2018 NCAA Men’s Formchart No. 4 — Houston Creeping Up On Florida

The projected places for 1 through 4 haven’t changed since Chart #3, but that doesn’t mean there is no excitement at the top end.

What had previously projected as a comfortable 15-point margin for Florida over Houston is suddenly down to a mere 4 as the predicted Gator total has dropped by 6 and the Cougar guess is up by 5. At the moment, they look like the only two schools with a shot at the team title.

Only a single predicted individual champion was deposed, as replaced Chris Nilsen (South Dakota) replaced Devin King (Southeastern Louisana) in the vault. Turnabout is fair play department: last week King had displaces Nilsen.

For favored Florida, almost everything now rests on the feet of super-soph Grant Holloway. 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.

As noted in the previous charting, 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.

The 10-deep predictions for each event:

TOP 10 TEAMS
Team	Points	Previous Chart
1. Florida	61	1
2. Houston	57	2
3. Texas A&M	40	3
4. Alabama	37	4
=5. Georgia	35	=6
=5. USC	35	=6
7. Texas Tech	34	5
=8. Kansas	21	=12
=8. LSU	21	8
=8. Stanford	21	9
(complete team scores below)

100 METERS
1. Cameron Burrell	Houston	Sr
2. Elijah Hall	Houston	Sr
3. Divine Oduduru’	Texas Tech	So
4. Kendal Williams	Georgia	Jr
5. Jaylen Bacon	Arkansas State	Sr
6. Andre Ewers	Florida State	Jr
7. Keitavious Walter	Alabama	Jr
8. Devin Quinn	Illinois	Jr
9. Kenzo Cotton	Arkansas	Sr
10. Raheem Chambers’	Auburn	So

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. Keitavious Walter	Alabama	Jr
6. Jaylen Bacon	Arkansas State	Sr
7. Andre Ewers	Florida State	Jr
8. Kenzo Cotton	Arkansas	Sr
9. Terrance Laird	Penn State	Fr
10. Hakeem Sani-Brown’	Florida	Fr

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

800 METERS
1. Michael Saruni’	UTEP	So
2. Isaiah Harris	Penn State	Jr
3. Devin Dixon	Texas A&M	So
4. Robert Heppenstall’	Wake Forest	Jr
5. Vincent Crisp	Texas Tech	Jr
6. Clay Lambourne	Utah State	Sr
7. Waleed Suliman	Mississippi	Fr
8. John Lewis	Clemson	Jr
9. Abraham Alvarado	BYU	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. James West’	Oregon	Jr
6. Carlos Villareal	Arizona	So
7. Sean Tobin’	Mississippi	Sr
8. Mick Stanovsek	Oregon	So
9. Reed Brown	Oregon	Fr
10. Sam Worley	Texas	Fr

STEEPLE
1. Brian Barraza	Houston	Sr
2. Yusuki Uchikoshi’	Boise	Sr
3. Simon Grannetia’	Portland	Jr
4. Scott Carpenter	Georgetown	Sr
5. Bryce Miller	UMKC	Sr
6. Jamaine Coleman’	Eastern Kentucky	Sr
7. Troy Reeder	Furman	Sr
8. Matt Owens	BYU	Fr
9. Emmanuel Rotich’	Tulane	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. Amon Kemboi’	Campbell	So
6. Sean McGorty	Stanford	Sr
7. Zach Perrin	Colorado	Sr
8. Vincent Kiprop’	Alabama	Jr
9. Jack Bruce’	Arkansas	Sr
10. Zach Long	Tennessee	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. Damion Thomas’	LSU	Fr
5. Daniel Roberts	Kentucky	So
6. Antoine Lloyd	Nebraska	Sr
7. Trey Cunningham	Florida State	Fr
8. Ashtyn Davis	Cal	Sr
9. Michael Dickson	North Carolina A&T	Jr
10. Chad Zallow	Youngstown	Jr

