2019 NCAA Men’s Formchart #3 — LSU Increases Lead

IN OUR FIRST chart of the year, Florida was an 8-point favorite over SEC rival LSU for the team title. Just 2 weeks after that, Dennis Shaver’s Bayou Bengals projected as 2-point favorites. Another 3 weeks on and now we find LSU not only as an 11-point choice, but also with a new closest challenger in Texas Tech. The change in the 2-3 positions came about because the Gators dropped 11 points in the projections while the Red Raiders stayed the same.

Jump-strong LSU is currently calculated to score in the 200 (5), 110H(3), 4×1 (2), 4×4 (2), HJ (3), PV (1), LJ (1-2) & HT (7).

There are 5 new predicted event winners since chart #2: Oregon’s Cravon Gillespie (100), North Carolina A&T’s Trevor Stewart (400), Kansas State’s Tejaswin Shankar (HJ), LSU’s JuVaughn Harrison (LJ) & Maryland’s Greg Thompson (DT).

The 10-deep predictions for each event (’ = athlete not eligible for U.S. international teams):

(note: some unexpected Regionals scratches have already changed the nature of the chart; update coming on Monday, May 20)

TOP 10 TEAMS
Team	Points	Previous Chart
1. LSU	62	1
2. Texas Tech	51	3
3. Florida	48	2
4. Oregon	38	17
5. Texas A&M	33	6
6. Stanford	31	5
=7. Houston	28	7
=7. Mississippi State	28	9
9. Florida State	26	8
10. Georgia	25	4
(complete team scores after individual by-event top 10s)

100 METERS
1. Cravon Gillespie	Oregon	Sr
2. Divine Oduduru’	Texas Tech	Jr
3. Andre Ewers	Florida State	Sr
4. Hakim Sani Brown’	Florida	So
5. Raymond Ekevwo’	Florida	Jr
6. Mario Burke’	Houston	Sr
7. Rodney Rowe	North Carolina A&T	Sr
8. Raheem Chambers’	Miami	Jr
9. Demek Kemp	South Carolina State	Sr
10. McKinely West	Sn Mississippi	Sr

200 METERS
1. Divine Oduduru’	Texas Tech	Jr
2. Cravon Gillespie	Oregon	Sr
3. Rodney Rowe	North Carolina A&T	Sr
4. Andre Ewers	Florida State	Sr
5. Jaron Flournoy	LSU	Sr
6. Hakim Sani Brown’	Florida	So
7. Mustaqeem Williams	Tennessee	Sr
8. Nick Gray	Ohio State	Sr
9. Andrew Hudson	Texas Tech	Sr
10. Keitavious Walter	Alabama	Sr

400 METERS
1. Trevor Stewart	North Carolina A&T	So
2. Kahmari Montgomery	Houston	Sr
3. Wil London	Baylor	Sr
4. Tyrell Richard	South Carolina State	Sr
5. Dwight St. Hillaire’	Kentucky	So
6. Jacory Patterson	Virginia Tech	Fr
7. Derrick Mokaleng’	TCU	Jr
8. Mar’yea Harris	Iowa	Sr
9. Akeem Sirleaf’	North Carolina A&T	Jr
10. Tyler Terry	LSU	Jr

800 METERS
1. Marco Arop’	Mississippi State	So
2. Bryce Hoppel	Kansas	Jr
3. Devin Dixon	Texas A&M	Jr
4. Isaiah Jewett	USC	Jr
5. Robert Heppenstall’	Wake Forest	Sr
6. Joseph White	Georgetown	Sr
7. Cooper Williams	Indiana	Jr
8. Festus Lagat’	Iowa State	Jr
9. Jonah Koech’	Texas Tech	Sr
10. Roshon Roomes	Iowa State	Jr

1500 METERS
1. Oliver Hoare’	Wisconsin	Jr
2. Yared Nuguse	Notre Dame	So
3. Sam Worley	Texas	So
4. William Paulson	Arizona State	Sr
5. Justine Kiprotich	Michigan State	Sr
6. Carlos Villareal	Arizona	Jr
7. Reed Brown	Oregon	So
8. Geordie Beamish’	Northern Arizona	Jr
9. Waleed Suliman	Mississippi	So
10. Cameron Griffith’	Arkansas	Sr

STEEPLE
1. Obsa Ali	Minnesota	Sr
2. Ryan Smeeton	Oklahoma State	So
3. Steven Fahy	Stanford	Sr
4. Daniel Michalski	Indiana	Sr
5. Matt Owens	BYU	So
6. Clayson Shumway	BYU	Jr
7. Nathan Mylenek	Iowa	Jr
8. Fitsum Seyoum	Virginia Tech	So
9. Riley Osen	Portland	So
10. Johannes Motschman’	Iona	Sr

