2024 NCAA DIII Men’s Cross Country National Coaches’ Poll – Week 3

NEW ORLEANS – It’s quiet. A little too quiet.

Here is the newest edition of the 2024 NCAA DIII Men’s Cross Country National Coaches’ Poll, which was released on Wednesday by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA). Nothing changed from the previous week, but you can bet your bottom dollar that the upcoming weekend will leave its mark on the national landscape.

NCAA Division III — Men's Cross Country

This Week's National Top Five

1
UW-La Crosse

2
Wartburg

3
UW-Whitewater

4
North Central (Ill.)

5
Pomona-Pitzer

Cross Country Polls & Rankings

NATIONAL POLL

REGIONAL RANKINGS

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Three top-10 teams will test themselves on the LaVern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course at the Pre-National Invitational on Friday night (Yes – Friday night): No. 3 UW-Whitewater, No. 5 Pomona-Pitzer and No. 10 George Fox. None of those teams raced at the John McNichols Invitational last month, so this will be their first – and only – look at the course that will host the upcoming NCAA DIII Cross Country Championships in November.

Then we’ll see a plethora of top-30 matchups on Saturday at the Paul Short Run in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, including a top-11 battle between No. 7 Johns Hopkins, No. 9 RPI and No. 11 Carnegie Mellon in the College Men’s Gold 8k. Eleven top-30 squads square off in the College Men’s White 8k, headlined by No. 6 NYU and No. 8 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, among others.

Mark your calendars for Saturday, November 23, because that’s when the 2024 NCAA DIII Cross Country Championships will be held at the LaVern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course in Terre Haute, Indiana.