USTFCCCA: DI Regional Cross Country Rankings - Week #5

Oct 14, 2012 by FloTrack Staff

DI Regional Cross Country Rankings: 2012 Week #5

October 14, 2012

NEW ORLEANS –The last few days marked the annual "pre-national" weekend, a grouping of the final major competitions in NCAA Division I cross country before conference championships take shape in a couple of weeks. There were several changes to the regional rankings according to the committee members of the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA).

Among the reshuffles, Wisconsin’s men’s team was dethroned by Michigan atop the Great Lakes region rankings. Colorado’s men’s squad was named the new No. 1 team in the Mountain region while Stanford’s men took over as head of the West. In women’s rankings, Duke is the new No. 1 in the Southeast and Stanford’s squad stands tall in the West.

PDF: Regional Rankings Summary | Week-by-Week

Cross Country Regional Rankings / National Polls Central

Current No. 1 teams by region as selected by regional representatives: Michigan (Great Lakes), Princeton (Mid-Atlantic), Oklahoma State (Midwest), Colorado (Mountain), Iona (Northeast), Florida State (South), Texas (South Central), Eastern Kentucky (Southeast), Stanford (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), Duke (Southeast), Stanford (West).

New to the regional rankings for the first time this year: MEN – Dayton (Great Lakes), Northern Iowa (Midwest), Eastern Illinois (Midwest), Florida A&M (South), South Alabama (South), and North Texas (South Central).

NCAA Division I Regional Championships will be held on Friday, November 9. NCAA DI Regional Championships Central .

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 #5 -- October 15
national poll release: October 16
next regional release: October 29 (next week off)

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


MID-ATLANTIC Region
Rank	School	Location	Conference	Last Week
1	Princeton	Princeton, N.J.	Ivy	1
2	Villanova	Villanova, Pa.	Big East	2
3	Georgetown	Washington, D.C.	Big East	3
4	Penn State	State College, Pa.	Big Ten	4
5	La Salle	Philadelphia, Pa.	Atlantic 10	5
6	Lehigh	Bethlehem, Pa.	Patriot	6
7	Saint Joseph's	Philadelphia, Pa.	Atlantic 10	7
8	Duquesne	Pittsburgh, Pa.	Atlantic 10	8
9	Navy	Annapolis, Md.	Patriot	9
10	Bucknell	Lewisburg, Pa.	Patriot	10
11	American	Washington, D.C.	Patriot	11
12	Penn	Philadelphia, Pa.	Ivy	12
13	Temple	Philadelphia, Pa.	Atlantic 10	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	Tulsa	Tulsa, Okla.	Conference USA	3
4	Iowa State	Ames, Iowa	Big 12	7
5	Kansas	Lawrence, Kan.	Big 12	6
6	Minnesota	Minneapolis, Minn.	Big Ten	4
7	Illinois	Champaign, Ill.	Big Ten	8
8	Missouri	Columbia, Mo.	SEC	5
9	Southern Illinois	Carbondale, Ill.	Missouri Valley	9
10	Iowa	Iowa City, Iowa	Big Ten	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	Northern Iowa	Cedar Falls, Iowa	Missouri Valley	NR
15	Eastern Illinois	Charleston, Ill.	Ohio Valley	NR


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


NORTHEAST Region
Rank	School	Location	Conference	Last Week
1	Iona	New Rochelle, N.Y.	Metro Atlantic	1
2	Columbia	New York, N.Y.	Ivy	3
3	Syracuse	Syracuse, N.Y.	Big East	2
4	Harvard	Cambridge, Mass.	Ivy	8
5	Dartmouth	Hanover, N.H.	Ivy	4
6	Providence	Providence, R.I.	Big East	5
7	Yale	New Haven, Conn.	Ivy	7
8	Boston College	Chestnut Hill, Mass.	ACC	11
9	Boston University	Boston, Mass.	America East	10
10	Cornell	Ithaca, N.Y.	Ivy	6
11	Brown	Providence, R.I.	Ivy	9
12	Buffalo	Buffalo, N.Y.	Mid-American	12
13	Marist	Poughkeepsie, N.Y.	Metro Atlantic	13
14	Army	West Point, N.Y.	Patriot	14
15	UMass	Amherst, Mass.	Atlantic 10	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	Georgia Tech	Atlanta, Ga.	ACC	9
5	Auburn	Auburn, Ala.	SEC	4
6	East Tennessee State	Johnson City, Tenn.	Atlantic Sun	6
7	Mississippi State	Starkville, Miss.	SEC	7
8	Florida A&M	Tallahassee, Fla.	MEAC	NR
9	Memphis	Memphis, Tenn.	Conference USA	10
10	Tennessee	Knoxville, Tenn.	SEC	5
11	Kennesaw State	Kennesaw, Ga.	Atlantic Sun	8
12	Chattanooga	Chattanooga, Tenn.	Southern	12
13	Middle Tennessee	Murfreesboro, Tenn.	Sun Belt	11
14	South Alabama	Mobile, Ala.	Sun Belt	NR
15	Mercer	Macon, Ga.	Atlantic Sun	13


