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The Butler men's cross country team posted one of the best national finishes in program and Butler athletics history, taking 13^th as a team at the 2020 NCAA DI Cross Country Championships on Monday, March 15 at the Oklahoma State course in Stillwater, Okla.

Men's Championship Recap
Connor Mantz of BYU won the individual title with a time of 29:26.1. Entering today, BYU was the reigning 2019 Cross Country team champion. Adriaan Widlschutt (29.48.2) of Florida State was the men's individual runner-up.

Northern Arizona took the team title with 60 points, placing four individual runners in the top-ten. Notre Dame, a member of the Great Lakes Region, came in second with 87 points and had all five scorers across the line in the first 21 finishers.

Host Oklahoma State found some home-course advantage in the wind and hills, rounding out the final podium spot in third with 142 points.

Individual Dawgs
Simon Bedard earned All-American status and paced the Bulldogs with a time of 30:44.5, coming in at 37^th in the field. To earn USTFCCCA All-American honors, an individual must place in the top-40 finishers at the NCAA Championships.

Barry Keane was just a few strides behind Bedard, narrowly missing individual honors, clocking a 30:50.4, good for 43^rd overall. Remi Schyns was the third Bulldog across the line, placing 64^th with a time of 31:08.7. Jackson Martin (32:01.5) and Clark Otte (32:20.9) rounded out the Bulldog's top five scorers.

Pierre-Louis Detourbe (32:33.1) and Jack McMahon (33:13.4) completed Butler's seven-man squad.

The Bulldog Pack
The Bulldogs had the second-highest placing of any Great Lakes Regional team, behind meet runner-up Notre Dame (2^nd) and ahead of Michigan State (17^th), Wisconsin (18^th), Indiana (26^th), and Purdue (29^th).

Butler also finished ahead of both BIG EAST members Villanova (20^th) and Georgetown (22^nd) in the field. Butler's BIG EAST-winning team average time of 23:22.0 matched Notre Dame's ACC-winning team average from this fall.

As a team, the Bulldogs steadily moved up the placing ladder. Butler started out in 25^th overall at the first mark, then shifting positions each 1,000-meters after that. The team made its biggest move at the halfway point, jumping from 21^st to 17^th at the 5k mark. Bulldogs would get as high as 12^th (9k), before finding their final placing at 13^th, just six-points behind 12^th-place Ole Miss (373 points).  

On the National Stage
The 13^th-place finish is the fifth best national finish by a Butler athletics team in any sport. Butler athletics top-four finishes include: back-to-back Final Four appearances (2010 and 2011 Men's Basketball), a third-place team finish at NCAA Championships (2013 Women's Cross Country), and a fourth-place team finish at NCAA Championships (2004 Men's Cross Country).