INSIDE
MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY
BY AJ HARRISON
@BADGER_TRACK
SCHEDULE
COMING UP
Nov. 15
Great Lakes
Noon
Regional
Nov. 23
NCAA
Championship
Badgers back at home for
Great Lakes Regional
No. 19 UW looks to keep its title streak alive
lthough one streak
might be over for the
Wisconsin men's cross
country program ― the Badgers saw their Big Ten winning
streak draw to a close earlier
this month ― UW looks to
extend its NCAA Great Lakes
Regional win streak to 12
straight on Friday at the Zimmer Championship Course.
The men's 10-kilometer
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race is set to start at noon.
The Badgers have been stellar in regional competition,
winning 28 of a possible 41
titles since the format began
in 1971. UW enters the meet
having won the past 11 Great
Lakes titles, including last
year's meet in Madison.
UW head coach Mick Byrne believes this week's meet
will be a great opportunity for
11 a.m.
the team to rebound after its third-place
showing at the Big Ten meet.
"The great thing about our sport is we
get to do it again and get that opportunity to take on Indiana and Michigan, and
certainly some other great teams in the
region like Notre Dame," Byrne said.
Byrne also believes having some familiarity with running against Indiana
and Michigan, the two teams that finished ahead of Wisconsin at the Big Ten
championship, will aid the Badgers on
their home course.
"They know them a little bit better,"
Byrne said. "They know what those guys
are capable of doing. I think the guys have
learned an awful lot from it (Big Tens)."
Wisconsin looks for different result in
Friday's race, but the team won't change
a strategy that has helped UW dominate
the meet over the past decade.
"Some tactics will come into play, but
there will be I don't like playing the tactics game," Byrne said. "We haven't done
that in the last 11 years at this meet, and
we've won it."
The top two teams from the region
automaticaly qualify for the 2013 NCAA
Championship on Nov. 23 in Terre Haute,
Ind. A third- or fourth-place finish would
put UW in consideration for an at-large
berth to the NCAA meet, which Wisconsin has qualified for in a record 41
straight years.
"I'd rather be an automatic qualifier
than to have to wait for that phone call
on Saturday evening," Byrne said.