DIII Outdoor T&F Rankings Update — 2012 Week 2, April 11
NEW ORLEANS — McMurry’s men has taken over the No. 1 spot in the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field National Team Computer Rankings as released on Wednesday. The War Hawks took over the top spot from UW-Oshkosh who was No. 1 for a week. In the preseason and first two weekly ranking updates, there has been a different No. 1 men’s team. On the women’s side, Wartburg is still a strong No. 1 in the women’s rankings, having held the spot since the preseason.
National Ranking PDFs: Top 25 | Full by Team | Event-by-Event | Week-by-Week
Regional Index PDFs: Top Ten | By Team | By Event
Previous Rankings
USTFCCCA NCAA Division III |
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Men’s Outdoor Track & Field National Team Computer Rankings (Top 25) |
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2012 Week #2 — April 11 |
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| next ranking: April 18 | |||||
| Rank | School | Points | Conference | Head Coach (Yr) | Last Week |
| 1 | McMurry | 213.69 | ASC | Barbara Crousen (14th) | 2 |
| 2 | UW-Oshkosh | 203.65 | WIAC | Paul Brown (2nd) | 1 |
| 3 | UW-La Crosse | 173.51 | WIAC | Josh Buchholtz (4th) | 3 |
| 4 | North Central (Ill.) | 117.18 | CCIW | Frank Gramarosso (2nd) | 4 |
| 5 | UW-Whitewater | 113.27 | WIAC | Mike Johnson (3rd) | 5 |
| 6 | Haverford | 86.71 | Centennial | Tom Donnelly (37th) | 14 |
| 7 | Augustana (Ill.) | 86.54 | CCIW | Paul Olsen (43rd) | 8 |
| 8 | La Verne | 86.32 | SCIAC | Pat Widolff (20th) | 9 |
| 9 | Central (Iowa) | 84.87 | IIAC | Joe Dunham (4th) | 7 |
| 10 | Calvin | 80.11 | MIAA | Bret Otte (3rd) | 6 |
| 11 | UW-Stout | 77.23 | WIAC | Laura Knudsen (4th) | 10 |
| 12 | Whitworth | 65.75 | Northwest | Toby Schwarz (16th) | 13 |
| 13 | Nebraska Wesleyan | 65.04 | Great Plains | Ted Bulling (27th) | 12 |
| 14 | Wabash | 63.52 | NCAC | Clyde Morgan (4th) | 11 |
| 15 | UW-Eau Claire | 63.19 | WIAC | Chip Schneider (10th) | 17 |
| 16 | Middlebury | 58.60 | NESCAC | Martin Beatty (24th) | 30 |
| 17 | UW-Platteville | 49.62 | WIAC | Jim Nickasch (11th) | 16 |
| 18 | Rowan | 48.70 | NJAC | Bill Fritz (18th) | 19 |
| 19 | Occidental | 47.95 | SCIAC | Robert Bartlett (7th) | 15 |
| 20 | Heidelberg | 46.19 | OAC | Briana Hess (2nd) | 18 |
| 21 | Christopher Newport | 44.89 | USA South | Tyler Wingard (6th) | 43 |
| 22 | Monmouth (Ill.) | 44.51 | Midwest | Roger Haynes (29th) | 22 |
| 23 | Moravian | 43.97 | Landmark | Jesse Baumann (1st) | 27 |
| 24 | Guilford | 42.35 | ODAC | Danny Cash (2nd) | 23 |
| 25 | Hamline | 42.22 | MIAC | Paul Schmaedeke (21st) | 31 |
| Dropped out: No. 20 Williams, No. 21 SUNY Cortland, No. 24 Baldwin-Wallace, No. 25 Denison | |||||
| Men’s Conference Index Top 10 | |||
