OK STATE WAS ROBBED!!!!

rules are each placing runner is evaluated head to head.

NAU 1st vs OSU 1st.. so on an so forth.

NAU won 3-2

Does anyone know the rationale for going away from the 6th man tiebreaker?

I have no idea. I just found the rules were changed today.

It's not that hard to understand: you just have to read the rules and apply them.

Rules have been this way for years. Nothing new.

yeah but i’m sick of seeing NAU winning

Today about 100 years ago

I could be wrong, but I do not believe the ncaa ever had the high school 6th man tie breaker. I think ties just remained ties? I think it was around 2014 where the ncaa adopted the present tie breaker of 1 vs 1, 2 vs 2, etc. I like the ncaa tie breaker much more than the high school number 6 runner. A team should never be penalized if they only start or finish 5 runners.

I would not be surprised if Dave Smith himself conceived the head to head tiebreaker rule. That would be some rich irony.

Because it gives a team that has 5 runners a chance to win if they tie a team with 6… if it takes 5 to score, there shouldn’t be a possible penalty for not bringing 6 runners.

this^

keeps from 'penalizing' smaller schools and smaller programs that may not field 6 runners in a given meet.

If you don't even enter a 6th man, wouldn't you just forfeit the 6th man contest and lose in the event of a tie? It's hard to believe that was the rule.

Blame it on hat guy...

OK State is the Champ 2022.

End of story.

There's another thread about a recent high school state championship that a team lost because they didn't have a 6th runner. They would have won based on NCAA rules. So, yes, they had five to qualify as a team, it went to a tie breaker and they lost, which means that to win a tiebreaker you have to have more people than are actually required to have a team.

You sound like the Univ of Central Florida trying to claim themselves as national champions in football in 2017.

How did Kyle Merber do? Didn’t hear him on the ESPNU broadcast.

The NCAA rule is dumb.

I like the 6th runner tie breaker myself but, if there was to be a different tie breaker, it should be the team with the better 5th runner. That would mean the team that had all five scorers done first would be the winner. That seems fair and simple to me.

A cross country team scores 5 runners. It’s possible that both teams don’t have 6th mans then there would be no way to break the tie.

personally I would prefer restoring the meet as a dual meet and take out all other results. That makes the most sense to me.

NAU would have also beaten OSU in a dual meet today as well

1-2-6-7-10 = 26 points

vs

3-4-5-8-9 = 29 points