Washington men remain at number 12 after winning West Regionals, while women drop to number 6....
NEW ORLEANS-- With all nine regional championships finished Friday, and the field set for this Saturday's NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships in Verona, Wisconsin, the USTFCCCA released its final regular season coaches' poll Monday morning. The Washington men's squad, which won its second NCAA West Regional title in school history on Friday, remained at number 12. Nathan Green (Bobby Alworth/WSU Athletics photo) led the way for the Huskies, moving seven places over the final lap of the Colfax Golf Course to finish seventh, which turned out to be the difference between the Dawgs winning and a probable third place finish. The Huskies won the closely contested meet by a 66-68-73 count over second place Oregon and third place Stanford. The nation's top five men's teams heading into the national championships are in order: BYU, Oklahoma State, Arkansas, Iowa State, and New Mexico. Other Big Ten teams ranked include number 7 Wisconsin, number 9 Stanford, and numbe