National rankings were really determined by this last weekend's meets. The Wisconsin Adidas and NCAA DI Pre-Nationals both had deep fields. 

The Colorado men beat Oregon and Iona 90 to 113 to 126 at Pre-Nationals and Moves to #1 nationally as Oregon stays at #4, Iona moves to #8 and Ok State does not bring its "A" Team (drops to #3 as a result). Oregon's early season pack running was not as successful 4-15-16-34-44 in this meet as Colorado 7-9-22-24-28 and barely held off the tight pack of Iona 10-18-21-36-41.  Defending NCAA champion Kennedy Kithuka dominates the men's individual competition (22:52.78) and nearly misses the meet record by 1 second. 

The Georgetown women (move to #3) look like they may be ready to challenge again for a national title by taking out perennial NCAA trophy winner (6 consecutive) Florida State, which dropped to #5, 117-162 as previous #6 Oregon finishes fifth (drops to #12).  Boise State's Emma Bates edges Stanford's Aisling Cuffe and #3 NCAA returner Cally Macumber of Kentucky 20:09.09 to 20:10.70 and 20:12.15.

At the Wisconsin Adidas Invitational Mountain Region powers Northern Arizona and BYU battled for the title.   This time Northern Arizona decisively won 121-174 with a tight group going 6-16-17-39-43.  Arkansas' Kemoy Campbell took the pace early and held off of Harvard's Maksim Korolev 23:12 to 23:14

Although there was quite a battle among runners of the top teams (behind Abbey D'Agostino) the women's race was truly determine by the #4 and #5 runners.  #3 Arizona, 7-15-18, lost out on the first three to #1 Providence, 2-5-9 and #8 Arkansas, 6-8-13 but their 4-5 runners dominated the competition, 21-56, to Arkansas 52-57, and Providence 37-138.  Since teams score top 5 that gave a decisive victory to now #1 Arizona 117, #2 Arkansas 136, and #4 Providence 191.

Top returner D'Agostino of Dartmouth handled a temporary challenge from Texas' Murielle Hall to win running away (19:31) from Emily Sisson of Providence in 19:44, Hall in 19:46 and Shelby Houlihan of ASU closed hard for fourth in 19:52.  Early season meet record smasher Juliet Bottorff of Duke finished 11th in 20:03.