2018 NCAA Men’s Formchart No. 5 — Houston Closer Yet To Florida

Florida’s men were solid across the board in comfortably winning the SEC title, but nonetheless the latest peek into the crystal ball finds that the projected Gator margin of victory at the NCAA has gotten perilously small.

Mike Holloway’s Gainesville gang have been tabbed as No. 1 in all 5 of our charts so far this year, with Houston always No. 2 (=No. 2 in Chart 2, to be precise). The gap was 16 points on April 3, 17 on April 18 and 15 on April 25 before shrinking all the way to 4 on May 2. And now? A mere 2 points as Super-Conference weekend found the faves dropping 3 points and the Cougars 1. More than ever, they look like the only two schools with a shot at the team title.

Interestingly enough, the two teams—at least as currently plotted—don’t figure to go head-to-head in any disciplines other than the two relays. That means the opening and closing events on the final day are the key to it all.

At this juncture, Houston is favored to win the 4×1 (with Florida 4th) and take 5th in the 4×4 (with the Gators 2nd). That would set up a scenario, using this chart’s numbers, whereby Houston would have 52 points coming into the climactic event, with Florida at 50.

One barnburner, coming up!

Only 2 events have new leaders since Chart #4: Tahar Triki (Texas A&M) takes over from KeAndre Bates (Florida) in the triple jump; Anderson Peters (Mississippi State) supplants Ioánnis Kyriazís (Texas A&M) in the javelin.

The 10-deep predictions for each event:

TOP 10 TEAMS
Team	Points	Previous Chart
1. Florida	58	1
2. Houston	56	2
3. Texas A&M	46	3
4. Georgia	36	=5
5. Alabama	34	4
6. USC	33	=5
7. Texas Tech	29	7
8. Stanford	22	=8
=9. Northern Arizona	20	=9
=9. Oregon	20	=9
(complete team scores below)

100 METERS
1. Cameron Burrell	Houston	Sr
2. Elijah Hall	Houston	Sr
3. Kendal Williams	Georgia	Jr
4. Jaylen Bacon	Arkansas State	Sr
5. Andre Ewers	Florida State	Jr
6. Divine Oduduru’	Texas Tech	So
7. Cravon Gillespie	Oregon	Jr
8. Raheem Chambers’	Auburn	So
9. Micah Larkins	Northwestern Louisiana	Jr
10. Keitavious Walter	Alabama	Jr

200 METERS
1. Elijah Hall	Houston	Sr
2. Divine Oduduru’	Texas Tech	So
3. Andre Ewers	Florida State	Jr
4. Jaylen Bacon	Arkansas State	Sr
5. Ncincilili Titi’	South Carolina	Sr
6. Kendal Williams	Georgia	Jr
7. Mustaqeem Williams	Tennessee	Jr
8. Cravon Gillespie	Oregon	Jr
9. Keitavious Walter	Alabama	Jr
10. Jaron Flournoy	LSU	Jr

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

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. Daniel Kuhn	Indiana	Jr
6. Cooper Williams	Indiana	So
7. Vincent Crisp	Texas Tech	Jr
8. Clay Lambourne	Utah State	Sr
9. Marco Arop’	Mississippi State	Fr
10. Robert Ford	USC	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. Oliver Hoare’	Wisconsin	So
6. James West’	Oregon	Jr
7. Mick Stanovsek	Oregon	So
8. Ben Saarel	Colorado	Sr
9. Waleed Suliman	Mississippi	Fr
10. Reed Brown	Oregon	Fr

STEEPLE
1. Brian Barraza	Houston	Sr
2. Yusuki Uchikoshi’	Boise	Sr
3. Simon Grannetia’	Portland	Jr
4. Jamaine Coleman’	Eastern Kentucky	Sr
5. Matt Owens	BYU	Fr
6. Daniel Carney	BYU	Jr
7. Emmanuel Rotich’	Tulane	Jr
8. Noah Schutte’	Portland	Jr
9. Obsa Ali	Minnesota	Jr
10. Noah Affolder	Syracuse	Fr

5000 METERS
1. Grant Fisher	Stanford	Jr
2. Justyn Knight’	Syracuse	Sr
3. Andy Trouard	Northern Arizona	Sr
4. Amon Kemboi’	Campbell	So
5. Sean McGorty	Stanford	Sr
6. Zach Perrin	Colorado	Sr
7. Jack Bruce’	Arkansas	Sr
8. Vincent Kiprop’	Alabama	Jr
9. Dillon Maggard	Utah State	Sr
10. Cole Rockhold	Colorado State	Jr

