DIII Indoor Track & Field Rankings – 2012 Pre-NCAA, Week #7

QUICKLY … The final USTFCCCA National Team Computer Rankings before the NCAA Championships in Division III shows a fairly tight race on the men’s side, with No. 1 UW-La Crosse, No. 2 North Central, No. 3 UW-Oshkosh, and No. 4 McMurry among the primary team challengers for the national title this weekend. North Central is the two-time defending champions, and UW-Oshkosh and UW-La Crosse last won the national crown in a tie in 2009. UW-La Crosse and UW-Oshkosh lead the field with ten entries apiece in the national meet with North Central following with nine.

On the women’s side, No. 1 Wartburg and No. 2 UW-Oshkosh has seemingly pulled away from the field as both teams have over 200 rankings points and none other has more than 100. Wartburg leads the number of entries into the meet with 16, seven of which are in sprint and hurdle events. UW-Oshkosh follows with 12 in which six are in the throwing events. UW-Oshkosh is the defending champions, but Wartburg won the national title in 2009 and 2010.

NCAA Accepted Entries: MEN | WOMEN | Most by Team | Most by Conference

National Ranking PDFs: Top 25 | Full by Team | Event-by-Event | Week-by-Week
Regional Index PDFs (FINAL): Top Ten by Region | Full by Team | Event-by-Event
Collegiate-Leading Marks | Best Marks by Football Players
Previous Rankings

National Championships Central

About the Rankings
For more on the national team rankings and links to guideline and rationale information visit …
http://www.ustfccca.org/rankings/division-iii-rankings

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.