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Division I National Coaches Polls Hold Steady Ahead of an Important Weekend - USTFCCCAPublished by
Division I National Coaches Polls Hold Steady Ahead of an Important WeekendBy Kyle Terwillegar, USTFCCCA September 24, 2013
NEW ORLEANS – With the heart of the cross country season set to get underway this weekend, teams have — for the time being — settled into their places in the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Division I National Coaches Polls, which were released Tuesday. NATIONAL PDFs: National Summary | Week-by-Week | All-Time Week-by-Week Few teams in both the men’s and women’s polls either improved or fell more than one spot, though the lists may well take on an altogether different look next week as a plethora of top-30 teams will meet up over the course of the weekend. The order of the women’s top 10 stayed the same from one week ago, though No. 1 Providence has lost one of its first place votes — and its unanimous No. 1 status — to No. 2 Florida State. FSU’s women, led by impressive runs from juniors Hannah Walker and Colleen Quigley, placed their top five runners within the first seven places at Wake Forest’s Open this past weekend for a resounding team victory. In what may be the most anticipated women’s matchup of the weekend, current favorite Providence and defending champion No. 3 Oregon will square off for the first time this weekend at Boston College’s Coast-to-Coast Battle in Beantown on Friday, as will No. 9 Cornell. National Athlete of the Week Juliet Bottorff and her Duke squad held steady at No. 4, followed by No. 5 Arizona. The No. 5 Wildcats will be the highest-ranked of eight top-30 women’s teams at Saturday’s Roy Griak Invitational at Minnesota. All was quiet atop the men’s polls as defending champion No. 1 Oklahoma State retained all 11 of its first-place votes from last week, while No. 2 Northern Arizona held on to the 12th and final first-place nod. The two will go head-to-head this Saturday at Oklahoma State’s Cowboy Jamboree along with another pair of ranked squads in No. 6 Tulsa and No. 28 Michigan. No. 3 Colorado, No. 4 BYU and No. 5 Arkansas — led by National Athlete of the Week Stanley Kebenei — all stayed the course from a week ago. BYU will be the top-ranked among four top-30 teams at the Roy Griak Invitational on Saturday. The biggest move of the men’s polls came with Wisconsin, the team champion from 2011, moving back up two spots to No. 8 after falling from its preseason No. 7 position to No. 10 last week. Syracuse and Princeton were each displaced one spot as a result to No. 9 and 10, respectively. Wisconsin will see at least some of Syracuse’s runners at the Coast-to-Coast Battle in Beantown on Friday. The No. 12 Oregon Ducks will also look to make its first statement of 2013 in Boston with its slew of impressive transfers and recruits, along with No. 25 Providence. The NCAA Division I National Championships will be contested in Terre Haute, Ind., on November 23.
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