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USTFCCCA ::: DI Regional Cross Country Rankings - Week #3

USTFCCCA ::: DI Regional Cross Country Rankings - Week #3

Sep 24, 2012 by FloTrack Staff
USTFCCCA ::: DI Regional Cross Country Rankings - Week #3

 

DI Regional Cross Country Rankings: 2012 Week #3

 

September 24, 2012   

 

NEW ORLEANS – The regional-rankings report for NCAA Division I cross country has reached the third regular-season week. Although the NCAA’s “counting period” for head-to-head wins has begun, many teams sat idle this weekend, opting to start the main part of their seasons this upcoming weekend.

 

With the largely quiet week around the nation, there was only one region in which changes were made to the top-two teams. In the women’s Southeast region, NC State is now the No. 1 team and North Carolina is No. 2.

 

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), Providence (Northeast), Florida State (South), Arkansas (South Central), Virginia (Southeast), Washington (West).

 

New to the regional rankings for the first time this year is LSU’s women who are ranked No. 11 in the South Central region.

 

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 #3 -- September 24

national poll release: September 25

next regional release: October 1

         

GREAT LAKES Region

Rank

School

Location

Conference

Last Week

1

Wisconsin

Madison, Wis.

Big Ten

1

2

Indiana

Bloomington, Ind.

Big Ten

2

3

Notre Dame

South Bend, Ind.

Big East

3

4

Michigan

Ann Arbor, Mich.

Big Ten

4

5

Ohio State

Columbus, Ohio

Big Ten

5

6

Michigan State

East Lansing, Mich.

Big Ten

6

7

Eastern Michigan

Ypsilanti, Mich.

Mid-American

8

8

Butler

Indianapolis, Ind.

Atlantic 10

7

9

Indiana State

Terre Haute, Ind.

Missouri Valley

9

10

Miami (Ohio)

Oxford, Ohio

Mid-American

10

11

Central Michigan

Mount Pleasant, Mich.

Mid-American

11

12

Purdue

West Lafayette, Ind.

Big Ten

12

13

Marquette

Milwaukee, Wis.

Big East

13

14

Kent State

Kent, Ohio

Mid-American

14

15

Cincinnati

Cincinnati, Ohio

Big East

15

         
         

MID-ATLANTIC Region

Rank

School

Location

Conference

Last Week

1

Princeton

Princeton, N.J.

Ivy

1

2

Georgetown

Washington, D.C.

Big East

2

3

Villanova

Villanova, Pa.

Big East

3

4

Penn State

State College, Pa.

Big Ten

4

5

La Salle

Philadelphia, Pa.

Atlantic 10

5

6

Navy

Annapolis, Md.

Patriot

6

7

Duquesne

Pittsburgh, Pa.

Atlantic 10

7

8

Saint Joseph's

Philadelphia, Pa.

Atlantic 10

8

9

Bucknell

Lewisburg, Pa.

Patriot

9

10

American

Washington, D.C.

Patriot

10

11

Lehigh

Bethlehem, Pa.

Patriot

11

12

Penn

Philadelphia, Pa.

Ivy

12

13

Rider

Lawrenceville, N.J.

Metro Atlantic

13

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

Minnesota

Minneapolis, Minn.

Big Ten

3

4

Tulsa

Tulsa, Okla.

Conference USA

4

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

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

Drake

Des Moines, Iowa

Missouri Valley

14

15

Southeast Missouri

Cape Girardeau, Mo.

Ohio Valley

15

         
         

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

6

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

Utah State

Logan, Utah

WAC

10

11

Southern Utah

Cedar City, Utah

Big Sky

11

12

UTEP

El Paso,Texas

Conference USA

12

13

New Mexico State

Las Cruces, N.M.

WAC

13

14

Texas Tech

Lubbock, Texas

Big 12

14

15

Utah Valley

Orem, Utah

Great West

15

         
         

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

Harvard

Cambridge, Mass.

Ivy

8

9

Boston University

Boston, Mass.

America East

9

10

Yale

New Haven, Conn.

Ivy

10

11

Boston College

Chestnut Hill, Mass.

ACC

11

12

Buffalo

Buffalo, N.Y.

Mid-American

12

13

Army

West Point, N.Y.

Patriot

13

14

Central Connecticut State

New Britain, Conn.

Northeast

14

15

New Hampshire

Durham, N.H.

America East

15

         
         

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

Georgia Tech

Atlanta, Ga.

ACC

6

7

Mississippi State

Starkville, Miss.

SEC

7

8

Kennesaw State

Kennesaw, Ga.

Atlantic Sun

8

9

Mississippi

Oxford, Miss.

SEC

9

10

East Tennessee State

Johnson City, Tenn.

Atlantic Sun

10

11

Memphis

Memphis, Tenn.

