Dhanam wrote:
Patrick Watson from Stevenson was not far behind all of those guys and has run 14:33 and 9:09 steeple...another possible dark horse pick.
This guy nailed it, 6th post first page
Dhanam wrote:
Patrick Watson from Stevenson was not far behind all of those guys and has run 14:33 and 9:09 steeple...another possible dark horse pick.
This guy nailed it, 6th post first page
A brilliant upset from Pomona-Pitzer. Lots of wild results, which is why XC is awesome.
North Central was 2nd as I predicted, but with a lot more points, extremely lucky to edge out Williams by 1 point! Washington U had a great race for 4th. Carnegie Mellon might be the biggest loser compared to their ranking, and my own depiction, a dismal 18th.
Besides North Central, I only correctly got Wis-La Crosse at 21st, and Bates in last. I spent all season looking at individual performances, but I'll probably end up doing much better in the DI prediction contest, which I spent only 20 minutes on. So it goes!
Watching the points jump around at the split markers was a lot of fun. Congrats to all teams.
Does anyone in Louisville know why NCC and WashU were so buried at the start? Were their boxes on the edge? I know that Tom Sawyer narrows hard about 400m in.
Pretty crazy that 2 podium teams were like 30th at the K.
Feed working for the women's race! Knock on wood.
Fastnbulbous wrote:
A brilliant upset from Pomona-Pitzer. Lots of wild results, which is why XC is awesome.
North Central was 2nd as I predicted, but with a lot more points, extremely lucky to edge out Williams by 1 point! Washington U had a great race for 4th. Carnegie Mellon might be the biggest loser compared to their ranking, and my own depiction, a dismal 18th.
Besides North Central, I only correctly got Wis-La Crosse at 21st, and Bates in last. I spent all season looking at individual performances, but I'll probably end up doing much better in the DI prediction contest, which I spent only 20 minutes on. So it goes!
I don't have a horse in the race, but in what way was North Central "lucky"? Looks to me like their 1 and 3-5 ran a pretty tough race after being buried at the start.
Lucky is getting 2nd by 1 point rather than 3rd by 1 point when they clearly didn't have their best performance.
Placings by region at Nationals- Women
New England: 3 Williams, 7 MIT, 8 Tufts, 14 Bates, 15 Middlebury, 23 Wesleyan : 3, 7, 8, 14, 15, 23
Atlantic: 10 SUNY Geneseo, 13 RPI, 18 Rochester, 25 Vassar, 26 Ithaca, 30 RIT : 10, 13, 18, 25, 26, 30
Great Lakes: 11 Oberlin, 16 Baldwin Wallace, 21 John Carroll, 27 Hope, 28 Allegheny, 31 Calvin : 11, 16, 21, 27, 28, 31
Midwest: 2 Wash U, 4 Chicago, 17 Wis Eau Claire 19 Wis La Crosse : 2, 4, 17, 19
South: 22 Emory, 29 Washington and Lee, 32 Centre : 22, 29, 32
West: 12 Pomona-Pitzer, 20 CMS : 12, 20
Mideast: 1 Johns Hopkins, 9 Dickinson, 24 Carnegie Mellon : 1, 9, 24
Central: 5 Carleton, 6 Wartburg : 5, 6
Fastnbulbous wrote:
Lucky is getting 2nd by 1 point rather than 3rd by 1 point when they clearly didn't have their best performance.
Who is "they" in that sentence? I don't think either team had their best race.
Beyond expectations:
Place vs. prediction.
