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Pre-Season Pac-12 Men's XC Predictions

Pre-Season Pac-12 Men's XC Predictions

Apr 28, 2014 by Isaac Wood
Pre-Season Pac-12 Men's XC Predictions


Flotrack's Way Way Way Too Far Out XC Picks a series devoted to getting you acquainted with some of the top teams for this upcoming XC season.

We here at Flotrack were so excited about Oregon's dominating performance at the Penn Relays 4 X Mile that it got us thinking. How good is Oregon going to be next year? Are they good enough to challenge Colorado? While on that note, we realized, the Pac-12 is going to be unreal next year.

WIth that on the table, I decided to simulate the conference meet based on the Pac-12 Cross Country Championships last year and NCAA Cross Country Championships.

According to my simulation, I have Colorado winning by seven points. To be honest, it's kind of an easy pick if you think about it. Colorado returns everyone from last year's NCAA Championship winning team, plus they add a healthy Jake Hurysz. It's almost unfair to the rest of the country how good Colorado is going to be. 

We also cannot count out Oregon. Edward Cheserek has proven himself time and time again that he is the best in the NCAA right now and I don't see that changing, maybe ever.Throw in Eric Jenkins, Will Geoghegan, and high school phenom Blake Haney, and the Ducks will be dangerous. 

Stanford will have a say in this as they add Maksim Korolev and a healthy Joe Rosa, who has been running out of his head since this past winter. Regardless of the speculation, the Pac-12 is going to be the hottest conference on the block next year and the battle at the Conference Championship will be legendary. 

Place

  First Name

  Last Name

 Team

Year

 Points

1

Edward

Cheserek

Oregon

SO

1

2

Lawi

Lalang

Arizona

SR

2

3

Maksim

Korolev

Stanford

SR

3

4

Jim 

Rosa

Stanford

SR

4

5

Ben 

Saarel

Colorado

SO

5

6

Eric

Jenkins

Oregon

JR

6

7

Jake

Hurysz

Colorado

SR

7

8

Blake

Theroux

Colorado

SR

8

9

Will 

Geoghegan

Oregon

SR

9

10

Aaron

Nelson

Washington

SR

10

11

Joe

Rosa

Stanford

SR

11

12

Morgan

Pearson

Colorado

JR

12

13

Pierce

Murphy

Colorado

JR

13

14

Sean 

McGorty

Stanford

SO

14

15

Tanguy

Pepiot

Oregon

SR

15

16

Ammar

Moussa

Colorado

JR

16

17

Ryan 

Herson

Arizona State

JR

17

18

Zach 

Perrin

Colorado

SO

18

19

Lane 

Werley

UCLA

JR

19

20

Izaic

Yorks

Washington

JR

20

21

Jake

Leingang

Oregon

SO

21

22

Blake

Haney

Oregon

FR

22

23

Nick

Hartle

UCLA

JR

23

24

Connor

Winter

Colorado

JR

--

25

Blair

Hurlock

Stanford

FR

24

26

Garrett

Corcoran

California

FR

25

27

Colby 

Gilbert

Washington

FR

26

28

Collins 

Kibet

Arizona

SO

27

29

Todd

Wakefield

Washington St.

SR

28

30

Bailey

Roth

Arizona

FR

29

31

Garrett

Sweatt

Stanford

JR

30

32

Daniel

Winn

Oregon

SR

31

33

Daniel

Herrera

UCLA

SR

32

34

Matthew

Melancon

Oregon

JR

--

35

Jacob 

Smith

Washington

JR

33

36

Marco

Bertolotti

Stanford

SR

34

37

Leland

Later

California

JR

36

38

Michael

McCabe

UCLA

FR

37

39

John

Whelan

Washington St.

SO

38

40

Tyler

King

Washington

JR

39

41

Bernie

Montoya

Arizona State

SO

40

42

Cody

Brazeal

Arizona State

FR

41

43

Garrett

Baker-Slama

Arizona State

SR

42

44

Ferdinand

Edman

UCLA

SO

43

45

Meron

Simon

Washington

JR

44

46

Jeremy 

Elkaim

Oregon

SR

--

47

Andrew

Gardner

Washington

SO

45

48

Sam

Macaluso

Arizona

SR

46

49

Lee

George

Washington St.

SR

47

50

David

Kilgore

Colorado

SR

--

51

Forrest

Shaffer

Washington St.

SR

48

52

Blake

Nelson

Washington

SO

--

53

Sergey

Sushchikh

UCLA

JR

49

54

Scott

Edwards

UCLA

FR

50

55

John 

Lawson

California

FR

51

56

Jonas

Legernes

Arizona

JR

52

57

Chris

Walden

California

JR

53

58

Jeff

Bickert

Arizona State

JR

54

59

Daniel

Wong

Arizona State

JR

55

60

Jordan

Locklear

California

SR

56

61

Kenji

Bierig

Arizona

SR

57

62

Daniel

De La Torre

UCLA

FR

--

63

Dylan

Hopper

Arizona

SR

58

64

Thomas

Joyce

California

JR

59

65

Jacob

Wood

UCLA

SR

--

66

Tim

Cummings

Washington

JR

--

67

Jack

Bordoni

Stanford

JR

--

68

Jackson

Haselnus

Washington St.

SO

60

69

Sam

Levora

Washington St.

FR

61

70

Tommy

Williams

Arizona State

JR

62

71

Kristian

Martinez

California

SO

63

72

Josh

Lewis

California

FR

--

73

Conner

Johnson

Washington St. 

SO

64

74

Matthew

Beer

Arizona

JR

--

75

Thomas

Valente

Arizona

SR

--

76

Jeff

Schaefer

California

SO

--

77

Justin

Brinkley

Stanford

JR

--

78

CJ

Albertson

Arizona State

FR

--

79

Ryan 

Norton

Arizona State

JR

 

--


Place

 Team

Score



1

Colorado

45



2

Oregon

52



3

Stanford

58



4

Washington

128



5

UCLA

154



6

Arizona

156



7

Arizona State

194



8

California

221



9

Washington State

 

221

 

 

 

        

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