Swarthmore’s 4+5 could have finished dead last today and they still would have beaten Otterbein, Lynchburg, Mount Union, and Tufts. Looks like there’s a real competition brewing for worst region.
On the other hand, Wilmington would have beat all those teams plus Colby, Middlebury and Case.
Two years in a row a bubble team from the East/former New England region has been let in only to prove that they unequivocally did not belong there, and somehow Tufts outdid WPI's performance from last year. The committee desperately needs to stop throating the East/NE
It's not just cross country. Same thing happens in other sports (women's soccer had my attention the last couple years, and it's ridiculous the picks the committee makes, bringing in every conceivable NE team and leaving great non-NE teams home).
Pomona Pitzer ranked first all year and didn’t podium. The new Wartburg? North Central with possibly a bigger choke? Al Carius boutta come back and snap these boys in shape
Wartburg men chocked again. They do this every year. They should of won. I can’t believe they let MIT beat them. They should be banned from the national meet for such a poor performance. Second place, smh.
You can do the math on their score - they can't get more than about 450 points from their bottom 2 and their top 3 is very strong. They could very easily score under 600 points, and that'll be good for at least top 25.
Everyone hating on Wilmington was dead wrong, UAA Fan is the smartest in the room. He knew what he was talking about from the start. Wilmington's three runners scored 192 points today! You could have given us 220, 221, 222, 223 points for our 4-7 and we still would have beat Case, Otterbein, Lynchburg, Mount Union, and Tufts. In reality, with our fourth and fifth runner doing better than that, Top 25 team. Damn the NCAA Committee for a crappy job picking teams.
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