DI Regional Cross Country Rankings - Week 6 (Pre-Regional)

Oct 29, 2012 by FloTrack Staff

DI Regional Cross Country Rankings: 2012 Week 6 (Pre-Regional)

October 29, 2012

NEW ORLEANS – The final regular-season regional rankings for NCAA Division I cross country have been released by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA). The rankings come just hours after the final conference championships of the season and are the last evaluations of the NCAA landscape before regional championships that will be held Friday, November 2.

Wisconsin’s men once again gained top-billing as the team to beat in the Great Lakes region in the latest rankings. On the women’s side, Oregon is the new No. 1 team in the West.

Current No. 1 teams by region as selected by regional representatives: Wisconsin (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), Oregon (West).

New to the regional rankings for the first time this year: MEN – South Dakota (Midwest), Florida Gulf Coast (South); WOMEN — Pittsburgh (Mid-Atlantic).

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 #6 -- October 29 (Pre-Regional)
national poll release: October 30
next regional release: FINAL, NCAA Regional Championships (November 9)

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


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


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	Illinois	Champaign, Ill.	Big Ten	7
5	Missouri	Columbia, Mo.	SEC	8
6	Kansas	Lawrence, Kan.	Big 12	5
7	Iowa State	Ames, Iowa	Big 12	4
8	Minnesota	Minneapolis, Minn.	Big Ten	6
9	Southern Illinois	Carbondale, Ill.	Missouri Valley	9
10	Loyola-Chicago	Chicago, Ill.	Horizon	11
11	South Dakota State	Brookings, S.D.	Summit League	12
12	Wichita State	Wichita, Kan.	Missouri Valley	13
13	Iowa	Iowa City, Iowa	Big Ten	10
14	Eastern Illinois	Charleston, Ill.	Ohio Valley	15
15	South Dakota	Vermillion, S.D.	Summit League	NR


MOUNTAIN Region
Rank	School	Location	Conference	Last Week
1	Colorado	Boulder, Colo.	Pac-12	1
2	BYU	Provo, Utah	West Coast	2
3	New Mexico	Albuquerque, N.M.	Mountain West	3
4	Northern Arizona	Flagstaff, Ariz.	Big Sky	4
5	Air Force	Colorado Springs, Colo.	Mountain West	5
6	UTEP	El Paso,Texas	Conference USA	6
7	Colorado State	Fort Collins, Colo.	Mountain West	9
8	Texas Tech	Lubbock, Texas	Big 12	12
9	Weber State	Ogden, Utah	Big Sky	10
10	Southern Utah	Cedar City, Utah	Big Sky	11
11	Montana State	Bozeman, Mont.	Big Sky	8
12	Wyoming	Laramie, Wyo.	Mountain West	7
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	Syracuse	Syracuse, N.Y.	Big East	3
3	Columbia	New York, N.Y.	Ivy	2
4	Providence	Providence, R.I.	Big East	6
5	Dartmouth	Hanover, N.H.	Ivy	5
6	Cornell	Ithaca, N.Y.	Ivy	10
7	Harvard	Cambridge, Mass.	Ivy	4
8	Yale	New Haven, Conn.	Ivy	7
9	Boston College	Chestnut Hill, Mass.	ACC	8
10	Boston University	Boston, Mass.	America East	9
11	Stony Brook	Stony Brook, N.Y.	America East	NR
12	Brown	Providence, R.I.	Ivy	11
13	Buffalo	Buffalo, N.Y.	Mid-American	12
14	Marist	Poughkeepsie, N.Y.	Metro Atlantic	13
15	New Hampshire	Durham, N.H.	America East	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	East Tennessee State	Johnson City, Tenn.	Atlantic Sun	6
5	Georgia Tech	Atlanta, Ga.	ACC	4
6	Tennessee	Knoxville, Tenn.	SEC	10
7	Auburn	Auburn, Ala.	SEC	5
8	Mississippi State	Starkville, Miss.	SEC	7
9	Florida A&M	Tallahassee, Fla.	MEAC	8
10	Memphis	Memphis, Tenn.	Conference USA	9
11	Kennesaw State	Kennesaw, Ga.	Atlantic Sun	11
12	Chattanooga	Chattanooga, Tenn.	Southern	12
13	Middle Tennessee	Murfreesboro, Tenn.	Sun Belt	13
14	Florida Gulf Coast	Fort Myers, Fla.	Atlantic Sun	NR
15	Mississippi	Oxford, Miss.	SEC	NR


