2023 NCAA Men’s Formchart #3 — Arkansas Gap Grows

A 6-POINT FAVORITE in our first formchart of the year, field-strong Arkansas doubled that margin in our second set of projections and has added 3 more in the crystal ball’s third iteration of the year.

Chris Bucknam’s powerful Hog crew actually lost 2 points from its projection, but previous runner-up Tennessee lost 11 and is now in 4th. The Vols figure to have a tight battle for 2nd with Texas Tech and Georgia.

There are 10 new event-winners since last time: Udodi Onwuzurike (Stanford) 200, Ryan Willie (Florida) 400, Yusuf Bizima (Texas) 800, Kenneth Rooks (BYU) steeple, Brian Fay (Washington) 5000, Ayden Owens-Delerme (Arkansas) 400H, Florida 4×4, Wayne Pinnock (Arkansas) LJ, Kostas Záltos (Minnesota) HT & Marc Minichello (Georgia) JT.

Our fourth and final chart of the year will appear a few days before the meet kicks off in Austin on June 07.

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

TOP 10 TEAMS
School	Score	Previous Place
1. Arkansas	64 (-2)	1
2. Texas Tech	49 (-1)	=3
3. Georgia	47 (-3)	=3
4. Tennessee	43 (-11)	2
5. Florida	37 (+11)	7
6. Nebraska	31 (+15)	=15
7. LSU	30(-14)	5
8. Stanford	27 (+8)	11
=9. Alabama	23 (-6)	6
=9. BYU	23 (+8)	=20
(complete team scores below event picks)

100 METERS
1. Terrence Jones’	Texas Tech	Jr
2. Micah Williams	Oregon	Jr
3. Godson Oghenebrume’	LSU	So
4. Shaun Maswanganyi’	Houston	Jr
5. Favour Ashe’	Auburn	So
6. Ismael Kone’	Florida State	Sr
7. Amir Willis	Florida State	Sr
8. Kion Benjamin’	Minnesota	Jr
9. Courtney Lindsey	Texas Tech	Sr
10. Udodi Onwuzurike’	Stanford	So

200 METERS
1. Udodi Onwuzurike’	Stanford	So
2. Courtney Lindsey	Texas Tech	Sr
3. Robert Gregory	Florida	Jr
4. Javonte Harding	Tennessee	Jr
5. Terrence Jones’	Texas Tech	Jr
6. Tarsis Orogot’	Alabama	So
7. Matthew Boling	Georgia	Jr
8. Shaun Maswanganyi’	Houston	Jr
9. Austin Kresley	Iowa	Jr
10. Jacory Patterson	Florida	Sr

400 METERS
1. Ryan Willie	Florida	Jr
2. Elija Godwin	Georgia	Sr
3. Emmanuel Bynum	Tennessee	Jr
4. Zarik Brown	Oklahoma	Jr
5. William Brown	USC	Fr
6. Emmanuel Bamidele’	Florida	So
7. Johnnie Blockburger	USC	Jr
8. James Benson	Arkansas	Jr
9. Justin Robinson	Arizona State	So
10. Ismail Turner	UCLA	Jr

800 METERS
1. Yusuf Bizimana’	Texas	Jr
2. Will Sumner	Georgia	Fr
3. Navasky Anderson’	Mississippi State	Sr
4. Abdullahi Hassan’	Wisconsin	Jr
5. Tarees Rhoden’	Clemson	Jr
6. Sam Whitmarsh	Texas A&M	So
7. Tiarnan Crorken’	Mississippi	Sr
8. Mehdi Yanouri	Oklahoma State	Jr
9. Crayton Carrozza	Texas	Jr
10. Baylor Franklin	Mississippi	Jr

1500 METERS
1. Fouad Messaoudi’	Oklahoma State	So
2. Isaac Basten	Drake	Jr
3. Joe Waskom	Washington	Jr
4. Ezekiel Rop’	Iowa State	Jr
5. Adam Spencer’	Wisconsin	So
6. Annas Essayi’	South Carolina	So
7. Ethan Stroud	North Carolina	Fr
8. Nathan Green	Washington	So
9. Colin Sahlman	Northern Arizona	Fr
10. Luke Houser	Washington	Jr

STEEPLE
1. Kenneth Rooks	BYU	Jr
2. Duncan Hamilton	Montana State	Sr
3. Parker Stokes	Georgetown	Jr
4. Matt Wilkinson	Minnesota	Sr
5. Ed Trippas’	Washington	Sr
6. Victor Shitsama’	Oklahoma State	Sr
7. Derek Johnson	Virginia	Jr
8. Nate Mountain	Virginia	So
9. Patrick Thygesen’	Providence	So
10. Tom Seitzer	Notre Dame	Jr

