The Razorbacks Win For The First Time
compiled by Jesse Squire
May 1, 2013
Chris Bucknam’s Arkansas squad bounced back from a January defeat to win the collegiate men’s dual meet championship. Amazingly for a program that has won so many NCAA titles both indoors and out, this is the Hogs’ first-ever dual title.
The deciding factor was the Arkansas defeat of Oregon on April 20. Two weeks earlier the Ducks had beaten Texas A&M, the team that knocked off Arkansas indoors. Arkansas’s other victories came over LSU and Texas.
The full national rankings (with season record in parentheses, plus last week’s standing):
| The complete national rankings: | |||
| Rank | Team | Record | Last week’s rank |
| 1. | Arkansas | (3-1) | 1 |
| 2. | Oregon | (3-1) | 2 |
| 3. | Texas A&M | (4-1) | 3 |
| 4. | UCLA | (3-0) | 4 |
| 5. | Arizona State | (2-0) | 5 |
| 6. | Texas | (0-1) | 6 |
| 7. | LSU | (1-3) | 8 |
| 8. | Nebraska | (2-0) | 9 |
| 9. | Washington | (1-3) | 11 |
| 10. | Cal | (3-0) | 7 |
| 11. | Washington St. | (3-3) | 10 |
| 12. | USC | (0-1) | 12 |
| 13. | Cornell | (2-0) | 14 |
| 14. | Michigan | (2-1) | 13 |
| 15. | Stanford | (0-1) | 18 |
| 16. | Alabama | (1-1) | 16 |
| 17. | Kansas State | (3-0) | 15 |
| 18. | Arizona | (1-1) | not ranked |
| 19. | North Carolina | (0-2) | 19 |
| 20. | Indiana | (1-0) | 20 |
| 21. | UConn | (3-0) | 17 |
| 22. | Purdue | (1-1) | 22 |
| 23. | Indiana State | (3-1) | 24 |
| 24. | Ole Miss | (1-0) | 21 |
| 25. | Michigan State | (3-1) | 25 |
To be eligible for listing, a team must compete in at least one dual meet (using the T&FN definition of a dual, which is a scored meet of 4 or fewer teams). Rankings are compiled for a combined indoor and outdoor season, with outdoor competition given more weight. Teams are also rewarded for an extensive and/or challenging dual-meet schedule.
Compiled by Jesse Squire (tracksuperfan.com), the dual meet rankings are a revival of stats compiled from 1970 through 1993. A complete archive of past rankings is available at his website.