In 1976, Danish filmmaker Jørgen Leth documented the Paris-Roubaix cycling race in a film titled En Forårsdag I Helvede (A Sunday in Hell). Considered the greatest cycling film ever made, it shows the challenge of the sport’s most difficult race from the perspective of the riders, organizers, and fans.

Likewise, Saturday’s NCAA Cross Country Championships were held in a steady rain in weather barely above freezing. The difficulty of the race, the mud (and mud, and more mud), and the environment combined to make it a Saturday in hell. And that’s exactly as it should be.

WOMEN’S RACE: A YEAR LATER, THE FAVORITES WIN

There are about as many NCAA championships predictions as there are websites that cover it, and I’m pretty sure that Arkansas was a unanimous pick to win yesterday’s meet. The Razorbacks knew that meant bupkis because last year they were a consensus pick for a top-four podium finish – Citius Mag’s own Isaac Wood picked them to win – and ended up thirteenth.

This time the team carried the attitude of champions. Arkansas had pulled off upset wins at both the NCAA Indoor and Outdoor Track & Field Championships in March and June, and the confidence earned by those made it easier to execute a plan. “They followed the race plan and never lost composure,” said coach Lance Harter. “The plan was to just to try to be in position at 4k.” BYU led the race at the 2-kilometer mark over Arkansas and Stanford, then the Razorbacks moved up to a 9-point lead at 4k, and held on for a 6-point victory over BYU.

Just because they were the favorites doesn’t mean they weren’t excited. Our Citius Mag photographer overhead two unidentified Razorbacks scream “you know what this means? We’re gonna have to get tattoos on our butts!”

Similarly, the favorite to win the individual title was New Mexico’s Weini Kelati, but nothing was guaranteed. Last year Isaac Wood told us you could “sharpie” her in for the win, but she was outrun by Colorado’s Dani Jones. She surged away from a leading group just past halfway, as she did last year, but this time her lead was for good.

MEN’S RACE: WUT?

Northern Arizona was going for their fourth straight championship and was widely considered essentially unbeatable. We don’t remember when the “unbeatable” teams win championships, but we sure do remember when they don’t. ’85 Georgetown basketball, 2007 Patriots Super Bowl, and now the 2019 Northern Arizona Lumberjacks.

I and our two photographers positioned ourselves just before the 1000 meter mark for the men’s race. At the Lavern Gibson course it’s at the end of a very long straightaway and a series of downhills, and we were at a hard right-hand turn. It’s not easy to pick out uniforms in a mass of 256 runners moving at about 14 miles per hour, but it sure did look to us like Northern Arizona was too far back. But hey, there’s another 9k of running to go, right?

At 3000 meters the scoreboard showed that NAU was too far back, and while in second place they were still 57 points behind BYU. At 5000 meters BYU still led by 46.

Two of us had remained at our original spot and waited for the men to come by a second time, at roughly 5500 meters. A lone man came down the hill in a Virginia Tech uniform with a 60-yard lead, and we turned to each other and said “who the f**k is that?”

His name is Peter Seufer, and I should have known who he was. Running on grass slows everyone down but some less than others, and the same goes for running on mud. Seufer is one of those guys. He was 16th at last year’s championship and won his second ACC championship in October. However, not one thing he’s done during track season matches those accomplishments, and that’s why he was off my radar.

By the 8000 meter checkpoint, Seufer still led but by just a step. BYU still led NAU, the gap remained 46 points, and Colorado had moved up to tie NAU for second. Soon after, Iowa State’s Edwin Kurgat took the lead and kept it, eventually building a lead big enough that he could celebrate the win before the finish line. Behind him, Seufer surged past Colorado’s Joe Klecker and BYU’s Connor Mantz to move back into second, but didn’t have the gas to hold it to the finish and ended up fourth.

On the scoreboard, BYU’s lead widened over the last 2 km and the Cougars took their first national championship in a race that was shockingly never close. Colorado was third, just a point behind Northern Arizona, and Iowa State took the last trophy in fourth.

Was it a stunning upset? Yes and no. Northern Arizona was head and shoulders above everyone else all season, but by itself that means nothing. BYU was third two years ago and second last year, and it’s the norm that a championship team has a recent history like that. It should come as no surprise to observe that improvement at the highest levels of long-distance running is gradual and takes years to accomplish.

THE END…FOR NOW

The Lavern Gibson course at Terre Haute has a shoe tree. When it’s all over for you, either a season or a career, you throw your spikes up into this tree behind the start line.

The NCAA cross country championships come at a time of year when you really know it’s all over. Everyone’s serious fall running season is done, no matter whether you’re a high schooler or a college stud or a pro or a middle-aged has-been, the year’s outdoor spectator sports are basically done too, and real winter is beginning to set in.

I’ve been to the NCAAs for 16 of the last 17 years, including all 12 held in Terre Haute. I do it with some of my best friends, guys I suffered with on other cross country courses decades ago. I’m firmly of the opinion that Indiana State does this event better than anyone else. Their facility is at least as good as anyone else’s, their athletics communications takes it very seriously, and the town embraces the event like nowhere else. ISU pioneered the video board, live broadcasting, live scoring, and even had a fighter jet flyover back in 2002.

I and my friends won’t be at either of the next two championships since they won’t be in our part of the country, and some of them have other responsibilities they’ve been able to shirk only because the meet was easy for us to get to.

On the way home I listened to a Lake Wobegon story from an old episode of A Prairie Home Companion, one looking at the other end of this long, cold spell of Midwestern winter and then still-kind-of-winter that we’re about to endure. Carl Krebsbach was out on the first day of fishing season, a cold and rainy day with water dripping down the back of his neck, eating damp sandwiches and drinking bad lukewarm coffee from a thermos. The scene felt awfully familiar to me.

Garrison Keillor said that you go out in these miserable conditions because you’re not alone, you know that everyone else is suffering just as much as you are. It’s interesting, it gives you something to talk about, and it’s actually a happy thing to know we’re all going through the same misery. You feel sorry for those who never know difficulty, because they never know true happiness.

Was Saturday heaven or hell? In cross country, they are one and the same.

• By Jesse Squire
• In NCAA

A few weeks ago I introduced the CITIUS College Cup, a season-long knockout tournament in the style of British soccer’s FA Cup.

Every Division I team was seeded into a “virtual” quadrangular meet and scores are determined by marks recorded in various parts of the season. The first round was the outdoor season up through April 8. It took a little while to calculate all the scores and they are below. Scroll all the way to the bottom to see the resulting 192-team (!) quadrangular-meet bracket.

UPSETS

The best thing about any knockout tournament, be it the FA Cup or March Madness or anything else like them, is the upsets. We had a few! The biggest upset was Syracuse, the #29 seed in the East region, finishing dead last in their quadrangular and failing to be one of the 96 teams making it to the second round.

