Official 2017 D3 Cross Country Thread

women's results up now too:

http://trxctiming.com/DIII_XC_Nationals/Results/Womens_Results.htm

Women's final results: http://trxctiming.com/DIII_XC_Nationals/Results/Women/women_6k.htm

East coast chokes again, runs best races during time trials (full stop)

>> East coast chokes again, runs best races during time trials (full stop)

Well, East Coast teams finished 3,4, 8 among the men and 1,4,6,7,8,9,10,11 for the women. Yes, a major choke.

haverford 8th

suny g 11th

super sorry about it guys

Region scoring (by team place):

I weighted more teams in a region than less teams, within reason

Men:

1. Midwest: 37 (5 teams)

2. New England 48 (4 teams)

3. Central 72 (4 teams)

4. Mideast 76 (4 teams)

5.Atlantic 103 (5 teams)

6. West 93 (4 teams)

7. Great Lakes 49 (3 teams)

8. South 52 (3 teams)

Women:

1. Midwest 41 (5 teams)

2. New England 30 (4 teams)

3. Atlantic 87 (5 teams)

4. Central 91 (5 teams)

5. Mideast 106 (5 teams)

6. Great Lakes 97 (4 teams)

7. West 25 (2 teams)

8. South 41 (2 teams)

Hopkins women would’ve won if you scored 3-7 instead of 1-5. Rest of teams got dusted.

Prefonpencil wrote:

trx whatever is some crap wrote:

How does such a bad timing service get selected by a host to do results? Race is probably over and there isn't even a 1 mile split up.

Agreed. Happening at a regular season meet is bad enough. But at Nationals when there is a paywall to watch it? Absolute embarrassing and unprofessional.

Everyone had connection issues. Middle of nowhere

What hotel are people staying at? Ya bois/girls are tryna get lit tonight

and six of seven back next year

Choke of the week goes to the coaches poll for getting almost all the top 10 teams staggeringly wrong aside form NCC, Pomona, and Lacrosse.

Win of the week goes to Flotrack for being frighteningly accurate in their preseason predictions...

Looking for a video of the start of the women's race. Can anyone post a link or some such?

I have heard it was a total disaster with the starter out of position in front of low-number boxes shooting the gun and Asst starter in front of high number boxes telling them not to go. Massively unfair and should have been a 2nd recall. Can anyone confirm or deny? I was on back side of course and am reporting this from second hand info.

Hdgggf wrote:

Looking for a video of the start of the women's race. Can anyone post a link or some such?

I have heard it was a total disaster with the starter out of position in front of low-number boxes shooting the gun and Asst starter in front of high number boxes telling them not to go. Massively unfair and should have been a 2nd recall. Can anyone confirm or deny? I was on back side of course and am reporting this from second hand info.

Word from someone in the race: there was a false start because the starter was confusing (?), but the race was called back and restarted.

The cluster f described above actually happened on the restart

DM @loosebois for moves tonight

The hardest thing to predict are the surprises. It can be as mundane as who can stay healthy as cold and flu season starts and who falls apart after peak performances at conf/region. I did not too well with that. I knew Wis - La Crosse could potentially get 2nd but picked them and Washington U to underperform. Instead, it was Haverford and Geneseo who bonked. 11th ranked Christopher Newport got 3rd, and I picked them for 4th. I figured if 28th ranked Carleton ran about the same as regions, they'd get 14th, and if they improved again, they could get top 10, which they did. The other most improved was 20th ranked Wis - Eau Claire placing 7th. A great race for them.

North Central dominated even more than I expected, as I had predicted about 81 points, and they smoked the field with 57. What an amazing legacy. There should be a documentary about this team. The only other team that I predicted the exact correct place for was Occidental, DFL at 32nd, lol.

I did much better predicting individual scorers, getting 12 of the top 15 (Dennis Maloney just missed it at 16th), and all of the top 6 (though the only exact place I called was winner Darin Lau). The underperformers were Otto Kingstedt and Andy Reischling, while Al Baldonado and Ian McVey had great races to make the top 10. Non-scoring individual Brad Hodkinson of Pacific Lutheran had the race of his life, placing 7th, followed by Dominic Patascsil of Wabash in 12th.

I predicted over a dozen runners within 2 places, but my only other exact match was Matt Molinaro of Ohio Northern for 41st official score.

So most of the top individuals performed well which speaks well for their consistency, and potential to do some great things next spring in track, which it continues to be nearly impossible to predict the majority of team placings.

After this race I think a lot of milers/800 guys will be nervous to race DCG. That's some range. 800m champion and top 15 in XC. Mitch Black couldn't even make Tufts XC top 5.

800 bruhs wrote:

After this race I think a lot of milers/800 guys will be nervous to race DCG. That's some range. 800m champion and top 15 in XC. Mitch Black couldn't even make Tufts XC top 5.

Sorry, DCG was 2nd in the 800 and 1500. He didn't win. Not sure why I thought he had won last year. Still impressive.

Also I've heard that DCG was injured for the last few weeks. Was only running workouts and races, everything else on a bike.

Huge shoutout to the "freshman" Borowsky for a great performance. Must feel nice to be able to drop 2 divisions so that he doesn't have to face competition. He must be lacking in length down south to make a move like that.

In all seriousness, respect to NCC for being so dominant, but not to Borowsky.