What do you think are the top 5 collegiate cross country programs?
Mens and women's teams combined. All NCAA divisions.
What do you think are the top 5 collegiate cross country programs?
Mens and women's teams combined. All NCAA divisions.
One way to answer this would be to pick the usual suspects at NCAA championships like Oregon, Stanford, etc, but many of these programs are going to fail many other aspects of good collegiate running experiences.
As we always hear, it's a job to compete for a top NCAA athletic program and many athletes are left for dead along the way. The best programs, from an athlete's perspective, may be those that aren't at the very top of the national rankings.
Another way to answer would be to look up the top 5 teams from DI NCAAs and paste them here.
The question is way too vague to give a good answer. As the first reply says, there are a few ways to look at it.
From a strictly performance perspective, the top 5 collegiate XC programs right now are the ones that finished top 5 at NCAAs this month. If you want to know the best "combined" program, add up their combined finish. Colorado would be the best program since they had two runner-up finishes.
Looking at the last few years, not just this year...
Colorado, Oregon, Stanford, Georgetown, Michigan
also receiving votes: Wisco, UVA, UNC, Mich St, Arkansas, Villanova, OK State, Syracuse, Minnesota
women dominated, but also good: Notre Dame, Providence
"Also receiving votes" LOL
Depends if you're talking current/recent or all-time. Depends what you mean by "top". But probably only D1 teams make the list either way, sorry.
Miami is on the up-and-up.
Whadayathink wrote:
What do you think are the top 5 collegiate cross country programs?
Mens and women's teams combined. All NCAA divisions.
Top 5
Colorado
Oklahoma st
Wisconsin
Stanford
Northern Arizona
on the bubble
Oregon
BYU
Portland
Iona
Give Syracuse a few more years and they might crack the top 5
Just looking at this year's D1 NCAA Championship results, here are the scores of the schools that had both teams in the top 20 (1 point per place, lower score is better):
Colorado: 4
Oregon: 7
Syracuse: 13
Arkansas: 15
Michigan: 15
Stanford: 17
Washington: 18
Oklahoma State: 25
Boise State: 27
Georgetown: 30
Minnesota: 37
(BYU: 35, but not both in top 20 on both sides)
That is just one year, so it misses some schools that had down years on one or both sides, but it is certainly a good start.
probably the top 5 teams from Nats. roflcopter.
Virginia Tech is the best....GOOOOO HOKIES!!!!!!