3 DNC Thomas D'Anieri Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
5 14 Josh Schraeder Wis - La Crosse
6 15 David Fassbender WIS-Whitewater
7 19 Ethan Widlansky Pomona-Pitzer
12 28 Chase Hampton Otterbein
13 39 Zachary Chapman North Central
14 45 Jack Whetstone Emory
15 52 Alex Phillipp John Carroll
16 88 Dante Paszkeicz Pomona-Pitzer
17 51 Joe Domanico RPI
23 48 Matthew Sayre SUNY Geneseo
25 87 Dadley Ogetii St. Lawrence
32 104 Evan Page St. Lawrence
Underperformers:
48 6 Danny Aschale Connecticut College
198 17 Sean McAneny SUNY Geneseo
104 23 Matthew Karee Carnegie Mellon
194 24 Kenneth Marshall Williams
153 25 Toler Freyaldenhoven Rhodes
107 27 Cameron Meikle Carleton
185 29 Weyessa McAlister Trinity (Conn)
155 36 Spencer Schultz Wis.-Stout
277 38 Nick Gannon Williams
Within two places of prediction:
1 2 Patrick Watson Stevenson
2 4 Matt Wilkinson Carleton
4 5 Jared Pangallozzi Johns Hopkins
8 9 Tyler Nault Wis - La Crosse
49 47 Edward Goebel Carnegie Mellon
59 58 Spencer Furguson-Dryden Amherst
73 72 Joe Stover Washington U
Regional Comparisons- Women wrote:
Placings by region at Nationals- Women
New England: 3 Williams, 7 MIT, 8 Tufts, 14 Bates, 15 Middlebury, 23 Wesleyan : 3, 7, 8, 14, 15, 23
Atlantic: 10 SUNY Geneseo, 13 RPI, 18 Rochester, 25 Vassar, 26 Ithaca, 30 RIT : 10, 13, 18, 25, 26, 30
Great Lakes: 11 Oberlin, 16 Baldwin Wallace, 21 John Carroll, 27 Hope, 28 Allegheny, 31 Calvin : 11, 16, 21, 27, 28, 31
Midwest: 2 Wash U, 4 Chicago, 17 Wis Eau Claire 19 Wis La Crosse : 2, 4, 17, 19
South: 22 Emory, 29 Washington and Lee, 32 Centre : 22, 29, 32
West: 12 Pomona-Pitzer, 20 CMS : 12, 20
Mideast: 1 Johns Hopkins, 9 Dickinson, 24 Carnegie Mellon : 1, 9, 24
Central: 5 Carleton, 6 Wartburg : 5, 6
Wow, with 2-top 6 teams, 8-All American's from six different schools, you'd think the Central region might have deserved more than 2 teams at NCAA's. But I guess the selection committee wanted more drama on which team would get last this year.
Congrats to Patrick Watson. Don't even know who he is. Hopefully now that he has a national title under his belt, he can bring down those atrocious track times.
West region best region?
Patty Watson wrote:
Congrats to Patrick Watson. Don't even know who he is. Hopefully now that he has a national title under his belt, he can bring down those atrocious track times.
Only someone on LetsRun would be able to give a backhanded compliment to the National Champion.
UCSC beat Middlebury by 7 places.
Pedialyte_Piper wrote:
UCSC beat Middlebury by 7 places.
Middlebury held their top guys out today as nationals is not a big enough meet for them. Rumor on the street is that their top guys were seen in the parking lot before the race doing a workout on their stationary bikes.
Carnegie Mellons goes home DEVASTATED. Lmfao who let them into the meet?
But none of these teams did well in Ohio when it matters, at the most important time of the season, early October. Very good system. Slatt slime
Pretend the above post was quoted. Please
d3dirty wrote:
Regional Comparisons- Women wrote:
Placings by region at Nationals- Women
New England: 3 Williams, 7 MIT, 8 Tufts, 14 Bates, 15 Middlebury, 23 Wesleyan : 3, 7, 8, 14, 15, 23
Atlantic: 10 SUNY Geneseo, 13 RPI, 18 Rochester, 25 Vassar, 26 Ithaca, 30 RIT : 10, 13, 18, 25, 26, 30
Great Lakes: 11 Oberlin, 16 Baldwin Wallace, 21 John Carroll, 27 Hope, 28 Allegheny, 31 Calvin : 11, 16, 21, 27, 28, 31
Midwest: 2 Wash U, 4 Chicago, 17 Wis Eau Claire 19 Wis La Crosse : 2, 4, 17, 19
South: 22 Emory, 29 Washington and Lee, 32 Centre : 22, 29, 32
West: 12 Pomona-Pitzer, 20 CMS : 12, 20
Mideast: 1 Johns Hopkins, 9 Dickinson, 24 Carnegie Mellon : 1, 9, 24
Central: 5 Carleton, 6 Wartburg : 5, 6
Wow, with 2-top 6 teams, 8-All American's from six different schools, you'd think the Central region might have deserved more than 2 teams at NCAA's. But I guess the selection committee wanted more drama on which team would get last this year.
i’m so drunk right now lol
Course condition was also weird. It stopped raining just before men's race, but the soil there just doesn't absorb water - some spots with water just sitting on top of slippery clay. I don't know if this affected some teams more than others, but certainly likely to affect individual runners differently. Course got a bit worse for the women's race, too