The scores in the East region (teams in bold advance to the second round):
#1 Florida 162, #90 Bucknell 106, Oakland 46, St. Bonaventure 0
#2 LSU 127, #89 Appalachian State 71, Campbell 65, UNCW 47
#3 Alabama 93, #93 William and Mary 89, #88 Yale 77, Temple 6
#4 Indiana 125, #87 Cornell 115, Stony Brook 42, Duquesne 26
#5 Florida State 124.5, #86 Saint Francis University 91.5, #95 East Carolina 73, Alabama A&M 2
#96 Northeastern 145, #6 Virginia Tech 114, Morehead State 18, Hofstra 0
#7 Tennessee 153, #84 VCU 90, Iona 39, Nicholls State 6
#8 Georgia 130, #83 Rider 98, Florida A&M 63, Furman 32
#9 Purdue 144, #82 Samford 64, Coastal Carolina 58, High Point 47
#10 Ohio State 123, #100 Western Kentucky 60, South Florida 59, Evansville 44
#11 Penn State 140, #170 Troy 102, Belmont 39, Maryland-Eastern Shore 15
#79 South Alabama 110, #12 N. Carolina A&T 109, Binghamton 36, Tulane 28
#13 Michigan 152, #168 Maryland 57, New Hampshire 55, La Salle 29
#14 Ole Miss 115, #77 Western Carolina 109, South Carolina St. 51, St. Francis (N.Y.) 21
#15 Kentucky 180, #76 Rhode Island 75, Boston College 33, American 14
#16 South Carolina 139.5, #75 Connecticut 127.5, Bryant 34, Tennessee St. 19
#17 Miss State 137, #74 Kennesaw State 115, Lipscomb 47, George Washington 5
#18 Akron 118, #73 UL-Lafayette 100, #108 McNeese State 82,UNC-Greensboro 11
#19 Mid. Tenn. State 150, #109 Milwaukee 99, Colgate 28, LIU Brooklyn 27
#71 Central Michigan 113, #20 North Carolina St. 110, Vermont 49, Sacred Heart 25
#21 Princeton 167, #70 Jackson State 99, Delaware State 16, Illinois-Chicago 16
#22 Rutgers 138, #69 Monmouth 108, Lehigh 55, Canisius 0
#23 Charlotte 184, #68 Louisiana Tech 63, East Tenn. St. 48, Davidson 21
#24 Clemson 117, #67 Butler 71, Coppin State 54, VMI 50
#25 Eastern Michigan 132, #115 UL-Monroe 80, #66 Wake Forest 72, Lafayette 40
#65 George Mason 110, #26 Missouri 100, North Florida 61, Mount St. Mary’s 52
#64 Alabama State 106, #27 Virginia 104, Howard 58, Wagner 31
#63 Dartmouth 134, #28 Notre Dame 117, Mississippi Valley 44, St. Peter’s 8
#119 Charleston Southern88, #62 Buffalo 80, Detroit Mercy 72, #29 Syracuse 44
#30 Penn 183, #61 Morgan State 65, Manhattan 45, UNC-Asheville 17
#60 UMass Lowell 161, #31 Harvard 113, Xavier (Ohio) 28, Southern 0
#59 Pittsburgh 129, #32 Albany 82, Fordham 58, UMBC 35
#58 Youngstown St. 135, #33 Hampton 65, UMass Amherst 64, Hartford 33
#57 Northwestern St. 121, #34 Kent State 90, New Jersey Institute 62, Alcorn State 14
#35 Cincinnati 170, #56 Norfolk State 54, USC Upstate 51, Wofford 51
#55 Miami (Ohio) 149, #36 Auburn 117, Holy Cross 27, FIU 25
#54 Navy 221, #37 Villanova 54, Fairleigh Dickinson 20, IUPUI 11
#53 Indiana State 130, #38 Michigan State 119, Savannah State 43, Siena 23
#39 Army West Point 195, #52 Liberty 75, N.C. Central 32, Marist 19
#51 Bethune-Cookman 134, #40 Georgia Tech 120, Valparaiso 47, Northern Kentucky 22
#50 North Carolina 129, #41 Columbia 103, Central Connecticut 38, Winthrop 37
#42 Duke 123, #49 Miami (Fla.) 85, Providence 54, Tennessee-Martin 10
#48 Southern Miss. 90, #133 Boston University 86, #43 SE Louisiana 74,St. Joseph’s (Pa.) 57
#47 Louisville 142, #134 Citadel 71, Eastern Kentucky 52, Maine 45
#46 Brown 91, #45 Georgetown 88, #135 New Orleans 76, Grambling 8

And in the West region:
#1 Houston 147, #54 Eastern Washington 92, #55 New Mexico 57,Pepperdine 15
#2 Stanford 153, #56 UT-Arlington 112, #53 Oral Roberts 34, Santa Clara 20
#3 Texas Tech 171, #57 Arkansas State 80, #52 North Texas 58, Loyola Marymount 11
#4 Oregon 114.5, #58 Grand Canyon 105, #51 Tulsa 44, #105 CSU Bakersfield 41.5
#5 BYU 220, #50 Rice 40, #104 UC Riverside 36, #59 Wyoming 31
#6 Arkansas 127, #49 South Dakota 83, #60 Texas State 61, #103 UC Irvine 53
#7 Nebraska 151.5, #61 Stephen F. Austin 77.5, #48 Southern Utah 60, #102 Cal Poly 29
#101 UC Santa Barbara 140, #8 Iowa State 88, #62 Boise State 65, #47 Lamar 29
#46 Abilene Christian 122, #100 UC Davis 101.5, #9 Wisconsin 55.5, #63 Bradley 38
#10 Texas A&M 185.5, #45 Utah State 92.5, #64 Idaho 39, Fresno State 5
#11 Kansas 130, #98 Cal St. Fullerton 116, #44 Marquette 39, #65 Eastern Illinois 35
#12 Iowa 166, #66 UT-Rio Grande Valley 56, #43 Cal St. Northridge49, Seattle U. 25
#42 Air Force 155, #13 Northern Arizona 91, #67 Southern Illinois 68,Portland State 4
#14 UCLA 159, #68 Incarnate Word 75, #41 Northern Iowa 46, #95 Chicago State 27
#15 Washington 149, #40 Long Beach St. 123, #69 Idaho State 36, Western Illinois 10
#16 USC 119, #39 Illinois State 98, #70 UTEP 53, #93 San Jose St. 28
#71 Texas A&M-CC 110, #17 Oklahoma State 109.5, #92 Sacramento St. 75.5, #38 Portland 28
#18 Texas 145, #37 Colorado St. 132, #91 DePaul 38, Drake 3
#19 Colorado 119.5, #36 Memphis 61, #90North Dakota 50, #73 Weber State 47.5
#35 UTSA 144, #20 South Dakota St. 102, #89 Gonzaga 36, San Francisco 21
#21 Arizona 149.5, #75 Northern Colorado 68, #88 Prairie View 63.5, #34 Montana State 43
#22 Minnesota 142.5, #33 Washington St. 128, #76 SE Missouri 19.5,Saint Louis 18
#23 California 163.5, #32 TCU 86, #77 Montana 42.5, SIU Edwardsville 25
#24 Baylor 122, #31 Wichita State 114, #85 Houston Baptist 54, #78 Central Arkansas 29
#30 North Dakota State 124, #25 Sam Houston St. 90, #79 Utah Valley 70, #84 Texas Southern 26
#26 Oklahoma 117, #29 Arizona State 106, #80 Loyola (Ill.) 52, #83 Arkansas-Pine Bluff 39
#28 Kansas State 126, #27 Illinois 117, #82 UMKC 50, Arkansas-Little Rock 20

SECOND ROUND

The 192 qualifying teams are now reseeded into the bracket below. Scores will be determined using marks made between April 9 and April 30. Scoring is five-deep for individual events (6-4-3-2-1), three-deep for the 4×100 and 4×400 (6-3-1), and two-deep for the 4×200, 4×800, 4xmile, and medleys (3-1).

