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Georgetown's first top 10 finish in a long time. Should have gotten rid of that coach a long time ago.

Syracuse, called it months ago.

Great job by Syracuse coaches in learning how to peak a scrappy bunch.

Wetmore blew it with Saarel, look for him to transfer.

Cheserek was amazing.

Cuse out Coloradoed Colorado in the last 2km.

All hail the Orange.

Biggest surprise (for the top guys) = Murphy

Biggest disappointment (for the top guys) = Curtin

It was mostly just Pearson/Moussa not coming through. Saarel and Dressel ran great. It was 2/3 that hurt the Boofaloes.

brcik brcik wrote:

Koech will win

Cheserek 2nd

Knight 3rd

Mcgorty 4th

Tiernan 5th.

Colorado will overcome Syracuse's top 3 by having a better 4 and 5.

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

What time did Tiernan get in 2nd?

Cuse gets it: (our apologies for everyone not being able to post for a couple of minutes.)

Phil Germano moved up from Syracuses 5th at 8k in 52nd to finish 39th (10 team points) and be 4th man. Also the last 2k Joel Hubbard went from 51 to 47 (but picked up 6 team points) for Syracuse while Morgan Pearson went backward from Colorado going from 16th to 25th (13th to 20th in team scores). That pretty much separated them as both schools lowered their totals from 8k to the finish. They ha 99 points at 8k and were tied and ended up with 82 and 91.

Team Scores @ Finish

Pl Name Points

1 Syracuse

3, 7, 8, 29, 35, (51), (99)

82

2 Colorado

2, 20, 21, 23, 25, (32), (160)

91

3 Stanford

5, 6, 14, 50, 76, (172), (194)

151

4 Oregon

1, 34, 38, 44, 66, (77), (97)

183

5 Iona

16, 33, 46, 48, 88, (121), (174)

231

6 Arkansas

19, 30, 36, 69, 90, (137), (143)

244

7 Louisville

15, 31, 41, 68, 176, (204), (210)

331

8 Washington

22, 24, 75, 79, 145, (200), (212)

345

9 Michigan

52, 56, 64, 72, 104, (159), (166)

348

10 Georgetown

4, 37, 82, 103, 126, (147), (201)

352

11 UTEP

10, 12, 86, 89, 157, (208)

354

12 BYU

58, 62, 65, 106, 115, (123), (188)

406

13 Furman

39, 67, 87, 112, 118, (156), (177)

423

14 UCLA

17, 95, 98, 102, 117, (148), (165)

429

15 Oklahoma

13, 63, 94, 116, 146, (178), (180)

432

16 Boise State

54, 73, 78, 96, 134, (135), (168)

435

17 Eastern Kentucky

28, 70, 100, 108, 140, (161)

446

18 Oklahoma State

40, 80, 93, 101, 136, (203), (215)

450

19 Minnesota

71, 74, 81, 107, 131, (190), (206)

464

20 Tulsa

9, 26, 92, 154, 187, (209), (213)

468

21 Southern Utah

27, 60, 111, 127, 152, (163), (182)

477

22 Virginia

43, 47, 119, 133, 138, (144), (186)

480

23 California

59, 83, 114, 129, 139, (171), (179)

524

24 Penn

11, 57, 132, 142, 184, (193), (196)

526

25 Michigan State

42, 61, 109, 164, 167, (169), (183)

543

26 Washington St.

45, 91, 120, 141, 150, (158), (185)

547

27 Virginia Tech

18, 113, 125, 155, 170, (181), (202)

581

28 NC State

49, 55, 105, 192, 195, (197), (198)

596

29 Florida State

85, 110, 122, 130, 151, (173), (205)

598

30 Mississippi

53, 124, 128, 149, 153, (175), (199)

607

31 Texas

84, 162, 189, 191, 207, (211), (214)

833

If the Rosa's run together, Stanford wins today.

Egun wrote:

Syracuse, called it months ago.

Great job by Syracuse coaches in learning how to peak a scrappy bunch.

Wetmore blew it with Saarel, look for him to transfer.

Cheserek was amazing.

Cuse out Coloradoed Colorado in the last 2km.

All hail the Orange.

Pump the brakes their kitten. If the syracuse coaches are so great why is this their first podium finish. The Orange will be back to average after knight and th others go home.

opdaps wrote:

Tiernan is winning today

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Egun wrote:

Syracuse, called it months ago.

Nicely done.

