Help us tell you who's going to 2014 NCAAs in XC - Before the regional meets are even run!!

And for the women. We currently don't have 'b' teams listed for any major women's race. Should we?

battle_in_beantown - all A teams.

panorama_farms - all A teams.

paul_short - all A teams.

greater_louisville - all A teams.

notre_dame_invite - all A teams.

roy_griak - all A teams.

rocky_mountain_shootout - all A teams.

stanford_invite - all A teams, we think but aren't sure.

washington invite - did anyone run a B team? We've said no but aren't sure. Here is who ran:

# stanford (probably A): cranny, fisher, chase, mehra, mcnulty, howlett, saunders, weissenbach

# villanova (A): cleirigh_buttner, piccirillo, schappert, bungo, harris, russo, armstrong, williams, margey

# nau (A): townsend, freeman, justus, kieser, freeman, laplante, goo, hogardh, shrader, baker

prenats - all A teams.

wisonsin_invite - all A teams.

chile_pepper - all A teams.

Conference Meets

aacs - all A teams.

accs - all A teams.

big10s - all A teams.

big12s - all A teams.

bigeast - all A teams.

bigsky - all A teams.

heps - all A teams.

mountain_west - all A teams.

pac12s - all A teams.

sec - all A teams.

wcccs - all A teams.

Villanova's team at Washington could well end up being an A team. To be an A, you need four of the seven guys running at regionals. They ran Patrick Tiernan, Brian Basili, Harry Warnick and Kevin Corbusier at Washington and all were in their top seven at Big Easts so that is something we may have to change.

Jonathan Gault wrote:

Villanova's team at Washington could well end up being an A team. To be an A, you need four of the seven guys running at regionals. They ran Patrick Tiernan, Brian Basili, Harry Warnick and Kevin Corbusier at Washington and all were in their top seven at Big Easts so that is something we may have to change.

So they ran the 1-5-6-7 and that will count as an 'A' team if they all run regionals.

rojo wrote:

So they ran the 1-5-6-7 and that will count as an 'A' team if they all run regionals.

Correct

You're asking us to focus mainly on the teams receiving votes within the national polls, or all participating teams in those particular meets?

Just for the teams that have a chance of going to nats.

A and B teams only ends up mattering if a team qualifies. At the time in the process when that team gets in, everyone that beat their "A" team over the course of the season gets a point.

So it only matters whether you ran your A team if you make it to nats, and we have to figure out who beat your A team in order to give them points.

Portland definitely ran a b team at Washington. Only one of those guys will run at regionals (most likely).

scratch that, two of them will run regionals. But none of portland's top 5 were in that race.

Roster and times are noted on athletic.net:

http://www.athletic.net/CrossCountry/Results/Season.aspx?SchoolID=20972&S=2014

SUU ran their B team at Pre Nationals. Only 1 (or 2) of their top 7 ran at Pre Nationals.

Thanks for the info so far, keep it coming. Would be great if anyone has the scoop on the women to.

Indiana University men ran the 'B' team at Pre-Nats. I believe they were in the unseeded reace though.

Is the Dellinger meet eligible for receiving points? If so you'll want to include it.

In the past Dellinger has been in the beginning of october and eligible for points, but this year it was early september, so nope. (Points started the weekend of Sept 26th).

Toledo Women ran their B-Team at Pre-Nats.

You will notice they ran their A-Team the day prior at Wisco

I think this a very cool idea and look forward to seeing this "chalk" preview. I also think it would be interesting to apply the same method to last year's final regional rankings and see how that projection compared to last year's actual qualifiers.

Oh yeah, good call Bo Vice