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	UT Arlington	Arlington, Texas	WAC	8
7	Rice	Houston, Texas	Conference USA	6
8	Stephen F. Austin	Nacogdoches, Texas	Southland	9
9	Texas A&M-Corpus Christi	Corpus Christi, Texas	Southland	7
10	Central Arkansas	Conway, Ark.	Southland	10
11	UTSA	San Antonio, Texas	WAC	11
12	Baylor	Waco, Texas	Big 12	12
13	Ark.-Little Rock	Little Rock, Ark.	Sun Belt	14
14	North Texas	Denton, Texas	Sun Belt	13
15	Houston	Houston, Texas	Conference USA	15


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


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

USTFCCCA
NCAA Division I
Women's Cross Country Regional Team Rankings
2012 Week #6 -- October 29 (Pre-Regional)
national poll release: October 30
next regional release: FINAL, NCAA Regional Championships (November 9)

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	3
5	Wisconsin	Madison, Wis.	Big Ten	5
6	Butler	Indianapolis, Ind.	Atlantic 10	6
7	Ohio State	Columbus, Ohio	Big Ten	7
8	Miami (Ohio)	Oxford, Ohio	Mid-American	9
9	Indiana	Bloomington, Ind.	Big Ten	8
10	Ohio	Athens, Ohio	Mid-American	10
11	Marquette	Milwaukee, Wis.	Big East	12
12	Purdue	West Lafayette, Ind.	Big Ten	11
13	Central Michigan	Mount Pleasant, Mich.	Mid-American	15
14	Xavier	Cincinnati, Ohio	Atlantic 10	14
15	Eastern Michigan	Ypsilanti, Mich.	Mid-American	13


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	West Virginia	Morgantown, W. Va.	Big 12	5
5	Princeton	Princeton, N.J.	Ivy	4
6	La Salle	Philadelphia, Pa.	Atlantic 10	7
7	Navy	Annapolis, Md.	Patriot	6
8	Duquesne	Pittsburgh, Pa.	Atlantic 10	9
9	Bucknell	Lewisburg, Pa.	Patriot	10
10	Penn	Philadelphia, Pa.	Ivy	8
11	Delaware	Newark, Del.	Colonial	11
12	Saint Joseph's	Philadelphia, Pa.	Atlantic 10	14
13	Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh, Pa.	Big East	NR
14	Rutgers	Piscataway, N.J.	Big East	13
15	Maryland	College Park, Md.	ACC	12


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


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


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


SOUTH Region
Rank	School	Location	Conference	Last Week
1	Florida State	Tallahassee, Fla.	ACC	1
2	Florida	Gainesville, Fla.	SEC	3
3	Vanderbilt	Nashville, Tenn.	SEC	2
4	Mississippi	Oxford, Miss.	SEC	5
5	Georgia	Athens, Ga.	SEC	4
6	Lipscomb	Nashville, Tenn.	Atlantic Sun	9
7	Belmont	Nashville, Tenn.	Ohio Valley	14
8	Georgia State	Atlanta, Ga.	Sun Belt	12
9	Mississippi State	Starkville, Miss.	SEC	8
10	Alabama	Tuscaloosa, Ala.	SEC	6
11	Samford	Birmingham, Ala.	Southern	10
12	Georgia Tech	Atlanta, Ga.	ACC	11
13	North Florida	Jacksonville, Fla.	Atlantic Sun	13
14	Tennessee	Knoxville, Tenn.	SEC	7
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	4
5	Texas A&M	College Station, Texas	SEC	5
6	TCU	Fort Worth, Texas	Big 12	8
7	UTSA	San Antonio, Texas	WAC	7
8	Baylor	Waco, Texas	Big 12	6
9	Arkansas State	Jonesboro, Ark.	Sun Belt	10
10	Rice	Houston, Texas	Conference USA	11
11	Stephen F. Austin	Nacogdoches, Texas	Southland	9
12	Sam Houston State	Huntsville, Texas	Southland	12
13	Lamar	Beaumont, Texas	Southland	NR
14	Texas A&M-Corpus Christi	Corpus Christi, Texas	Southland	14
15	UT Arlington	Arlington, Texas	WAC	13


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


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