USTFCCCA: DI Regional Cross Country Rankings - Week #4

Oct 1, 2012 by FloTrack Staff

DI Regional Cross Country Rankings: 2012 Week #4

October 1, 2012

NEW ORLEANS – A heavy weekend of competition has yielded several changes to the USTFCCCA Regional Rankings for NCAA Division I cross country. The regional rankers from the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) have moved women’s teams Cornell (Northeast), William and Mary (Southeast), and Arizona (West) to No. 1 spots. In addition, Eastern Kentucky’s men are now the new top team in the Southeast region.

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), Eastern Kentucky (Southeast), Portland (West). Top women’s teams by region: Michigan (Great Lakes), Georgetown (Mid-Atlantic), Iowa State (Midwest), Weber State (Mountain), Cornell (Northeast), Florida State (South), Arkansas (South Central), William and Mary (Southeast), Arizona (West).

New to the regional rankings for the first time this year: MEN – Temple (Mid-Atlantic), Nebraska (Midwest), Marist (Northeast), UMass (Northeast), UC Irvine (West); WOMEN – Lehigh (Mid-Atlantic), Quinnipiac (Northeast), UC Santa Barabara (West).

USTFCCCA
NCAA Division I
Men's Cross Country Regional Team Rankings
2012 Week #4 -- October 1
national poll release: October 2
next regional release: October 15 (next week off)

GREAT LAKES Region
Rank	School	Location	Conference	Last Week
1	Wisconsin	Madison, Wis.	Big Ten	1
2	Notre Dame	South Bend, Ind.	Big East	3
3	Michigan	Ann Arbor, Mich.	Big Ten	4
4	Indiana	Bloomington, Ind.	Big Ten	2
5	Michigan State	East Lansing, Mich.	Big Ten	6
6	Eastern Michigan	Ypsilanti, Mich.	Mid-American	7
7	Ohio State	Columbus, Ohio	Big Ten	5
8	Indiana State	Terre Haute, Ind.	Missouri Valley	9
9	Butler	Indianapolis, Ind.	Atlantic 10	8
10	Cincinnati	Cincinnati, Ohio	Big East	15
11	Miami (Ohio)	Oxford, Ohio	Mid-American	10
12	Central Michigan	Mount Pleasant, Mich.	Mid-American	11
13	Purdue	West Lafayette, Ind.	Big Ten	12
14	Akron	Akron, Ohio	Mid-American	NR
15	Kent State	Kent, Ohio	Mid-American	14


MID-ATLANTIC Region
Rank	School	Location	Conference	Last Week
1	Princeton	Princeton, N.J.	Ivy	1
2	Villanova	Villanova, Pa.	Big East	3
3	Georgetown	Washington, D.C.	Big East	2
4	Penn State	State College, Pa.	Big Ten	4
5	La Salle	Philadelphia, Pa.	Atlantic 10	5
6	Lehigh	Bethlehem, Pa.	Patriot	11
7	Saint Joseph's	Philadelphia, Pa.	Atlantic 10	8
8	Duquesne	Pittsburgh, Pa.	Atlantic 10	7
9	Navy	Annapolis, Md.	Patriot	6
10	Bucknell	Lewisburg, Pa.	Patriot	9
11	American	Washington, D.C.	Patriot	10
12	Penn	Philadelphia, Pa.	Ivy	12
13	Temple	Philadelphia, Pa.	Atlantic 10	NR
14	NJIT	Newark, N.J.	Great West	14
15	Marshall	Huntington, W. Va.	Conference USA	15


MIDWEST Region
Rank	School	Location	Conference	Last Week
1	Oklahoma State	Stillwater, Okla.	Big 12	1
2	Oklahoma	Norman, Okla.	Big 12	2
3	Tulsa	Tulsa, Okla.	Conference USA	4
4	Minnesota	Minneapolis, Minn.	Big Ten	3
5	Missouri	Columbia, Mo.	SEC	6
6	Kansas	Lawrence, Kan.	Big 12	7
7	Iowa State	Ames, Iowa	Big 12	5
8	Illinois	Champaign, Ill.	Big Ten	8
9	Southern Illinois	Carbondale, Ill.	Missouri Valley	10
10	Iowa	Iowa City, Iowa	Big Ten	9
11	Loyola-Chicago	Chicago, Ill.	Horizon	11
12	South Dakota State	Brookings, S.D.	Summit League	12
13	Wichita State	Wichita, Kan.	Missouri Valley	13
14	Kansas City	Kansas City, Mo.	Summit League	NR
15	Nebraska	Lincoln, Neb.	Big Ten	NR


