6

Air Force

Colorado Springs, Colo.

Mountain West

7

7

Utah State

Logan, Utah

WAC

8

8

Montana State

Bozeman, Mont.

Big Sky

13

9

Colorado State

Fort Collins, Colo.

Mountain West

9

10

Wyoming

Laramie, Wyo.

Mountain West

10

11

Southern Utah

Cedar City, Utah

Big Sky

6

12

UTEP

El Paso,Texas

Conference USA

11

13

New Mexico State

Las Cruces, N.M.

WAC

12

14

Texas Tech

Lubbock, Texas

Big 12

NR

15

Utah Valley

Orem, Utah

Great West

14

         
         

NORTHEAST Region

Rank

School

Location

Conference

Last Week

1

Iona

New Rochelle, N.Y.

Metro Atlantic

1

2

Syracuse

Syracuse, N.Y.

Big East

2

3

Columbia

New York, N.Y.

Ivy

3

4

Providence

Providence, R.I.

Big East

4

5

Dartmouth

Hanover, N.H.

Ivy

5

6

Cornell

Ithaca, N.Y.

Ivy

6

7

Brown

Providence, R.I.

Ivy

7

8

Boston University

Boston, Mass.

America East

8

9

Yale

New Haven, Conn.

Ivy

NR

10

Harvard

Cambridge, Mass.

Ivy

9

11

Boston College

Chestnut Hill, Mass.

ACC

10

12

Buffalo

Buffalo, N.Y.

Mid-American

11

13

Connecticut

Storrs, Conn.

Big East

12

14

Fordham

Bronx, N.Y.

Atlantic 10

13

15

Central Connecticut State

New Britain, Conn.

Northeast

14

         
         

SOUTH Region

Rank

School

Location

Conference

Last Week

1

Florida State

Tallahassee, Fla.

ACC

1

2

Georgia

Athens, Ga.

SEC

2

3

Florida

Gainesville, Fla.

SEC

3

4

Auburn

Auburn, Ala.

SEC

5

5

Mississippi State

Starkville, Miss.

SEC

7

6

Georgia Tech

Atlanta, Ga.

ACC

8

7

Tennessee

Knoxville, Tenn.

SEC

14

8

Belmont

Nashville, Tenn.

Ohio Valley

6

9

Kennesaw State

Kennesaw, Ga.

Atlantic Sun

9

10

Alabama

Tuscaloosa, Ala.

SEC

NR

11

Middle Tennessee

Murfreesboro, Tenn.

Sun Belt

4

12

Chattanooga

Chattanooga, Tenn.

Southern

11

13

East Tennessee State

Johnson City, Tenn.

Atlantic Sun

NR

14

Mercer

Macon, Ga.

Atlantic Sun

15

15

Samford

Birmingham, Ala.

Southern

NR

         
         

SOUTH CENTRAL Region

Rank

School

Location

Conference

Last Week

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

5

6

Texas A&M-Corpus Christi

Corpus Christi, Texas

Southland

6

7

McNeese State

Lake Charles, La.

Southland

7

8

UTSA

San Antonio, Texas

WAC

8

9

Stephen F. Austin

Nacogdoches, Texas

Southland

9

10

Houston

Houston, Texas

Conference USA

10

11

Ark.-Little Rock

Little Rock, Ark.

Sun Belt

11

12

UTPA

Edinburg, Texas

Great West

12

13

Baylor

Waco, Texas

Big 12

13

14

LSU

Baton Rouge, La.

SEC

14

15

Houston Baptist

Houston, Texas

Great West

15

         
         

SOUTHEAST Region

Rank

School

Location

Conference

Last Week

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

Virginia

Charlottesville, Va.

ACC

8

6

Duke

Durham, N.C.

ACC

7

7

Louisville

Louisville, Ky.

Big East

6

8

North Carolina

Chapel Hill, N.C.

ACC

5

9

UNCG

Greensboro, N.C.

Southern

9

10

Western Kentucky

Bowling Green, Ky.

Sun Belt

10

11

Davidson

Davidson, N.C.

Southern

11

12

High Point

High Point, N.C.

Big South

12

13

Richmond

Richmond, Va.

Atlantic 10

NR

14

Clemson

Clemson, S.C.

ACC

14

15

Kentucky

Lexington, Ky.

SEC

15

         
         

WEST Region

Rank

School

Location

Conference

Last Week

1

Portland

Portland, Ore.

West Coast

1

2

Stanford

Palo Alto, Calif.

Pac-12

2

3

UCLA

Los Angeles, Calif.

Pac-12

3

4

Oregon

Eugene, Ore.