5000 METERS
1. Brian Fay’	Washington	Sr
2. Nico Young	Northern Arizona	Jr
3. Dylan Jacobs	Tennessee	Sr
4. Ky Robinson’	Stanford	Jr
5. Graham Blanks	Harvard	So
6. Parker Wolfe	North Carolina	So
7. Anthony Camerieri	Mississippi	Sr
8. Sam Gilman	Air Force	Sr
9. Chandler Gibbens	Kansas	Jr
10. Casey Clinger	BYU	Jr

10,000 METERS
1. Dylan Jacobs	Tennessee	Sr
2. Charles Hicks’	Stanford	Jr
3. Casey Clinger	BYU	Jr
4. Victor Kiprop’	Alabama	So
5. Ky Robinson’	Stanford	Jr
6. Drew Bosley	Northern Arizona	So
7. Scott Beattie’	Tulsa	Sr
8. Patrick Kiprop	Arkansas	Jr
9. Bob Liking	Wisconsin	Jr
10. Isai Rodriguez	Oklahoma State	Sr

110 HURDLES
1. Devon Brooks	Tennessee	Sr
2. Josh Zeller’	Michigan	Jr
3. Darius Luff	Nebraska	Jr
4. Caleb Dean	Texas Tech	Jr
5. Cameron Murray	NC State	Sr
6. Giano Roberts	Clemson	Sr
7. Dylan Beard	Howard	Sr
8. Jayden Smith	Davidson	So
9. Tade Ojora’	USC	Sr
10. De’Vion Wison	Houston	Jr

400 HURDLES
1. Ayden Owens-Delerme’	Arkansas	Sr
2. Caleb Dean	Texas Tech	Sr
3. Nathaniel Ezekiel’	Baylor	So
4. Chris Robinson	Alabama	Jr
5. Sean Burrell	LSU	Jr
6. Caleb Cavanaugh	Georgia	Jr
7. Jakwan Hale	Tennessee	Jr
8. Cass Elliott	Washington	Sr
9. Rasheeme Griffith’	Tennessee	Jr
10. Moitalel Mpoke’	Auburn	Sr

4 x 100
1. LSU	LSU
2. Florida	Florida
3. Texas Tech	Texas Tech
4. Iowa	Iowa
5. Tennessee	Tennessee
6. Clemson	Clemson
7. Florida State	Florida State
8. Minnesota	Minnesota
9. Louisville	Louisville
10. Georgia	Georgia

4 x 400
1. Florida	Florida
2. Alabama	Alabama
3. Georgia	Georgia
4. UCLA	UCLA
5. Baylor	Baylor
6. Arizona State	Arizona State
7. Clemson	Clemson
8. Oklahoma	Oklahoma
9. Kentucky	Kentucky
10. Texas	Texas

HIGH JUMP
1. Vernon Turner	Oklahoma	Sr
2. Charles McBride	Campbell	Jr
3. Trey Allen	Louisville	Jr
4. Ali Eren Ünlü’	Louisiana-Monroe	So
5. Romaine Beckford’	South Florida	Jr
6. Roberto Vilches’	Missouri	Jr
7. Dontavious Hill	Auburn	Sr
8. Shaun Miller’	Ohio State	So
9. Mayson Conner	Nebraska	Sr
10. Donald Hatfield Jackson	Southeast Missouri	Jr

POLE VAULT
1. Sondre Guttormsen’	Princeton	Jr
2. Zach Bradford	Texas Tech	Sr
3. Branson Ellis	SF Austin	Sr
4. Kyle Rademeyer’	South Alabama	Jr
5. Keaton Daniel	Kentucky	Jr
6. Clayton Simms	Kansas	So
7. Hunter Garretson	Akron	So
8. Alex Slinkman	Rice	Jr
9. Bradley Jelmert	Arkansas State	Jr
10. Trevor Stephenson	Michigan State	Sr

LONG JUMP
1. Wayne Pinnock’	Arkansas	So
2. Carey McLeod’	Arkansas	Sr
3. Johnny Brackins	USC	So
4. Cameron Crump	Mississippi State	Sr
5. Jeremiah Davis	Florida State	Jr
6. Jeremiah Willis	Louisville	Jr
7. Donald Hatfield Jackson	Southeast Missouri	Jr
8. Lokesh Sathyanathan’	New Mexico	Fr
9. Greg Foster	Princeton	Fr
10. Malcolm Clemons	Florida	So

TRIPLE JUMP
1. Jaydon Hibbert’	Arkansas	Fr
2. Russell Robinson	Miami	Jr
3. Jeremiah Davis	Florida State	Jr
4. Salif Mane	Fairleigh Dickinson	Sr
5. Clarence Foote-Talley	Ohio State	Jr
6. Carey McLeod’	Arkansas	Sr
7. Owayne Owens’	Virginia	Jr
8. Ryan Brown”	Arkansas	Sr
9. Christian Edwards	Alabama	Sr
10. Sean Dixon-Bodie	Florida	Jr

