NCAA DIII National Team Rankings
NCAA DIII National Team Rankings
UW-La Crosse Men Bolster Position Atop the Division III Indoor National Team Rankings
By Kyle Terwillegar, USTFCCCA
February 5, 2014
NEW ORLEANS – Defending men’s Division III indoor champion UW-La Crosse and the Wartburg women retained their positions atop the third edition of the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Division III National Team Computer Rankings released Wednesday.
MEN’S TOP FIVE |
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UW-La Crosse 225.04 pts |
UW-Eau Claire 141.67 pts |
Mount Union 128.74 pts |
UW-Whitewater 107.53 pts |
North Central (Ill.) 104.91 pts |
| View Complete Men’s Rankings | ||||
The UW-La Crosse not only emerged victorious at the USTFCCCA DIII National Meet of the Week, the UW-Whitewater Leonard "Squig" Converse Invitational, but the Eagles also managed to cushion their team rankings score advantage over the rest of the country.
En route to defeating a field in the team competition at UW-Whitewater that featured No. 4 UW-Whitewater, No. 5 North Central (Ill.) and No. 7 UW-Oshkosh, the Eagles recorded two new top-10 national marks with John Cooper’s third-ranked weight throw performance and Joe DeRosier’s No. 9 performance in the 60-meter hurdles.
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Those two particular performances were key in improving UW-La Crosse’s team rankings score by 9.5 points to 225.04.
Compounding the Eagles’ improvement were decreased team rankings scores for No. 2 UW-Eau Claire (141.67), No. 3 Mount Union (128.74) and No. 4 UW-Whitewater (107.53).
North Central improved two spots from a week ago, largely behind the strength of John Crain’s top-ranked mile performance.
Haverford (103.80) remained steady at No. 6, while UW-Oshkosh (94.19) dropped two spots from a week ago to No. 7.
No. 8 Monmouth (Ill.) (67.10), No. 9 MIT (60.76) and No. 10 Bates (58.22) rounded out the top 10.
Women’s No. 1 Wartburg may have fallen to new No. 2 UW-La Crosse at the Wartburg Indoor Select this past weekend, but the Knights were able to hold off the Eagles from claiming the top spot in the rankings.
The National Team Computer Rankings do not necessarily predict performance in a smaller meet – in this case seven teams – but rather aim to project team performance at a large, top-heavy National Championship meet.
WOMEN’S TOP FIVE |
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Wartburg 185.00 pts |
UW-La Crosse 146.38 pts |
MIT 133.25 pts |
UW-Oshkosh 107.59 pts |
Williams 93.62 pts |
| View Complete Women’s Rankings | ||||
In fact, despite losing 290½ – 208, Wartburg was able to record enough top-tier marks to improve its team rankings score by 12.78 points to an even 185.00. The bulk of that improvement came via Libbey Schubert’s second-ranked performance at 200 meters.
UW-La Crosse used the same meet to generate a 35.51-point improvement to its team rankings score, which checked in at 146.38. The Eagles were powered by Jaime Ludwigson’s top-ranked performance at 200 meters and No. 3 triple jumper Bria Halama.
MIT (133.25) dropped a spot to No. 3 to make way for UW-La Crosse, while No. 4 UW-Oshkosh (107.59), No. 5 Williams (93.62) and No. 6 UW-Whitewater (92.32) all remained put.
Two-time defending cross country champion Johns Hopkins (82.59) improved three spots to No. 7.
No. 8 St. Thomas (Minn.) (82.04), No. 9 Emory (62.44) and No. 10 Washington (Mo.) (62.12) completed the top 10.
The Dickinson men took the title of "biggest mover" this week with a 45-spot improvement to No. 21, while the Westminster (Pa.) women jumped up 19 positions to No. 17.
The national team rankings will be complied by mathematical formulae based on national descending order lists and data taken from previous seasons. For the preseason ranking and early-season rankings, data will be taken from previous seasons as well as the current season.
