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Track & Field Squads Remain in USTFCCCA Regional Rankings

USTFCCA Outdoor rankings

NEW ORLEANS, LA --- The Moravian College men's & women's track & field teams are both ranked in the Mideast Region in the sixth NCAA Division III Regional Team Index of the 2013 outdoor season released by the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Wednesday. The Greyhound women's team is ranked slipped one spot to third in the region while the men fell to seventh in the top-ten regional rankings.

The Greyhound women, who won their sixth straight Landmark Conference Championship two weeks ago, have a total of 184.77 points. Johns Hopkins University is currently first in the Mideast Region with 446.82 while Elizabethtown College is second at 217.05 points, moving past Moravian which had been second in the region the last four weeks. Salisbury University is in fourth place with 174.99 points while Lebanon Valley College is fifth with 168.39 points.

The Greyhound men, who also won their sixth consecutive Landmark Conference title two weeks ago, have a total of 189.42 points. Salisbury leads the Mideast Region with 338.98 points while Widener University is second at 253.64 points. Haverford College holds down the third spot with 249.01 points while Messiah College is fourth with 216.16 points. Johns Hopkins sits in fifth with 208.36 points while Carnegie Mellon University is sixth ahead of Moravian with 189.42 points.

To view the full rankings, visit http://www.ustfccca.org/assets/rankings/div3/2013-otf/NCAAD3_2013_outWk6_TF_RegionalIndexTop10.pdf.

Moravian is scheduled to return to action Thursday, May 9th when the Greyhounds travel to the York College of Pennsylvania Twilight Meet.

 

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.