LSU Holds Lead After Regionals

For the first time this year, we’ve had the same leader two charts in a row, as LSU has doubled its lead from 2 points to 4 after all the qualifiers for the big affair in Eugene were decided.

Dennis Shaver’s Bengals added 2 points while previous =No. 2 Texas A&M stayed the same and the other =No. 2, Oregon, dropped 5 points to be 9 behind the leaders. Can homefield advantage be enough to bring the Ducks back up to the top?

LSU is attempting to win the men’s title for the first time since ’02, which was also the last year that Baton Rouge hosted the meet. All 59 of its points are projected to come on the track.

Oregon will be sitting on the sidelines when the meet’s climactic final event, the 4×4 goes off, with LSU charted for 1st and A&M for 3rd. That scenario would see the Ducks at 50, and the Aggies and Bengals both at 49, so it’s pretty simple to see who would need to do what.

The most important head-to-head event—the only one in which all 3 of the leaders figure to score—is the 400. The only other event in which LSU & A&M go head-to-head is the 4×4.

The 10-deep predictions for each event:

TOP 10 TEAMS
Team	Points	Previous Chart
1. LSU	59	1
2. Texas A&M	55	=2
3. Oregon	50	=2
4. Arkansas	39	=4
5. Florida	38	6
6. Virginia	26	=4
7. Tennessee	23	7
=8. Texas Tech	18	=10
=8. Washington	18	=10
=10. Georgia	17	14
=10. Houston	17	8
=10. Mississippi State	17	=17
=10. Middle Tennessee	17	=10
=10. Northern Arizona	17	=10
	(complete team scores below)

100 METERS
1. Ronnie Baker	TCU	Sr
2. Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake’	LSU	Jr
3. Christian Coleman	Tennessee	So
4. Jarrion Lawson	Arkansas	Sr
5. Tevin Hester	Clemson	Sr
6. Cameron Burrell	Houston	So
7. Kenzo Cotton	Arkansas	So
8. Senoj-Jay Givans’	Texas	Jr
9. John Teeters	Oklahoma State	Sr
10. Markesh Woodson	Missouri	Sr

200 METERS
1. Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake’	LSU	Jr
2. Brendon Rodney’	LIU Brooklyn	Sr
3. Khalil Henderson	Auburn	Jr
4. Renard Howell	LSU	Jr
5. Jamiel Trimble	Air Force	So
6. Jarrion Lawson	Arkansas	Sr
7. Tevin Hester	Clemson	Sr
8. Kenzo Cotton	Arkansas	So
9. Christian Coleman	Tennessee	So
10. Ahmed Ali’	Alabama	Sr

400 METERS
1. Michael Cherry	LSU	Jr
2. Kahmari Montgomery	Missouri	Fr
3. Arman Hall	Florida	Sr
4. Marcus Chambers	Oregon	Jr
5. Fred Kerley	Texas A&M	Jr
6. Fitzroy Dunkley	LSU	Sr
7. Nathan Strother	Tennessee	So
8. Will London	Baylor	Fr
9. Najee Glass	Florida	Sr
10. Cody Rush	Nebraska	Sr

800 METERS
1. Brandon McBride’	Mississippi State	Sr
2. Shaquille Walker	BYU	Jr
3. Eliud Rutto’	Middle Tennessee	Jr
4. Hector Hernandez	Texas A&M	Sr
5. Donavan Brazier	Texas A&M	Fr
6. Isaiah Harris	Penn State	Fr
7. Robert Heppenstall’	Wake Forest	Fr
8. Jonah Koech’	UTEP	Fr
9. Jesse Garn	Binghamton	Sr
10. Daniel Kuhn	Indiana	So

1500 METERS
1. Clayton Murphy	Akron	Jr
2. Henry Wynne	Virginia	Jr
3. Brannon Kidder	Penn State	Sr
4. Izaic Yorks	Washington	Sr
5. Sam Prakel	Oregon	So
6. Blake Haney	Oregon	So
7. Matthew Maton	Oregon	Fr
8. Craig Engels	Mississippi	Jr
9. Robert Domanic	Mississippi	Jr
10. David Elliott	Boise	Sr

STEEPLE
1. Mason Ferlic	Michigan	Sr
2. Edwin Kibichiy’	Louisville	Jr
3. Jakob Abrahamsen’	Eastern Kentucky	So
4. Aaron Nelson	Washington	Sr
5. Caleb Hoover	Northern Arizona	Sr
6. Zak Seddon’	Florida State	Sr
7. Benard Keter’	Texas Tech	Jr
8. Bryce Miller	UMKC	Jr
9. Darren Fahy	Georgetown	Jr
10. Elmar Engholm’	New Mexico	Sr

