Starting to see some info become available, so thought I'd start this thread now.
The men's and women's cross country (XC) teams race towards their next goal, qualifying for the NCAA Championships (scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 18th in Charlottesville, Virginia), by racing at the NCAA Mountain Regional this Friday, November 10th. This regional, one of nine nationwide, is being hosted this year by Texas Tech in Lubbock at Lubbock Christian U's. Chaparral Ridge Cross Country Course.
The women's race is scheduled to start at 9:00 AM MT, with the men's following at 10:00 AM MT.
Unfortunately, as usual for regonals, I can’t see any indication that any video coverage planned.
Some notes (just copied from my 2019 regional thread) about qualifying (I did modify the paragraph a little where I change it to note THIS year's situations vs. 2019's.):
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(Note - for some reason the tweet below has different start times than the live results link I posted below. For now, I'll assume the live results are the correct times.)
A few other Links:
Host Texas Tech regionals' homepage - https://texastech.com/sports/2023/9/29/copy-of-ncaa-mountain-regional
Mountain Regional Participant Manual (with schedule, course maps, spectator and team info, etc.) - https://ncaaorg.s3.amazonaws.com/ch.../2023-24D1XCC_TexasTech_ParticipantManual.pdf
NCAA's regionals' information page (for ALL regions) - https://www.ncaa.org/sports/2013/11/7/division-i-men-s-and-women-s-cross-country.aspx
NCAA's regionals details and links page - https://www.ustfccca.org/meets-results/regional-championships-central?scope=R
Box Assignments - https://ncaaorg.s3.amazonaws.com/ch...rosscountry/2023-24D1XCC_BoxDraw_Mountain.pdf
Kolas Calculator (Looks like it's being updated as regional races finish.) - https://xcquals.com/
Live results - https://live.pttiming.com/xc-ptt.html?mid=5853
The men's and women's cross country (XC) teams race towards their next goal, qualifying for the NCAA Championships (scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 18th in Charlottesville, Virginia), by racing at the NCAA Mountain Regional this Friday, November 10th. This regional, one of nine nationwide, is being hosted this year by Texas Tech in Lubbock at Lubbock Christian U's. Chaparral Ridge Cross Country Course.
The women's race is scheduled to start at 9:00 AM MT, with the men's following at 10:00 AM MT.
Unfortunately, as usual for regonals, I can’t see any indication that any video coverage planned.
Some notes (just copied from my 2019 regional thread) about qualifying (I did modify the paragraph a little where I change it to note THIS year's situations vs. 2019's.):
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- 9 regional races will determine which 31 teams for each gender get selected for the Championships.
- The top 2 finishing teams in each of the regions are the 18 auto-qualifiers.
- The remaining 13 teams are "At-large" selections. Unlike the team sport selection process most of us are familiar with (with their selection committees), the at-large teams in cross country are selected almost totally on a mathematical calculation based on how many wins the next highest regional finishers have accumulated over the 18 auto-qualifiers, and any other teams that have earned at-large berths earlier in the process (with a few exceptions). (The wins over other all ready selected teams are called "Kolas points".)
- The at-large calculation has quite a few rules. For those interested, here's what looks to me like a couple decent descriptions of the process and rules - https://www.thestridereport.com/understanding-kolas . (The link to the left was the most succinct and isolated explanation I could find. The full explanation can also be found starting on page #14 at https://ncaaorg.s3.amazonaws.com/ch...crosscountry/2023-24D1XCC_PreChampsManual.pdf .)
(Note - for some reason the tweet below has different start times than the live results link I posted below. For now, I'll assume the live results are the correct times.)
A few other Links:
Host Texas Tech regionals' homepage - https://texastech.com/sports/2023/9/29/copy-of-ncaa-mountain-regional
Mountain Regional Participant Manual (with schedule, course maps, spectator and team info, etc.) - https://ncaaorg.s3.amazonaws.com/ch.../2023-24D1XCC_TexasTech_ParticipantManual.pdf
NCAA's regionals' information page (for ALL regions) - https://www.ncaa.org/sports/2013/11/7/division-i-men-s-and-women-s-cross-country.aspx
NCAA's regionals details and links page - https://www.ustfccca.org/meets-results/regional-championships-central?scope=R
Box Assignments - https://ncaaorg.s3.amazonaws.com/ch...rosscountry/2023-24D1XCC_BoxDraw_Mountain.pdf
Kolas Calculator (Looks like it's being updated as regional races finish.) - https://xcquals.com/
Live results - https://live.pttiming.com/xc-ptt.html?mid=5853
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