Official 2018 NCAA D1 XC Regional Discussion Thread - Who is going to the big dance?

Arkansas dominates the South Central women's race (any surprise) with a score of 21 (!!!), while Texas appears to grab the second auto with a score of 96, Texas State with 118

Anyone know what the lowest score ever achieved at a NCAA Regional race to win? Either gender, just curious on how this result compares to all-time.

Can you fix the formatting on the men's regional page? I'm seeing the rationale for selection all in one big line.

Latest projected women's qualifiers after South + South Central results.

No changes as Arkansas and Texas were expected to go 1-2. Anyone hoping to get a point from SMU was disappointed as SMU only finished 6th.

Arkansas

Texas

Florida

Florida St

Michigan

Michigan St

Villanova

Penn St

Iowa St

Oklahoma St

New Mexico

Colorado

Columbia

Syracuse

NC State

Furman

Oregon

Boise St

Wisconsin

Indiana

BYU

Notre Dame

Stanford

Minnesota

Ole Miss

Georgia Tech

Washington

Portland

Southern Utah

NAU

UCLA

Woah - there's snow in Buffalo! Perfect NCAA championship conditions!

https://twitter.com/FriarsXCTrack/status/1060923216296845312

C/M Runner wrote:

Woah - there's snow in Buffalo! Perfect NCAA championship conditions!

https://twitter.com/FriarsXCTrack/status/1060923216296845312

It has also rained quite a bit recently so the course should be a mud pit once again.

Great job with the coverage Jon and LRC!

For anyone who wants to play around with projected scenarios throughout the day, you can use

https://xcquals.com

, that's xcquals dot com. I will be trying to update it as regional results come in, but if I'm too slow you can plug in the results yourself.. Or just sit back and read the thread!

Northeast Region - women at 1 mile

Taylor Knibb (Cor) early leader with 5:44.0, followed closely by Shannon Malone (Syracuse) & Egle Morenaite (Iona) & Lisa Tertsch (Harvard). Columba got 3 in top 10.

Team scores at 1 mile:

Columbia - 49

Dartmouth - 91

Syracuse - 109

Yale - 118

Iona - 130

Harvard - 168

Northeast Region - women at 3k

Malone, Morenaite, Tertsch, Knibb, and Libby Kokes (Columbia) make top 5 pack in 10:47-10:48. Columbia still leads in team scoring

Columbia -49

Dartmouth - 83

Yale - 112

Syracuse - 115

Iona - 143

Cornell - 149

Harvard - 169

C/M Runner wrote:

Katrina Robinson grabs the South Central win with a time of 20:20.3, while Arkansas goes 1-2-3-4-11 (slow live results originally suggested a perfect score of 15, but now more runners are coming in).

1 Katrina ROBINSON FR Arkansas 20:20.3 5:27

2 Taylor WERNER JR Arkansas 20:29.0 +8 5:29

3 Lauren GREGORY SO Arkansas 20:29.0 +8 5:29

4 Carina VILJOEN JR Arkansas 20:33.9 +13 5:30

5 Hannah MILLER JR SMU 20:36.6 +16 5:31

6 Allyson GIRARD SR Texas A&M-CC 20:41.5 +21 5:32

7 Destiny COLLINS JR Texas 20:46.5 +26 5:34

8 Svenja OJSTERSEK SR SMU 20:51.8 +31 5:35

9 Alex CRUZ SR Texas 20:54.0 +33 5:36

10 Lourdes VIVAS DE LORENZI SO Rice 20:56.0 +35 5:36

Waiting on more runners to come in to get team scores...

From the splits it looked like Allyson Girard was leading at 5K then lost 20s to the field over the last K, yikes.

Northeast Regional - women

At 3k split, both Columbia and Dartmouth had all of their scorers in the top 20.

Northeast Regional - women finish

Shannon Malone (Syracuse) gets the individual win in 21:28.7. Egle Morenaite (Iona) holds off Lisa Tertsch (Harvard) for 2nd, 21:39.9 to 21:40.4. Libby Kokes (Columbia) 21:43.6 and Taylor Knibbs (Cornell) 21:49.0 round out the top 5.

Awaiting more runners before sharing scores.

Northeast Regional - women

Looks like Columbia and Dartmouth grab the autos, as Columbia wins the regional with a score of 41 while Dartmouth gets a score of 85, holding off Yale (87). Cornell 4th with 113. Heps/Ivy teams go 1-2-3-4.

Columbia got the win with 4 in the top 10.

Updated Northeast Regional women scores (top 10 teams only):

Columbia - 41

Dartmouth -88

Yale - 94

Cornell - 120

Iona - 143

Syracuse - 155

Brown - 182

Harvard - 231

BC - 271

Providence - 364

Oof Notre Dame women need a real #5

devils advocate wrote:

Great job with the coverage Jon and LRC!

For anyone who wants to play around with projected scenarios throughout the day, you can use

https://xcquals.com

, that's xcquals dot com. I will be trying to update it as regional results come in, but if I'm too slow you can plug in the results yourself.. Or just sit back and read the thread!

BTW - for the Northeast women, you don't have BC as an option for the top 10.

Michigan women put 5 in the top 16 with freshman Forsyth finishing 3rd.

Great battle for top two ind. that lasted entire last two miles side by side. Monson (WI) over Rohrer (ND) 20:12-20:18 with 6 sec separation in last 600m

MI takes it with 3-4-10-13-16

Watched on the Flopro stream, have to say I was impressed with a flo stream for the first time ever. They even went to a triple split screen after the finish to have one screen showing a live interview with Monson, one showing live results, and a finish line cam. Commentating was solid (no 18 year old spazzes) and coverage was smooth during race!

Beth Alford-Sullivan goes home devastated!

C/M Runner wrote:

Updated Northeast Regional women scores (top 10 teams only):

Columbia - 41

Dartmouth -88

Yale - 94

Cornell - 120

Iona - 143

Syracuse - 155

Brown - 182

Harvard - 231

BC - 271

Providence - 364

How about Cornell? A great run for them as they had been struggling the last few weeks and they got an individual qualifier in Taylor Knibb in 5th.Assuming only the top 2 teams go from the NE, She'd be the 4th individual going in 5th so it seems highly likley that an individual at large spot will go to Yale's Andrea Masterson in 6th.

Latest women's projections with NE, SE, S, SC, GL results all in:

Michigan

Wisconsin

Villanova

Penn St

Iowa St

Oklahoma St

New Mexico

Colorado

Columbia

Dartmouth

Florida St

Florida

Arkansas

Texas

NC State

Furman

Oregon

Boise St

Michigan St

BYU

Notre Dame

Indiana

Stanford

Washington

Portland

Southern Utah

UCLA

Oregon St

Minnesota

Ole Miss

NAU