5000 METERS
1. Edward Cheserek	Oregon	Jr
2. Sean McGorty	Stanford	So
3. Patrick Tiernan’	Villanova	Sr
4. Justyn Knight’	Syracuse	So
5. Colby Gilbert	Washington	So
6. Thomas Curtin	Virginia Tech	Sr
7. Thomas Awad	Penn	Sr
8. Morgan McDonald’	Wisconsin	Fr
9. Morgan Pearson	Colorado	Sr
10. Patrick Corona	Air Force	Sr

10,000 METERS
1. Edward Cheserek’	Oregon	Jr
2. Futsum Zienasellassie	Northern Arizona	Sr
3. Pierce Murphy	Colorado	Sr
4. Jacob Thomson	Kentucky	So
5. Shaun Thompson	Duke	Sr
6. Erik Peterson	Butler	Jr
7. Colin Bennie	Syracuse	So
8. Lane Werley	UCLA	Sr
9. Amon Terer’	Campbell	Sr
10. Gabe Gonzalez	Arkansas	Sr

110 HURDLES
1. Devon Allen	Oregon	So
2. Isaac Williams	Houston	Sr
3. Adarius Washington	Indiana State	Sr
4. Dondre Echols	South Carolina	Sr
5. Freddie Crittenden	Syracuse	Jr
6. Jordan Moore	LSU	Jr
7. Aaron Mallett	Iowa	Jr
8. Jamiel Trimble	Air Force	So
9. Amere Lattin	Houston	Fr
10. Nick Anderson	Kentucky	Jr

400 HURDLES
1. Eric Futch	Florida	Jr
2. Kenny Selmon	North Carolina	So
3. Robert Grant	Texas A&M	So
4. TJ Holmes	Florida	Jr
5. Taylor McLaughlin	Michigan	Fr
6. Jussi Kanervo’	South Carolina	Jr
7. Desmond Palmer	Pitt	Jr
8. C.J. Allen	Washington State	Jr
9. Javonte Lipsey	North Carolina	Sr
10. Rai Benjamin’	UCLA	Fr

4 x 100
1. LSU	LSU
2. Arkansas	Arkansas
3. Houston	Houston
4. Tennessee	Tennessee
5. Florida	Florida
6. Western Kentucky	Western Kentucky
7. TCU	TCU
8. NC State	NC State
9. Texas A&M	Texas A&M
10. Texas	Texas

4 x 400
1. LSU	LSU
2. Florida	Florida
3. Texas A&M	Texas A&M
4. Clemson	Clemson
5. Stephen F. Austin	SF Austin
6. Baylor	Baylor
7. Mississippi State	Mississippi State
8. Nebraska	Nebraska
9. Tennessee	Tennessee
10. Utah State	Utah State

HIGH JUMP
1. Trey Culver	Texas Tech	So
2. Avion Jones	East Carolina	Sr
3. Bradley Adkins	Texas Tech	Sr
4. Kyle Landon	Southern Illinois	Jr
5. Christoff Bryan’	Kansas State	So
6. Trey McRae	UNC Charlotte	Sr
7. Randall Cunningham	USC	So
8. Zachary Blackham	BYU	Sr
9. Ken LeGassey	Arkansas	Jr
10. Keenon Laine	Western Kentucky	Fr

POLE VAULT
1. Jake Blankenship	Tennessee	Sr
2. Devin King	Southeastern Louisiana	So
3. Adam Bragg	Princeton	Sr
4. Adrian Valles’	Cincinnati	So
5. Jax Thoirs’	Washington	Sr
6. Dylan Bell	Air Force	Sr
7. Chase Wolfle	Texas A&M	Sr
8. Torben Laidig’	Virginia Tech	So
9. Dylan Duvio	Stanford	Jr
10. Matthew Ludwig	Missouri	Fr

LONG JUMP
1. Jarrion Lawson	Arkansas	Sr
2. Stefan Brits’	Florida State	Sr
3. Jonathan Addison	NC State	Sr
4. Roelf Pienaar’	Arkansas State	Jr
5. Will Williams	Texas A&M	So
6. Adoree’ Jackson	USC	So
7. KeAndre Bates	Florida	So
8. Corey Crawford	Rutgers	Sr
9. Andreas Trajkovski’	Arkansas	Jr
10. Emmanuel Williams	Northwestern Louisiana	Sr

TRIPLE JUMP
1. Clive Pullen’	Arkansas	Jr
2. Matthew O’Neal	South Florida	Sr
3. Latario Collie’	Texas A&M	Sr
4. Ben Williams’	Louisville	Jr
5. Brian Leap	Penn State	Sr
6. Felix Obi	Baylor	Jr
7. Tim White	Arizona State	Jr
8. Shawn Johnson	Auburn	Sr
9. Keandre Bates	Florida	So
10. John Warren	Missouri	So

