Another Title For Texas A&M
by Jesse Squire
February 16, 2016
Pat Henry’s Aggies, who also won back in ’13, held on to win the indoor version of the Men’s Collegiate Dual Meet Rankings. The College Station crew won two quadrangulars, an early-season December tilt against Houston, TCU, and Abilene Christian, and a January matchup with Oklahoma, Texas Tech, and Arizona State.
However, this is just a warmup for the big prize, the season-long indoor/outdoor championship. The Aggies will go to historic Drake Stadium in April for a head-to-head against UCLA.
The complete final men’s indoor rankings:
| Rank | Team | Last Week | |
| 1 | Texas A&M (6-0) | 1 | |
| 2 | Indiana (2-0) | 2 | |
| 3 | Nebraska (3-0) | 3 | |
| 4 | Akron (1-0) | 5 | |
| 5 | Minnesota (1-0) | 4 | |
| 6 | LSU (3-0) | 6 | |
| 7 | Wisconsin (1-1) | 18 | |
| 8 | Air Force (3-0) | NR | |
| 9 | Princeton (3-0) | 7 | |
| 10 | Oklahoma (2-1) | NR | |
| 11 | Kansas (4-0) | 8 | |
| 12 | Wichita State (4-3) | 9 | |
| 13 | Iowa State (3-0) | 10 | |
| 14 | Iowa (4-1) | 11 | |
| 15 | Purdue (0-1) | 12 | |
| 16 | Navy (1-1) | 13 | |
| 17 | Kansas State (2-2) | 14 | |
| 18 | Eastern Michigan (2-0) | 16 | |
| 19 | Illinois (1-1) | 19 | |
| 20 | Kent State (0-1) | 15 | |
| Dropped out: Arizona State, Indiana State | |||
To be ranked, a team must compete in one or more dual meets (defined as a scored meet between four or fewer teams) during the indoor season. Teams are ranked on wins and losses, marks, and strength and depth of dual meet schedule. Teams are rewarded for taking dual meet competition seriously.
Stat Corner
Three indoor dual/tri/quad meet records were set this year, and two of them involved A&M. TCU’s Ronnie Baker broke the 60-meter record @ College Station in December, the Aggies’ Hector Hernandez broke the 800 meter record in January, and Princeton broke the 4×8 record on Staten Island’s new track in their traditional tri against Harvard and Yale.
| Indoor Dual-Meet Men’s Records | |||||
| 60 | 6.61 | Ronnie Baker (TCU) | Houston, TCU & ACU @ Texas A&M | 2015 | |
| 200 | 20.79 | Aaron Ernest (LSU) | Arkansas & LSU @ Texas A&M | 2013 | |
| 400 | 45.74 | Deon Lendore (Texas A&M) | LSU & Texas Tech @ Texas A&M | 2014 | |
| 800 | 1:48.35 | Hector Hernandez (Texas A&M) | Oklahoma, Texas Tech & Arizona State @ Tx A&M | 2016 | |
| Mile | 3:55.4 | Niall O’Shaugnessy (Arkansas) | Arkanss, Memphis & Drake @ Missouri | 1977 | |
| 3000 | 8:00.7* | Craig Virgin (Illinois) | Tennessee & Illinois @ Indiana | 1976 | |
| 5000 | 14:19.54 | Joe Savageau (Texas A&M) | Texas @ Texas A&M | 2010 | |
| 60 Hurdles | 7.74 | Andrew Riley (Illinois) | Illinois, Georgia & Akron @ Nebraska | 2012 | |
| 4 x 400 | 3:05.43 | Texas A&M | LSU & Texas Tech @ Texas A&M | 2014 | |
| 4 x 800 | 7:34.97 | Princeton | Harvard-Yale-Princeton @ Staten Island | 2016 | |
| Distance Medley | 9:41.96 | Michigan | Michigan, Indiana & Illinois @ Penn State | 2002 | |
| High Jump | 2.29 | Erik Kynard (Kansas State) | UMKC, Oklahoma State & Tulsa @ Kansas State | 2013 | |
| Pole Vault | 5.67 | Jeff Buckingham (Kansas) | Kansas @ Nebraska | 1983 | |
| Long Jump | 7.98 | Tarik Batchelor (Arkansas) | Texas @ Arkansas | 2011 | |
| Triple Jump | 16.34 | Donald Scott (Eastern Mich) | Michigan , Detroit & Oakland @ Eastern Michigan | 2015 | |
| Shot Put | 21.38 | Kevin Akins (Ohio State) | Quadrangular @ Ohio State | 1982 | |
| Weight | 24.47 | Michael Lihrman (Wisconsin) | Minnesota @ Wisconsin | 2015 | |
| * = 2 mile time ÷ 1.08 | |||||
| Send additions, corrections or deletions to tracksuperfan @ yahoo dot com. | |||||
February 16, 2016