NCAA XC DI Regionals based on the Butler Projections

Nov 12, 2013 by FloTrack Staff

Below are the Butler Projections for each NCAA DI Regional Championship.

Women	Men
Northeast	Northeast
Southeast	Southeast
Midwest	Midwest
West	West
Mid-Atlantic	Mid-Atlantic
South	South
Great Lakes	Great Lakes
Mountain	Mountain
South Central	South Central

But what do they mean?

Confused about how the Kolas Calculator works? Click here.
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Click here to view the Kolas Calculator based on regional rankings.
Click here to view the Kolas Calculator based on the Butler Projections.

Since we're nearing the one year anniversary of the Mayan Apocalypse (and we're thankfully all still here), we figured we'd work out the "Doomsday Scenarios" for the NCAA Regionals.

We here at Flotrack love hypotheticals and statistics, so we've worked out the Kolas Calculator if the Butler Projections hold true. We know - it's a lot of numbers and numbers are scary.

To save you time, we've explained the dire and surprising implications for some teams if these projections end up being the actual results.

The first and most important thing you'll need to know if that through a series of events, every team in the NCAA is tied together.

It'll just one team to spoil the party. Like, for example, the Iona women. Right now, Iona is projected to finish 8th in the Northeast. The Butler Projections has them finishing 3rd. That's something to be excited about, right?

Of course the Gaels will be pumped. Who wouldn't? But everyone else in the Northeast won't be excited because they don't just ruin one team's party, but four.

If Iona finished 8th, then six teams from the Northeast make it to NCAAs. If they finish 3rd, then just the two auto-qualifiers make it.

Apologies to Syracuse, Cornell, Harvard, Boston College. Don't shoot the messengers.

Now, we said that every team in the NCAA is affected by every other team. They are. We've just explained what'll happen in the Northeast if Iona finishes 8th, but what does that mean for the other regions? After all, the Kolas Calculator currently has six teams from the Northeast making it to Terre Haute.

What happens to those other four spots? Check back tomorrow for the rest of the women's projections and potential prophecies.

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Kolas Calculator Explanation (the abbreviated version)

If you're confused about the Kolas Calculator, here's a quick rundown. The teams that are listed in the top two spots are there because of their respective regional ranking in USTFCCCA's Regional Poll. They make it to Terre Haute automatically.

The team's listed under the "at-large" section make it by accumulating wins against teams that eventually qualify for NCAAs. For example, the first team (team #19) to receive an at-large bid based on the amount of wins they have received by beating auto-qualifying teams throughout the season (last weekend in September through regional weekend).

The next team (team #20) can accumulate "wins" based on all of the auto teams, plus team #19 and so on. After that, there's an entire procedure for tiebreakers, pushes, and blocks, but this is the condensed Kolas explanation.