5000 METERS
1. Grant Fisher	Stanford	Sr
2. Morgan McDonald’	Wisconsin	Sr
3. Amon Kemboi’	Campbell	Jr
4. Cooper Teare	Oregon	So
5. Thomas Ratcliffe	Stanford	So
6. Edwin Kurgat’	Iowa State	Jr
7. Luis Grijalva’	Northern Arizona	So
8. Theo Quax’	Northern Arizona	Fr
9. Gilbert Boit’	Arkansas	Jr
10. Kyle Mau	Indiana	Jr

10,000 METERS
1. Tyler Day	Northern Arizona	Jr
2. Gilbert Kigen’	Alabama	Sr
3. Conner Mantz	BYU	So
4. Clayton Young	BYU	Sr
5. Gilbert Boit’	Arkansas	Jr
6. Connor McMillan	BYU	Sr
7. Rory Linkletter’	BYU	Sr
8. Aaron Templeton	Furman	Sr
9. Iliass Aouani’	Syracuse	Jr
10. Blaise Ferro	Northern Arizona	Jr

110 HURDLES
1. Grant Holloway	Florida	Jr
2. Daniel Roberts	Kentucky	Jr
3. Damion Thomas’	LSU	So
4. Isaiah Moore	South Carolina	Sr
5. Trey Cunningham	Florida State	So
6. Eric Edwards	Oregon	Fr
7. Amere Lattin	Houston	Sr
8. Tai Brown	Kansas	Fr
9. John Burt	Texas	Sr
10. Omotade Ojora’	USC	Fr

400 HURDLES
1. Quincy Hall	South Carolina	Jr
2. Norman Grimes	Texas Tech	So
3. Cameron Samuel	USC	So
4. Infinite Tucker	Texas A&M	Jr
5. Robert Grant	Texas A&M	Sr
6. Amere Lattin	Houston	Sr
7. Paramveer Chohan	Cal	Jr
8. Cory Poole	Florida	So
9. Ilolo Izu	Texas A&M	Sr
10. James Smith	Arizona	Fr

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

4 x 400
1. Texas A&M	Texas A&M
2. LSU	LSU
3. Houston	Houston
4. Baylor	Baylor
5. Iowa	Iowa
6. Florida	Florida
7. South Carolina	South Carolina
8. Arkansas	Arkansas
9. Western Kentucky	Western Kentucky
10. Rutgers	Rutgers

HIGH JUMP
1. Tejaswin Shankar’	Kansas State	So
2. Shelby McEwen	Alabama	Sr
3. JuVaughn Harrison	LSU	So
4. Earnie Sears	USC	So
5. Keenon Laine	Georgia	Sr
6. Roberto Vilches’	Missouri	Fr
7. Darryl Sullivan	Tennessee	Jr
8. Mayson Conner	Nebraska	Fr
9. Clayton Brown’	Florida	Jr
10. Brenton Foster	Virginia	Jr

POLE VAULT
1. Mondo Duplantis’	LSU	Fr
2. Chris Nilsen	South Dakota	Jr
3. Matt Ludwig	Akron	Sr
4. Jacob Wooten	Texas A&M	Sr
5. KC Lightfoot	Baylor	Fr
6. Zach Bradford	Kansas	Fr
7. Deakin Volz	Virginia Tech	Sr
8. Clayton Fritsch	Sam Houston St	So
9. Branson Ellis	SF Austin	Fr
10. Sean Collins	South Alabama	Sr

LONG JUMP
1. JuVaughn Harrison	LSU	So
2. Rayvon Grey	LSU	Jr
3. Jamari Ward	Missouri	So
4. Grant Holloway	Florida	Jr
5. Odaine Lewis’	Texas Tech	Sr
6. Charles Brown	Texas Tech	Sr
7. Jordan Latimer	Akron	Sr
8. Steffin McCarter	Texas	Sr
9. Yann Randrianasolo’	South Carolina	Sr
10. Fabian Edoki’	Middle Tennessee	Jr

TRIPLE JUMP
1. Jordan Scott’	Virginia	Jr
2. Armani Wallace	Florida State	Sr
3. Odaine Lewis’	Texas Tech	Sr
4. Chengetayi Mapaya’	TCU	So
5. Tuomas Kaukolahti’	Cal	Jr
6. O’Brien Wasome’	Texas	Jr
7. John Warren	Sn Mississippi	Sr
8. Clayton Brown’	Florida	Jr
9. Papay Glaywulu’	Oklahoma	So
10. Christian Miller	LSU	Jr