Winners plus the eight highest scoring second-place teams in each region advance to the quarterfinals.

• By Jesse Squire
• In NCAA

A few weeks ago I introduced the Citius College Cup, a virtual season-long tournament of quadrangular meets involving every NCAA Division I track and field team. Eventually men’s and women’s CITIUS Cup champions will be crowned.

Teams were seeded into first-round matchups using results of the indoor season. The first round used marks made through the end of last weekend to produce team scores via “virtual” meets. Below are the scores from the women’s first round. The 192 teams in bold have qualified to the second round.

EAST REGION

Ohio State 195, Tennessee St. 70, Evansville 16, Purdue Fort Wayne 15
Florida 121, Oakland 90, Richmond 60, Nicholls State 25
Alabama 152.5, Rhode Island 82, Louisiana Tech 49.5, UNC-Greensboro 16
LSU 138, Manhattan 67.5, North Florida 61.5, Niagara 21
Miami (Fla.) 128, Rutgers 58, Boston College 52, St. Bonaventure 0
Florida State 150, Buffalo 59, Yale 46, Mercer 35
Virginia Tech 97, Rider 84, Ohio 84, UNCW 43
Kentucky 159, Elon 68, William and Mary 61, Duquesne 19
Georgia 127, Albany 88, Delaware 81, VMI 7
Indiana 170, Murray State 90, Col. of Charleston 43, Maryland-Eastern Shore 16
Tennessee 150, UMass Amherst 96.5, Quinnipiac 53, Colgate 14.5
Louisville 170, Howard 74, UL-Lafayette 36, American 15
SE Missouri 103, Villanova 98.5, Appalachian State 63.5, Lafayette 22
Alabama State 117, Auburn 109, SE Louisiana 61, St. Francis (N.Y.) 4
Duke 216.5, N.C. Central 36.5, Loyola (Md.) 30, Lipscomb 14
North Carolina St. 132, Austin Peay 102, Florida Atlantic 50, Bryant 23
Michigan State 154, George Mason 117, UMass Lowell 42, UNC-Asheville 3
Penn State 162, Towson 94, Xavier (Ohio) 30, Winthrop 19
Michigan 146, Wofford 99, Coppin State 39, George Washington 8
N. Carolina A&T 106, Georgia State 91, Dayton 72, Holy Cross 34
Penn 180.5, Miami (Ohio) 97, Belmont 22, Tennessee-Martin 8.5
Clemson 135, South Alabama 116, Binghamton 30, Gardner-Webb 15
Cincinnati 184.5, Morgan State 83, Davidson 37, New Jersey Institute 2.5
Central Michigan 124, Bowling Green 90, Milwaukee 66, USC Upstate 27
Notre Dame 151, South Carolina St. 35, Furman 33, St. Peter’s 14
Ole Miss 176, Lehigh 84, Stony Brook 39, Providence 26
Virginia 165, VCU 90, Chattanooga 23, Radford 23
North Carolina 154, UAB 94, Iona 33, Canisius 7
Troy 131, UL-Monroe 70, Mississippi Valley 48, Syracuse 44
Purdue 171, Georgetown 43, Eastern Kentucky 39, Wagner 33
East Tenn. St. 121, Wake Forest 104, Fordham 44, Saint Francis University 39
South Carolina 159, Northeastern 64, Bucknell 62, Butler 32
South Florida 106, Boston University 93, Connecticut 85, La Salle 25
Georgia Tech 140.5, Marshall 110.67, Georgia Southern 42, Hartford 13.83
Maryland 122, Harvard 101, Southern 35, Robert Morris 24
Eastern Michigan 107, Ball State 92, SIU Edwardsville 46, Central Connecticut 33
Kennesaw State 122, UCF 117, Wright State 50, Sacred Heart 27
Army West Point 139.67, Monmouth 73.33, Norfolk State 47, Northern Kentucky 37
Akron 132, Columbia 97, Campbell 37, Vermont 25
Indiana State 189, Western Carolina 68, UMBC 32, Morehead State 6
Charlotte 161.5, Youngstown St. 71.5, Eastern Illinois 71, Citadel 4
Liberty 138, Northwestern St. 89, Charleston Southern 55, Coastal Carolina 28
Navy 139, Dartmouth 105, Temple 55, New Hampshire 14
Miss State 138, FIU 110.5, Detroit Mercy 23, Savannah State 16.5
Florida A&M 150, West Virginia 93, Grambling 40, LIU Brooklyn 39
Cornell 146, Pittsburgh 113, Jackson State 26, Cleveland St. 7
East Carolina 176, Brown 87, Jacksonville St. 32, Fairleigh Dickinson 24
Kent State 107, Mid. Tenn. State 98, James Madison 78, St. Joseph’s (Pa.) 23
Princeton 171, St. John’s 104, Illinois-Chicago 11, Siena 10
Southern Miss. 125, Samford 113, New Orleans 19, IUPUI 12
Toledo 155, Tulane 112, Alcorn State 25, Delaware State 15
Hampton 112, Mount St. Mary’s 77, Vanderbilt 75, Tennessee Tech 50
Memphis 111, High Point 95, Western Michigan 91, Marist 27
Jacksonville 137, Bethune-Cookman 114, Alabama A&M 29, Maine 21

