NCAA XC Championship Men's Team Battle Recap: Oklahoma State Takes Down NAU 49-71
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🗓️ 18 November 2023
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MEN’S TEAM CHAMPIONS | OKLAHOMA STATE
– One year after losing on a tiebreaker on their home course, Oklahoma State left nothing to doubt and downed the defending champion Northern Arizona 49–71.
– The Cowboys put five runners in the top 15.
– Freshman Denis Kipngetich was the top OSU runner in fourth place overall in 28:59.7 for the 10K course. Fellow freshman Brian Musau was not far behind with an eighth place finish in 29:11.0. Fouad Messaoudi was 10th in 29:13.3. Victor Shitsama took 12th at 29:16.1. Alex Maier was 15th in 29:20.2.
– This is Oklahoma State’s first men’s team title since 2012.
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| 0:00.0 | All right we are here 2023 NCAA cross country championships Chris Chavez Isaac Wood all the action just wrapped up the final bus is left and we're the last ones out here |
| 0:10.1 | But we're here to unpack the men's team title race where the battle between |
| 0:16.1 | NAU and Oklahoma State, I would say lived up to the hype. What do you think? |
| 0:23.5 | You know, it was not quite as close as I thought, you know? |
| 0:26.6 | I mean, I think Dave thought it would be closer. |
| 0:28.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:29.8 | They were thrown around 75, 74 points is what it would take. |
| 0:33.0 | Honestly, Oklahoma State put the beat down 49 points to NAUs 71. |
| 0:38.0 | 49 points is nasty. |
| 0:40.0 | I mean, I didn't look, but I can't imagine there being a better team score like and then that in the last little while if there has it was an EU dominating another time but |
| 0:47.4 | Obviously that you know Dave Smith put together the perfect team for Ancilbit Championship. |
| 0:52.9 | I mean, he, and he didn't even stop, like, |
| 0:55.0 | like he, he had such a good roster coming into this year. |
| 0:57.6 | Then at the press conference, he's talking about how in July |
| 0:59.7 | he's taking a flyer on Dennis Kibngetich and Brian Musau. |
| 1:03.1 | He took a flyer on two dudes |
| 1:04.4 | to end up getting what top 10 each? |
| 1:05.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:06.7 | Like that, like, and he could have been okay |
| 1:08.8 | with knowing that he had Masoudi and Mayor and Shizama all coming back but he didn't he just kept |
| 1:15.8 | kept pushing and it paid off in a big way. Yeah Kipp and Gettich was one of those |
| 1:18.9 | guys who was up there late into the race contending for the individual title |
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