Anyone notice Claremont-Mudd-Scripps threw down some quick early season times at the Occidental distance carnival that showed up on tffrs but are now no longer listed? They had a few guys well, with their top guy running 14:35. 14:35 might just be enough to make it into nationals.
We got notified the next day, but because the meet was a distance carnival and doesn't have 9 events, it doesn't count as a "legit" meet as per NCAA rules. Typically, occidental has a dual meet the next day and just doesn't run the distance events and scores them from the meet beforehand. They rescheduled the dual meet this year for whatever reason, and the 9-event rule was forgotten about until it was too late.
That 14:35 put up by Rafer was improved upon last night as he won Cal/Nevadas in 14:30.8 though.