The NCAA Selection Show made it official Saturday afternoon as the Butler men were displayed among the field with the team's automatic berth and Elsa Rusthoven took one of the individual spots in the NCAA Championships field.

The 2023 NCAA Championships are set for Saturday, Nov. 18 at the Panorama Farms Cross Country Course in Earlysville, Va. The University of Virginia will serve as host. The Butler men ran one of their best races of the 2023 season on the Panorama Farms course in September, taking eighth at the Virginia Invitational against an elite national field.

Live championship coverage Saturday will be broadcast on ESPNU beginning at 9:30 a.m. The women's 6k race featuring Rusthoven will begin at 10:20 a.m., and the men's 10k race will start at 11:10 a.m.  

This is Butler's fourth consecutive appearance in the NCAA Championships. The Bulldogs have also captured three of the last four BIG EAST men's championships, including most recently Oct. 28.

The Butler men won the 2023 Great Lakes Regional Friday afternoon, which provided an automatic berth in the NCAA Championships field. It marks the first Great Lakes regional championship in program history.

Butler, which entered the meet ranked No. 12 nationally in the most recent USTFCCCA poll, placed all five of its scorers among the Top 15. Florian Le Pallec was the first Bulldog to cross the line, finishing fourth. He was followed closely by teammates William Zegarski (fifth), Matthew Forrester (ninth), Will Minnette (tenth), and Jesse Hamlin (15^th). That fivesome each earned All-Great Lakes Region honors.

The NCAA field will include a total of 31 teams plus qualifying individuals from each of the nine regions.

Elsa Rusthoven led the Butler women at the regional in Wisconsin, as she picked up a 15^th-place finish individually. Rusthoven covered the 6k course in 20:50.7 to earn All-Region honors. She earned an individual berth in the NCAA Championships, one of four from the Great Lakes region in addition to qualifying teams in Notre Dame, Wisconsin and Michigan State.