WEST REGION

Arkansas 156, Illinois 86, Northern Iowa 54, CSU Bakersfield 21
USC 130, Idaho State 66, Cal Poly 39, Loyola Marymount 7
Texas A&M 205, Nevada 119, Iowa State 84, Prairie View 54
Texas 201, South Dakota 110, Southern Illinois 81.5, Eastern Washington 52
Texas Tech 196.5, UC Santa Barbara 105, North Dakota 75, Loyola (Ill.) 48
Colorado St. 136, New Mexico St. 67, Lamar 41, Arkansas-Little Rock 9
Kansas State 161, Missouri 91.5, Northern Arizona 62, San Francisco 24
Stanford 147, South Dakota St. 80, UT-Arlington 48.5, San Jose St. 18
Iowa 153, Grand Canyon 85.5, DePaul 52, Seattle U. 19
Wisconsin 115, Utah 64, Montana State 32, Chicago State 2
Oregon 154, UCLA 86, Marquette 52.5, Santa Clara 19
Kansas 148.5, Oregon State 81, Tulsa 49, Bradley 19
Colorado 140, TCU 75, Texas Southern 48, Nebraska-Omaha 15
Nebraska 185.5, Weber State 104.5, SMU 70, Texas A&M-CC 42
UNLV 140, Abilene Christian 74, Northern Illinois 46, Gonzaga 12
Arizona 159, Cal St. Fullerton 91, Boise State 61, Missouri State 23
Washington 168, Washington St. 92, Wyoming 64, Western Illinois 33
Minnesota 169, Arkansas State 99.5, Hawaii 65, Cal Baptist 39
Arizona State 139.5, UTEP 69, Incarnate Word 41, San Diego 12
BYU 180, Stephen F. Austin 103, Montana 67, Portland State 40
Oklahoma State 119, UTSA 64.5, Idaho 37, Pepperdine 4
Baylor 151, Fresno State 84, UC Irvine 50, Saint Louis 19
North Dakota State 155.5, Southern Utah 86, North Texas 54, Houston Baptist 21
UC Davis 112, Cal St. Northridge 59, Western Kentucky 32, Drake 2
Houston 126, Northern Colorado 65, Portland 37, Valparaiso 5
Oklahoma 158, McNeese State 88, New Mexico 58.5, Arkansas-Pine Bluff 21.5
California 129, UC Riverside 66, Oral Roberts 38, St. Mary’s (Cal.) 6
San Diego St. 146.5, Rice 79, Utah Valley 48.5, Northwestern 16
Wichita State 174, Illinois State 102, UT-Rio Grande Valley 67, Central Arkansas 40
Long Beach St. 158.5, Sacramento St. 90, Texas State 60, UMKC 22
Utah State 117, Air Force 64, Sam Houston St. 35, Pacific 2

SECOND ROUND

The second round results will be determined by marks made from now until May 2. Only the winners plus 16 highest-scoring second place teams will qualify to the third round (a total of 64 teams).
Scoring is 6-4-3-2-1 for standard individual events, 6-3-1 for 4×100 and 4×400, 3-1 for 4×200, 4×800, 4×1500, sprint medley, and distance medley, and 1 for shuttle hurdles.

And here is your Citius College women’s bracket for the remainder of the tournament (click for larger version):

• By Jesse Squire
• In NCAA

The track and running world has come to a screeching halt in an effort to battle the spread of COVID-19. In an effort to fill the void I’m taking a deep dive into my various archives and pulling up what I find in the history of college track and field.

2000, Tuscaloosa, AL: South Alabama’s David Kimani won the 5000 meters at the Alabama Relays with a time of 13:25.37, which put him #9 on the all-time collegiate list. The next day he ran a 3:52.7 anchor leg on in the distance medley, roughly equivalent to 3:54.0 for a full mile. He later transferred to Alabama, and in 2003 he collapsed and died while eating lunch in a university dining hall.

1989, Austin, TX: Baylor’s Michael Johnson won the 200 meters in a wind-aided time of 20.06 as Tennessee won a quadrangular over Baylor, Texas, and Indiana. Indiana freshman Bob Kennedy finished third in the 1500 meters. The pair went on to star in the 1996 Olympics, where Johnson won the 200-400 double and Kennedy finished sixth in the 5000.

1978, Glasgow, SCO: Providence’s John Treacy, running for his native Ireland, won the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in “a sea of mud” and “blinding rain”. Four months earlier he was runner-up at the NCAA Cross Country Championships, 17.5 seconds behind Washington State’s Henry Rono.
AP wire story

1978, San Jose, CA: The above-mentioned Rono opened his outdoor track season by winning the 5000 at the San Jose Relays in 13:31.8, more than 20 seconds ahead of second place.
AP wire story

1978, Long Beach, CA: Oregon easily defeated Long Beach State, 100-54. The Ducks went 1-2 in the 1500 with Rudy Chapa (3:42.3) and Matt Centrowitz (3:43.6) and in the 5000 with Alberto Salazar (14:35.7) and Bill McChesney (14:36.0). The shot put was won by Oregon’s Jeff Stover, who went on to play defensive line for the great San Francisco 49ers teams of the 1980s, and third place went to teammate Vince Goldsmith, whose total of 130.5 sacks is still fifth-best in CFL history.
Eugene Register-Guard article

1972, Bakersfield, CA: Oregon’s Steve Prefontaine ran his first-ever 6 mile race in 27:22.3, worth roughly 28:30 for 10k. His last quarter-mile was 59.9 and he broke the stadium record co-held by Olympians Frank Shorter and Jack Bacheler.
Eugene Register-Guard article

1967, Westwood, CA: Kansas’ Jim Ryun opened his outdoor season with a 4:05.1/1:48.1 double but UCLA easily defeated the Jayhawks, 88-55.
AP wire story

1967, Lewiston, ID: Washington State dominated the Banana Belt Relays behind Gerry Lindgren’s 4:07.3 and 4:11.2 anchor legs on the 4xmile and distance medley relays.
Spokane Spokesman-Review article

1961, Stillwater, OK: Kansas’ Billy Mills scored a pair of wins at the Cowboy Relays. He won the 2 mile (9:17.4) and anchored the winning distance medley relay (10:18.0). Three years later he stunned the world by winning the Olympic 10,000 meters.
Lawrence Journal-World article

• By Jesse Squire
• In NCAA

The track and running world has come to a screeching halt in an effort to battle the spread of COVID-19. In an effort to fill the void I’m taking a deep dive into my various archives and pulling up what I find in the history of college track and field.

1997, Dallas, TX: SMU’s Marika Tuliniemi put the shot 58-10/17.93 at the Dallas Dr. Pepper Invitational to move to #7 on the all-time women’s collegiate list.

1986, Baton Rouge, LA: LSU’s team of Cheryl Wilson, Carlette Smith, Alicia Bass and Schowonda Williams bettered the world record in the shuttle hurdles at their own Paper-Tiger Invitational. Their time of 56.2 could not gain official recognition, though, since it was hand-timed.

1986, Westwood, CA: UCLA’s Gail Devers won five events in a 102-33 dual meet romp over Stanford. Her efforts were 23.89 (200 meters), 13.24 (100 hurdles), a wind-aided 20-6.5 (long jump), 40-11.5 (triple jump), and a leg on the 4×400 relay.

1980, Palo Alto, CA: Arizona’s Meg Ritchie broke her own collegiate discus record with a throw of 210-11 at the Martin Luther King Freedom Games.
AP wire story

1969, San Jose, CA: 400 meter world record holder and Olympic champion Lee Evans got some overdistance work in an easy 110-34 dual meet victory over Washington. He was second in the 880 yards (1:52.8) and ran an easy 48.1 anchor on the mile relay. Olympic 200 meter silver medalist John Carlos won the 100 and 220 yards in wind-aided times of 9.3 and 20.7.

