Florida Still Has Large Margin

The first two weekends of April were chock-full of exciting performances, but interestingly enough, they had almost zero effect on the NCAA Men’s Championships projections.

Only one predicted individual champion was deposed, as Harrison Williams of Stanford dropped behind Kentucky’s Tim Duckworth.

Overall, the same 10 schools populate the top 10, with just 2 minor changes in the ordering.

Mike Holloway’s Gators had a 16-point lead over Houston and Texas A&M in chart #1, now the margin is 17 over Houston.

**Grant Holloway’s stellar name appears up and down the chart.**

For favored Florida, much still rests on the feet of super-soph Grant Holloway (no relation). He’ll be one busy performer en route to a predicted double-win performance in the 110H (where he’s the defending national champ) and long jump, with probable duty on both relays as well. His status as the hurdle fave was only enhanced when he ran 13.16 at the Jones Memorial to move to =No. 2 on the all-time collegiate list.

Florida is deep enough that Holloway can likely be excused from baton duty in the Wednesday prelims and will only have to run a flight of hurdles and tackle the LJ.

Things will get dicier for the 20-year-old Virginia native on Friday where his potential 3-event schedule could follow this timetable: 5:32—4×1 final; 6:12—110H final; 7:51—4×4 final.

Make no mistake, the Gators are deep, being tabbed to score 10 times in 8 events: 110H, 400H, 4×1, 4×4, HJ, LJ–2, TJ–2, HT–2. If things go according to form, they’ll have the meet clinched before the 4×4 rolls around as the climax.

The 10-deep predictions for each event:

TOP 10 TEAMS
Team	Points	Previous Chart
1. Florida	68	1
2. Houston	51	=2
3. Texas A&M	49	=2
4. USC	38	4
5. Alabama	37	5
6. Georgia	35	6
7. Texas Tech	31	7
8. LSU	24	9
9. Stanford	22	8
10. Arkansas	21	10
(complete team scores below)

100 METERS
1. Cameron Burrell	Houston	Sr
2. Elijah Hall	Houston	Sr
3. Jaylen Bacon	Arkansas State	Sr
4. Divine Oduduru’	Texas Tech	So
5. Kendal Williams	Georgia	Jr
6. Kenzo Cotton	Arkansas	Sr
7. Andre Ewers	Florida State	Jr
8. Keitavious Walter	Alabama	Jr
9. Cejhae Greene’	Georgia	Sr
10. Hakim Sani Brown’	Florida	Fr

200 METERS
1. Elijah Hall	Houston	Sr
2. Divine Oduduru’	Texas Tech	So
3. Ncincilili Titi’	South Carolina	Sr
4. Jaron Flournoy	LSU	Jr
5. Jaylen Bacon	Arkansas State	Sr
6. Mustaqeem Williams	Tennessee	Jr
7. Kenzo Cotton	Arkansas	Sr
8. Andre Ewers	Florida State	Jr
9. Terrance Laird	Penn State	Fr
10. Devin Quinn	Illinois	Jr

400 METERS
1. Michael Norman	USC	So
2. Nathon Allen’	Auburn	So
3. Wil London	Baylor	Jr
4. Akeem Bloomfield’	Auburn	So
5. Mylik Kerley	Texas A&M	Sr
6. Kahmari Montgomery	Houston	Jr
7. Derrick Mokaleng’	TCU	So
8. Zach Shinnick	USC	Fr
9. Nathan Strother	Tennessee	Sr
10. Mar’yea Harris	Iowa	Jr

800 METERS
1. Michael Saruni’	UTEP	So
2. Isaiah Harris	Penn State	Jr
3. Joseph White	Georgetown	Sr
4. Robert Heppenstall’	Wake Forest	Jr
5. Devin Dixon	Texas A&M	So
6. Clay Lambourne	Utah State	Sr
7. Abraham Alvarado	BYU	Sr
8. Vincent Crisp	Texas Tech	Jr
9. Charles Jones	Texas Tech	Sr
10. Waleed Suliman	Mississippi	Fr