Wetmore blew it with Saarel, look for him to transfer.

Wait, what? Transfer?

Cheserek was amazing.

Agreed.

Cuse out Coloradoed Colorado in the last 2km.

Was thinking the exact same thing while watching the race.

It will be nice if SU runners can bring more national champions than their mens basketball team.

eww wrote:

Egun wrote:

Syracuse, called it months ago.

Great job by Syracuse coaches in learning how to peak a scrappy bunch.

Wetmore blew it with Saarel, look for him to transfer.

Cheserek was amazing.

Cuse out Coloradoed Colorado in the last 2km.

All hail the Orange.

Pump the brakes their kitten. If the syracuse coaches are so great why is this their first podium finish. The Orange will be back to average after knight and th others go home.

Great point. Chris Fox has been coaching Syracuse since the school was founded! Took quite a long time for him to finally break through. Disappointing!

wow Oregon picks up a 4th place team finish.

T BONE wrote:

If the Rosa's run together, Stanford wins today.

If my aunt has balls, she's my uncle.

Germano ahead of Kibichiy, Moussa, Miller, Thompson, Fahy...

This guy was usually entered in the open races last year....

1 Edward Cheserek

JR - Oregon

28:45.8 1 5:54.4 ↔

2 Patrick Tiernan

JR - Villanova

29:11.1 6:19.7 ↔

3 Pierce Murphy

SR - Colorado

29:37.0 2 6:03.2 ↑ 1

4 Justyn Knight

SO - Syracuse

29:46.1 3 6:12.5 ↓ 1

5 Jonathan Green

SO - Georgetown

29:49.5 4 6:11.8 ↑ 1

6 Jim Rosa

SR - Stanford

29:52.7 5 6:14.9 ↑ 2

7 Sean McGorty

JR - Stanford

29:53.4 6 6:15.1 ↑ 3

8 Colin Bennie

SO - Syracuse

29:55.9 7 6:18.1 ↓ 1

9 Martin Hehir

SR - Syracuse

29:59.5 8 6:21.5 ↔

10 Marc Scott

SO - Tulsa

30:02.6 9 6:15.3 ↑ 2

11 Jonah Koech

FR - UTEP

30:04.4 10 6:17.3 ↔

12 Erik Peterson

SR - Butler

30:05.0 6:17.2 ↑ 1

13 Jefferson Abbey

JR - Colorado St.

30:05.3 6:16.5 ↑ 2

14 Thomas Awad

SR - Penn

30:06.1 11 6:16.6 ↑ 3

15 Anthony Rotich

SR - UTEP

30:06.6 12 6:31.7 ↓ 10

16 Jacob Burcham

JR - Oklahoma

30:06.7 13 6:11.0 ↑ 10

17 Grant Fisher

FR - Stanford

30:07.9 14 6:13.1 ↑ 4

18 Ernest Kibet

SR - Louisville

30:09.4 15 6:11.9 ↑ 11

19 Jerrell Mock

SO - Colorado St.

30:10.3 6:19.8 ↔

20 Gilbert Kirui

SO - Iona

30:11.3 16 6:22.7 ↓ 6

21 Lane Werley

SR - UCLA

30:13.0 17 6:18.2 ↑ 1

22 Thomas Curtin

SR - Virginia Tech

30:15.1 18 6:18.5 ↑ 6

23 Jack Bruce

SO - Arkansas

30:15.3 19 6:08.0 ↑ 22

24 Trent Lusignan

SR - SD State

30:15.6 6:20.7 ↓ 1

25 Morgan Pearson

SR - Colorado

30:16.1 20 6:27.0 ↓ 9

26 John Dressel

FR - Colorado

30:16.4 21 6:11.2 ↑ 15

27 Hassan Omar

SR - UMBC

30:16.8 6:18.9 ↑ 3

28 Kyle Eller

JR - Air Force

30:17.3 6:14.2 ↑ 9

29 Dylan Lafond

JR - Illinois

30:18.2 6:20.3 ↑ 2

30 Izaic Yorks

SR - Washington

30:19.3 22 6:24.2 ↓ 6

Full results

http://branchsportstech.com/2015_Meets/XCView/

Colorado is the FIRST team of United States Runners.

would be sunk w/o their Canadians.

It just proves that you can buy a championship. Let the Cuse coach actually develop runners before we call him great.

Dang. Cheserek put 26 seconds on Tiernan with well under 2k to go. Made his move closer to 1-1.5k out.