DI Regional Cross Country Rankings: 2012 Week #4

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NOTE: Regional rankings will NOT be released next week. Next release will be on October 15.







DI Regional Cross Country Rankings: 2012 Week #4



October 1, 2012



NEW ORLEANS – A heavy weekend of competition has yielded several changes to the USTFCCCA Regional Rankings for NCAA Division I cross country. The regional rankers from the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) have moved women’s teams Cornell (Northeast), William and Mary (Southeast), and Arizona (West) to No. 1 spots. In addition, Eastern Kentucky’s men are now the new top team in the Southeast region.



Current No. 1 teams by region as selected by regional representatives: Wisconsin (Great Lakes), Princeton (Mid-Atlantic), Oklahoma State (Midwest), BYU (Mountain), Iona (Northeast), Florida State (South), Texas (South Central), Eastern Kentucky (Southeast), Portland (West). Top women’s teams by region: Michigan (Great Lakes), Georgetown (Mid-Atlantic), Iowa State (Midwest), Weber State (Mountain), Cornell (Northeast), Florida State (South), Arkansas (South Central), William and Mary (Southeast), Arizona (West).



New to the regional rankings for the first time this year: MEN – Temple (Mid-Atlantic), Nebraska (Midwest), Marist (Northeast), UMass (Northeast), UC Irvine (West); WOMEN – Lehigh (Mid-Atlantic), Quinnipiac (Northeast), UC Santa Barabara (West).



USTFCCCA

NCAA Division I

Men's Cross Country Regional Team Rankings

2012 Week #4 -- October 1

national poll release: October 2

next regional release: October 15 (next week off)