MOUNTAIN Region
Rank	School	Location	Conference	Last Week
1	BYU	Provo, Utah	West Coast	1
2	Colorado	Boulder, Colo.	Pac-12	3
3	Northern Arizona	Flagstaff, Ariz.	Big Sky	4
4	New Mexico	Albuquerque, N.M.	Mountain West	2
5	Air Force	Colorado Springs, Colo.	Mountain West	6
6	Weber State	Ogden, Utah	Big Sky	5
7	Wyoming	Laramie, Wyo.	Mountain West	7
8	Montana State	Bozeman, Mont.	Big Sky	8
9	Colorado State	Fort Collins, Colo.	Mountain West	9
10	Southern Utah	Cedar City, Utah	Big Sky	11
11	Texas Tech	Lubbock, Texas	Big 12	14
12	UTEP	El Paso,Texas	Conference USA	12
13	Utah Valley	Orem, Utah	Great West	15
14	Utah State	Logan, Utah	WAC	10
15	New Mexico State	Las Cruces, N.M.	WAC	13


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	Dartmouth	Hanover, N.H.	Ivy	5
5	Providence	Providence, R.I.	Big East	4
6	Cornell	Ithaca, N.Y.	Ivy	6
7	Yale	New Haven, Conn.	Ivy	10
8	Harvard	Cambridge, Mass.	Ivy	8
9	Brown	Providence, R.I.	Ivy	7
10	Boston University	Boston, Mass.	America East	9
11	Boston College	Chestnut Hill, Mass.	ACC	11
12	Buffalo	Buffalo, N.Y.	Mid-American	12
13	Marist	Poughkeepsie, N.Y.	Metro Atlantic	NR
14	Army	West Point, N.Y.	Patriot	13
15	UMass	Amherst, Mass.	Atlantic 10	NR


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	4
5	Tennessee	Knoxville, Tenn.	SEC	5
6	East Tennessee State	Johnson City, Tenn.	Atlantic Sun	10
7	Mississippi State	Starkville, Miss.	SEC	7
8	Kennesaw State	Kennesaw, Ga.	Atlantic Sun	8
9	Georgia Tech	Atlanta, Ga.	ACC	6
10	Memphis	Memphis, Tenn.	Conference USA	11
11	Middle Tennessee	Murfreesboro, Tenn.	Sun Belt	NR
12	Chattanooga	Chattanooga, Tenn.	Southern	12
13	Mercer	Macon, Ga.	Atlantic Sun	14
14	Mississippi	Oxford, Miss.	SEC	9
15	Belmont	Nashville, Tenn.	Ohio Valley	13


SOUTH CENTRAL Region
Rank	School	Location	Conference	Last Week
1	Texas	Austin, Texas	Big 12	1
2	Arkansas	Fayetteville, Ark.	SEC	3
3	Texas A&M	College Station, Texas	SEC	2
4	McNeese State	Lake Charles, La.	Southland	7
5	Rice	Houston, Texas	Conference USA	5
5	Lamar	Beaumont, Texas	Southland	4
7	UT Arlington	Arlington, Texas	WAC	11
8	Texas A&M-Corpus Christi	Corpus Christi, Texas	Southland	6
9	UTSA	San Antonio, Texas	WAC	8
10	Central Arkansas	Conway, Ark.	Southland	14
11	Stephen F. Austin	Nacogdoches, Texas	Southland	9
12	Houston	Houston, Texas	Conference USA	10
13	Baylor	Waco, Texas	Big 12	12
14	Sam Houston State	Huntsville, Texas	Southland	15
15	Ark.-Little Rock	Little Rock, Ark.	Sun Belt	NR


SOUTHEAST Region
Rank	School	Location	Conference	Last Week
1	Eastern Kentucky	Richmond, Ky.	Ohio Valley	2
2	William and Mary	Williamsburg, Va.	Colonial	7
3	Virginia	Charlottesville, Va.	ACC	3
4	NC State	Raleigh, N.C.	ACC	1
5	Duke	Durham, N.C.	ACC	5
6	North Carolina	Chapel Hill, N.C.	ACC	8
7	Virginia Tech	Blacksburg, Va.	ACC	4
8	Louisville	Louisville, Ky.	Big East	6
9	Wake Forest	Winston-Salem, N.C.	ACC	10
10	George Mason	Fairfax, Va.	Colonial	9
11	Davidson	Davidson, N.C.	Southern	NR
12	Appalachian State	Boone, N.C.	Southern	12
13	High Point	High Point, N.C.	Big South	14
14	Liberty	Lynchburg, Va.	Big South	13
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	Oregon	Eugene, Ore.	Pac-12	4
4	UCLA	Los Angeles, Calif.	Pac-12	3
5	Arizona State	Tempe, Ariz.	Pac-12	6
6	Cal Poly	San Luis Obispo, Calif.	Big West	7
7	Washington State	Pullman, Wash.	Pac-12	9
8	Washington	Seattle, Wash.	Pac-12	10
9	Arizona	Tucson, Ariz.	Pac-12	5
10	California	Berkeley, Calif.	Pac-12	8
11	Gonzaga	Spokane, Wash.	West Coast	14
12	San Francisco	San Francisco, Calif.	West Coast	13
13	UC Santa Barbara	Santa Barbara, Calif.	Big West	12
14	Boise State	Boise, Idaho	Mountain West	11
15	UC Irvine	Irvine, Calif.	Big West	NR

