WSU & UW women stay in USTFCCCA national top 30, while no men's teams are represented...
NEW ORLEANS-- After a championship Friday which saw Washington State (Tyler McFarland/Pac 12 photo) win the Pac-12 cross country title, and Washington finish fourth at the B1G Ten championships, both women's teams stayed in the national top 30 in the latest USTFCCCA NCAA Division I coaches poll released Tuesday. The Cougars, who were ranked number 13 in the previous poll, dropped four spots to number 17 after a closer than expected conference championship meet in Boise, where WSU won by a 50-62 count over host Boise State on October 30th. Boise State was helped by the addition of fifth year runners Kaiya Robertson and Nannette Novak, who, thanks to a court ruling the day before, were ruled eligible. Both Boise State runners were part of the Wisne vs NCAA case concerning the eligibility of athletes in all sports from the high school class of 2022, who were caught in the NCAA's new five seasons in five years eligibility rules. While the Cougars dropped, the results from other ...
