Top Teams Vie for Title at Pac-12 Meet

Published by Oregon SID on October 27th, 2016

EUGENE, Ore. – The Ducks begin the championship portion of the 2016 cross country schedule with the Pac-12 Championships Friday at Randolph North Golf Course in Tucson, Ariz.

The women's 6,000-meter race will lead things off at 9:30 a.m., followed by the men's 8,000-meters at 10:30 a.m.

Once again, the Pac-12 Championships will be the feature races among the conference meets. The men have four of the nation's top 10 teams in the field, while the women have four of the country's top 11 teams running on Friday. No other conference has more than two teams ranked in the top 11 in either the men's or women's polls.

In the men's race. the top teams are No. 2 Stanford, No. 3 Oregon, No. 7 Colorado, No. 10 UCLA, No. 15 Washington State and No. 25 Washington. On the women's side, ranked squads include No. 1 Colorado, No. 2 Washington, No. 5 Oregon, No. 11 Stanford, No. 17 Utah, No. 23 UCLA and No. 25 California.