SHOT
1. Payton Otterdahl	North Dakota State	Sr
2. Tripp Piperi	Texas	So
3. Jordan Geist	Arizona	So
4. Denzel Comenentia’	Georgia	Sr
5. Dotun Ogundeji	UCLA	Sr
6. Oghenakpobo Efekoro’	Virginia	Sr
7. Jalil Brewer	Purdue	So
8. Andrew Liskowitz	Michigan	Jr
9. Brett Neelly	Kansas State	Sr
10. Otito Ogbonnia	UCLA	Fr

DISCUS
1. Greg Thompson’	Maryland	Sr
2. Payton Otterdahl	North Dakota State	Sr
3. Eric Kicinski	Texas Tech	Sr
4. Reno Tuufuli	Iowa	Sr
5. Roje Stona’	Clemson	Fr
6. Kord Ferguson	Alabama	Sr
7. Jeremiah Evans	Michigan State	So
8. Elijah Mason	Washington	Fr
9. Kai Schmidt	Abilene Christian	Sr
10. Sam Welsh	Harvard	Fr

HAMMER
1. Denzel Comenentia’	Georgia	Sr
2. Daniel Haugh	Kennesaw State	Sr
3. Hilmar Jonsson’	Virginia	Sr
4. Thomas Mardal’	Florida	So
5. Morgan Shigo	Penn State	Sr
6. Gleb Dudarev’	Kansas	Jr
7. Jake Norris’	LSU	So
8. A.J. McFarland	Florida	Sr
9. Anders Eriksson’	Florida	Sr
10. Adam Kelly	Princeton	Sr

JAVELIN
1. Anderson Peters’	Mississippi State	So
2. Curtis Thompson	Mississippi State	Sr
3. Sindri Gudmundsson’	Utah State	Jr
4. Aaron True	Wichita State	Sr
5. Trevor Danielson	Texas	Sr
6. Chris Mirabelli	Rutgers	Sr
7. Ethan Dabbs	Virginia	Fr
8. Liam Christensen	Stanford	Fr
9. Tyriq Horsford’	Mississippi	Fr
10. Sam Hardin	Texas A&M	Sr

DECATHLON
1. Harrison Williams	Stanford	Sr
2. Ayden Owens’	USC	Fr
3. Johannes Erm’	Georgia	So
4. Max Vollmer’	Oregon	Fr
5. TJ Lawson	Kent State	Jr
6. Nathan Hite	Texas A&M	Sr
7. Axel Hubert’	Texas Tech	Fr
8. Nick Guerrant	Michigan State	Jr
9. Gabe Moore	Arkansas	Sr
10. Trent Nytes	Wisconsin	Sr

COMPLETE TEAM SCORES
1. LSU	62
2. Texas Tech	51
3. Florida	48
4. Oregon	38
5. Texas A&M	33
6. Stanford	31
=7. Houston	28
=7. Mississippi State	28
9. Florida State	26
10. Georgia	25
11. USC	24
12. BYU	23
13. Texas	22
14. Virginia	21
15. North Carolina A&T	20
16. Alabama	19
=17. North Dakota State	18
=17. Wisconsin	18
19. South Carolina	17
=20. Baylor	15
=20. Kansas	15
22. Northern Arizona	14
=23. Iowa	12
=23. Kentucky	12
=25. Kansas State	10
=25. Maryland	10
=25. Minnesota	10
=28. Arizona	9
=28. Missouri	9
=30. Akron	8
=30. Kennesaw State	8
=30. Notre Dame	8
=30. Oklahoma State	8
=30. South Dakota	8
=35. Indiana	7
=35. TCU	7
=37. Cal	6
=37. Campbell	6
=37. Michigan State	6
=37. Utah State	6
=37. Virginia Tech	6
=42. Arkansas	5
=42. Arizona State	5
=42. South Carolina State	5
=42. Wichita State	5
=46. Clemson	4
=46. Iowa State	4
=46. Kent State	4
=46. Penn State	4
=46. Tennessee	4
=46. UCLA	4
=46. Wake Forest	4
=53. Georgetown	3
=53. Rutgers	3
=55. Purdue	2
=55. Sn Mississippi	2
=57. Furman	1
=57. Michigan	1
=57. Miami	1
=57. Nebraska	1
=57. Ohio State	1
=57. Oklahoma	1
=57. Sam Houston St	1
=57. Washington	1