GREAT LAKES Region

Rank
School
Location
Conference
Last Week

1
Wisconsin
Madison, Wis.
Big Ten
1

2
Notre Dame
South Bend, Ind.
Big East
3

3
Michigan
Ann Arbor, Mich.
Big Ten
4

4
Indiana
Bloomington, Ind.
Big Ten
2

5
Michigan State
East Lansing, Mich.
Big Ten
6

6
Eastern Michigan
Ypsilanti, Mich.
Mid-American
7

7
Ohio State
Columbus, Ohio
Big Ten
5

8
Indiana State
Terre Haute, Ind.
Missouri Valley
9

9
Butler
Indianapolis, Ind.
Atlantic 10
8

10
Cincinnati
Cincinnati, Ohio
Big East
15

11
Miami (Ohio)
Oxford, Ohio
Mid-American
10

12
Central Michigan
Mount Pleasant, Mich.
Mid-American
11

13
Purdue
West Lafayette, Ind.
Big Ten
12

14
Akron
Akron, Ohio
Mid-American
NR

15
Kent State
Kent, Ohio
Mid-American
14



MID-ATLANTIC Region

Rank
School
Location
Conference
Last Week

1
Princeton
Princeton, N.J.
Ivy
1

2
Villanova
Villanova, Pa.
Big East
3

3
Georgetown
Washington, D.C.
Big East
2

4
Penn State
State College, Pa.
Big Ten
4

5
La Salle
Philadelphia, Pa.
Atlantic 10
5

6
Lehigh
Bethlehem, Pa.
Patriot
11

7
Saint Joseph's
Philadelphia, Pa.
Atlantic 10
8

8
Duquesne
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Atlantic 10
7

9
Navy
Annapolis, Md.
Patriot
6

10
Bucknell
Lewisburg, Pa.
Patriot
9

11
American
Washington, D.C.
Patriot
10

12
Penn
Philadelphia, Pa.
Ivy
12

13
Temple
Philadelphia, Pa.
Atlantic 10
NR

14
NJIT
Newark, N.J.
Great West
14

15
Marshall
Huntington, W. Va.
Conference USA
15



MIDWEST Region

Rank
School
Location
Conference
Last Week

1
Oklahoma State
Stillwater, Okla.
Big 12
1

2
Oklahoma
Norman, Okla.
Big 12
2

3
Tulsa
Tulsa, Okla.
Conference USA
4

4
Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minn.
Big Ten
3

5
Missouri
Columbia, Mo.
SEC
6

6
Kansas
Lawrence, Kan.
Big 12
7

7
Iowa State
Ames, Iowa
Big 12
5

8
Illinois
Champaign, Ill.
Big Ten
8

9
Southern Illinois
Carbondale, Ill.
Missouri Valley
10

10
Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa
Big Ten
9

11
Loyola-Chicago
Chicago, Ill.
Horizon
11

12
South Dakota State
Brookings, S.D.
Summit League
12

13
Wichita State
Wichita, Kan.
Missouri Valley
13

14
Kansas City
Kansas City, Mo.
Summit League
NR

15
Nebraska
Lincoln, Neb.
Big Ten
NR



MOUNTAIN Region

Rank
School
Location
Conference
Last Week

1
BYU
Provo, Utah
West Coast
1

2
Colorado
Boulder, Colo.
Pac-12
3

3
Northern Arizona
Flagstaff, Ariz.
Big Sky
4

4
New Mexico
Albuquerque, N.M.
Mountain West
2

5
Air Force
Colorado Springs, Colo.
Mountain West
6

6
Weber State
Ogden, Utah
Big Sky
5

7
Wyoming
Laramie, Wyo.
Mountain West
7

8
Montana State
Bozeman, Mont.
Big Sky
8

9
Colorado State
Fort Collins, Colo.
Mountain West
9

10
Southern Utah
Cedar City, Utah
Big Sky
11

11
Texas Tech
Lubbock, Texas
Big 12
14

12
UTEP
El Paso,Texas
Conference USA
12

13
Utah Valley
Orem, Utah
Great West
15

14
Utah State
Logan, Utah
WAC
10

15
New Mexico State
Las Cruces, N.M.
WAC
13



NORTHEAST Region

Rank
School
Location
Conference
Last Week

1
Iona
New Rochelle, N.Y.
Metro Atlantic
1

2
Syracuse
Syracuse, N.Y.
Big East
2

3
Columbia
New York, N.Y.
Ivy
3

4
Dartmouth
Hanover, N.H.
Ivy
5

5
Providence
Providence, R.I.
Big East
4

6
Cornell
Ithaca, N.Y.
Ivy
6

7
Yale
New Haven, Conn.
Ivy
10

8
Harvard
Cambridge, Mass.
Ivy
8

9
Brown
Providence, R.I.
Ivy
7

10
Boston University
Boston, Mass.
America East
9

11
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, Mass.
ACC
11

12
Buffalo
Buffalo, N.Y.
Mid-American
12

13
Marist
Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Metro Atlantic
NR

14
Army
West Point, N.Y.
Patriot
13

15
UMass
Amherst, Mass.
Atlantic 10
NR



SOUTH Region

Rank
School
Location
Conference
Last Week

1
Florida State
Tallahassee, Fla.
ACC
1

2
Georgia
Athens, Ga.
SEC
2

3
Florida
Gainesville, Fla.
SEC
3

4
Auburn
Auburn, Ala.
SEC
4

5
Tennessee
Knoxville, Tenn.
SEC
5

6
East Tennessee State
Johnson City, Tenn.
Atlantic Sun
10

7
Mississippi State
Starkville, Miss.
SEC
7

8
Kennesaw State
Kennesaw, Ga.
Atlantic Sun
8

9
Georgia Tech
Atlanta, Ga.
ACC
6

10
Memphis
Memphis, Tenn.
Conference USA
11

11
Middle Tennessee
Murfreesboro, Tenn.
Sun Belt
NR

12
Chattanooga
Chattanooga, Tenn.
Southern
12

13
Mercer
Macon, Ga.
Atlantic Sun
14

14
Mississippi
Oxford, Miss.
SEC
9

15
Belmont
Nashville, Tenn.
Ohio Valley
13



SOUTH CENTRAL Region

Rank
School
Location
Conference
Last Week

1
Texas
Austin, Texas
Big 12
1

2
Arkansas
Fayetteville, Ark.
SEC
3

3
Texas A&M
College Station, Texas
SEC
2

4
McNeese State
Lake Charles, La.
Southland
7

5
Rice
Houston, Texas
Conference USA
5

5
Lamar
Beaumont, Texas
Southland
4

7
UT Arlington
Arlington, Texas
WAC
11

8
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
Corpus Christi, Texas
Southland
6