Conference USA

11

12

Chattanooga

Chattanooga, Tenn.

Southern

12

13

Belmont

Nashville, Tenn.

Ohio Valley

13

14

Mercer

Macon, Ga.

Atlantic Sun

14

15

North Florida

Jacksonville, Fla.

Atlantic Sun

15

         
         

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

UT Arlington

Arlington, Texas

WAC

11

12

Baylor

Waco, Texas

Big 12

12

13

UTPA

Edinburg, Texas

Great West

13

14

Central Arkansas

Conway, Ark.

Southland

14

15

Sam Houston State

Huntsville, Texas

Southland

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

Virginia

Charlottesville, Va.

ACC

4

4

Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, Va.

ACC

3

5

Duke

Durham, N.C.

ACC

5

6

Louisville

Louisville, Ky.

Big East

6

7

William and Mary

Williamsburg, Va.

Colonial

7

8

North Carolina

Chapel Hill, N.C.

ACC

8

9

George Mason

Fairfax, Va.

Colonial

9

10

Wake Forest

Winston-Salem, N.C.

ACC

10

11

Richmond

Richmond, Va.

Atlantic 10

11

12

Appalachian State

Boone, N.C.

Southern

12

13

Liberty

Lynchburg, Va.

Big South

13

14

High Point

High Point, N.C.

Big South

NR

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

Arizona

Tucson, Ariz.

Pac-12

7

6

Arizona State

Tempe, Ariz.

Pac-12

8

7

Cal Poly

San Luis Obispo, Calif.

Big West

9

8

California

Berkeley, Calif.

Pac-12

5

9

Washington State

Pullman, Wash.

Pac-12

6

10

Washington

Seattle, Wash.

Pac-12

10

11

Boise State

Boise, Idaho

Mountain West

11

12

UC Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, Calif.

Big West

13

13

San Francisco

San Francisco, Calif.

West Coast

15

14

Gonzaga

Spokane, Wash.

West Coast

14

15

Sacramento State

Sacramento, Calif.

Big Sky

12

 

USTFCCCA

NCAA Division I

Women's Cross Country Regional Team Rankings

2012 Week #3 -- September 24

national poll release: September 25

next regional release: October 1

         

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

Butler

Indianapolis, Ind.

Atlantic 10

7

4

Toledo

Toledo, Ohio

Mid-American

3

5

Notre Dame

South Bend, Ind.

Big East

4

6

Wisconsin

Madison, Wis.

Big Ten

5

7

Indiana

Bloomington, Ind.

Big Ten

6

8

Ohio

Athens, Ohio

Mid-American

10

9

Ohio State

Columbus, Ohio

Big Ten

8

10

Purdue

West Lafayette, Ind.

Big Ten

9

11

Miami (Ohio)

Oxford, Ohio

Mid-American

11

12

Indiana State

Terre Haute, Ind.

Missouri Valley

12

13

Marquette

Milwaukee, Wis.

Big East

13

14

Akron

Akron, Ohio

Mid-American

14

15

Central Michigan

Mount Pleasant, Mich.

Mid-American

15

         
         

MID-ATLANTIC Region

Rank

School

Location

Conference

Last Week

1

Georgetown

Washington, D.C.

Big East

1

2

Villanova

Villanova, Pa.

Big East

2

3

Penn State

State College, Pa.

Big Ten

3

4

West Virginia

Morgantown, W. Va.

Big 12

5

5

Princeton

Princeton, N.J.

Ivy

4

6

Duquesne

Pittsburgh, Pa.

Atlantic 10

9

7

Navy

Annapolis, Md.

Patriot

6

8

La Salle

Philadelphia, Pa.

Atlantic 10

7

9

Penn

Philadelphia, Pa.

Ivy

8

10

Bucknell

Lewisburg, Pa.

Patriot

10

11

Delaware

Newark, Del.

Colonial

11

12

Saint Joseph's

Philadelphia, Pa.

Atlantic 10

12

13

Rutgers

Piscataway, N.J.

Big East

13

14

Maryland

College Park, Md.

ACC

14

15

Monmouth

West Long Branch, N.J.

Northeast

15

         
         

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

Iowa

Iowa City, Iowa

Big Ten

4

5

Northwestern

Evanston, Ill.

Big Ten

5

6

Tulsa

Tulsa, Okla.

Conference USA

6

7

Illinois

Champaign, Ill.

Big Ten

7

8

Missouri

Columbia, Mo.

SEC

8

9

Loyola-Chicago

Chicago, Ill.

Horizon

9

10

Bradley

Peoria, Ill.

Missouri Valley

10

11

Wichita State

Wichita, Kan.

Missouri Valley

11

12

North Dakota State

Fargo, N.D.

Summit League

12

13

Illinois State

Normal, Ill.

