Pac-12 dominates latest cross country polls, Oregon women continue to slip

Originally Posted on Emerald Media via UWIRE

After a strong third-place showing at Saturday’s Pac-12 Cross Country Championships, Stanford vaulted itself seven spots to No. 6 in Tuesday’s USTFCCCA National Coaches Poll. The top of the rankings remained unchanged, as the top five remained Colorado, Northern Arizona, Oklahoma State, Oregon, BYU (in that order) after fine performances by each squad at its respective conference championship.

Colorado received nine of 12 first-place votes after winning its third consecutive Pac-12 championship on Saturday, while Northern Arizona picked up one first-place vote and Oklahoma State received the remaining two first-place votes.

Second place at the Pac-12 championships was a close battle between Oregon and Stanford late in the race, but Stanford’s top finisher at Pre-Nationals, Sean McGorty, dropped out during the final 2,000 meters due to illness. The Ducks ended up beating the Cardinal for second place by a score of 54-79, but strong performances by the rest of Stanford’s scorers appears to have swayed voters to give them a push in the rankings. The Pac-12 now makes up three of the top-six teams and is the only conference to have even two teams in the top 10. Oregon will face Stanford and No. 10 Portland, among others, at the NCAA West Regional Championships on Nov. 15.

The defending champion Oregon women continued to slide in the rankings, as they dropped three spots to No. 15 after a fourth-place finish at the Pac-12 championships. Arizona remained No. 1 after receiving seven of the 12 first-place votes while the other five votes went to Providence, who rose two spots to No. 2 after defeating No. 4 Georgetown at the Big East championships. Arkansas dropped one spot to No. 3 while Florida State remained No. 5. The Colorado women, who came up just shy of taking down Arizona at the Pac-12 championships, rose six spots to No. 10 and Washington jumped one spot to No. 12.

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