D-I Top Teams Before NCAA Indoor Meet Are Defending Champs Florida Men, Oregon Women

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D-I Top Teams Before NCAA Indoor Meet Are Defending Champs Florida Men, Oregon Women



March 7, 2011



NEW ORLEANS – Defending NCAA Division I indoor championship teams – Florida’s men and Oregon’s women – claim the top spot in the final regular-season national computer rankings compiled by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA). Despite being outflanked by No. 2 LSU 15-13 in total number of entries for the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships, the Gator men have each of their entrants seeded in the top eight of their respective events. The No. 1 Oregon women (14 entries) will also have No. 2 LSU (13) along with No. 3 Texas (12) among the challengers for the team crown.



The national championships will be held this weekend, March 11-12 in College Station, Texas, and will be hosted by Texas A&M. Live coverage can be found on NCAA.com and ESPN3.com. ESPN2 will air tape-delayed coverage of the meet on Wednesday, March 16. This week’s rankings reflect those who declared and were accepted into the national-championship field.



Men’s No. 1 Florida, No. 2 LSU and No. 3 Arkansas will go head-to-head in many events – namely sprints, hurdles, and jumps. In the long and triple jumps, the top three nationally-ranked teams will have a combined six participants in events. No. 4 Texas A&M improved three spots from the previous week in qualifying key components in the 400 and 800 meters in the season’s final days. The Aggies will lead all teams with a meet-high seven entries in the sprint and hurdle events, followed by LSU (6) and Florida (5). No. 6 Indiana leads the field with five entries in distance events while LSU (6) and No. 10 Nebraska (5) are tops in the jump entries. Arkansas is the only school with both 4x400 and DMR squads slated to compete.



Florida (57) won last year’s indoor national title – their first in school history – with a 13-point victory over runners-up Oregon and Texas A&M (44). Mike Holloway’s squad returns reigning national champs Jeff Demps in the 60 meters and Christian Taylor in the triple jump. LSU will attempt to win their first crown since 2004 and their third overall. No. 3 Arkansas will go for their first indoor national title since 2006 with a possible 20th indoor crown. No. 4 Texas A&M is looking for their first indoor national title in school history to go with their back-to-back current titles outdoors.



Oregon’s top-ranked women will have a meet-high 14 entries into the national meet and claim top seeds in the mile (Jordan Hasay) and pentathlon (Brianne Theisen). Hasay, a sophomore, will attempt the rare mile-3000 double, entering the meet as the fourth seed in the 3k. Earlier in the year, Theisen claimed a new collegiate record in the pentathlon (4,507). No. 2 LSU has 13 total entries and boasts a meet-high eight in the sprint and hurdles. No. 3 Texas follows with ten total entries and is among No. 6 Florida State, No. 11 BYU, and No. 14 Nebraska with four jump entries apiece to lead the category. No. 7 Tennessee leads the country with four entrants in the distance events. Oregon, No. 4 Arkansas, and Tennessee are the only schools with both 4x400 and DMR teams.



The Ducks won the 2010 indoor national title – their first in school history – by the largest margin (25) seen in the national meet since 1998. Oregon topped runner-up Tennessee by a 61-36 tally and will return Theisen and the 4x400-meter relay team as defending national champs. LSU is looking for their record-extending 12th national crown and their first since a 2002 to 2004 three-peat. Texas is looking for a seventh national team crown, a first since going back-to-back in 1998 and 1999. Arkansas could win their first women’s indoor national crown in school history and to improve upon their all-time best finish of third in 2000.



USTFCCCA

NCAA Division I

Men's Indoor Track & Field National Team Computer Rankings

2011 Week #7 - March 7 (NCAA Week)

next ranking: none, NCAA final results


Rank
School
Points
Last Week

1
Florida
235.30
1

2
LSU
156.69
2

3
Arkansas
126.08
3

4
Texas A&M
118.28
7

5
BYU
84.29
5

6
Indiana
78.23
4

7
Oregon
75.24
6

8
Florida State
75.14
13

9
Texas
71.04
10

10
Nebraska
67.25
9

11
Stanford
63.69
12

12
Virginia Tech
61.55
15

13
Kansas State
60.20
17

14
Arizona
59.40
11

15
Oklahoma
59.12
8

16
Penn State
57.57
14

17
Wisconsin
57.09
16

18
Minnesota
54.14
19

19
Washington
47.35
22

20
Ohio State
46.26
20

21
Alabama
43.05
21

22
Iowa
43.03
23

23
Clemson
39.20
25

24
Liberty
38.05
26

25
Texas Tech
34.34
18

Dropped out: No. 24 Mississippi State


Men's Conference Index Top 10

Rank
Conference
Points
Top 25 Teams

1
SEC
713.02
4

2
Big 12
488.13
6

3
Big Ten
369.32
6

4
Pac-10
312.91
4

5
ACC
270.00
3

6
Mountain West
104.45
1

7
BIG EAST
61.24

8
Big Sky
53.78

9
Southland
44.23

10
Big South
42.03
1



USTFCCCA

NCAA Division I

Women's Indoor Track & Field National Team Computer Rankings

2011 Week #7 - March 7 (NCAA Week)

next ranking: none, NCAA final results


Rank
School
Points
Last Week

1
Oregon
206.17
1

2
LSU
158.33
2

3
Texas
129.89
4

4
Arkansas
114.78
3

5
Texas A&M
98.44
5

6
Florida State
89.15
7

7
Tennessee
88.06
6

8
Arizona
72.17
10

9
UCF
69.48
13

10
Clemson
68.49
9

11
BYU
68.12
8

12
Southern Illinois
63.96
12

13
Oklahoma
62.68
11

14
Nebraska
58.72
14

15
Villanova
55.44
36

16
Baylor
50.08
18

17
Michigan
49.43
16

18
Ohio State
49.20
15

19
Southern Miss
43.61
23

20
Auburn
41.42
17

21
Arizona State
40.04
21

22
Connecticut
37.96
30

23
Texas Tech
37.73
19

24
Stony Brook
34.09
24

25
West Virginia
32.04
37

Dropped out: No. 20 TCU, No. 22 Duke, No. 25 Georgia


Women's Conference Index Top 10

Rank
Conference
Points
Top 25 Teams

1
SEC
530.60
4

2
Big 12
515.83
6

3
Pac-10
416.78
3

4
ACC
300.23
2

5
BIG EAST
191.32
3

6
Big Ten
182.99
2

7
Conference USA
167.28
2

8
Mountain West
144.98
1

9
Missouri Valley
121.01
1

10
America East
37.14
1










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