9
UTSA
San Antonio, Texas
WAC
8

10
Central Arkansas
Conway, Ark.
Southland
14

11
Stephen F. Austin
Nacogdoches, Texas
Southland
9

12
Houston
Houston, Texas
Conference USA
10

13
Baylor
Waco, Texas
Big 12
12

14
Sam Houston State
Huntsville, Texas
Southland
15

15
Ark.-Little Rock
Little Rock, Ark.
Sun Belt
NR



SOUTHEAST Region

Rank
School
Location
Conference
Last Week

1
Eastern Kentucky
Richmond, Ky.
Ohio Valley
2

2
William and Mary
Williamsburg, Va.
Colonial
7

3
Virginia
Charlottesville, Va.
ACC
3

4
NC State
Raleigh, N.C.
ACC
1

5
Duke
Durham, N.C.
ACC
5

6
North Carolina
Chapel Hill, N.C.
ACC
8

7
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, Va.
ACC
4

8
Louisville
Louisville, Ky.
Big East
6

9
Wake Forest
Winston-Salem, N.C.
ACC
10

10
George Mason
Fairfax, Va.
Colonial
9

11
Davidson
Davidson, N.C.
Southern
NR

12
Appalachian State
Boone, N.C.
Southern
12

13
High Point
High Point, N.C.
Big South
14

14
Liberty
Lynchburg, Va.
Big South
13

15
Kentucky
Lexington, Ky.
SEC
15



WEST Region

Rank
School
Location
Conference
Last Week

1
Portland
Portland, Ore.
West Coast
1

2
Stanford
Palo Alto, Calif.
Pac-12
2

3
Oregon
Eugene, Ore.
Pac-12
4

4
UCLA
Los Angeles, Calif.
Pac-12
3

5
Arizona State
Tempe, Ariz.
Pac-12
6

6
Cal Poly
San Luis Obispo, Calif.
Big West
7

7
Washington State
Pullman, Wash.
Pac-12
9

8
Washington
Seattle, Wash.
Pac-12
10

9
Arizona
Tucson, Ariz.
Pac-12
5

10
California
Berkeley, Calif.
Pac-12
8

11
Gonzaga
Spokane, Wash.
West Coast
14

12
San Francisco
San Francisco, Calif.
West Coast
13

13
UC Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, Calif.
Big West
12

14
Boise State
Boise, Idaho
Mountain West
11

15
UC Irvine
Irvine, Calif.
Big West
NR





USTFCCCA

NCAA Division I

Women's Cross Country Regional Team Rankings

2012 Week #4 -- October 1

national poll release: October 2

next regional release: October 15 (next week off)


