in a close battle with 2010 champs Florida in the semifinals. CUT entered the USA Ultimate Championship series as the first ranked team in the country. The Northwoods Conference Championships were held on Carleton's campus, and CUT put on a show for the hometown crowd, winning the tournament. North Central regionals were moved at the last minute from Appleton to Madison, WI due to storms in the area. CUT was looking to defend its regional title, but after qualifying for nationals on Saturday with a 15-8 win over Iowa, could not pull out a late game comeback versus Wisconsin in the finals, falling 11–14 in a windy game. Immediately after the finals, the team packed up and drove across town to the other field site to face Iowa in the 2/3 game. Iowa, fresh off of earning their spot in the national's field, came out fired up and got revenge for their loss to CUT 24-hours earlier. CUT took third in the region, which set them up to be the 9th seed at Nationals. Despite being the 9th seed out of a field of 20 teams, CUT took first place in their pool, beating Harvard, British Columbia, Cornell, and Whitman. CUT then moved on to the quarterfinals, where they beat Stanford. They moved on to the semifinals, where they played Iowa. Despite losing to Iowa at Regionals, CUT won 15–10 and advanced to the finals for the third year in a row. CUT would face Wisconsin in the finals, their perennial rival in the Central Region. As the finals were about to begin, the wind started to pick up, eventually gusting to 40+ mph. However, CUT managed to score upwind 3 times, something that Wisconsin would not do the entire game. CUT went on to win 11–5 and captured their 3rd national title. 2016-2017 With a promising 2016 postseason, a strong nucleus of returning talent, and the top recruiting class in the country, CUT entered 2017 as Ultiworld's #2 power-ranked team. The team came away from Florida Warm Up with some questions, having finished 4-3 but missing the bracket. The team's Sunday woes continued at Stanford Invite and Easterns, at which CUT performed well in pool play, but lost in quarters to Oregon and UMass, respectively. However, the consistent ability to beat and often blow out nationals contenders kept Carleton high in the computerized rankings as they entered the postseason.