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


SOUTHEAST Region
Rank	School	Location	Conference	Last Week
1	Eastern Kentucky	Richmond, Ky.	Ohio Valley	1
2	Duke	Durham, N.C.	ACC	5
3	Virginia Tech	Blacksburg, Va.	ACC	7
4	Louisville	Louisville, Ky.	Big East	8
5	William and Mary	Williamsburg, Va.	Colonial	2
6	Virginia	Charlottesville, Va.	ACC	3
7	North Carolina	Chapel Hill, N.C.	ACC	6
8	NC State	Raleigh, N.C.	ACC	4
9	Wake Forest	Winston-Salem, N.C.	ACC	9
10	Kentucky	Lexington, Ky.	SEC	15
11	George Mason	Fairfax, Va.	Colonial	10
12	UNCG	Greensboro, N.C.	Southern	NR
13	Richmond	Richmond, Va.	Atlantic 10	NR
14	Liberty	Lynchburg, Va.	Big South	14
15	Davidson	Davidson, N.C.	Southern	11


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

USTFCCCA
NCAA Division I
Women's Cross Country Regional Team Rankings
2012 Week #5 -- October 15
national poll release: October 16
next regional release: October 29 (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	Notre Dame	South Bend, Ind.	Big East	4
4	Toledo	Toledo, Ohio	Mid-American	3
5	Wisconsin	Madison, Wis.	Big Ten	6
6	Butler	Indianapolis, Ind.	Atlantic 10	5
7	Ohio State	Columbus, Ohio	Big Ten	8
8	Indiana	Bloomington, Ind.	Big Ten	7
9	Miami (Ohio)	Oxford, Ohio	Mid-American	10
10	Ohio	Athens, Ohio	Mid-American	9
11	Purdue	West Lafayette, Ind.	Big Ten	11
12	Marquette	Milwaukee, Wis.	Big East	12
13	Eastern Michigan	Ypsilanti, Mich.	Mid-American	14
14	Xavier	Cincinnati, Ohio	Atlantic 10	13
15	Central Michigan	Mount Pleasant, Mich.	Mid-American	NR


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	2
3	Villanova	Villanova, Pa.	Big East	3
4	Princeton	Princeton, N.J.	Ivy	4
5	West Virginia	Morgantown, W. Va.	Big 12	5
6	Navy	Annapolis, Md.	Patriot	7
7	La Salle	Philadelphia, Pa.	Atlantic 10	6
8	Penn	Philadelphia, Pa.	Ivy	9
9	Duquesne	Pittsburgh, Pa.	Atlantic 10	8
10	Bucknell	Lewisburg, Pa.	Patriot	10
11	Delaware	Newark, Del.	Colonial	11
12	Maryland	College Park, Md.	ACC	12
13	Rutgers	Piscataway, N.J.	Big East	13
14	Saint Joseph's	Philadelphia, Pa.	Atlantic 10	14
15	George Washington	Washington, D.C.	Atlantic 10	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	Northwestern	Evanston, Ill.	Big Ten	5
5	Illinois	Champaign, Ill.	Big Ten	4
6	Tulsa	Tulsa, Okla.	Conference USA	11
7	Iowa	Iowa City, Iowa	Big Ten	6
8	Wichita State	Wichita, Kan.	Missouri Valley	10
9	North Dakota State	Fargo, N.D.	Summit League	12
10	Illinois State	Normal, Ill.	Missouri Valley	15
11	Missouri	Columbia, Mo.	SEC	8
12	Kansas State	Manhattan, Kan.	Big 12	14
13	Loyola-Chicago	Chicago, Ill.	Horizon	7
14	Saint Louis	St. Louis, Mo.	Atlantic 10	NR
15	Southern Illinois	Carbondale, Ill.	Missouri Valley	NR


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	BYU	Provo, Utah	West Coast	5
5	Southern Utah	Cedar City, Utah	Big Sky	9
6	Utah	Salt Lake City, Utah	Pac-12	6
7	Air Force	Colorado Springs, Colo.	Mountain West	7
8	Colorado State	Fort Collins, Colo.	Mountain West	14
9	Northern Arizona	Flagstaff, Ariz.	Big Sky	4
10	New Mexico State	Las Cruces, N.M.	WAC	8
11	Utah Valley	Orem, Utah	Great West	NR
12	Utah State	Logan, Utah	WAC	NR
13	Wyoming	Laramie, Wyo.	Mountain West	13
14	Nevada	Reno, Nevada	Mountain West	15
15	Montana State	Bozeman, Mont.	Big Sky	10


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


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


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


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


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