2023 NCAA DIII Men’s Outdoor Track & Field Rating Index – Week 9
NEW ORLEANS – It’s Championship Week!
Here is the final installment of the NCAA DIII Men’s Outdoor Track & Field National Rating Index for the 2023 season. This edition only features marks from those athletes who qualified for the 2023 NCAA DIII Outdoor Track & Field Championships, which begin this Thursday in Rochester, New York. No other marks have been used in this calculation.
NCAA Division III — Men's Outdoor Track & Field
This Week's National Top Five
1
UW-La Crosse
UW-La Crosse
2
MIT
MIT
3
Rowan
Rowan
4
Loras
Loras
5
UW-Oshkosh
UW-Oshkosh
All TFRI Reports
No. 1 UW-La Crosse
- National top seeds: Sam Blaskwoski, 100 meters (10.16); 4×100 relay (40.07); 4×400 relay (3:08.34)
- National top-5 seeds: 7
- National top-10 seeds: 11
No. 2 MIT
- National top seeds: Ryan Wilson, 1500 meters (3:40.06)
- National top-5 seeds: 4
- National top-10 seeds: 9
No. 3 Rowan
- National top seeds: 0
- National top-5 seeds: 6
- National top-10 seeds: 9
No. 4 Loras
- National top seeds: Mike Jasa, 800 meters (1:47.81)
- National top-5 seeds: 5
- National top-10 seeds: 8
No. 5 UW-Oshkosh
- National top seeds: 0
- National top-5 seeds: 3
- National top-10 seeds: 7
Here are the rest of the top-10 teams in the Pre-Championships Edition: No. 6 Wartburg, No. 7 UW-Eau Claire, No. 8 UW-Whitewater, No. 9 John Carroll and No. 10 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps. If you’re feeling “Blue,” that’s certainly OK, because out of that quintet, both the Blugolds and the Blue Streaks have at least one national top seed on their roster.
ODDS & ENDS: UW-La Crosse is the favorite to win its first national title since 2017, when it completed a three-peat … 2022 cross country champion MIT is seeking its first outdoor national title in program history … Rowan hopes to make the podium for the second time in the past three years … Loras, projected to finish fourth, has never finished on the podium in program history.