1958, Victorville, CA: From Track and Field News:
“Rink Babka, University of Southern California senior, may have made the first 200 foot discus throw in track and field history, but no one will ever know for certain.
“Throwing in the first Apple Valley Relays, the 6’5″, 245 pound strong man threw as far to the left of the sector as possible to take advantage of a strong cross wind. This was fine, except that there wasn’t enough room for a tosser of Babka’s ability and his throw sailed clear across the track, across another 8 or 10 feet of land, and then plopped in the middle of a small drainage ditch.”
It was 201 feet to the point of impact but the ditch was significantly lower than the ring and could not be counted as a record.

1952, San Diego, CA: USC’s Sim Iness broke the American and collegiate discus records with a heave of 182-5 in a 115-16 win over San Diego State.

• By Jesse Squire
• In NCAA

The track and running world has come to a screeching halt in an effort to battle the spread of COVID-19. In an effort to fill the void I’m taking a deep dive into my various archives and pulling up what I find in the history of college track and field.

1998, Fresno, CA: Fresno State’s Melissa Price broke her own collegiate pole vault record with 13-6.25/4.12, and Washington’s Aretha Hill went to #9 on the collegiate discus list with 199-4/60.76. The final score in the women’s meet was Washington 227, Fresno State 211, South Dakota State 81, San Francisco State 59. Now known by her married name of Aretha Thurmond, she is currently USATF’s Managing Director of International Teams.

1987, Houston, TX: Houston’s Joe DeLoach defeated pros Carl Lewis and Kirk Baptiste to win the invitational 100 meters at the Texas Southern Relays. The following year, DeLoach upset Lewis to win Olympic 200 meter gold. Sandie Richards of San Jacinto Junior College broke the national junior college 400 meter record with 51.79.

1981, Eugene, OR: Oregon’s Dean Crouser highlighted the Oregon Invitational by improving his lifetime best in the shot put by over 26 inches. He attributed it to his switch from the glide style of throwing to the spin. His nephew Ryan also used the spin to win Olympic gold in 2016.
Eugene Register-Guard article

1970, Fresno, CA: Oregon freshman Steve Prefontaine made his outdoor collegiate debut with an 8:40.0 in a triangular win over Stanford and Fresno State. It made his second-fastest in Duck history.
AP wire story

1964, Albuquerque, NM: Led by Clarence Robinson’2 25-2.5, New Mexico put three long jumpers beyond the 24-foot mark in a quadrangular win over Utah, Texas Tech, and UTEP.

1959, Odessa, TX: Abilene Christian’s Bobby Morrow defeated Dave Sime over 100 yards in a matchup of Olympic stars. Morrow was the 1956 Olympic champion, where Sime was unable to compete due to injury. The win evened their career head-to-head matchup at 2 wins each.
AP wire story

1953, Tucson, AZ: USC opened its dual meet season with the Trojans’ 57th straight win, pummeling Arizona 101-30. Co-captain Sim Iness came within two feet of the discus world record.

• By Jesse Squire
• In NCAA

The track and running world has come to a screeching halt in an effort to battle the spread of COVID-19. In an effort to fill the void I’m taking a deep dive into my various archives and pulling up what I find in the history of college track and field.

1999, Sacramento, CA: UCLA swept the men’s and women’s competition in the first USTFCCCA-supported quadrangular of the season. The men’s scores were UCLA 225, Cal 206, Washington 168, UC Irvine 65 and the women’s scores were UCLA 227, Washington 179, Cal 176, UC Irvine 70. From 1998 to 2001, the USTFCCCA used funds provided by the USOC to offer travel grants to teams competing in dual, triangular, and quadrangular competition. It led to a massive increase in those kinds of meets, which once again fell off the radar once the money dried up.

1993, Houston, TX: Blinn Junior College was the dominant team at the Texas Southern Relays, winning twelve men’s events. The two-day attendance total was announced as 16,000, likely driven up by the appearance of a Santa Monica Track Club 4×100 relay team featuring Olympic and World champions Joe DeLoach, Leroy Burrell, Mike Marsh, and Carl Lewis. Burrell is now the head coach at the University of Houston and Lewis is one of his assistants.

1987, Houston, TX: TCU won the men’s 4×200 at the Texas Southern Relays with a time of 1:20.59, which put the Horned Frog squad #8 on the all-time world list.

1982, Brownwood, TX: Abilene Christian’s Billy Olson broke the American outdoor pole vault record at the Bluebonnet Relays with 18-8.75/ 5.70. While officially an AR, Olson’s own indoor AR of 18-10/5.74 was better.
AP wire story

1971, Eugene, OR: Steve Prefontaine tied the collegiate 2-mile record of 8:33.2 at Oregon’s home opener. That the sophomore tied the record was a big deal to the 3,200 in attendance, but how he did it was more impressive. “He was supposed to stay behind the first mile,” said coach Bill Dellinger. “But we told him he could run the second mile as fast as he wanted to.” Pre followed those directions and ran a ridiculous negative split: 4:28, then 4:05. His second mile was faster than the day’s winning time in the mile.
Eugene Register-Guard article

1965, Santa Monica, CA: UCLA’s Bob Day broke the collegiate 2-mile record with 8:35.3 in a triangular with UC Santa Barbara and Cal Poly.
AP wire story

1965, Pullman, WA: Washington State freshman Gerry Lindgren broke the one-and-a-half mile record with a run of 6:34.0 at the 23rd annual Indoor Invitational. 3,000 fans crowded into Hollingbery Fieldhouse for the meet.
Spokane Spokesman-Review article

1937, Indianapolis, IN: Michigan won the 4th annual Butler Relays but a Buckeye was the star. Ohio State’s Mel Walker broke the world indoor high jump record with 6-9.75.

• By Jesse Squire
• In NCAA

On Monday I introduced the Citius College Cup, a season-long online tournament between all NCAA Division I college track teams. “Virtual” quadrangular meets will be held and scored using marks produced during various parts of the outdoor season.

By May there will be only 64 teams still standing, then a sweet 16 going into the NCAA East and West Preliminaries (aka “regionals”), then a final four at the NCAA Championships where men’s and women’s champions will be crowned. Today I’m announcing the men’s seeding and pairings.

Seeding was determined by results of the 2018-19 indoor season. The first round is scored using marks made outdoors through April 8, so the results of this round won’t be known for several weeks yet. Fans can keep up with their favorite team by going to the TFRRS.org outdoor qualifying page and using the “Compare 2+ Teams” tab to enter the appropriate teams.

Scoring is 6-4-3-2-1 for standard individual events and 6-3-1 for the 4×100 and 4×400 relays. Meets like the Texas, Florida, and Raleigh Relays are a big part of the early season so there will be an additional 3-1 scoring for the 4×200, 4×800, sprint medley, and distance medley relays.