10,000 METERS
1. Vincent Kiprop’	Alabama	Jr
2. Tyler Day	Northern Arizona	Jr
3. Matt Baxter’	Northern Arizona	Sr
4. Connor McMillan	BYU	Jr
5. Gilbert Kigen’	Alabama	Jr
6. Clayton Young	BYU	Jr
7. Jonathan Green	Georgetown	Sr
8. Rory Linkletter	BYU	Jr
9. Arsene Guillorel’	Samford	Sr
10. Lawrence Kipkoech’	Campbell	Jr

110 HURDLES
1. Grant Holloway	Florida	So
2. Ruebin Walters’	Alabama	Sr
3. Daniel Roberts	Kentucky	So
4. David Kendziera	Illinois	Sr
5. Antoine Lloyd	Nebraska	Sr
6. Damion Thomas’	LSU	Fr
7. Trey Cunningham	Florida State	Fr
8. Michael Dickson	North Carolina A&T	Jr
9. John Burt	Texas	Jr
10. Ashtyn Davis	Cal	Sr

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

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

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

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

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

LONG JUMP
1. Grant Holloway	Florida	So
2. Will Williams	Texas A&M	Sr
3. Damarcus Simpson	Oregon	Sr
4. KeAndre Bates	Florida	Sr
5. Terrell McClain	Akron	Sr
6. Odaine Lewis’	Texas Tech	Jr
7. Zack Bazile	Ohio State	Sr
8. Charles Brown	Texas Tech	Jr
9. Jared Kerr	Houston	So
10. Tahar Triki	Texas A&M	So

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

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

DISCUS
1. Nicholas Percy’	Nebraska	Sr
2. Brian Williams	Mississippi	Sr
3. Reno Tuufuli	Iowa	Jr
4. Greg Thompson’	Maryland	Jr
5. Luke Vaughn	Memphis	Sr
6. David Lucas	Penn State	Jr
7. Kord Ferguson	Alabama	Jr
8. John Kolb	Louisville	So
9. Payton Otterdahl	North Dakota State	Jr
10. Jeremiah Evans	Michigan State	Fr

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

JAVELIN
1. Anderson Peters’	Mississippi State	Fr
2. Ioánnis Kyriazís’	Texas A&M	Sr
3. Sindri Gudmundsson’	Utah State	So
4. Nicolas Quijera’	Mississippi State	Sr
5. Fabian Dohmann’	Texas	Sr
6. Michael Biddle	Penn State	So
7. Simon Litzell’	UCLA	So
8. Jonno Engelking’	Southeast Missouri	So
9. Aaron True	Wichita State	Jr
10. Taran Taylor	Wichita State	Fr

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. Gabe Moore	Arkansas	Jr
9. TJ Lawson	Kent State	So
10. Nathaniel Mechler	Houston	So
COMPLETE TEAM SCORES
1. Florida	58
2. Houston	56
3. Texas A&M	46
4. Georgia	36
5. Alabama	34
6. USC	33
7. Texas Tech	29
8. Stanford	22
=9. Northern Arizona	20
=9. Oregon	20
11. Kansas	19
12. LSU	18
=13. Arkansas	16
=13. BYU	16
=13. Kentucky	16
=13. Mississippi	16
=13. Nebraska	16
=18. Auburn	15
=18. Mississippi State	15
20. Penn State	14
21. Florida State	13
22. Akron	12
23. Illinois	11
=24. Arkansas State	10
=24. Colorado State	10
=24. New Mexico	10
=24. South Carolina	10
=24. South Dakota	10
=24. Texas	10
=24. UTEP	10
=24. Virginia Tech	10
32. Indiana	9
=33. Boise	8
=33. Iowa	8
=33. North Carolina	8
=33. Oklahoma	8
=33. Syracuse	8
=33. Tennessee	8
=39. Baylor	7
=39. Portland	7
=39. Utah State	7
=42. Kansas State	6
=42. Ohio State	6
=42. Rutgers	6
=42. Southeastern Louisiana	6
=42. Wichita State	6
=47. Campbell	5
=47. Eastern Kentucky	5
=47. Maryland	5
=47. North Carolina A&T	5
=47. Notre Dame	5
=47. North Dakota State	5
=47. Wake Forest	5
=54. Arizona	4
=54. Colorado	4
=54. Memphis	4
=54. Michigan State	4
=54. TCU	4
=54. Wisconsin	4
=60. Louisville	3
=60. Princeton	3
=60. Sn Mississippi	3
=63. Georgetown	2
=63. Michigan	2
=63. Rice	2
=63. Tulane	2
=63. UCLA	2
=68. Liberty	1
=68. Southeast Missouri	1