2017 Cliff Keen Las Vegas Collegiate Wrestling Invitational

Cliff Keen Las Vegas Projected Team Scores

The team scores for the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational NCAA wrestling tournament based on pre-seeds.

Nov 29, 2017 by Andrew Spey

Cliff Keen Las Vegas Projected Team Scores

The Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational released its pre-seeds earlier today, which can be found in their entirety right here. So what does that mean for the team race?

Well, we can calculate hypothetical team scores the same way we do for the NCAA national team rankings and project what the final tournament team scores will look like on Saturday. And so after a little spreadsheet plug-and-chug, our team race shakes out as follows.

Michigan	117.5
Ohio State	105.5
Arizona State	87
Minnesota	70.5
Nebraska	62.5
Virginia Tech	61
Northern Iowa	53.5
Central Michigan	36.5
North Carolina	31.5
Cornell	30
Pittsburgh	29.5
Wyoming	28.5
Edinboro	24.5
Stanford	24
Virginia	19
Michigan State	19
American	18.5
Wisconsin	16.5
Navy	16.5
CSU Bakersfield	15.5
West Virginia	14.5
Purdue	14.5
North Dakota State	13.5
Duke	13.5
Oklahoma	9.5
Oregon State	9
Columbia	9
Brown	8.5
Northern Colorado	7.5
Utah Valley	7
Bucknell	6.5
Iowa State	6
Eastern Michigan	5.5
Binghamton	5.5
Kent State	2
Drexel	2
Army West Point	2
Harvard	1.5

Only 165 pounds got a full set of 16 pre-seeds, so expect more points to be scored then the sum of everything you see here.

We will release a more detailed analysis soon, but for now, it looks like Ohio State and Michigan will be in a dog fight for the CKLV team trophy. Those two teams plus 36 other schools showing up to the Las Vegas Convention Center with at least one ranked wrestler will make for an epic college tournament you wouldn't dare miss!