NEW ORLEANS – Seventy-seven men’s and women’s cross country teams got votes in the last NCAA Division INational Coaches’ Poll.

This weekend, the Auburn men are racing at Alabama, the Villanova and Virginia Tech programs are at Princeton, Oklahoma State is at Santa Clara, and the New Hampshire women and Virginia men are off.

The other 68 teams are at either the annual Pre-National Invitational or Wisconsin. (Yesterday, we broke down Wisco scientifically here).

With the advent of that Wisconsin meet, the Terre Haute dry run has lost a little bit of its luster from its Bush-era heyday. A huge majority of ranked teams are in Madison this weekend. But that does have one upside: with smaller fields, Pre-Nats has scrapped its old format that split the best teams into two separate races, greatly improving the matchups in the top race.

Here’s a preview of those matchups at Pre-Nats:

Women’s Race: 
Team Storylines | Individual Storylines
Men’s Race: 
Team Storylines | Individual Storylines