COLUMBIA, Mo. – After finishes of third on the men's side and fourth on the women's, the Illinois State cross country squads take to Missouri to take on the field at the 2022 NCAA Midwest Regional.
The women's 6,000-meter race begins at 11:00 a.m. (CT), while the men's 8,000-meter race goes off an hour later at noon. The top two finishers in both the men's and women's races earn automatic berths to the NCAA Championship.
THE FIELD
This season there will be a 36 schools competing in the women's cross country championship, and 32 on the men's including Bradley (M/W), Chicago State (M/W), Creighton (M/W), DePaul (M/W), Drake (M/W), Eastern Illinois (M/W), Illinois (M/W), UIC (M/W), Iowa (M/W), Iowa State (M/W), Kansas (M/W), Kansas City (M/W), Kansas State (M/W), Loyola (M/W), Minnesota (M/W), Missouri (M/W), Missouri State (W), Nebraska (M/W), North Dakota (M/W), North Dakota State (M/W), Northern Illinois (W), Northern Iowa (M/W), Northwestern (W), Oklahoma (M/W), #4 Oklahoma State (M/W), Omaha (W), Oral Roberts (M/W), Saint Louis (M/W), SEMO (M/W), SIUE (M/W), South Dakota (M/W), South Dakota State (M/W), Southern Illinois (M/W), Tulsa (M/W), Western Illinois (M/W), and Wichita State (M/W).