All in all, 192 teams will advance to the next round (96 in each region).

EAST REGION

45 meets
All 1st and 2nd places plus 6 highest-scoring 3rd place teams advance

1 Florida vs 90 Oakland vs 91 Bucknell vs 180 St. Bonaventure
2 LSU vs 89 Appalachian State vs 92 Campbell vs 179 UNC-Wilmington
3 Alabama vs 88 Yale vs 93 William & Mary vs 178 Gardner-Webb
4 Indiana vs 87 Cornell vs 94 Stony Brook vs 177 Duquesne
5 Florida State vs 86 Saint Francis (Pa.) vs 95 East Carolina vs 176 Alabama A&M
6 Virginia Tech vs 85 Hofstra vs 96 Northeastern vs 175 Morehead State
7 Tennessee vs 84 VCU vs 97 Iona vs 174 Nicholls State
8 Georgia vs 83 Rider vs 98 Furman vs 173 Florida A&M
9 Purdue vs 82 Samford vs 99 High Point vs 172 Coastal Carolina
10 Ohio State vs 81 South Florida vs 100 Western Kentucky vs 171 Evansville
11 Penn State vs 80 Belmont vs 101 Maryland-Eastern Shore vs 170 Troy
12 N. Carolina A&T vs 79 South Alabama vs 102 Binghamton vs 169 Tulane
13 Michigan vs 78 New Hampshire vs 103 La Salle vs 168 Maryland
14 Ole Miss vs 77 Western Carolina vs 104 South Carolina St. vs 167 St. Francis (N.Y.)
15 Kentucky vs 76 Rhode Island vs 105 Boston College vs 166 American
16 South Carolina vs 75 Connecticut vs 106 Tennessee St. vs 165 Bryant
17 Miss State vs 74 Kennesaw State vs 107 Lipscomb vs 164 George Washington
18 Akron vs 73 UL-Lafayette vs 108 McNeese State vs 163 UNC-Greensboro
19 Mid. Tenn. State vs 72 LIU Brooklyn vs 109 Milwaukee vs 162 Colgate
20 North Carolina St. vs 71 Central Michigan vs 110 Vermont vs 161 Sacred Heart
21 Princeton vs 70 Jackson State vs 111 Illinois-Chicago vs 160 Delaware State
22 Rutgers vs 69 Monmouth vs 112 Lehigh vs 159 Canisius
23 Charlotte vs 68 Louisiana Tech vs 113 East Tenn. St. vs 158 Davidson
24 Clemson vs 67 Butler vs 114 Coppin State vs 157 VMI
25 Eastern Michigan vs 66 Wake Forest vs 115 UL-Monroe vs 156 Lafayette
26 Missouri vs 65 George Mason vs 116 North Florida vs 155 Mount St. Mary’s
27 Virginia vs 64 Alabama State vs 117 Wagner vs 154 Howard
28 Notre Dame vs 63 Dartmouth vs 118 Mississippi Valley vs 153 St. Peter’s
29 Syracuse vs 62 Buffalo vs 119 Charleston Southern vs 152 Detroit Mercy
30 Penn vs 61 Morgan State vs 120 Manhattan vs 151 UNC-Asheville
31 Harvard vs 60 UMass Lowell vs 121 Southern vs 150 Xavier (Ohio)
32 Albany vs 59 Pittsburgh vs 122 UMBC vs 149 Fordham
33 Hampton vs 58 Youngstown St. vs 123 UMass Amherst vs 148 Hartford
34 Kent State vs 57 Northwestern St. vs 124 New Jersey Institute vs 147 Alcorn State
35 Cincinnati vs 56 Norfolk State vs 125 USC Upstate vs 146 Wofford
36 Auburn vs 55 Miami (Ohio) vs 126 FIU vs 145 Holy Cross
37 Villanova vs 54 Navy vs 127 IUPUI vs 144 Fairleigh Dickinson
38 Michigan State vs 53 Indiana State vs 128 Siena vs 143 Savannah State
39 Army West Point vs 52 Liberty vs 129 N.C. Central vs 142 Marist
40 Georgia Tech vs 51 Bethune-Cookman vs 130 Valparaiso vs 141 Northern Kentucky
41 Columbia vs 50 North Carolina vs 131 Central Connecticut vs 140 Winthrop
42 Duke vs 49 Miami vs 132 Tennessee-Martin vs 139 Providence
43 SE Louisiana vs 48 Southern Miss. vs 133 Boston University vs 138 St. Joseph’s (Pa.)
44 Eastern Kentucky vs 47 Louisville vs 134 Citadel vs 137 Maine
45 Georgetown vs 46 Brown vs 135 New Orleans vs 136 Grambling

WEST REGION

27 meets
1st, 2nd, and 3rd place teams plus 15 highest-scoring 4th place teams advance

1 Houston vs 54 Eastern Washington vs 55 New Mexico vs 108 Pepperdine
2 Stanford vs 53 Oral Roberts vs 56 UT-Arlington vs 107 Santa Clara
3 Texas Tech vs 52 North Texas vs 57 Arkansas State vs 106 Loyola Marymount
4 Oregon vs 51 Tulsa vs 58 Grand Canyon vs 105 Cal St. Bakersfield
5 BYU vs 50 Rice vs 59 Wyoming vs 104 UC Riverside
6 Arkansas vs 49 South Dakota vs 60 Texas State vs 103 UC Irvine
7 Nebraska vs 48 Southern Utah vs 61 Stephen F. Austin vs 102 Cal Poly
8 Iowa State vs 47 Lamar vs 62 Boise State vs 101 UC Santa Barbara
9 Wisconsin vs 46 Abilene Christian vs 63 Bradley vs 100 UC Davis
10 Texas A&M vs 45 Utah State vs 64 Idaho vs 99 Fresno State
11 Kansas vs 44 Marquette vs 65 Eastern Illinois vs 98 Cal St. Fullerton
12 Iowa vs 43 Cal St. Northridge vs 66 UT-Rio Grande Valley vs 97 Seattle U.
13 Northern Arizona vs 42 Air Force vs 67 Southern Illinois vs 96 Portland State
14 UCLA vs 41 Northern Iowa vs 68 Incarnate Word vs 95 Chicago State
15 Washington vs 40 Long Beach St. vs 69 Idaho State vs 94 Western Illinois
16 USC vs 39 Illinois State vs 70 UTEP vs 93 San Jose State
17 Oklahoma State vs 38 Portland vs 71 Texas A&M-CC vs 92 Sacramento St.
18 Texas vs 37 Colorado State vs 72 Drake vs 91 DePaul
19 Colorado vs 36 Memphis vs 73 Weber State vs 90 North Dakota
20 South Dakota St. vs 35 UTSA vs 74 San Francisco vs 89 Gonzaga
21 Arizona vs 34 Montana State vs 75 Northern Colorado vs 88 Prairie View
22 Minnesota vs 33 Washington St. vs 76 SE Missouri vs 87 Saint Louis
23 California vs 32 TCU vs 77 Montana vs 86 SIU Edwardsville
24 Baylor vs 31 Wichita State vs 78 Central Arkansas vs 85 Houston Baptist
25 Sam Houston St. vs 30 North Dakota State vs 79 Utah Valley vs 84 Texas Southern
26 Oklahoma vs 29 Arizona State vs 80 Loyola (Ill.) vs 83 Arkansas-Pine Bluff
27 Illinois vs 28 Kansas State vs 81 Arkansas-Little Rock vs 82 UMKC

• By Jesse Squire
• In NCAA

The track and running world has come to a screeching halt in an effort to battle the spread of COVID-19. In an effort to fill the void I’m taking a deep dive into my various archives and pulling up what I find in the history of college track and field.