Pac-12

4

5

California

Berkeley, Calif.

Pac-12

5

6

Washington State

Pullman, Wash.

Pac-12

6

7

Arizona State

Tempe, Ariz.

Pac-12

7

8

Arizona

Tucson, Ariz.

Pac-12

8

9

Cal Poly

San Luis Obispo, Calif.

Big West

9

10

Washington

Seattle, Wash.

Pac-12

10

11

Boise State

Boise, Idaho

Mountain West

11

12

Sacramento State

Sacramento, Calif.

Big Sky

12

13

UC Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, Calif.

Big West

13

14

Idaho

Moscow, Idaho

WAC

15

15

Long Beach State

Long Beach, Calif.

Big West

14

 

 

USTFCCCA

NCAA Division I

Women's Cross Country Regional Team Rankings

2012 Week #1 -- September 10

national poll release: September 11

next regional release: September 10

         

GREAT LAKES Region

Rank

School

Location

Conference

Last Week

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

4

5

Wisconsin

Madison, Wis.

Big Ten

5

6

Indiana

Bloomington, Ind.

Big Ten

6

7

Butler

Indianapolis, Ind.

Atlantic 10

7

8

Ohio State

Columbus, Ohio

Big Ten

8

9

Ohio

Athens, Ohio

Mid-American

9

10

Purdue

West Lafayette, Ind.

Big Ten

NR

11

Miami (Ohio)

Oxford, Ohio

Mid-American

14

12

Indiana State

Terre Haute, Ind.

Missouri Valley

12

13

Central Michigan

Mount Pleasant, Mich.

Mid-American

10

14

Xavier

Cincinnati, Ohio

Atlantic 10

11

15

Oakland

Rochester, Mich.

Summit League

NR

         
         

MID-ATLANTIC Region

Rank

School

Location

Conference

Last Week

1

Georgetown

Washington, D.C.

Big East

1

2

Villanova

Villanova, Pa.

Big East

3

3

Penn State

State College, Pa.

Big Ten

6

4

West Virginia

Morgantown, W. Va.

Big 12

4

5

Princeton

Princeton, N.J.

Ivy

2

6

Navy

Annapolis, Md.

Patriot

7

7

La Salle

Philadelphia, Pa.

Atlantic 10

5

8

Penn

Philadelphia, Pa.

Ivy

11

9

Bucknell

Lewisburg, Pa.

Patriot

8

10

Duquesne

Pittsburgh, Pa.

Atlantic 10

9

11

Maryland

College Park, Md.

ACC

13

12

Delaware

Newark, Del.

Colonial

NR

13

Saint Joseph's

Philadelphia, Pa.

Atlantic 10

10

14

American

Washington, D.C.

Patriot

12

15

Loyola (Md.)

Baltimore, Md.

Metro Atlantic

14

         
         

MIDWEST Region

Rank

School

Location

Conference

Last Week

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

4

5

Iowa

Iowa City, Iowa

Big Ten

5

6

Missouri

Columbia, Mo.

SEC

6

7

Tulsa

Tulsa, Okla.

Conference USA

7

8

Illinois

Champaign, Ill.

Big Ten

8

9

Illinois State

Normal, Ill.

Missouri Valley

9

10

North Dakota State

Fargo, N.D.

Summit League

10

11

Wichita State

Wichita, Kan.

Missouri Valley

13

12

Bradley

Peoria, Ill.

Missouri Valley

11

13

Kansas

Lawrence, Kan.

Big 12

14

14

Kansas State

Manhattan, Kan.

Big 12

15

15

Loyola-Chicago

Chicago, Ill.

Horizon

12

         
         

MOUNTAIN Region

Rank

School

Location

Conference

Last Week

1

Weber State

Ogden, Utah

Big Sky

1

2

New Mexico

Albuquerque, N.M.

Mountain West

5

3

Colorado

Boulder, Colo.

Pac-12

2

4

BYU

Provo, Utah

West Coast

3

5

Northern Arizona

Flagstaff, Ariz.

Big Sky

4

6

Utah

Salt Lake City, Utah

Pac-12

6

7

Texas Tech

Lubbock, Texas

Big 12

7

8

Air Force

Colorado Springs, Colo.

Mountain West

12

9

New Mexico State

Las Cruces, N.M.

WAC

9

10

UTEP

El Paso,Texas

Conference USA

13

11

Wyoming

Laramie, Wyo.

Mountain West

10

12

Colorado State

Fort Collins, Colo.