USTFCCCA
NCAA Division I
Women's Cross Country Regional Team Rankings
2012 Week #4 -- October 1
national poll release: October 2
next regional release: October 15 (next week off)

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	4
4	Notre Dame	South Bend, Ind.	Big East	5
5	Butler	Indianapolis, Ind.	Atlantic 10	3
6	Wisconsin	Madison, Wis.	Big Ten	6
7	Indiana	Bloomington, Ind.	Big Ten	7
8	Ohio State	Columbus, Ohio	Big Ten	9
9	Ohio	Athens, Ohio	Mid-American	8
10	Miami (Ohio)	Oxford, Ohio	Mid-American	11
11	Purdue	West Lafayette, Ind.	Big Ten	10
12	Marquette	Milwaukee, Wis.	Big East	13
13	Xavier	Cincinnati, Ohio	Atlantic 10	NR
14	Eastern Michigan	Ypsilanti, Mich.	Mid-American	NR
15	Indiana State	Terre Haute, Ind.	Missouri Valley	12


MID-ATLANTIC Region
Rank	School	Location	Conference	Last Week
1	Georgetown	Washington, D.C.	Big East	1
2	Penn State	State College, Pa.	Big Ten	3
3	Villanova	Villanova, Pa.	Big East	2
4	Princeton	Princeton, N.J.	Ivy	5
5	West Virginia	Morgantown, W. Va.	Big 12	4
6	La Salle	Philadelphia, Pa.	Atlantic 10	8
7	Navy	Annapolis, Md.	Patriot	7
8	Duquesne	Pittsburgh, Pa.	Atlantic 10	6
9	Penn	Philadelphia, Pa.	Ivy	9
10	Bucknell	Lewisburg, Pa.	Patriot	10
11	Delaware	Newark, Del.	Colonial	11
12	Maryland	College Park, Md.	ACC	14
13	Rutgers	Piscataway, N.J.	Big East	13
14	Saint Joseph's	Philadelphia, Pa.	Atlantic 10	12
15	Lehigh	Bethlehem, Pa.	Patriot	NR


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	Illinois	Champaign, Ill.	Big Ten	7
5	Northwestern	Evanston, Ill.	Big Ten	5
6	Iowa	Iowa City, Iowa	Big Ten	4
7	Loyola-Chicago	Chicago, Ill.	Horizon	9
8	Missouri	Columbia, Mo.	SEC	8
9	Bradley	Peoria, Ill.	Missouri Valley	10
10	Wichita State	Wichita, Kan.	Missouri Valley	11
11	Tulsa	Tulsa, Okla.	Conference USA	6
12	North Dakota State	Fargo, N.D.	Summit League	12
13	Kansas	Lawrence, Kan.	Big 12	14
14	Kansas State	Manhattan, Kan.	Big 12	NR
15	Illinois State	Normal, Ill.	Missouri Valley	13


MOUNTAIN Region
Rank	School	Location	Conference	Last Week
1	Weber State	Ogden, Utah	Big Sky	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	BYU	Provo, Utah	West Coast	5
6	Utah	Salt Lake City, Utah	Pac-12	6
7	Air Force	Colorado Springs, Colo.	Mountain West	7
8	New Mexico State	Las Cruces, N.M.	WAC	9
9	Southern Utah	Cedar City, Utah	Big Sky	8
10	Montana State	Bozeman, Mont.	Big Sky	10
11	UTEP	El Paso,Texas	Conference USA	12
12	Texas Tech	Lubbock, Texas	Big 12	11
13	Wyoming	Laramie, Wyo.	Mountain West	13
14	Colorado State	Fort Collins, Colo.	Mountain West	15
15	Nevada	Reno, Nevada	Mountain West	NR


