The University of Wisconsin learned in April 2017 that it had won the bid to host the 2018 NCAA cross country championships at the Zimmer Championship Course, setting the Badgers up for a home-site advantage.
Thirty other teams on both the men's and women's side are looking to take the Badgers down a notch on Saturday.
Up to 510 runners will be in the nationals — 31 teams of between five and seven plus 38 individual qualifiers in each gender. Watched by potentially 10,000 in attendance on the course, the women's race is scheduled to start at 10:45 a.