NCAA DIII Indoor Team Dual Meet Rankings – March 2

By Kyle Terwillegar, USTFCCCA

March 2, 2016

NEW ORLEANS – Both the UW-La Crosse men and women extended their leads in the NCAA Division III National Dual Meet Rankings, announced Wednesday by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA).
In the penultimate edition of the rankings, the Eagles both improved their team scores into the 180s. The men checked in at 187.45 points (more on the points later), more than five points ahead of WIAC rival UW-Eau Claire (182.27), while the women came in at 186.07, nearly three points ahead of the UWEC women (183.28).
Four men’s teams within approximately one point of another were in line behind UWL and UWEC: No. 3 Augustana (Ill.) (180.80), No. 4 UW-Oshkosh (180.19), No. 5 UW-Whitewater (179.67) and No. 6 MIT (179.65) are all exceptionally close in the standings.
The women’s race behind UWL and UWEC has a bit more breathing room. No. 3 UW-Oshkosh (180.51), No. 4 Ithaca (178.38) and No. 5 MIT (176.90) are all separated from one another by about two points.
The full rankings – including breakdowns by region, conference and head-to-head match-up – can be found below and on D3Rankings.us.
These rankings, compiled by Carnegie Mellon’s Gary Aldrich and released every Wednesday during the season, differ from the USTFCCCA National Team Computer Rankings in one important respect.
While the USTFCCCA Rankings are designed to forecast how programs might fare at the NCAA Championships, these Team Dual Meet Rankings are indicative of how full teams with two athletes per event would fare in head-to-head competition.
Scores are the sums of all points earned by a team in each event. Only two athletes per team may be considered in each event (and one relay team per event), and an athlete can only be used in up to three events, excluding relays. Points are based on the best marks by those athletes in the current season.
Programs must be a member of the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association to be eligible for the rankings. You can check your membership status here. In addition, a member of that program’s coaching staff has to submit the rankings
More information on the process can be found here.

Full Rankings
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MEN’S RANKINGS

Rank	School	Points
1	University of Wisconsin, La Crosse	187.45
2	University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire	182.27
3	Augustana College (Illinois)	180.8
4	University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh	180.19
5	University of Wisconsin, Whitewater	179.67
6	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	179.65
7	Tufts University	173.29
8	University of Wisconsin, Stout	170.33
9	University of Wisconsin, Platteville	170.28
10	Rowan University	169.61
11	Nebraska Wesleyan University	168.56
12	Bates College	167.49
13	Williams College	167.36
14	North Central College	166.14
15	Christopher Newport University	165.52
16	St. Norbert College	164.56
17	Ithaca College	163.32
18	Carthage College	163.17
19	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	163.02
20	SUNY Brockport	162.95
21	Rochester Institute of Technology	162.75
22	Ohio Wesleyan University	160.63
23	University of Rochester	160.03
24	Aurora University	159.94
25	Benedictine University (Illinois)	159.93
26	Ohio Northern University	159.24
27	Salisbury University	158.09
28	SUNY Geneseo	156.73
29	Emory University	156.6
30	Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology	156.34
31	Carnegie Mellon University	154.51
32	University of Chicago	152.58
33	St. Lawrence University	151.45
34	The College of New Jersey	151.37
35	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	148.58
36	Moravian College	148.39
37	Susquehanna University	146.17
38	Monmouth College (Illinois)	145.94
39	Bridgewater College (Virginia)	143.88
40	Wartburg College	143.27
41	Richard Stockton College of New Jersey	139.94
42	Otterbein University	139.85
43	St. John Fisher College	138.64
44	Milwaukee School of Engineering	136.96
45	Baldwin-Wallace College	135.95
46	Albion College	134.54
47	Pennsylvania State Univ. Erie, the Behrend College	132.4
48	Hanover College	129.78
49	Frostburg State University	128.39
50	Bethany College (West Virginia)	127.99
51	Concordia University (Wisconsin)	127.39
52	Capital University	126.68
53	University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth	126.6
54	Case Western Reserve University	125.63
55	Eastern Mennonite University	124.75
56	Concordia College, Moorhead	123.17
57	Shenandoah University	117.85
58	Thomas More College	115.47
59	Waynesburg University	114.8
60	Buena Vista University	114.78
61	Amherst College	113.59
62	Nazareth College	112.81
63	Whitworth University	109.83
64	Elizabethtown College	108.08
65	Stevenson University	107.27
66	Lynchburg College	104.99
67	Webster University	102.33
68	Denison University	101.33
69	George Fox University	96.68
70	Dickinson College	95.65
71	Virginia Wesleyan College	93.14
72	Alvernia University	88.48
73	Defiance College	88.03
74	Mount Saint Mary College	75.57
75	Gwynedd-Mercy College	71.13
76	Fontbonne University	55.19

WOMEN’S RANKINGS

Rank	School	Points
1	University of Wisconsin, La Crosse	186.07
2	University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire	183.28
3	University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh	180.51
4	Ithaca College	178.38
5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	176.9
6	University of Wisconsin, Stout	174.32
7	SUNY Oneonta	173.46
8	North Central College	172.78
9	Nebraska Wesleyan University	168.83
10	University of Rochester	168.25
11	University of Wisconsin, Whitewater	167.13
12	SUNY Geneseo	166.46
13	Ohio Wesleyan University	165.02
14	University of St. Thomas (Minnesota)	165
15	SUNY Brockport	164.96
16	Aurora University	161.84
17	University of Chicago	161.11
18	Ohio Northern University	160.06
19	Williams College	158.16
20	Emory University	158.15
21	Rochester Institute of Technology	157.87
22	Christopher Newport University	157.8
23	St. Norbert College	157.48
24	Bates College	156.76
25	Tufts University	154.6
26	St. Lawrence University	153.82
27	University of Wisconsin, Platteville	153.52
28	Wartburg College	152.53
29	Carthage College	152.13
30	Moravian College	150.95
31	Augustana College (Illinois)	150.6
32	University of Southern Maine	150.59
33	Otterbein University	144.84
34	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	144.83
35	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	144.42
36	The College of New Jersey	141.56
37	Concordia College, Moorhead	140.41
38	Denison University	140.11
39	Carnegie Mellon University	139.69
40	Concordia University (Wisconsin)	138.95
41	Baldwin-Wallace College	135.95
42	Susquehanna University	133.08
43	Richard Stockton College of New Jersey	132.28
44	St. Olaf College	131.89
45	Case Western Reserve University	128.82
46	Haverford College	128.46
47	Bridgewater College (Virginia)	128.45
48	Salisbury University	126.86
49	Albion College	125.05
50	Whitworth University	123.84
51	Monmouth College (Illinois)	122.48
52	Nazareth College	121.22
53	Buena Vista University	120.34
54	Hanover College	119.18
55	Elizabethtown College	116.7
56	Shenandoah University	114.32
57	St. John Fisher College	113.31
58	Alvernia University	112.34
59	Capital University	109.98
60	Dickinson College	109.44
61	Pennsylvania State Univ. Erie, the Behrend College	103.28
62	St. Catherine University	100.95
63	Waynesburg University	95.91
64	Smith College	86.52
65	Thomas More College	86.44
66	Webster University	85.39
67	Milwaukee School of Engineering	82.61
68	Eastern Mennonite University	80.76
69	Lynchburg College	76.45
70	George Fox University	75.95
71	Bethany College (West Virginia)	69.76
72	Frostburg State University	68.23
73	Defiance College	62.11
74	Stevenson University	60.16
75	Mount Saint Mary College	59.49
76	Gwynedd-Mercy College	57.41
77	Fontbonne University	54.12