1994, College Station, TX: Texas A&M’s men and Kansas State’s women won the team titles at the College Station Relays.

1994, Westwood, CA: UCLA picked up a pair of wins in dual/triangular competition. The final scores for the men were UCLA 84, Texas 64, Cal 55, and for the women it was UCLA 91, Cal 44. Notable names among the winners were Bruins John Godina (men’s discus) and Amy Acuff (women’s high jump), who combined for eleven Olympic appearances.

1988, Houston, TX: Texas Southern’s women’s 4×200 ran 1:34.53, good for #9 on the all-time collegiate list, at their own Texas Southern Relays.

1983, Tempe, AZ: Arizona State defeated Kansas State, Kansas, and the Los Angeles Track Club in a women’s quadrangular, but the big news was made by the Sun Devils’ Leslie Deniz. She broke the American discus record on her first throw with 64.10/210-4, fouled four times, and then broke it again on her final throw with 64.34/211-1. On the men’s side, Arizona State defeated Kansas State and New Mexico.
AP wire story

1977, Eugene, OR: The Oregon Ducks entered five men in the 10,000 meters at their own Oregon Invitational and four of them earned NCAA championships qualifiers. Two freshmen led the way: Alberto Salazar (29:03.44) and Rudy Chapa (29:03.47).
Eugene Register-Guard article

1977, Tempe, AZ: USC (76 points) defeated Arizona State (60) and BYU (54) in a triangular meet. BYU’s Henry Marsh won the steeplechase (8:50.7) and was second in the 5000 (14:18.0). At the end of the year Marsh was ranked in the world’s top ten steeplechasers by Track & Field News and stayed in the top ten for eleven more years, with #1 rankings in 1981, ’82, and ’85.
AP wire story

1977, Palo Alto, CA: Stanford football star James Lofton won the long jump (25-11¼) and ran on the winning 4×100, 4×200, and 4×400 relays at the Stanford Relays.
AP wire story

1966, Manhattan, KS: Kansas freshman Jim Ryun anchored two record-setting relays at the Kansas State Indoor Relays. His 4:02.2 run on the Kansas freshman distance medley team brought them across the line in 9:51.3, a new national collegiate freshman record. (In case you didn’t know: college freshmen were ineligible for varsity competition until 1969 and most “major” colleges had freshmen teams.)
Lawrence Journal-World article

1960, Odessa, TX: USC broke seven meet records at the West Texas Relays and scored 102 points to second-place Baylor’s 66.

1960, Manhattan, KS: Kansas broke three indoor school records at the Kansas State Indoor Relays and Billy Mills was involved in two of them. He ran a new 3000 meter record (8:33.7) and ran third leg on the distance medley (10:04.6).
Lawrence Journal-World article

1955, US Postal Service: Kansas’ freshman team defeated Notre Dame’s frosh unit, 54-50, in an indoor “postal” dual meet. Teams ran time trials, sent the results through the mail, and scores were tabulated. Listed among “also winning” was a thrower from Long Island named Al Oerter, who won the first of his four Olympic discus gold medals the following year.
Lawrence Journal-World article

• By Jesse Squire
• In NCAA

Yesterday I introduced the Citius College Cup, a season-long tournament between all NCAA Division I college track teams. “Virtual” quadrangular meets will be held and scored using marks produced during various parts of the outdoor season.

By May there will be only 64 teams still standing, then a sweet 16 going into the NCAA East and West Preliminaries (aka “regionals”), then a final four at the NCAA Championships where men’s and women’s champions will be crowned. Today I’m announcing the women’s seeding and pairings.

Seeding was determined by results of the 2018-19 indoor season. The first round is scored using marks made outdoors through April 8, so the results of this round won’t be known for several weeks yet. Fans can keep up with their favorite team by going to the TFRRS.org outdoor qualifying page and using the “Compare 2+ Teams” tab to enter the appropriate teams.

Scoring is 6-4-3-2-1 for standard individual events (the ones held at the NCAA Outdoor Championships) and 6-3-1 for the 4×100 and 4×400 relays. Meets like the Texas, Florida, and Raleigh Relays are a big part of the early season so there will be an additional 3-1 scoring for the 4×200, 4×800, sprint medley, and distance medley relays.

Due to the way the semifinal round of the playoff is scored, teams are seeded into the same East and West regions used for the NCAA Preliminaries (aka “regionals”). There are 216 women’s teams in the East but only 122 in the West, so the advancement procedures is different in each region. 96 teams in each region will qualify to the next round (192 total).