The purpose and methodology of the rankings is to create an index that showcases the teams that have the best potential of achieving the top spots in the national team race. Rankings points do not equate with NCAA Championships team points. A full description of the rankings can be found here.
The USTFCCCA National Team Computer Rankings should not be referred to as a “poll” as no voting occurs during the process.
A significant wild card in these projections are the addition of the 200 meters and 3000 meters as events at the NCAA Division III Indoor Championships for the first time. Data from the 2013 used for preseason marks do not include marks made in those two events, but marks from the current 2014 season in those events have been included.
USTFCCCA NCAA DIVISION III |
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MEN’S INDOOR TRACK & FIELD NATIONAL TEAM COMPUTER RANKINGS (TOP 25) |
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2014 Week #2 — February 5 |
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| next ranking: February 12 | |||||
| Rank | School | Points | Conference | Head Coach (Yr) | Last Week |
| 1 | UW-La Crosse | 225.04 | WIAC | Josh Buchholtz (6th) | 1 |
| 2 | UW-Eau Claire | 141.67 | WIAC | Chip Schneider (12th) | 2 |
| 3 | Mount Union | 128.74 | OAC | Kevin Lucas (4th) | 3 |
| 4 | UW-Whitewater | 107.53 | WIAC | Mike Johnson (5th) | 4 |
| 5 | North Central (Ill.) | 104.91 | CCIW | Frank Gramarosso (4th) | 7 |
| 6 | Haverford | 103.80 | Centennial | Tom Donnelly (39th) | 6 |
| 7 | UW-Oshkosh | 94.19 | WIAC | Eamon McKenna (2nd) | 5 |
| 8 | Monmouth (Ill.) | 67.10 | Midwest Conference | Roger Haynes (31st) | 8 |
| 9 | MIT | 60.76 | NEWMAC | Halston Taylor (24th) | 11 |
| 10 | Bates | 58.22 | NESCAC | Al Fereshetian (19th) | 10 |
| 11 | Central (Iowa) | 57.21 | IIAC | Joe Dunham (6th) | 9 |
| 12 | Tufts | 57.19 | NESCAC | Ethan Barron (9th) | 13 |
| 13 | SUNY Oneonta | 56.71 | SUNYAC | Angelo Posillico (1st) | 25 |
| 14 | UW-Stout | 53.01 | WIAC | Kyle Steiner (1st) | 29 |
| 15 | UW-Stevens Point | 51.20 | WIAC | Rick Witt (35th) | 12 |
| 16 | UW-Platteville | 50.69 | WIAC | Chris Rotzenberg (2nd) | 23 |
| 17 | Christopher Newport | 50.47 | CAC | Tyler Wingard (8th) | 15 |
| 18 | SUNY Cortland | 48.53 | SUNYAC | Steve Patrick (7th) | 19 |
| 19 | Wartburg | 47.35 | IIAC | Marcus Newsom (16th) | 14 |
| 20 | Carthage | 42.76 | CCIW | Brett Witt (9th) | 17 |
| 21 | Dickinson | 41.67 | Centennial | Don Nichter (24th) | 66 |
| 22 | Augustana (Ill.) | 38.63 | CCIW | Paul Olsen (45th) | 27 |
| 23 | Southern Maine | 36.89 | Little East | Steve Virgilio (5th) | 20 |
| 24 | Heidelberg | 34.82 | OAC | Briana Hess (4th) | 21 |
| 25 | Moravian | 33.88 | Landmark | Jesse Baumann (3rd) | 22 |
| Dropped out: No. 16 Greenville, No. 18 Buffalo State, No. 24 St. Thomas (Minn.) | |||||
