Overview
NCAA Cross Country is a collegiate team sport contested each fall over outdoor terrain including grass, dirt, and hills at Division I, II, and III. Teams compete head-to-head, with each runner's individual finish place summed to produce a team score. The low score wins, so consistent top finishes across the roster are…
How to win
- Individual: lowest finish time / first across the line wins; Team: sum of the finish places of the team's first 5 runne…
- Lowest time wins — Finish first — the runner with the lowest finish time wins individually.
- Low score wins — Add finish places of top 5 runners; lowest team total wins.
- Tiebreaker: 6th finisher's place (then 7th, etc.)
- Displacers don't score — 6th and 7th finishers push opposing runners' places higher but don't add to their own team's score.
The game
- Team composition: typically 7 runners per team for NCAA D1 championship; first 5 finishers score; Substitutes (#6 and #…
- Team & scoring size — 7 runners per team; first 5 finishers score (NCAA D1 championship).