SHOT
1. Filip Mihaljevic’	Virginia	Jr
2. Nicholas Scarvelis’	UCLA	Sr
3. Mostafa Hassan’	Colorado State	So
4. JC Murasky	Ohio State	Sr
5. Chuk Enekwechi	Purdue	Sr
6. Braheme Days	UCLA	So
7. Josh Freeman	Southern Illinois	Sr
8. Ashinia Miller’	Georgia	Sr
9. Willie Morrison	Indiana	Fr
10. Peter Simon’	Cal	So

DISCUS
1. Sam Mattis	Penn	Sr
2. Filip Mihaljevic’	Virginia	Jr
3. Phillip Jagers	Akron	Jr
4. Mitchell Cooper’	Kansas	Jr
5. Jan-Louw Kotze’	South Alabama	Sr
6. Marek Barta’	Virginia Tech	So
7. Nicholas Percy’	Nebraska	So
8. Gerhard DeBeer’	Arizona	Jr
9. Daniel Haugh	Alabama	Fr
10. Nicholas Ceban’	Kansas	So

HAMMER
1. Nick Miller’	Oklahoma State	Sr
2. Rudy Winkler	Cornell	Jr
3. Greg Skipper	Oregon	Sr
4. Adam Keenan’	Northern Arizona	Jr
5. Sean Donnelly	Minnesota	Sr
6. Anders Eriksson’	Florida	Fr
7. Alex Poursanidis’	Georgia	Jr
8. Dempsey McGuigan’	Mississippi	So
9. Chuk Enekwechi	Purdue	Sr
10. Connor Neu	Youngstown	Sr

JAVELIN
1. John Ampomah’	Middle Tennessee	Sr
2. Ioannis Kyriazis’	Texas A&M	So
3. Matija Muhar’	Virginia Tech	Fr
4. Curtis Thompson	Mississippi State	So
5. Emron Gibbs’	Sn Mississippi	Sr
6. Evan Karakolis’	Rice	Sr
7. Reinhard Van Zyl’	Missouri	Jr
8. Tomas Guerra’	Western Kentucky	Sr
9. Matti Mortimore’	North Dakota State	Jr
10. Cody Danielson	Oregon	Jr

DECATHLON
1. Lindon Victor’	Texas A&M	Jr
2. Maicel Uibo’	Georgia	Sr
3. Pau Tonnesen’	Arizona	Sr
4. Zack Ziemek	Wisconsin	Sr
5. Karl Saluri’	Georgia	So
6. Harrison Williams	Stanford	So
7. Devon Williams	Georgia	Jr
8. Atsu Nyamadi’	Middle Tennessee	Sr
9. Tim Duckworth	Kentucky	So
10. Solomon Simmons	Eastern Michigan	Sr

COMPLETE TEAM SCORES
1. LSU	59
2. Texas A&M	55
3. Oregon	50
4. Arkansas	39
5. Florida	38
6. Virginia	26
7. Tennessee	23
=8. Texas Tech	18
=8. Washington	18
=10. Georgia	17
=10. Houston	17
=10. Mississippi State	17
=10. Middle Tennessee	17
=10. Northern Arizona	17
15. Akron	16
16. Michigan	14
=17. Louisville	13
=17. Penn State	13
=17. Virginia Tech	13
=20. Penn	12
=20. TCU	12
=20. UCLA	12
=23. Clemson	11
=23. Florida State	11
=23. Stanford	11
=23. Syracuse	11
=27. Missouri	10
=27. Oklahoma State	10
29. BYU	9
=30. Air Force	8
=30. Cornell	8
=30. East Carolina	8
=30. LIU Brooklyn	8
=30. North Carolina	8
=30. South Carolina	8
=30. Southeastern Louisiana	8
=30. South Florida	8
=38. Auburn	7
=38. Arizona	7
=38. Baylor	7
=38. NC State	7
=38. Southern Illinois	7
=43. Colorado	6
=43. Colorado State	6
=43. Eastern Kentucky	6
=43. Indiana State	6
=43. Princeton	6
=43. Villanova	6
=43. Wisconsin	6
=50. Arkansas State	5
=50. Cincinnati	5
=50. Kansas	5
=50. Kentucky	5
=50. Ohio State	5
=50. USC	5
=56. Duke	4
=56. Kansas State	4
=56. Minnesota	4
=56. Purdue	4
=56. South Alabama	4
=56. SF Austin	4
=56. Sn Mississippi	4
=56. Western Kentucky	4
=64. Butler	3
=64. Nebraska	3
=64. Rice	3
=64. UNC Charlotte	3
=68. Arizona State	2
=68. Iowa	2
=68. Mississippi	2
=68. Pitt	2
=68. Wake Forest	2
=73. Rutgers	1
=73. Texas	1
=73. UMKC	1
=73. UTEP	1
=73. Washington State	1