2018 NCAA Men’s Formchart No. 1—Florida Opens With Large Margin

Mike Holloway’s Gators eked out a 3-point win over USC at the NCAA Indoor, but if our first formchart of the year holds true, they’ll have a much more comfortable ride at the Outdoor in June.

Much rests on the feet of super-soph Grant Holloway (no relation). He’ll be one busy performer en route to a predicted double-win performance in the 110H (where he’s the defending national champ) and long jump, with probable duty on both relays as well.

Florida is deep enough that Holloway can likely be excused from baton duty in the Wednesday prelims and will only have to run a flight of hurdles and tackle the LJ.

Things will get dicier for the 20-year-old Virginia native on Friday where his potential 3-event schedule could follow this timetable: 5:32—4×1 final; 6:12—110H final; 7:51—4×4 final.

Make no mistake, the Gators are deep, being tabbed to score 11 times in 8 events: 110H–2, 400H, 4×1, 4×4, HJ, LJ–2, TJ–2, HT–2. If things go according to form, they’ll have the meet clinched before the 4×4 rolls around as the climax.

Houston and Texas A&M currently project as tied for 2nd, 16 points behind Florida. A slight edge to the latter, as Houston is only figured to score 6 times in 5 events, whereas the Aggies are listed for 10 scorers in 7 events, so have a lot more room for improvement.

The 10-deep predictions for each event:

TOP 10 TEAMS
1. Florida	67
=2. Houston	51
=2. Texas A&M	51
4. USC	39
5. Alabama	36
6. Georgia	34
7. Texas Tech	27
8. Stanford	24
9. LSU	23
10. Arkansas	22
	(complete team scores below)

100 METERS
1. Cameron Burrell	Houston	Sr
2. Elijah Hall	Houston	Sr
3. Jaylen Bacon	Arkansas State	Sr
4. Divine Oduduru’	Texas Tech	So
5. Kendal Williams	Georgia	Jr
6. Kenzo Cotton	Arkansas	Sr
7. Andre Ewers	Florida State	Jr
8. Raheem Chambers’	Auburn	So
9. Cejhae Greene’	Georgia	Sr
10. Hakim Sani Brown’	Florida	Fr

200 METERS
1. Elijah Hall	Houston	Sr
2. Divine Oduduru’	Texas Tech	So
3. Ncincilili Titi’	South Carolina	Sr
4. Jaron Flournoy	LSU	Jr
5. Jaylen Bacon	Arkansas State	Sr
6. Mustaqeem Williams	Tennessee	Jr
7. Kenzo Cotton	Arkansas	Sr
8. Terrance Laird	Penn State	Fr
9. Devin Quinn	Illinois	Jr
10. Renard Howell	LSU	Sr

400 METERS
1. Michael Norman	USC	So
2. Nathon Allen’	Auburn	So
3. Wil London	Baylor	Jr
4. Akeem Bloomfield’	Auburn	So
5. Mylik Kerley	Texas A&M	Sr
6. Kahmari Montgomery	Houston	Jr
7. Zach Shinnick	USC	Fr
8. Derrick Mokaleng’	TCU	So
9. Nathan Strother	Tennessee	Sr
10. Mar’yea Harris	Iowa	Jr

800 METERS
1. Michael Saruni’	UTEP	So
2. Isaiah Harris	Penn State	Jr
3. Joseph White	Georgetown	Sr
4. Robert Heppenstall’	Wake Forest	Jr
5. Devin Dixon	Texas A&M	So
6. Clay Lambourne	Utah State	Sr
7. Abraham Alvarado	BYU	Sr
8. Daniel Kuhn	Indiana	Jr
9. Ryan Manahan	Mississippi	Sr
10. Charles Jones	Texas Tech	Sr

1500 METERS
1. Josh Kerr’	New Mexico	Jr
2. Robert Domanic	Mississippi	Sr
3. Sam Prakel	Oregon	Sr
4. Vincent Ciattei	Virginia Tech	Sr
5. Sean Tobin’	Mississippi	Sr
6. Jeff Thies	Portland	Sr
7. Mick Stanovsek	Oregon	So
8. Justine Kiprotich’	Michigan State	Jr
9. Ben Saarel	Colorado	Sr
10. Reed Brown	Oregon	Fr

STEEPLE
1. Brian Barraza	Houston	Sr
2. Scott Carpenter	Georgetown	Sr
3. Bryce Miller	UMKC	Sr
4. Emmanuel Rotich’	Tulane	Jr
5. Yusuki Uchikoshi’	Boise	Sr
6. Jamaine Coleman’	Eastern Kentucky	Sr
7. Troy Reeder	Furman	Sr
8. Matt Owens	BYU	Fr
9. Simon Grannetia’	Portland	Jr
10. Aidan Tooker	Syracuse	So