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

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

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

HIGH JUMP
1. Trey Culver	Texas Tech	Sr
2. Tejaswin Shankar’	Kansas State	Fr
3. Vernon Turner	Oklahoma	Fr
4. Shelby McEwen	Alabama	Jr
5. Keenon Laine	Georgia	Jr
6. Clayton Brown’	Florida	So
7. Darius Carbin	Georgia	So
8. Samuel Shoultz	Maryland	Jr
9. Damar Robinson	Louisville	Sr
10. JuVaughn Blake	LSU	Fr

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

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. Terrell McClain	Akron	Sr
6. Charles Brown	Texas Tech	Jr
7. Zack Bazile	Ohio State	Sr
8. Ja’Mari Ward	Missouri	So
9. Odaine Lewis’	Texas Tech	Jr
10. Jonathan Wells	Illinois	Jr

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

SHOT
1. Mostafa Hassan’	Colorado State	Sr
2. Denzel Comenentia’	Georgia	Jr
3. Jordan Geist	Arizona	Fr
4. Austin Droogsma	Florida State	Sr
5. Nick Demaline	Ohio State	Sr
6. Josh Awotunde	South Carolina	Sr
7. Payton Otterdahl	North Dakota State	Jr
8. Andrew Liskowitz	Michigan	So
9. McKay Johnson	Cal	So
10. Willie Morrison	Indiana	Jr

DISCUS
1. Nicholas Percy’	Nebraska	Sr
2. Brian Williams	Mississippi	Sr
3. Greg Thompson’	Maryland	Jr
4. Luke Vaughn	Memphis	Sr
5. Marek Bárta’	Virginia Tech	Sr
6. Reno Tuufuli	Iowa	Jr
7. David Lucas	Penn State	Jr
8. Kord Ferguson	Alabama	Jr
9. Payton Otterdahl	North Dakota State	Jr
10. Ashmon Lucas	Purdue	So

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

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. Fabian Dohmann’	Texas	Sr
6. Sam Hardin	Texas A&M	Sr
7. Matija Muhar’	Virginia Tech	So
8. Curtis Thompson	Mississippi State	Sr
9. Chris Mirabelli	Rutgers	Sr
10. John Nizich	Oregon	Jr

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

COMPLETE TEAM SCORES
1. Florida	61
2. Houston	57
3. Texas A&M	40
4. Alabama	37
=5. Georgia	35
=5. USC	35
7. Texas Tech	34
=8. Kansas	21
=8. LSU	21
=8. Stanford	21
11. Mississippi	20
12. Northern Arizona	18
=13. Oregon	17
=13. Virginia Tech	17
=15. Arkansas	15
=15. Auburn	15
=17. Baylor	14
=17. Kentucky	14
=17. Mississippi State	14
=17. Nebraska	14
=21. Akron	12
=21. Florida State	12
=21. Illinois	12
=21. Texas	12
=25. Colorado State	10
=25. New Mexico	10
=25. Penn State	10
=25. South Dakota	10
=25. UTEP	10
=30. Arizona	9
=30. South Carolina	9
=30. TCU	9
=30. Utah State	9
=34. Boise	8
=34. BYU	8
=34. Kansas State	8
=34. North Carolina	8
=34. Syracuse	8
=39. Arkansas State	7
=39. Maryland	7
=39. Portland	7
=42. Ohio State	6
=42. Oklahoma	6
=42. Rutgers	6
=42. Southeastern Louisiana	6
=42. Wisconsin	6
=42. Wichita State	6
=48. Georgetown	5
=48. Memphis	5
=48. Princeton	5
=48. Wake Forest	5
=52. Campbell	4
=52. Michigan	4
=52. Michigan State	4
=52. UMKC	4
=56. Eastern Kentucky	3
=56. Iowa	3
=56. North Carolina A&T	3
=56. Notre Dame	3
=56. Tennessee	3
=61. Cal	2
=61. Colorado	2
=61. Furman	2
=61. North Dakota State	2
=61. Rice	2
=61. Samford	2
=61. Sn Mississippi	2
=68. Clemson	1
=68. Missouri	1
=68. Virginia	1