| Rank | Conference | Points | Top 25 Teams |
| 1 | WIAC | 712.33 | 6 |
| 2 | CCIW | 258.26 | 2 |
| 3 | ASC | 253.71 | 1 |
| 4 | SCIAC | 219.89 | 2 |
| 5 | NESCAC | 202.18 | 1 |
| 6 | OAC | 181.22 | 1 |
| 7 | SUNYAC | 143.49 | |
| 8 | NCAC | 139.57 | 1 |
| 9 | NJAC | 122.85 | 1 |
| 10 | IIAC | 122.67 | 1 |
USTFCCCA NCAA Division III |
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Women’s Outdoor Track & Field National Team Computer Rankings (Top 25) |
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2012 Week #2 — April 11 |
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| next ranking: April 18 | |||||
| Rank | School | Points | Conference | Head Coach (Yr) | Last Week |
| 1 | Wartburg | 309.81 | IIAC | Marcus Newsom (14th) | 1 |
| 2 | UW-Oshkosh | 191.69 | WIAC | Pat Ebel (3rd) | 2 |
| 3 | MIT | 146.38 | NEWMAC | Halston Taylor (5th) | 3 |
| 4 | UW-Eau Claire | 131.87 | WIAC | Chip Schneider (6th) | 4 |
| 5 | Williams | 102.03 | NESCAC | Fletcher Brooks (4th) | 5 |
| 6 | Methodist | 95.36 | USA South | Duane Ross (5th) | 6 |
| 7 | Illinois Wesleyan | 82.66 | CCIW | Chris Schumacher (15th) | 9 |
| 8 | Washington (Mo.) | 73.83 | UAA | Jeff Stiles (11th) | 7 |
| 9 | Texas Lutheran | 72.71 | ASC | Patrick Zarate (6th) | 8 |
| 10 | Nebraska Wesleyan | 70.69 | Great Plains | Ted Bulling (25th) | 11 |
| 11 | George Fox | 67.43 | Northwest | John Smith (6th) | 12 |
| 12 | Ithaca | 66.11 | Empire 8 | Jennifer Potter (9th) | 10 |
| 13 | Illinois College | 63.44 | Midwest | Mike Brooks (11th) | 14 |
| 14 | Central (Iowa) | 63.18 | IIAC | Joe Dunham (4th) | 13 |
| 15 | SUNY Geneseo | 53.99 | SUNYAC | Dave Prevosti (8th) | 15 |
| 16 | Middlebury | 49.92 | NESCAC | Martin Beatty (24th) | 17 |
| 17 | Linfield | 48.27 | Northwest | Travis Olson (2nd) | 18 |
| 18 | Mount Union | 47.32 | OAC | Kevin Lucas (2nd) | 20 |
| 19 | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps | 46.00 | SCIAC | Kendra Reimer (2nd) | 16 |
| 20 | Willamette | 45.56 | Northwest | Matt McGuirk (8th) | 21 |
| 21 | Westfield State | 45.03 | MASCAC | Sean O’Brien (14th) | 22 |
| 22 | Emory | 43.11 | UAA | John Curtin (27th) | 44 |
| 23 | Tufts | 42.64 | NESCAC | Kristen Morwick (12th) | 19 |
| 24 | Buffalo State | 41.73 | SUNYAC | Eugene Lewis (12th) | 23 |
| 25 | UW-La Crosse | 37.09 | WIAC | Pat Healy (21st) | 24 |
| Dropped out: No. 25 Cal Lutheran | |||||
| Women’s Conference Index Top 10 | |||
| Rank | Conference | Points | Top 25 Teams |
| 1 | WIAC | 461.60 | 3 |
| 2 | IIAC | 427.27 | 2 |
| 3 | NEWMAC | 248.70 | 1 |
| 4 | NESCAC | 247.41 | 3 |
| 5 | Northwest Conference | 186.05 | 3 |
| 6 | CCIW | 174.99 | 1 |
| 7 | UAA | 168.76 | 2 |
| 8 | NJAC | 156.11 | |
| 9 | Midwest Conference | 126.36 | 1 |
| 10 | SUNYAC | 125.83 | 2 |
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.