5000 METERS
1. Grant Fisher	Stanford	Jr
2. Justyn Knight’	Syracuse	Sr
3. Morgan McDonald’	Wisconsin	Jr
4. Andy Trouard	Northern Arizona	Sr
5. Sean McGorty	Stanford	Sr
6. Vincent Kiprop’	Alabama	Jr
7. Jack Bruce’	Arkansas	Sr
8. Zach Long	Tennessee	Jr
9. Cameron Griffith’	Arkansas	So
10. Cole Rockhold	Colorado State	Jr

10,000 METERS
1. Vincent Kiprop’	Alabama	Jr
2. Matt Baxter’	Northern Arizona	Sr
3. Gilbert Kigen’	Alabama	Jr
4. Tyler Day	Northern Arizona	Jr
5. Rory Linkletter	BYU	Jr
6. Clayton Young	BYU	Jr
7. Arsene Guillorel’	Samford	Sr
8. Noah Schutte’	Portland	Jr
9. Lawrence Kipkoech’	Campbell	Jr
10. Alfred Chelanga’	Alabama	Sr

110 HURDLES
1. Grant Holloway	Florida	So
2. Ruebin Walters’	Alabama	Sr
3. David Kendziera	Illinois	Sr
4. Antoine Lloyd	Nebraska	Sr
5. Ashtyn Davis	Cal	Sr
6. Damion Thomas’	LSU	Fr
7. Trey Cunningham	Florida State	Fr
8. Marquis Morris	USC	Sr
9. Isaiah Moore	South Carolina	Sr
10. Daniel Roberts	Kentucky	So

400 HURDLES
1. Rai Benjamin’	USC	Jr
2. Kemar Mowatt’	Arkansas	Jr
3. Kenny Selmon	North Carolina	Sr
4. Robert Grant	Texas A&M	Sr
5. Cory Poole	Florida	Fr
6. David Kendziera	Illinois	Sr
7. Ilolo Izu	Texas A&M	Jr
8. Taylor McLaughlin	Michigan	Jr
9. Amere Lattin	Houston	Jr
10. Norman Grimes	Texas Tech	Fr

4 x 100
1. Houston	Houston
2. LSU	LSU
3. USC	USC
4. Florida	Florida
5. North Carolina A&T	North Carolina A&T
6. Arkansas	Arkansas
7. Texas A&M	Texas A&M
8. Ohio State	Ohio State
9. Georgia	Georgia
10. Baylor	Baylor

4 x 400
1. USC	USC
2. Florida	Florida
3. Texas A&M	Texas A&M
4. Auburn	Auburn
5. Arkansas	Arkansas
6. LSU	LSU
7. Iowa	Iowa
8. Baylor	Baylor
9. TCU	TCU
10. Texas Tech	Texas Tech

HIGH JUMP
1. Trey Culver	Texas Tech	Sr
2. Vernon Turner	Oklahoma	Fr
3. Shelby Mcewen	Alabama	Jr
4. Christoff Bryan’	Kansas State	Sr
5. Keenon Laine	Georgia	Jr
6. Tejaswin Shankar’	Kansas State	Fr
7. Darius Carbin	Georgia	So
8. Clayton Brown’	Florida	So
9. Matthew Campbell	Albany	Sr
10. Tequan Claitt	Eastern Kentucky	Jr

POLE VAULT
1. Chris Nilsen	South Dakota	So
2. Devin King	Southeastern Louisiana	Sr
3. Matt Ludwig	Akron	Jr
4. Hussain Al Hizam’	Kansas	Jr
5. Deakin Volz	Virginia Tech	Jr
6. Audie Wyatt	Texas A&M	Sr
7. Adrian Valles’	Cincinnati	Sr
8. Tray Oates	Samford	Sr
9. Nate Richartz	Notre Dame	Sr
10. Jacob Wooten	Texas A&M	Jr

LONG JUMP
1. Grant Holloway	Florida	So
2. Will Williams	Texas A&M	Sr
3. KeAndre Bates	Florida	Sr
4. Damarcus Simpson	Oregon	Sr
5. Charles Brown	Texas Tech	Jr
6. Zack Bazile	Ohio State	Sr
7. Ja’Mari Ward	Missouri	So
8. Tahar Triki’	Texas A&M	So
9. Steffin McCarter	Texas	Jr
10. Terrell McClain	Akron	Sr

TRIPLE JUMP
1. KeAndre Bates	Florida	Sr
2. O’Brien Wasome’	Texas	So
3. Clayton Brown’	Florida	So
4. Chengetayi Mapaya’	TCU	Fr
5. Tahar Triki’	Texas A&M	So
6. Tuomas Kaukolahti’	Cal	So
7. John Warren	Sn Mississippi	Jr
8. Barden Adams	Kansas	Sr
9. Scotty Newton	TCU	Sr
10. Jordan Scott’	Virginia	So