GREAT LAKES Region

Rank
School
Location
Conference
Last Week

1
Michigan
Ann Arbor, Mich.
Big Ten
1

2
Michigan State
East Lansing, Mich.
Big Ten
2

3
Toledo
Toledo, Ohio
Mid-American
4

4
Notre Dame
South Bend, Ind.
Big East
5

5
Butler
Indianapolis, Ind.
Atlantic 10
3

6
Wisconsin
Madison, Wis.
Big Ten
6

7
Indiana
Bloomington, Ind.
Big Ten
7

8
Ohio State
Columbus, Ohio
Big Ten
9

9
Ohio
Athens, Ohio
Mid-American
8

10
Miami (Ohio)
Oxford, Ohio
Mid-American
11

11
Purdue
West Lafayette, Ind.
Big Ten
10

12
Marquette
Milwaukee, Wis.
Big East
13

13
Xavier
Cincinnati, Ohio
Atlantic 10
NR

14
Eastern Michigan
Ypsilanti, Mich.
Mid-American
NR

15
Indiana State
Terre Haute, Ind.
Missouri Valley
12



MID-ATLANTIC Region

Rank
School
Location
Conference
Last Week

1
Georgetown
Washington, D.C.
Big East
1

2
Penn State
State College, Pa.
Big Ten
3

3
Villanova
Villanova, Pa.
Big East
2

4
Princeton
Princeton, N.J.
Ivy
5

5
West Virginia
Morgantown, W. Va.
Big 12
4

6
La Salle
Philadelphia, Pa.
Atlantic 10
8

7
Navy
Annapolis, Md.
Patriot
7

8
Duquesne
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Atlantic 10
6

9
Penn
Philadelphia, Pa.
Ivy
9

10
Bucknell
Lewisburg, Pa.
Patriot
10

11
Delaware
Newark, Del.
Colonial
11

12
Maryland
College Park, Md.
ACC
14

13
Rutgers
Piscataway, N.J.
Big East
13

14
Saint Joseph's
Philadelphia, Pa.
Atlantic 10
12

15
Lehigh
Bethlehem, Pa.
Patriot
NR



MIDWEST Region

Rank
School
Location
Conference
Last Week

1
Iowa State
Ames, Iowa
Big 12
1

2
Oklahoma State
Stillwater, Okla.
Big 12
2

3
Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minn.
Big Ten
3

4
Illinois
Champaign, Ill.
Big Ten
7

5
Northwestern
Evanston, Ill.
Big Ten
5

6
Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa
Big Ten
4

7
Loyola-Chicago
Chicago, Ill.
Horizon
9

8
Missouri
Columbia, Mo.
SEC
8

9
Bradley
Peoria, Ill.
Missouri Valley
10

10
Wichita State
Wichita, Kan.
Missouri Valley
11

11
Tulsa
Tulsa, Okla.
Conference USA
6

12
North Dakota State
Fargo, N.D.
Summit League
12

13
Kansas
Lawrence, Kan.
Big 12
14

14
Kansas State
Manhattan, Kan.
Big 12
NR

15
Illinois State
Normal, Ill.
Missouri Valley
13



MOUNTAIN Region

Rank
School
Location
Conference
Last Week

1
Weber State
Ogden, Utah
Big Sky
1

2
New Mexico
Albuquerque, N.M.
Mountain West
2

3
Colorado
Boulder, Colo.
Pac-12
3

4
Northern Arizona
Flagstaff, Ariz.
Big Sky
4

5
BYU
Provo, Utah
West Coast
5

6
Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah
Pac-12
6

7
Air Force
Colorado Springs, Colo.
Mountain West
7

8
New Mexico State
Las Cruces, N.M.
WAC
9

9
Southern Utah
Cedar City, Utah
Big Sky
8

10
Montana State
Bozeman, Mont.
Big Sky
10

11
UTEP
El Paso,Texas
Conference USA
12

12
Texas Tech
Lubbock, Texas
Big 12
11

13
Wyoming
Laramie, Wyo.
Mountain West
13

14
Colorado State
Fort Collins, Colo.
Mountain West
15

15
Nevada
Reno, Nevada
Mountain West
NR



NORTHEAST Region

Rank
School
Location
Conference
Last Week

1
Cornell
Ithaca, N.Y.
Ivy
4

2
Columbia
New York, N.Y.
Ivy
3

3
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, Mass.
ACC
2

4
Yale
New Haven, Conn.
Ivy
7

5
Dartmouth
Hanover, N.H.
Ivy
6

6
Connecticut
Storrs, Conn.
Big East
8

