Freakin disgrace. It’s a disgrace to begin with that the NCAA would give exclusive right for a low-quality stream to a company with a 30/mo paywall. And now this. If Flotrack doesn’t refund everyone who pulled up the stream there should be a boycott
Freakin disgrace. It’s a disgrace to begin with that the NCAA would give exclusive right for a low-quality stream to a company with a 30/mo paywall. And now this. If Flotrack doesn’t refund everyone who pulled up the stream there should be a boycott
Carleton nabs 3k national championships prime!
Very tight at 4K. This looks like it's headed to a winner's score > 100, as most expected.
Unbelievable. wrote:
Flotrack has exclusive rights to stream the meet, and then cant even stream it? This is unacceptable.
Lol. When will you guys learn. Flotrack is the devil!
im at work wrote:
I'm most familiar with the Midwest and central region. The reason I don't place wartburg and carleton in the podium is because both teams have been inconsistent (wartburg as of late and carleton early on). I realize wartburg was ranked fairly high early on but if you look at wartburg's meets, they aren't used to being on fast courses, . It may catch them off guard when suddenly the race is 30 seconds to 2 minutes faster then what they've been used to. When Carleton travelled to Connecticut, they got 8th. St lawrence beat them
I definitely went out on a limb with Carleton, expecting their upward swing to conclude with a nearly perfect race for the 5 scorers. But look at last year, a decidedly less than perfect race. They were podium contenders with nearly the same lineup, minus only Tris Dodge. But after a pileup and restart, there was another crash with multiple runners down at 600 meters, which affected two of their top four, Meikle and Dodge, losing 100-150 places. Mueller and Wilkinson got 17th and 38th, and Meikle regained 120 spots to place 94th. Dodge caught up too, but tripped again in the last 400 and slipped to 188th! What a way to conclude his career. The team still managed to place 14th.
Mueller and Meikle had slow starts coming off injuries, but are looking great now, and they should be hungry to improve on last year. Wilkinson is in brilliant form and while I have him for 4th, he could have a shot to win. The big question mark is how well do younger members Bowman and Lavey do. I have them scoring 83 and 106. Lavey was their #5 last year, and Santos #7, who could make up for, say, Bowman not performing up to par.
Wartburg was ranked 13th last year but placed 5th, and they only lost their #5 guy. Thus I thought it would be ill advised to rank them any lower this year, even with Caleb Appleton and Sam Pinkowski underperforming. Freiburger, Shirley-Fairbairn, Dalton, Collet and Conroy are making up for that.
I predicted CMS at 15th because Thomas D'Anieri did not run at regionals, I took the gamble that he's out injured. He very well may have just been banged up and is now rested and ready a week later. We'll see. If D'Anieri does run and is healthy enough to go All-American or close, I'd see them at 6th-7th.
This is interesting:
https://bijanmazaheri.wordpress.com/2019/11/19/diii-nationals-simulation-men/2-4 (Osmulski, Licari, Makrounis) really charging forward from 3K to 4K. But 5 and 6 (Beutel and Koch) actually dropped a little. Can they keep moving up?
Carleton overtakes St Olaf at 4k. Olaf is running well in a pack though, Carleton is spread out across the field.
D'Anieri is 14th. Guess he's healthy!
Mueller and Meikle are moving up but were too far back at 6K. Unless they rally HARD.
Holy cow. This could be the end of NCC 's streak
Very tight with a mile to go. Probably 4-5 teams with a chance still.
Okay, Mueller is up to 23rd, but Meikle still at 104.
West coast showing their rage at being underrated.
wow..... wrote:
Holy cow. This could be the end of NCC 's streak
Perhaps but they are trending in the right direction over the course of the race.
They certainly do- Sagehens FTW !!!???
Individual- Watson
Team- Pomona
Can anyone on site confirm??
funny how Pomona Pitzer can win a national title but can't pull off a conference title...
I'd love a first hand account. It looks to me like North Central got out pretty slowly, sitting 23rd at 1K. 5 of 7 were 191 or higher at that point. Osmulski was ahead of that group but not by much, sitting 143rd at 1K and 82nd at 3K.
Is DIII just historically weak this year? So many weird results.
Some of the pre-race favorites for the podium, like Carnegie Mellon and Wartburg, seem to have totally collapsed. Pinkowski didn't even score for Wartburg, probably hurt them the most...
Congrats to Pamona! 1st title. The conditions played in and the start (I’d assume - live feed was nonexistent) was pretty rough for everyone. Williams with a great race to get 3rd by 1 behind NCC (we see experience really played a factor today).
Congrats to Watson for winning his first title as well!
crazy hot take wrote:
The warts are gonna podium. You heard it here first.