SHOT
1. Mostafa Hassan’	Colorado State	Sr
2. Denzel Comenentia’	Georgia	Jr
3. Josh Awotunde	South Carolina	Sr
4. Nick Demaline	Ohio State	Sr
5. Austin Droogsma	Florida State	Sr
6. Jordan Geist	Arizona	Fr
7. Payton Otterdahl	North Dakota State	Jr
8. McKay Johnson	Cal	So
9. Tripp Piperi	Texas	Fr
10. Oghenakpobo Efekoro	Virginia	Jr

DISCUS
1. Nicholas Percy’	Nebraska	Sr
2. Brian Williams	Mississippi	Sr
3. Marek Bárta’	Virginia Tech	Sr
4. Reno Tuufuli	Iowa	Jr
5. David Lucas	Penn State	Jr
6. Kord Ferguson	Alabama	Jr
7. Greg Thompson’	Maryland	Jr
8. Nicolai Ceban’	Kansas	Sr
9. Turner Washington	Arizona	Fr
10. Gabriel Oladipo	Texas A&M	Fr

HAMMER
1. Denzel Comenentia’	Georgia	Jr
2. Rudy Winkler	Rutgers	Sr
3. Gleb Dudarev’	Kansas	So
4. Anders Eriksson’	Florida	Jr
5. Jake Norris’	LSU	Fr
6. Hilmar Jónsson’	Virginia	Jr
7. Thomas Mardal’	Florida	Fr
8. Kevin Arreaga’	Miami	Fr
9. Joseph Ellis	Michigan	Jr
10. Brock Eager	Washington State	Jr

JAVELIN
1. Ioánnis Kyriazís’	Texas A&M	Sr
2. Anderson Peters’	Mississippi State	Fr
3. Sindri Gudmundsson’	Utah State	So
4. Nicolas Quijera’	Mississippi State	Sr
5. Chris Mirabelli	Rutgers	Sr
6. Curtis Thompson	Mississippi State	Sr
7. Sam Hardin	Texas A&M	Sr
8. Fabian Dohmann’	Texas	Sr
9. Matija Muhar’	Virginia Tech	So
10. Michael Biddle	Penn State	So

DECATHLON
1. Harrison Williams	Stanford	Sr
2. Tim Duckworth’	Kentucky	Sr
3. Hunter Veith	Wichita State	Sr
4. Karl Saluri’	Georgia	Sr
5. Scott Filip	Rice	Sr
6. Cody Walton	Nebraska	Sr
7. Tyler Adams	Sam Houston St	Sr
8. Johannes Erm’	Georgia	Fr
9. TJ Lawson	Kent State	So
10. Tim Ehrhardt	Michigan State	Sr

COMPLETE TEAM SCORES
1. Florida	67
=2. Houston	51
=2. Texas A&M	51
4. USC	39
5. Alabama	36
6. Georgia	34
7. Texas Tech	27
8. Stanford	24
9. LSU	23
10. Arkansas	22
11. Mississippi	20
12. Auburn	19
=13. Nebraska	18
=13. Northern Arizona	18
15. Mississippi State	16
16. Virginia Tech	15
17. Georgetown	14
=18. Kansas	13
=18. Oregon	13
=18. Penn State	13
=21. Rutgers	12
=21. South Carolina	12
=23. Arkansas State	10
=23. BYU	10
=23. Colorado State	10
=23. New Mexico	10
=23. South Dakota	10
=23. UTEP	10
=29. Illinois	9
=29. Ohio State	9
=29. Texas	9
=29. Utah State	9
=33. Cal	8
=33. Florida State	8
=33. Kansas State	8
=33. Kentucky	8
=33. Oklahoma	8
=33. Southeastern Louisiana	8
=33. Syracuse	8
=40. Baylor	7
=40. Iowa	7
=42. Akron	6
=42. North Carolina	6
=42. TCU	6
=42. UMKC	6
=42. Wisconsin	6
=42. Wichita State	6
=48. Tulane	5
=48. Wake Forest	5
=50. Boise	4
=50. North Carolina A&T	4
=50. Portland	4
=50. Rice	4
=50. Tennessee	4
=55. Arizona	3
=55. Eastern Kentucky	3
=55. Samford	3
=55. Virginia	3
=59. Cincinnati	2
=59. Furman	2
=59. Maryland	2
=59. Missouri	2
=59. North Dakota State	2
=59. Sam Houston St	2
=59. Sn Mississippi	2
=66. Indiana	1
=66. Michigan	1
=66. Miami	1
=66. Michigan State	1