Hunter is up against Sam Chelanga and Leonard Korir while Kelati faces Keira D'Amato.  

NAU (60 points), Notre Dame (87), and Oklahoma State (142) were the three best teams at NCAAs last year. NAU has gotten worse, Notre Dame has improved a little, and Oklahoma State has improved a lot. That means it should be pretty close between the three of them on Saturday. NAU has won 4 of the last 5 men's XC titles. Oklahoma State won 3 of 4 from 2009-12. Will the blue bloods prevail in Tallahassee, or will Notre Dame win its first title since 1957?

NC State, New Mexico, Colorado, and BYU all have a legit shot to win on Saturday. We make the case for and against each team but ultimately go with Laurie Henes' NC State Wolfpack. How cool would it be for her to win NCAA title #1 after 30-years at her alma mater?

It's been 10 years since a woman repeated as NCAA XC champ, but Alabama's Chelangat has a chance to do it and is undefeated in 2021. BYU's Orton might be her biggest threat, while West Virginia's Ceili McCabe is also undefeated. *MB: NCAA Predicted Women's Individual top 10

A second NCAA XC title would vault Mantz into the NCAA XC pantheon, but to win he'll have to beat a loaded field featuring Kiptoo, Adriaan Wildschutt, Cooper Teare, Nico Young, and more. *MB: NCAA Predicted Men's Individual top 10 

There are around a dozen athletes who will get to run NCAA XC for a 5th time on Saturday. We introduce you to a few of them, plus the 26-year-old ninth-year senior (and mother) who first ran NCAA XC in 2013.

We will be running Bo Waggoner's computer program all day to project the 2021 NCAA XC fields.

Find out who is projected to qualify for the NCAA Cross Country Championships thanks to the amazing work of Bo Waggoner and xcquals.com.

Find out who is projected to qualify for the NCAA Cross Country Championships thanks to the amazing work of Bo Waggoner and xcquals.com.

With the 2021 World Marathon Majors season in the books, Jonathan Gault analyzes what we learned from a busy fall of marathon racing.

Droddy and True had posted big results recently but both entered NYC Marathon race week without pro deals. What does that say about the state of professional running in the US?

The greatest distance runner in history will race NYC for the 1st time as will American Ben True. Can True break the American NY course record? *MB: NYC men: How do Bekele and Kandie do? Can Ben True break the American course record and run 2:08 in NY?

Not since Frank Shorter in 1972 has an athlete won the Olympics and doubled back to win a fall marathon later that year. That's what Jepchirchir is trying to do on Sunday in New York.

Two years after botching the selection process for the Pan American Games, USATF has messed up again, leaving athletes in a web of confusion and frustration. Earlier this week, they announced a radically different marathon qualifying system that is based on just four races - three of which have already been held.

Jonathan Gault tries to put Letesenbet Gidey's amazing WR in perspective for you. Is she the greatest women's distance talent ever? Or was it the shoes? Or something more sinister?

Yehualaw's 63:44 at the Antrim Coast Half Marathon in August came on a course that was 54m short, meaning the WR is now Ruth Chepngetich's 64:02.

If this race doesn't get you fired up as a running fan, it's hard to imagine what else would. The half marathon WR holder (Yalemzerf Yehualaw) is racing the 5,000/10,000 WR holder (Letesenbet Gidey) on Sunday in Valencia. Rhonex Kipruto (57:49 pb), 5k world champ Muktar Edris, and Kenyan XC champ Rodgers Kwemoi headline the men's race which saw four men break the WR last year. *MB: Set your alarm clocks now (2:30 am ET Sunday). The women are going for the WR in Valencia. Will we see a 62 minute half?

NAU is still incredible, Colorado is back, and the men's individual battle at NCAAs is going to be awesome. Plus we project how the top teams would have fared today if they had all run their studs.

We can't ever remember seeing this happen in an elite marathon and doubt we'll ever see it again.