DIII Indoor Track & Field Rankings — Week 4, February 15
QUICKLY … As it has been since the preseason, North Central’s men and Wartburg’s women are again the No. 1 teams in the country in Division III. On the men’s side, UW-Oshkosh and UW-La Crosse flipped positions, landing Oshkosh with their highest ranking of the season at No. 2. The WIAC now has five teams in the national top seven as UW-Whitewater moved to No. 4, UW-Eau Claire to No. 6, and UW-Platteville to No. 7. For the women, UW-Oshkosh is still at No. 2, a place they’ve enjoyed for the past three weeks. MIT and Washington (Mo.) are now at a season-high at No. 3 and No. 4, respectively.
National Ranking PDFs: Top 25 | Full by Team | Event-by-Event | Week-by-Week
Regional Index PDFs: Top Ten by Region | Full by Team | Event-by-Event
Collegiate-Leading Marks | Best Marks by Football Players
Previous Rankings
USTFCCCA NCAA Division III |
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Men’s Indoor Track & Field National Team Computer Rankings (Top 25) |
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2012 Week #4 — February 15 |
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| next ranking: February 22 | |||||
| Rank | School | Points | Conference | Head Coach (Yr) | Last Week |
| 1 | North Central (Ill.) | 143.26 | CCIW | Frank Gramarosso (2nd) | 1 |
| 2 | UW-Oshkosh | 127.90 | WIAC | Paul Brown (2nd) | 3 |
| 3 | UW-La Crosse | 113.95 | WIAC | Josh Buchholtz (4th) | 2 |
| 4 | UW-Whitewater | 86.50 | WIAC | Mike Johnson (3rd) | 5 |
| 5 | McMurry | 76.72 | ASC | Barbara Crousen (14th) | 4 |
| 6 | UW-Eau Claire | 70.38 | WIAC | Chip Schneider (10th) | 7 |
| 7 | UW-Platteville | 67.52 | WIAC | Jim Nickasch (11th) | 9 |
| 8 | St. Thomas (Minn.) | 64.73 | MIAC | Steve Mathre (17th) | 16 |
| 9 | SUNY Geneseo | 64.22 | SUNYAC | Dave Prevosti (8th) | 8 |
| 10 | Wabash | 61.52 | NCAC | Clyde Morgan (4th) | 10 |
| 11 | UW-Stout | 59.22 | WIAC | Laura Knudsen (4th) | 13 |
| 12 | MIT | 56.69 | NEWMAC | Halston Taylor (22nd) | 14 |
| 13 | Haverford | 54.00 | Centennial | Tom Donnelly (37th) | 11 |
| 14 | Amherst | 52.15 | NESCAC | Ned Nedeau (15th) | 6 |
| 15 | Nebraska Wesleyan | 45.87 | Great Plains | Ted Bulling (27th) | 15 |
| 16 | Methodist | 44.14 | USA South | Duane Ross (5th) | 18 |
| 17 | Bates | 41.94 | NESCAC | Al Fereshetian (17th) | 29 |
| 18 | UMass Dartmouth | 41.31 | Little East | Steve Gardiner (4th) | 20 |
| 19 | Christopher Newport | 39.21 | USA South | Tyler Wingard (6th) | 19 |
| 20 | Baldwin-Wallace | 39.13 | OAC | Bill Taraschke (27th) | 21 |
| 21 | Middlebury | 37.67 | NESCAC | Martin Beatty (24th) | 27 |
| 22 | Springfield (Mass.) | 32.58 | NEWMAC | Ken Klatka (35th) | 23 |
| 23 | Wartburg | 32.33 | IIAC | Marcus Newsom (14th) | 17 |
| 24 | UW-River Falls | 31.08 | WIAC | Aaron Decker (2nd) | 28 |
| 25 | Illinois College | 27.65 | Midwest | Mike Brooks (11th) | 34 |
| dropped out: No. 12 Central (Iowa), No. 22 Rose-Hulman, No. 24 Buffalo State, No. 25 NYU | |||||
| Men’s Conference Index Top 10 | |||
| Rank | Conference | Points | Top 25 Teams |
| 1 | WIAC | 572.68 | 7 |
| 2 | NESCAC | 206.79 | 3 |
| 3 | CCIW | 168.11 | 1 |
| 4 | SUNYAC | 140.57 | 1 |
| 5 | OAC | 110.93 | 1 |
| 6 | NEWMAC | 105.23 | 2 |
| 7 | NCAC | 97.51 | 1 |
| 8 | USA South | 83.35 | 2 |
| 9 | MIAC | 78.93 | 1 |
| 10 | ASC | 76.81 | 1 |
USTFCCCA NCAA Division III |
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Women’s Indoor Track & Field National Team Computer Rankings (Top 25) |
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2012 Week #4 — February 15 |
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| next ranking: February 22 | |||||
| Rank | School | Points | Conference | Head Coach (Yr) | Last Week |
| 1 | Wartburg | 262.26 | IIAC | Marcus Newsom (14th) | 1 |