Mountain West

8

13

Southern Utah

Cedar City, Utah

Big Sky

14

14

Idaho State

Pocatello, Idaho

Big Sky

11

15

Nevada

Reno, Nevada

Mountain West

NR

         
         

NORTHEAST Region

Rank

School

Location

Conference

Last Week

1

Providence

Providence, R.I.

Big East

2

2

Boston College

Chestnut Hill, Mass.

ACC

3

3

Syracuse

Syracuse, N.Y.

Big East

1

4

Cornell

Ithaca, N.Y.

Ivy

4

5

Dartmouth

Hanover, N.H.

Ivy

7

6

Yale

New Haven, Conn.

Ivy

5

7

Connecticut

Storrs, Conn.

Big East

6

8

Columbia

New York, N.Y.

Ivy

8

9

Iona

New Rochelle, N.Y.

Metro Atlantic

9

10

Stony Brook

Stony Brook, N.Y.

America East

10

11

Harvard

Cambridge, Mass.

Ivy

14

12

Brown

Providence, R.I.

Ivy

11

13

New Hampshire

Durham, N.H.

America East

12

14

Vermont

Burlington, Vt.

America East

13

15

Boston University

Boston, Mass.

America East

15

         
         

SOUTH Region

Rank

School

Location

Conference

Last Week

1

Florida State

Tallahassee, Fla.

ACC

1

2

Vanderbilt

Nashville, Tenn.

SEC

2

3

Florida

Gainesville, Fla.

SEC

3

4

Georgia

Athens, Ga.

SEC

5

5

Lipscomb

Nashville, Tenn.

Atlantic Sun

7

6

Mississippi State

Starkville, Miss.

SEC

8

7

Alabama

Tuscaloosa, Ala.

SEC

6

8

Mississippi

Oxford, Miss.

SEC

4

9

Belmont

Nashville, Tenn.

Ohio Valley

10

10

Tennessee

Knoxville, Tenn.

SEC

13

11

North Florida

Jacksonville, Fla.

Atlantic Sun

9

12

USF

Tampa, Florida

Big East

11

13

Auburn

Auburn, Ala.

SEC

15

14

Georgia State

Atlanta, Ga.

Colonial

14

15

Samford

Birmingham, Ala.

Southern

NR

         
         

SOUTH CENTRAL Region

Rank

School

Location

Conference

Last Week

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

4

5

SMU

University Park, Texas

Conference USA

8

6

UTSA

San Antonio, Texas

WAC

6

7

TCU

Fort Worth, Texas

Big 12

5

8

Rice

Houston, Texas

Conference USA

7

9

Texas A&M-Corpus Christi

Corpus Christi, Texas

Southland

11

10

Stephen F. Austin

Nacogdoches, Texas

Southland

10

11

Sam Houston State

Huntsville, Texas

Southland

NR

12

Lamar

Beaumont, Texas

Southland

9

13

Arkansas State

Jonesboro, Ark.

Sun Belt

12

14

UT Arlington

Arlington, Texas

WAC

NR

15

Ark.-Little Rock

Little Rock, Ark.

Sun Belt

14

         
         

SOUTHEAST Region

Rank

School

Location

Conference

Last Week

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

7

8

William and Mary

Williamsburg, Va.

Colonial

8

9

Richmond

Richmond, Va.

Atlantic 10

10

10

Kentucky

Lexington, Ky.

SEC

9

11

Elon

Elon, N.C.

Southern

13

12

Liberty

Lynchburg, Va.

Big South

15

13

Eastern Kentucky

Richmond, Ky.

Ohio Valley

NR

14

Charlotte

Charlotte, N.C.

Atlantic 10

11

15

High Point

High Point, N.C.

Big South

14

         
         

WEST Region

Rank

School

Location

Conference

Last Week

1

Oregon

Eugene, Ore.

Pac-12

1

2

Washington

Seattle, Wash.

Pac-12

2

3

Stanford

Palo Alto, Calif.

Pac-12

3

4

Arizona

Tucson, Ariz.

Pac-12

4

5

San Francisco

San Francisco, Calif.

West Coast

5

6

Portland

Portland, Ore.

West Coast

6

7

UC Davis

Davis, Calif.

Big West

8

8

Arizona State

Tempe, Ariz.

Pac-12

7

9

California

Berkeley, Calif.

Pac-12

10

10

Cal Poly

San Luis Obispo, Calif.

Big West

9

11

Oregon State

Corvallis, Ore.

Pac-12

NR

12

Boise State

Boise, Idaho

Mountain West

11

13

Idaho

Moscow, Idaho

WAC

14

14

Gonzaga

Spokane, Wash.

West Coast

15

15

Loyola Marymount

Los Angeles, Calif.

West Coast

NR