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| Men’s Conference Index Top 10 | |||
| Rank | Conference | Points | Top 25 Teams |
| 1 | WIAC | 749.29 | 7 |
| 2 | NESCAC | 219.07 | 2 |
| 3 | OAC | 214.33 | 2 |
| 4 | CCIW | 203.47 | 3 |
| 5 | Centennial | 152.36 | 2 |
| 6 | SUNYAC | 130.40 | 2 |
| 7 | IIAC | 114.51 | 2 |
| 8 | MIAC | 86.19 | |
| 9 | NEWMAC | 83.41 | 1 |
| 10 | CAC | 80.69 | 1 |
USTFCCCA NCAA DIVISION III |
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WOMEN’S INDOOR TRACK & FIELD NATIONAL TEAM COMPUTER RANKINGS (TOP 25) |
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2014 Week #2 — February 5 |
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| next ranking: February 12 | |||||
| Rank | School | Points | Conference | Head Coach (Yr) | Last Week |
| 1 | Wartburg | 185.00 | IIAC | Marcus Newsom (16th) | 1 |
| 2 | UW-La Crosse | 146.38 | WIAC | Pat Healy (23rd) | 3 |
| 3 | MIT | 133.25 | NEWMAC | Halston Taylor (7th) | 2 |
| 4 | UW-Oshkosh | 107.59 | WIAC | Ben Dorsey (2nd) | 4 |
| 5 | Williams | 93.62 | NESCAC | Nate Hoey (1st) | 5 |
| 6 | UW-Whitewater | 92.32 | WIAC | Mike Johnson (3rd) | 6 |
| 7 | Johns Hopkins | 82.59 | Centennial | Bobby Van Allen (15th) | 10 |
| 8 | St. Thomas (Minn.) | 82.04 | MIAC | Joe Sweeney (34th) | 7 |
| 9 | Emory | 62.44 | UAA | John Curtin (29th) | 9 |
| 10 | Washington (Mo.) | 62.12 | UAA | Jeff Stiles (13th) | 8 |
| 11 | Wheaton (Mass.) | 61.41 | NEWMAC | Dave Cusano (3rd) | 11 |
| 12 | St. Scholastica | 54.30 | UMAC | Kirk Nauman (7th) | 20 |
| 13 | Illinois Wesleyan | 52.71 | CCIW | Chris Schumacher (17th) | 22 |
| 14 | North Central (Ill.) | 51.77 | CCIW | Kari Kluckhohn (11th) | 12 |
| 15 | Monmouth (Ill.) | 50.30 | Midwest Conference | Roger Haynes (14th) | 13 |
| 16 | Middlebury | 49.16 | NESCAC | Martin Beatty (26th) | 16 |
| 17 | Westminster (Pa.) | 47.16 | PAC | Tim McNeil (7th) | 36 |
| 18 | Amherst | 43.71 | NESCAC | Cassie Funke-Harris (2nd) | 19 |
| 19 | SUNY Cortland | 40.99 | SUNYAC | Steve Patrick (7th) | 15 |
| 20 | St. Lawrence | 38.49 | Liberty League | Kate Curran (6th) | 18 |
| 21 | Colby | 36.76 | NESCAC | Deb Aitken (29th) | 21 |
| 22 | UW-Stout | 35.02 | WIAC | Kyle Steiner (1st) | 14 |
| 23 | Rowan | 34.72 | NJAC | Derick “Ringo” Adamson (7th) | 24 |
| 24 | Tufts | 34.71 | NESCAC | Kristen Morwick (14th) | 23 |
| 25 | Stevens | 31.88 | Empire 8 | Justin Wood (2nd) | 26 |
| Dropped out: No. 17 Rhode Island College, No. 25 Denison | |||||
| View All Teams Beyond the Top 25 | |||||
| Women’s Conference Index Top 10 | |||
| Rank | Conference | Points | Top 25 Teams |
| 1 | WIAC | 432.10 | 4 |
| 2 | NESCAC | 304.68 | 5 |
| 3 | NEWMAC | 241.42 | 2 |
| 4 | IIAC | 222.58 | 1 |
| 5 | UAA | 157.93 | 2 |
| 6 | MIAC | 139.14 | 1 |
| 7 | CCIW | 133.79 | 2 |
| 8 | Centennial | 120.04 | 1 |
| 9 | OAC | 100.11 | |
| 10 | Midwest Conference | 84.85 | 1 |