| 2 | UW-Oshkosh | 154.28 | WIAC | Pat Ebel (3rd) | 2 |
| 3 | MIT | 96.57 | NEWMAC | Halston Taylor (5th) | 6 |
| 4 | Washington (Mo.) | 76.13 | UAA | Jeff Stiles (11th) | 7 |
| 5 | Williams | 74.71 | NESCAC | Fletcher Brooks (4th) | 3 |
| 6 | Methodist | 64.73 | USA South | Duane Ross (5th) | 5 |
| 7 | Illinois Wesleyan | 61.71 | CCIW | Chris Schumacher (15th) | 4 |
| 8 | UW-Whitewater | 60.90 | WIAC | Mike Johnson (1st) | 11 |
| 9 | Ithaca | 58.31 | Empire 8 | Jennifer Potter (9th) | 13 |
| 10 | Buffalo State | 56.49 | SUNYAC | Eugene Lewis (12th) | 23 |
| 11 | Illinois College | 51.40 | Midwest | Mike Brooks (11th) | 8 |
| 12 | Monmouth (Ill.) | 50.32 | Midwest | Roger Haynes (12th) | 10 |
| 13 | Ramapo | 48.13 | NJAC | Mike Jackson (8th) | 12 |
| 14 | Middlebury | 47.84 | NESCAC | Martin Beatty (24th) | 9 |
| 15 | SUNY Oneonta | 40.33 | SUNYAC | Matt LoPiccolo (8th) | 16 |
| 16 | Lehman | 40.17 | CUNYAC | Lesleigh Hogg (16th) | 32 |
| 17 | Franklin & Marshall | 37.00 | Centennial | Carl Schnabel (9th) | 41 |
| 18 | Wheaton (Mass.) | 36.48 | NEWMAC | Dave Cusano (1st) | 19 |
| 19 | Nebraska Wesleyan | 33.23 | Great Plains | Ted Bulling (25th) | 21 |
| 20 | Bowdoin | 32.48 | NESCAC | Peter Slovenski (26th) | 42 |
| 21 | Mount Union | 32.11 | OAC | Kevin Lucas (2nd) | 38 |
| 22 | Birmingham-Southern | 30.53 | SCAC | Kenneth Cox (3rd) | 57 |
| 23 | UW-La Crosse | 29.03 | WIAC | Pat Healy (21st) | 24 |
| 24 | McMurry | 28.18 | ASC | Barbara Crousen (14th) | 62 |
| 25 | Marietta | 28.16 | OAC | George Evans (1st) | 35 |
| dropped out: No. 14 UW-Eau Claire, No. 15 Wellesley, No. 17 North Central (Ill.), No. 18 Tufts, No. 20 Coe, No. 22 Moravian, No. 25 Rowan | |||||
| Women’s Conference Index Top 10 | |||
| Rank | Conference | Points | Top 25 Teams |
| 1 | IIAC | 303.72 | 1 |
| 2 | WIAC | 296.19 | 3 |
| 3 | NESCAC | 220.41 | 3 |
| 4 | NEWMAC | 158.66 | 2 |
| 5 | SUNYAC | 130.60 | 2 |
| 6 | UAA | 126.51 | 1 |
| 7 | Midwest Conference | 110.04 | 2 |
| 8 | CCIW | 89.14 | 1 |
| 9 | NJAC | 88.25 | 1 |
| 10 | USA South | 87.55 | 1 |
About the Rankings
For more on the national team rankings and links to guideline and rationale information visit …
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Rankings are determined by a mathematical formula, which is based on current national descending order lists. This is what’s used to compile a team’s ranking. The purpose and methodology of the rankings is to create an index that showcases the teams that have the best potential of achieving the top spots in the national-title race.
The Regional Index is determined using a similar method as national rankings, but on a smaller scale, comparing teams versus others within the same region. The result is a ranking that showcases squads with better all-around team potential — a group makeup critical for conference or similar team-scored events. A team may achieve a better regional ranking than a counterpart that has a better national ranking. Historically, some teams are better national-championship teams than conference-championship teams, having a few elite athletes that score very well in a diverse environment where teams do not have entries in more than a few events. Some teams are better at conference championships or similar team-scored events where they enter, and are competitive, in many of the events.
How a team fares in a national championship, conference championship, or scored meet with only a couple or few teams (like a dual or triangular) can be very different, given the number of events, competition, scoring, and makeup of entries — thus the rationale behind each of the ranking systems. Similar arguments about team makeup and rankings can also be found in swimming & diving and wrestling as their sports also have a similar trichotomy when it comes to team theory.