NORTHEAST Region
Rank	School	Location	Conference	Last Week
1	Cornell	Ithaca, N.Y.	Ivy	4
2	Columbia	New York, N.Y.	Ivy	3
3	Boston College	Chestnut Hill, Mass.	ACC	2
4	Yale	New Haven, Conn.	Ivy	7
5	Dartmouth	Hanover, N.H.	Ivy	6
6	Connecticut	Storrs, Conn.	Big East	8
7	Providence	Providence, R.I.	Big East	1
8	Syracuse	Syracuse, N.Y.	Big East	5
9	Brown	Providence, R.I.	Ivy	12
10	New Hampshire	Durham, N.H.	America East	14
11	Stony Brook	Stony Brook, N.Y.	America East	10
12	Iona	New Rochelle, N.Y.	Metro Atlantic	9
13	Vermont	Burlington, Vt.	America East	13
14	Harvard	Cambridge, Mass.	Ivy	11
15	Quinnipiac	Hamden, Conn.	Northeast	NR


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	6
5	Mississippi	Oxford, Miss.	SEC	4
6	Mississippi State	Starkville, Miss.	SEC	5
7	Alabama	Tuscaloosa, Ala.	SEC	8
8	Samford	Birmingham, Ala.	Southern	NR
9	Georgia State	Atlanta, Ga.	Sun Belt	9
10	Georgia Tech	Atlanta, Ga.	ACC	11
11	North Florida	Jacksonville, Fla.	Atlantic Sun	12
12	Belmont	Nashville, Tenn.	Ohio Valley	10
13	Lipscomb	Nashville, Tenn.	Atlantic Sun	7
14	Tennessee	Knoxville, Tenn.	SEC	14
15	Auburn	Auburn, Ala.	SEC	13


SOUTH CENTRAL Region
Rank	School	Location	Conference	Last Week
1	Arkansas	Fayetteville, Ark.	SEC	1
2	Texas	Austin, Texas	Big 12	2
3	SMU	University Park, Texas	Conference USA	5
4	Texas A&M	College Station, Texas	SEC	3
5	Baylor	Waco, Texas	Big 12	4
6	UTSA	San Antonio, Texas	WAC	6
7	TCU	Fort Worth, Texas	Big 12	7
8	Rice	Houston, Texas	Conference USA	8
9	Texas A&M-Corpus Christi	Corpus Christi, Texas	Southland	9
10	Stephen F. Austin	Nacogdoches, Texas	Southland	10
11	LSU	Baton Rouge, La.	SEC	11
12	Sam Houston State	Huntsville, Texas	Southland	12
13	Arkansas State	Jonesboro, Ark.	Sun Belt	13
14	McNeese State	Lake Charles, La.	Southland	14
15	UT Arlington	Arlington, Texas	WAC	15


SOUTHEAST Region
Rank	School	Location	Conference	Last Week
1	William and Mary	Williamsburg, Va.	Colonial	7
2	NC State	Raleigh, N.C.	ACC	1
3	North Carolina	Chapel Hill, N.C.	ACC	2
4	Kentucky	Lexington, Ky.	SEC	4
5	Duke	Durham, N.C.	ACC	3
6	Virginia	Charlottesville, Va.	ACC	5
7	Clemson	Clemson, S.C.	ACC	6
8	Appalachian State	Boone, N.C.	Southern	14
9	Liberty	Lynchburg, Va.	Big South	15
10	Richmond	Richmond, Va.	Atlantic 10	12
11	Eastern Kentucky	Richmond, Ky.	Ohio Valley	10
12	James Madison	Harrisonburg, Va.	Colonial	NR
13	Elon	Elon, N.C.	Southern	11
14	East Carolina	Greenville, N.C.	Conference USA	9
15	Wake Forest	Winston-Salem, N.C.	ACC	NR


WEST Region
Rank	School	Location	Conference	Last Week
1	Arizona	Tucson, Ariz.	Pac-12	4
2	Washington	Seattle, Wash.	Pac-12	1
3	Oregon	Eugene, Ore.	Pac-12	2
4	Stanford	Palo Alto, Calif.	Pac-12	3
5	San Francisco	San Francisco, Calif.	West Coast	5
6	UC Davis	Davis, Calif.	Big West	6
7	Arizona State	Tempe, Ariz.	Pac-12	7
8	California	Berkeley, Calif.	Pac-12	9
9	Portland	Portland, Ore.	West Coast	8
10	Boise State	Boise, Idaho	Mountain West	NR
11	UC Santa Barbara	Santa Barbara, Calif.	Big West	NR
12	UCLA	Los Angeles, Calif.	Pac-12	10
13	Cal Poly	San Luis Obispo, Calif.	Big West	11
14	Gonzaga	Spokane, Wash.	West Coast	12
15	UC Riverside	Riverside, Calif.	Big West	15