7
Providence
Providence, R.I.
Big East
1

8
Syracuse
Syracuse, N.Y.
Big East
5

9
Brown
Providence, R.I.
Ivy
12

10
New Hampshire
Durham, N.H.
America East
14

11
Stony Brook
Stony Brook, N.Y.
America East
10

12
Iona
New Rochelle, N.Y.
Metro Atlantic
9

13
Vermont
Burlington, Vt.
America East
13

14
Harvard
Cambridge, Mass.
Ivy
11

15
Quinnipiac
Hamden, Conn.
Northeast
NR



SOUTH Region

Rank
School
Location
Conference
Last Week

1
Florida State
Tallahassee, Fla.
ACC
1

2
Vanderbilt
Nashville, Tenn.
SEC
2

3
Florida
Gainesville, Fla.
SEC
3

4
Georgia
Athens, Ga.
SEC
6

5
Mississippi
Oxford, Miss.
SEC
4

6
Mississippi State
Starkville, Miss.
SEC
5

7
Alabama
Tuscaloosa, Ala.
SEC
8

8
Samford
Birmingham, Ala.
Southern
NR

9
Georgia State
Atlanta, Ga.
Sun Belt
9

10
Georgia Tech
Atlanta, Ga.
ACC
11

11
North Florida
Jacksonville, Fla.
Atlantic Sun
12

12
Belmont
Nashville, Tenn.
Ohio Valley
10

13
Lipscomb
Nashville, Tenn.
Atlantic Sun
7

14
Tennessee
Knoxville, Tenn.
SEC
14

15
Auburn
Auburn, Ala.
SEC
13



SOUTH CENTRAL Region

Rank
School
Location
Conference
Last Week

1
Arkansas
Fayetteville, Ark.
SEC
1

2
Texas
Austin, Texas
Big 12
2

3
SMU
University Park, Texas
Conference USA
5

4
Texas A&M
College Station, Texas
SEC
3

5
Baylor
Waco, Texas
Big 12
4

6
UTSA
San Antonio, Texas
WAC
6

7
TCU
Fort Worth, Texas
Big 12
7

8
Rice
Houston, Texas
Conference USA
8

9
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
Corpus Christi, Texas
Southland
9

10
Stephen F. Austin
Nacogdoches, Texas
Southland
10

11
LSU
Baton Rouge, La.
SEC
11

12
Sam Houston State
Huntsville, Texas
Southland
12

13
Arkansas State
Jonesboro, Ark.
Sun Belt
13

14
McNeese State
Lake Charles, La.
Southland
14

15
UT Arlington
Arlington, Texas
WAC
15



SOUTHEAST Region

Rank
School
Location
Conference
Last Week

1
William and Mary
Williamsburg, Va.
Colonial
7

2
NC State
Raleigh, N.C.
ACC
1

3
North Carolina
Chapel Hill, N.C.
ACC
2

4
Kentucky
Lexington, Ky.
SEC
4

5
Duke
Durham, N.C.
ACC
3

6
Virginia
Charlottesville, Va.
ACC
5

7
Clemson
Clemson, S.C.
ACC
6

8
Appalachian State
Boone, N.C.
Southern
14

9
Liberty
Lynchburg, Va.
Big South
15

10
Richmond
Richmond, Va.
Atlantic 10
12

11
Eastern Kentucky
Richmond, Ky.
Ohio Valley
10

12
James Madison
Harrisonburg, Va.
Colonial
NR

13
Elon
Elon, N.C.
Southern
11

14
East Carolina
Greenville, N.C.
Conference USA
9

15
Wake Forest
Winston-Salem, N.C.
ACC
NR



WEST Region

Rank
School
Location
Conference
Last Week

1
Arizona
Tucson, Ariz.
Pac-12
4

2
Washington
Seattle, Wash.
Pac-12
1

3
Oregon
Eugene, Ore.
Pac-12
2

4
Stanford
Palo Alto, Calif.
Pac-12
3

5
San Francisco
San Francisco, Calif.
West Coast
5

6
UC Davis
Davis, Calif.
Big West
6

7
Arizona State
Tempe, Ariz.
Pac-12
7

8
California
Berkeley, Calif.
Pac-12
9

9
Portland
Portland, Ore.
West Coast
8

10
Boise State
Boise, Idaho
Mountain West
NR

11
UC Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, Calif.
Big West
NR

12
UCLA
Los Angeles, Calif.
Pac-12
10

13
Cal Poly
San Luis Obispo, Calif.
Big West
11

14
Gonzaga
Spokane, Wash.
West Coast
12

15
UC Riverside
Riverside, Calif.
Big West
15













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