Missouri Valley

13

14

Kansas

Lawrence, Kan.

Big 12

14

15

South Dakota

Vermillion, S.D.

Summit League

15

         
         

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

5

5

BYU

Provo, Utah

West Coast

4

6

Utah

Salt Lake City, Utah

Pac-12

6

7

Air Force

Colorado Springs, Colo.

Mountain West

7

8

Southern Utah

Cedar City, Utah

Big Sky

8

9

New Mexico State

Las Cruces, N.M.

WAC

9

10

Montana State

Bozeman, Mont.

Big Sky

10

11

Texas Tech

Lubbock, Texas

Big 12

11

12

UTEP

El Paso,Texas

Conference USA

12

13

Wyoming

Laramie, Wyo.

Mountain West

13

14

Utah State

Logan, Utah

WAC

13

15

Colorado State

Fort Collins, Colo.

Mountain West

15

         
         

NORTHEAST Region

Rank

School

Location

Conference

Last Week

1

Providence

Providence, R.I.

Big East

1

2

Boston College

Chestnut Hill, Mass.

ACC

2

3

Columbia

New York, N.Y.

Ivy

8

4

Cornell

Ithaca, N.Y.

Ivy

4

5

Syracuse

Syracuse, N.Y.

Big East

3

6

Dartmouth

Hanover, N.H.

Ivy

5

7

Yale

New Haven, Conn.

Ivy

6

8

Connecticut

Storrs, Conn.

Big East

7

9

Iona

New Rochelle, N.Y.

Metro Atlantic

9

10

Stony Brook

Stony Brook, N.Y.

America East

10

11

Harvard

Cambridge, Mass.

Ivy

11

12

Brown

Providence, R.I.

Ivy

12

13

Vermont

Burlington, Vt.

America East

13

14

New Hampshire

Durham, N.H.

America East

14

15

Army

West Point, N.Y.

Patriot

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

Mississippi

Oxford, Miss.

SEC

4

5

Mississippi State

Starkville, Miss.

SEC

5

6

Georgia

Athens, Ga.

SEC

6

7

Lipscomb

Nashville, Tenn.

Atlantic Sun

7

8

Alabama

Tuscaloosa, Ala.

SEC

8

9

Georgia State

Atlanta, Ga.

Sun Belt

9

10

Belmont

Nashville, Tenn.

Ohio Valley

10

11

Georgia Tech

Atlanta, Ga.

ACC

11

12

North Florida

Jacksonville, Fla.

Atlantic Sun

12

13

Auburn

Auburn, Ala.

SEC

13

14

Tennessee

Knoxville, Tenn.

SEC

14

15

South Alabama

Mobile, Ala.

Sun Belt

15

         
         

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

5

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

NR

12

Sam Houston State

Huntsville, Texas

Southland

11

13

Arkansas State

Jonesboro, Ark.

Sun Belt

12

14

McNeese State

Lake Charles, La.

Southland

13

15

UT Arlington

Arlington, Texas

WAC

14

         
         

SOUTHEAST Region

Rank

School

Location

Conference

Last Week

1

NC State

Raleigh, N.C.

ACC

2

2

North Carolina

Chapel Hill, N.C.

ACC

3

3

Duke

Durham, N.C.

ACC

5

4

Kentucky

Lexington, Ky.

SEC

7

5

Virginia

Charlottesville, Va.

ACC

1

6

Clemson

Clemson, S.C.

ACC

4

7

William and Mary

Williamsburg, Va.

Colonial

6

8

Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, Va.

ACC

8

9

East Carolina

Greenville, N.C.

Conference USA

9

10

Eastern Kentucky

Richmond, Ky.

Ohio Valley

10

11

Elon

Elon, N.C.

Southern

11

12

Richmond

Richmond, Va.

Atlantic 10

12

13

Charlotte

Charlotte, N.C.

Atlantic 10

13

14

Appalachian State

Boone, N.C.

Southern

14

15

Liberty

Lynchburg, Va.

Big South

15

         
         

WEST Region

Rank

School

Location

Conference

Last Week

1

Washington

Seattle, Wash.

Pac-12

1

2

Oregon

Eugene, Ore.

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

UC Davis

Davis, Calif.

Big West

7

7

Arizona State

Tempe, Ariz.

Pac-12

8

8

Portland

Portland, Ore.

West Coast

6

9

California

Berkeley, Calif.

Pac-12

9

10

UCLA

Los Angeles, Calif.

Pac-12

NR

11

Cal Poly

San Luis Obispo, Calif.

Big West

10

12

Gonzaga

Spokane, Wash.

West Coast

11

13

Oregon State

Corvallis, Ore.

Pac-12

12

14

Loyola Marymount

Los Angeles, Calif.

West Coast

13

15

UC Riverside

Riverside, Calif.

Big West

NR