What are some thoughts on Saturday's C-USA cross country championships in Chicago?
What are some thoughts on Saturday's C-USA cross country championships in Chicago?
Houston will win the men with Louisville a close 2nd. On the women's side it should be Marquette while TCU and UAB fight fir 2nd.
For the men, you really can't count out the Marquette men and Cincinatti. They are also running well along with Houston and Louisville. It will come down to who races the best that day out of those four.
And as for the women, I agree with cusadude that Marquette is the class of the field with TCU just ahead of UAB.
Didn't UAB beat TCU pretty good at Chile Pepper?
The Cincinnati men have to be the favorite at this point. They beat Houston at the Notre Dame invite and in the overall combined scoring at Pre-NCAA's they beat Louisville, Marquette and Charlotte. Those are probably the top five teams right there (except for maybe East Carolina as well) and since Cinci beat them all, they should be the favorites. Does that mean they will win? Who knows and that is why they run the race.
On the women's side, since Marquette is the only nationally ranked team, they should be the favorites, but UAB and TCU will also be tough and South Florida has three runners that can run with any team in the conference so if they can get their fourth and fifth runners up there they would be in the hunt as well.
Isn't Marquette in the Big East now? Maybe that starts next year????
Marq, DePaul, Cinci, Louisville, and I believe South FL are all moving to Big East starting next year
That is one thing that makes this conference meet even more exciting, the fact that it is the last meet with the current makeup of teams. As was mentioned, five schools are leaving for the Big East, including three of the favorites on the men's side, plus Charlotte and St. Louis are leaving for the Atlantic 10 conference. Then there are a whole slew of new teams coming in such as SMU, Marshall, Tulsa, etc. It will be nice to get Marquette out of there on the women's side since they have won 6 of the 9 years of the conference and beginning next year they will have to battle Notre Dame, Providence, Georgetown and Villanova to get a conference win.