SHOT
1. Jordan Geist	Arizona	Sr
2. Jonah Wilson	Nebraska	Sr
3. Max Otterdahl	Nebraska	Jr
4. Jason Swarens	Wisconsin	So
5. Jordan West	Arkansas	Sr
6. John Meyer	LSU	Jr
7. Josh Sobota	Kentucky	Sr
8. Alexander Kolesnikoff’	Harvard	So
9. Turner Washington	Arizona State	Sr
10. Rojé Stona’	Arkansas	Sr

DISCUS
1. Mykolas Alekna’	Cal	So
2. Rojé Stona’	Arkansas	Sr
3. Turner Washington	Arizona State	Sr
4. Ralford Mullings’	Arkansas	So
5. Dallin Shurts	BYU	Jr
6. Djimon Gumbs’	Northwestern Louisiana	Jr
7. Alan de Falchi’	Alabama	Jr
8. Claudio Romero’	LSU	Jr
9. Elijah Mason	Washington	Sr
10. Dimítrios Pavlídis’	Kansas	So

HAMMER
1. Kostas Záltos’	Minnesota	Jr
2. Kenneth Ikeji’	Harvard	So
3. Jordan Geist	Arizona	Sr
4. Tyler Merkley	Penn State	Sr
5. Decio Andrade’	Miami	Sr
6. Isaiah Rogers	Kennesaw State	Sr
7. Tarik Robinson-O’Hagan	Mississippi	Fr
8. Nikolaos Polychroniou’	USC	So
9. Alencar Pereira’	Georgia	Sr
10. Bobby Colantonio	Alabama	Sr

JAVELIN
1. Marc Minichello	Georgia	Jr
2. Ethan Dabbs	Virginia	Sr
3. Tzuriel Pedigo	LSU	Jr
4. Chinecherem Prosper Nnamdi’	Baylor	So
5. Arthur Petersen’	Nebraska	Jr
6. Cameron Bates	BYU	Jr
7. Dash Sirmon	Nebraska	Fr
8. Lucas Frost	Rhode Island	Jr
9. Evan Niedrowski	Monmouth	So
10. Callan Saldutto’	Louisiana-Monroe	So

DECATHLON
1. Kyle Garland	Georgia	Jr
2. Leo Neugebauer’	Texas	Jr
3. Heath Baldwin	Michigan State	Jr
4. Till Steinforth’	Nebraska	So
5. Austin West	Iowa	Jr
6. Jack Turner’	UT San Antonio	Jr
7. Marcus Weaver	Arkansas	Jr
8. Yariel Soto Torrado’	Arkansas	Jr
9. Peyton Bair	Mississippi State	Fr
10. Ryan Talbot	Michigan State	Jr

COMPLETE TEAM SCORES
1. Arkansas	64
2. Texas Tech	49
3. Georgia	47
4. Tennessee	43
5. Florida	37
6. Nebraska	31
7. LSU	30
8. Stanford	27
=9. Alabama	23
=9. BYU	23
11. Washington	22
12. Texas	18
=13. Florida State	17
=13. Minnesota	17
=15. Arizona	16
=15. Oklahoma	16
17. Baylor	15
=18. Oklahoma State	14
=18. Wisconsin	14
=20. Harvard	13
=20. USC	13
=20. Virginia	13
=23. Clemson	12
=23. Miami	12
=25. Mississippi State	11
=25. Northern Arizona	11
=27. Cal	10
=27. Princeton	10
=29. Arizona State	9
=29. Iowa	9
=29. Louisville	9
=32. Campbell	8
=32. Drake	8
=32. Michigan	8
=32. Montana State	8
=32. Oregon	8
=37. Auburn	6
=37. Georgetown	6
=37. Houston	6
=37. Kentucky	6
=37. Michigan State	6
=37. Mississippi	6
=37. SF Austin	6
=44. Fairleigh Dickinson	5
=44. Iowa State	5
=44. Louisiana-Monroe	5
=44. North Carolina	5
=44. Ohio State	5
=44. Penn State	5
=44. South Alabama	5
=44. UCLA	5
=52. NC State	4
=52. South Florida	4
=54. Kennesaw State	3
=54. Kansas	3
=54. Missouri	3
=54. Northwestern Louisiana	3
=54. South Carolina	3
=54. Texas A&M	3
=54. UT San Antonio	3
=61. Akron	2
=61. Howard	2
=61. Southeast Missouri	2
=61. Tulsa	2
=65. Air Force	1
=65. Davidson	1
=65. New Mexico	1
=65. Rhode Island	1
=65. Rice	1