EAST REGION

54 meets
Winners plus 42 highest-scoring second place teams advance

1 Ohio State vs 108 Purdue Fort Wayne vs 109 Tennessee St. vs 216 Evansville
2 Florida vs 107 Richmond vs 110 Oakland vs 215 Nicholls State
3 Alabama vs 106 Louisiana Tech vs 111 Rhode Island vs 214 UNC Greensboro
4 LSU vs 105 North Florida vs 112 Manhattan vs 213 Niagara
5 Miami vs 104 Boston College vs 113 Rutgers vs 212 St. Bonaventure
6 Florida State vs 103 Yale vs 114 Buffalo vs 211 Mercer
7 Virginia Tech vs 102 Rider vs 115 Ohio vs 210 UNC Wilmington
8 Kentucky vs 101 William and Mary vs 116 Duquesne vs 209 Elon
9 Georgia vs 100 Albany vs 117 VMI vs 208 Delaware
10 Indiana vs 99 Murray State vs 118 Maryland-Eastern Shore vs 207 Charleston
11 Tennessee vs 98 UMass Amherst vs 119 Quinnipiac vs 206 Colgate
12 Louisville vs 97 UL-Lafayette vs 120 Howard vs 205 American
13 Villanova vs 96 Appalachian State vs 121 SE Missouri vs 204 Lafayette
14 Auburn vs 95 Alabama State vs 122 SE Louisiana vs 203 St. Francis (N.Y.)
15 Duke vs 94 N.C. Central vs 123 Lipscomb vs 202 Loyola (Md.)
16 North Carolina St. vs 93 Florida Atlantic vs 124 Austin Peay vs 201 Bryant
17 Michigan State vs 92 George Mason vs 125 UMass Lowell vs 200 UNC-Asheville
18 Penn State vs 91 Towson vs 126 Xavier (Ohio) vs 199 Winthrop
19 Michigan vs 90 Wofford vs 127 Coppin State vs 198 George Washington
20 N. Carolina A&T vs 89 Georgia State vs 128 Dayton vs 197 Holy Cross
21 Penn vs 88 Miami (Ohio) vs 129 Belmont vs 196 Tennessee-Martin
22 Clemson vs 87 South Alabama vs 130 Binghamton vs 195 Gardner-Webb
23 Cincinnati vs 86 Morgan State vs 131 Davidson vs 194 New Jersey Institute
24 Central Michigan vs 85 Bowling Green vs 132 Milwaukee vs 193 USC Upstate
25 Notre Dame vs 84 Furman vs 133 South Carolina St. vs 192 St. Peter’s
26 Ole Miss vs 83 Providence vs 134 Stony Brook vs 191 Lehigh
27 Virginia vs 82 VCU vs 135 Chattanooga vs 190 Radford
28 North Carolina vs 81 UAB vs 136 Iona vs 189 Canisius
29 Syracuse vs 80 Troy vs 137 UL-Monroe vs 188 Mississippi Valley
30 Purdue vs 79 Georgetown vs 138 Eastern Kentucky vs 187 Wagner
31 Wake Forest vs 78 East Tenn. St. vs 139 Fordham vs 186 Saint Francis University
32 South Carolina vs 77 Butler vs 140 Northeastern vs 185 Bucknell
33 Connecticut vs 76 South Florida vs 141 La Salle vs 184 Boston University
34 Georgia Tech vs 75 Marshall vs 142 Georgia Southern vs 183 Hartford
35 Harvard vs 74 Maryland vs 143 Southern vs 182 Robert Morris
36 Eastern Michigan vs 73 Ball State vs 144 SIU Edwardsville vs 181 Central Connecticut
37 UCF vs 72 Kennesaw State vs 145 Wright State vs 180 Sacred Heart
38 Monmouth vs 71 Norfolk State vs 146 Northern Kentucky vs 179 Army West Point
39 Akron vs 70 Columbia vs 147 Vermont vs 178 Campbell
40 Indiana State vs 69 Western Carolina vs 148 UMBC vs 177 Morehead State
41 Charlotte vs 68 Youngstown St. vs 149 Eastern Illinois vs 176 Citadel
42 Liberty vs 67 Northwestern St. vs 150 Coastal Carolina vs 175 Charleston Southern
43 Dartmouth vs 66 Temple vs 151 New Hampshire vs 174 Navy
44 Mississippi St vs 65 FIU vs 152 Savannah State vs 173 Detroit Mercy
45 Florida A&M vs 64 West Virginia vs 153 Grambling vs 172 LIU Brooklyn
46 Cornell vs 63 Pittsburgh vs 154 Cleveland St. vs 171 Jackson State
47 East Carolina vs 62 Brown vs 155 Jacksonville St. vs 170 Fairleigh Dickinson
48 Mid. Tenn. State vs 61 Kent State vs 156 James Madison vs 169 St. Joseph’s (Pa.)
49 Princeton vs 60 St. John’s vs 157 Illinois-Chicago vs 168 Siena
50 Samford vs 59 Southern Miss. vs 158 New Orleans vs 167 IUPUI
51 Toledo vs 58 Tulane vs 159 Delaware State vs 166 Alcorn State
52 Vanderbilt vs 57 Tennessee Tech vs 160 Hampton vs 165 Mount St. Mary’s
53 Western Michigan vs 56 Memphis vs 161 Marist vs 164 High Point
54 Bethune-Cookman vs 55 Jacksonville vs 162 Alabama A&M vs 163 Maine

WEST REGION

31 meets
1st, 2nd, and 3rd place teams plus 3 highest-scoring 4th place teams advance

1 Arkansas vs 62 Northern Iowa vs 63 McNeese State
2 USC vs 61 Northern Illinois vs 64 UC Santa Barbara
3 Texas A&M vs 60 Incarnate Word vs 65 Air Force vs 122 Pepperdine
4 Texas vs 59 Sacramento St. vs 66 Montana State vs 121 Pacific
5 Texas Tech vs 58 UTSA vs 67 Tulsa vs 120 Loyola Marymount
6 Colorado St. vs 57 Southern Illinois vs 68 Arkansas State vs 119 St. Mary’s
7 Kansas State vs 56 Texas State vs 69 Abilene Christian vs 118 Santa Clara
8 Stanford vs 55 Illinois vs 70 Northern Arizona vs 117 Gonzaga
9 Iowa vs 54 North Dakota vs 71 Southern Utah vs 116 San Diego
10 Wisconsin vs 53 South Dakota St. vs 72 Loyola (Ill.) vs 115 Hawaii
11 Oregon vs 52 Oregon State vs 73 Missouri State vs 114 UC Irvine
12 Kansas vs 51 Oral Roberts vs 74 Weber State vs 113 Chicago State
13 Colorado vs 50 Rice vs 75 Montana vs 112 CSU Bakersfield
14 Nebraska vs 49 Marquette vs 76 Idaho State vs 111 Seattle U.
15 UNLV vs 48 DePaul vs 77 Cal St. Northridge vs 110 Portland State
16 Arizona vs 47 Nevada vs 78 Portland vs 109 Valparaiso
17 Washington vs 46 Stephen F. Austin vs 79 Western Kentucky vs 108 Saint Louis
18 Minnesota vs 45 Washington St. vs 80 North Texas vs 107 Drake
19 Arizona State vs 44 Illinois State vs 81 Lamar vs 106 Arkansas-Pine Bluff
20 BYU vs 43 UCLA vs 82 Idaho vs 105 Arkansas-Little Rock
21 Oklahoma State vs 42 Fresno State vs 83 Central Arkansas vs 104 Texas Southern
22 Baylor vs 41 South Dakota vs 84 Sam Houston St. vs 103 UMKC
23 North Dakota State vs 40 TCU vs 85 UT-Arlington vs 102 Houston Baptist
24 Iowa State vs 39 UC Davis vs 86 Cal St. Fullerton vs 101 San Jose St.
25 Houston vs 38 UTEP vs 87 Eastern Washington vs 100 UT-Rio Grande Valley
26 Oklahoma vs 37 Utah vs 88 Bradley vs 99 Cal Poly
27 Missouri vs 36 California vs 89 Texas A&M-CC vs 98 Utah Valley
28 San Diego St. vs 35 SMU vs 90 Grand Canyon vs 97 Nebraska-Omaha
29 Boise State vs 34 Wichita State vs 91 San Francisco vs 96 UC Riverside
30 New Mexico vs 33 Long Beach St. vs 92 Western Illinois vs 95 Northern Colorado
31 Utah State vs 32 Wyoming vs 93 New Mexico St. vs 94 Prairie View

Come back tomorrow to see the men’s seeds and pairings!