Conference weekend is here. The D3GD crew took a different approach this weekend. Instead of previewing the 40 conference meets this weekend, we instead asked questions about what will happen.

40+ Conference Questions to discuss at your pre-meet dinner tables

Atlantic East Conference Cross Country Championships

• Marywood is on the rise. Can they sweep with perfect scores?

AMCC Cross Country Championships

• Can PSU Behrend sweep for the fourth straight year?

American Rivers Cross Country Championships

• How big of a challenge will Central give Wartburg?

ASC Cross Country Championships

• Does McMurry need another broom?

Coast-to-Coast Athletic Cross Country Championships

• What will the East Coast athletes do on the plane to California?

Commonwealth Coast Cross Country Championships

• Can Roger William Men and Suffolk Women win three straight?

CCIW Cross Country Championships

• How many NCC men will put in the top 10?

• Can Illinois Wesleyan Women claim their first title since 2012?

CCS Cross Country Championships

• This is the second year ever for this conference. Will Berea Men and Piedmont Women start streaks?

Centennial Cross Country Championships

• John Hopkins vs. Haverford, who ya got?

• Will Hopkins women win their 15th straight?

CUNYAC Cross Country Championships

• How many athletes will go to Lloyd’s Carrot Cake post-meet?

Empire 8 Cross Country Championships

• Will Houghton men and Nazareth women emerge as new champions?

Great Northeast Cross Country Championships

• Last year was the first men’s GNAC conference title Colby-Sawyer did not win. Can they reclaim their throne? Will their women win their fourth straight title?

HCAC Cross Country Championships

• Will Rose-Hulman men start a streak after winning last year’s title? Can Manchester’s Salazar and Havens go 1-2? (It would be the third year in row that Manchester men have gone 1-2).

• Can Hanover women win their first fall title since 2014?

Landmark Cross Country Championships

• Last year, Scranton beat Elizabethtown by one point. How close will the women’s team race be this year?

• Will a Moravian athlete win the men’s race for the fourth year in a row?

Little East Cross Country Championships

• Last year, Plymouth State men broke Southern Maine’s five-year winning streak. Can they start a streak of their own?

• Keene State women have won 56% of the conference titles in Little East XC championship history. Will that statistic become 57% this weekend?

Liberty League Cross Country Championships

• Will RPI men win their seventh straight title? Can Vassar’s Takigucki or St. Lawrence’s Skutt play defense against an RPI sweep?

• Can Vassar women win their first Liberty League title?

Middle Atlantic Cross Country Championships

• Can DeSales men win their first conference title since 2007?

• Can Lebanon Valley’s Bunke dethrone Widener’s Nye?

MASCAC Cross Country Championships

• Can Westfield State sweep both men’s and women’s titles? The women could capture their fourth straight victory.

MIAA Cross Country Championships

• Will the reign of Calvin men continue via a 36th consecutive conference title?

• Will Hope women start a streak of their own with eight in a row?

MIAC Cross Country Championships

• Who will take the men’s rematch between Kelly and Bati?

• How much will Fiona Smith win by?

MWC Cross Country Championships

• In a conference long dominated by Grinnell, can Cornell defend their title from last year?

• Can Lawrence’s Cristyn Oliver’s so-far-perfect conference winning streak be broken?

NAC Cross Country Championships

• Can anyone challenge Maine-Farmington men or Husson women?

NACC Cross Country Championships

• Can MSOE men and Aurora women defend their titles from last year, or will Wisconsin Luthern men and Concordia Wisconsin women overthrow them?

NCAC Cross Country Championships

• Can DePauw Men bounce back?

• Wittenberg vs. DePauw. Can DePauw women get their first NCAC title?

NESCAC Cross Country Championships

• Will Williams men and women sweep for the fourth year in a row?

NEWMAC Cross Country Championships

• Does MIT run their full varsity squad for either race?

NJAC Cross Country Championships

• Which battle will be more epic: Rowan vs. TCNJ men or Rowan vs. TCNJ women?

NWC Cross Country Championships

• Can anyone hang with George Fox men or women?

OAC Cross Country Championships

• Can Mount Union men dethrone JCU? Will Simon Heys finally win an XC conference title?

• Will JCU women completely run away with it? Who will take the women’s individual title?

ODAC Cross Country Championships

• Can Lynchburg men and women post perfect scores?

PAC Cross Country Championships

• Will Saint Vincent reclaim the title from defending champs Franciscan for the first time since 2019?

• Can Geneva women win their first PAC title?

SAA Cross Country Championships

• Will Bradshaw Lathbury and Meghan Owens threepeat?

SCAC Cross Country Championships

• Will Colorado College sweep once more? 

• Who will challenge Settles? Can Colorado College women have a perfect score?

SCIAC Cross Country Championships

• Do CMS women add their 13th straight conference title?

• Could TK Berhe win the conference title?

SLIAC Cross Country Championships

• Will Greenville sweep both titles, and if so, by how much?

SUNYAC Cross Country Championships

• Can Hunter Brignall pull off another win following his Rowan victory?

• How many SUNY Geneseo women will finish in the top 10?

UAA Cross Country Championships

• Is NYU versus U of Chicago women the most anticipated race of the weekend? NYU women have never won a UAA XC title.

• Does Jack Begley stop by the Case Western tent to say hello?

United East Cross Country Championships

• Will Morrisville vs. St. Mary’s vs. Lancaster Bible women be the closest race of the weekend?

• Will Penn College men win their first United East title?

USA South Cross Country Championships

• Can anyone hang with Dylan May or Madison Lowery?

WIAC Cross Country Championships

• Will the winners of the individual races, men’s and women’s, also be members of the winning teams?

What questions are you asking this weekend?