Unless there was a timing chip failure, one of Stanford's guys DNFd, thus the team going from 1st to 4th in the last mile.
Also, terrible air quality in Sacramento due to smoke from the Camp fire which has essentially destroyed the town of Paradise to the north.
Men's projections quick analysis: Wow, points were high this year, I guess because so many teams ran both Nuttycombe and Pre-Nats. Kind of crazy if you run 5 races in a year and 3 of them are on Wisconsin's course. Normally 3 points gets you in, this year you needed 6 and Air Force had 16 points when they get selected at slot #30!
So, this selection looks pretty solid up through the last slot (Oregon vs Georgetown). There's a common opponents tiebreaker between Purdue and Stanford for #23, but it doesn't matter -- if Purdue would have won, it still would have said "Purdue not selected with push (gets in later on their own)" which is what happens next anyway.
After that, it's straight points winners up until the Oregon-Georgetown tiebreaker for the last spot. Those are always questionable so a closer look is needed before Oregon should feel safely in, but I'd be surprised if it flips (unless there's some results we're missing).
Will Virginia m’en not make it?
who are the individuals going from the west? And where will the at-large individuals come from?
Unfortunately for the southeast it looks like UVA and Furman are not in the running -- in a normal year they would be but this year the point totals are too high. Looks like UVA got three points from winning Penn State Nationals and a point for beating FSU at ACCs, none from Beantown. Didn't pick any points up from all the great lakes, midwest, mountain, and west at-large teams. They mostly ran Nuttycombe and Pre-Nats (hate to say it as I'm not a big fan of everyone running the same huge consolidated meets).
WestRegionalGuy wrote:
Unless there was a timing chip failure, one of Stanford's guys DNFd, thus the team going from 1st to 4th in the last mile.
Also, terrible air quality in Sacramento due to smoke from the Camp fire which has essentially destroyed the town of Paradise to the north.
anyone got more info on this?
also, yeah, can't imagine how bad it would be to run in that smoke.
Who’s coaching Boise State? They had a big day today.
Nice, it looks like Flotrack is projecting the same teams, though women's is a slightly different order. That's good confirmation, but I still can't totally rule out UCLA women over Southern Utah.
Something that surprised me today, with all the talk about and lack of a strong 5th runner from New Mexico.
Today New Mexico's 6th runner beat Colorado and BYU's 5th.
If they can duplicate that at nationals then look out.
Does Buffalo really deserve a regional? Do they almost guarantee snow and
cold? Is there a worse place the NCAA could have selected?
I don't mean this as a put-down to the Western NY mega city. It's just that everybody else gets a better experience than the one today. The only thing
worse would have been Syracuse. Why send all the eastern schools which
feature CC to Ontario for all intents?
Men's field plus analysis:
http://www.letsrun.com/news/2018/11/projected-2018-ncaa-mens-cross-country-field/
runnER/DR wrote:
Slow Region wrote:
Most ran. BYU rested Clayton Young, 13:37/28:27 guy.
What happened to Danny Carney? 13:39 guy that ran for them earlier in the season. Injury or is he being held out too?
Carney Injury, Clayton Young along with Brayden McLelland will probably fill in for BYU's 6th and 7th runners at nationals.
For NAU, not positive but we didn't see Ryan Raff run today, perhaps saving him for nationals as well.
C/M Runner wrote:
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.
Stanford scored 18 in the West the year they put 6 in the top 13 the following week at NCAAs. They sat Robison and Luchini at regionals, too. That team was not too bad.
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You’re right. No reason not to have it in Boston. But then again it is the northeast, and dealing with adverse conditions in that region is part of post season cross country.
Also agree that other regions did have better experiences, but that’s very relative. I would not say the mid-atlantic had it good by any means. Not as bad a Buffalo, but not a good experience for a lot of athletes. Just part of XC in November. To do well you have to be fit, and you can’t fake it in the cold and mud.
The winds were such that it was not bad in Sacramento, which you could see from the video which had seemingly only slightly hazy skies. [As per comments from gh (E. Gerry Hill, Track and Field News editor).]
Risk wrote:
Does Buffalo really deserve a regional? Do they almost guarantee snow and
cold? Is there a worse place the NCAA could have selected?
I don't mean this as a put-down to the Western NY mega city. It's just that everybody else gets a better experience than the one today. The only thing
worse would have been Syracuse. Why send all the eastern schools which
feature CC to Ontario for all intents?
Weather in Peoria was 10F cooler all day. Snow on the ground in the morning which after being trampled over for 6 laps (2 womens, 4 mens) became a mud pit. Low of 19f high of 33f with 10+ mph winds during the races. Buffalo was 28f to 42f also with 10+mph winds.
41-33 wrote:
http://www.timingmd.net/Results/xc/ncaa_11_9_18/mteam.htmhttp://www.timingmd.net/Results/xc/ncaa_11_9_18/mindividual.htm
Go Birds.
Michigan, Wyoming, Boise State! Was really pulling for Washington State though. Bummer.
Dude michican must be so pumped. They beat some great teams today when it was gonna get tough to get in. Hell yes. Fking tradition baby
The preseason hype about Bama...ha ha ha...Stick to football and drop the XC program; you're terrible.