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. Sean Tobin’	Mississippi	Sr
6. Jeff Thies	Portland	Sr
7. Mick Stanovsek	Oregon	So
8. Justine Kiprotich’	Michigan State	Jr
9. Ben Saarel	Colorado	Sr
10. Reed Brown	Oregon	Fr

STEEPLE
1. Brian Barraza	Houston	Sr
2. Scott Carpenter	Georgetown	Sr
3. Bryce Miller	UMKC	Sr
4. Emmanuel Rotich’	Tulane	Jr
5. Yusuki Uchikoshi’	Boise	Sr
6. Jamaine Coleman’	Eastern Kentucky	Sr
7. Troy Reeder	Furman	Sr
8. Matt Owens	BYU	Fr
9. Simon Grannetia’	Portland	Jr
10. Aidan Tooker	Syracuse	So

5000 METERS
1. Grant Fisher	Stanford	Jr
2. Justyn Knight’	Syracuse	Sr
3. Morgan McDonald’	Wisconsin	Jr
4. Andy Trouard	Northern Arizona	Sr
5. Sean McGorty	Stanford	Sr
6. Vincent Kiprop’	Alabama	Jr
7. Jack Bruce’	Arkansas	Sr
8. Zach Long	Tennessee	Jr
9. Cameron Griffith’	Arkansas	So
10. Cole Rockhold	Colorado State	Jr

10,000 METERS
1. Vincent Kiprop’	Alabama	Jr
2. Matt Baxter’	Northern Arizona	Sr
3. Gilbert Kigen’	Alabama	Jr
4. Tyler Day	Northern Arizona	Jr
5. Rory Linkletter	BYU	Jr
6. Clayton Young	BYU	Jr
7. Arsene Guillorel’	Samford	Sr
8. Noah Schutte’	Portland	Jr
9. Lawrence Kipkoech’	Campbell	Jr
10. Alfred Chelanga’	Alabama	Sr

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

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

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

4 x 400
1. USC	USC
2. Florida	Florida
3. Texas A&M	Texas A&M
4. Auburn	Auburn
5. Arkansas	Arkansas
6. LSU	LSU
7. Iowa	Iowa
8. Baylor	Baylor
9. TCU	TCU
10. Clemson	Clemson

HIGH JUMP
1. Trey Culver	Texas Tech	Sr
2. Vernon Turner	Oklahoma	Fr
3. Shelby Mcewen	Alabama	Jr
4. Christoff Bryan’	Kansas State	Sr
5. Keenon Laine	Georgia	Jr
6. Tejaswin Shankar’	Kansas State	Fr
7. Clayton Brown’	Florida	So
8. Darius Carbin	Georgia	So
9. Matthew Campbell	Albany	Sr
10. Samuel Shoultz	Maryland	Jr

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

LONG JUMP
1. Grant Holloway	Florida	So
2. Will Williams	Texas A&M	Sr
3. KeAndre Bates	Florida	Sr
4. Damarcus Simpson	Oregon	Sr
5. Charles Brown	Texas Tech	Jr
6. Zack Bazile	Ohio State	Sr
7. Ja’Mari Ward	Missouri	So
8. Tahar Triki’	Texas A&M	So
9. Steffin McCarter	Texas	Jr
10. Terrell McClain	Akron	Sr

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

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

DISCUS
1. Nicholas Percy’	Nebraska	Sr
2. Brian Williams	Mississippi	Sr
3. Marek Bárta’	Virginia Tech	Sr
4. Reno Tuufuli	Iowa	Jr
5. David Lucas	Penn State	Jr
6. Kord Ferguson	Alabama	Jr
7. Greg Thompson’	Maryland	Jr
8. Ryan Camp	TCU	So
9. Ashmon Lucas	Purdue	So
10. Payton Otterdahl	North Dakota State	Jr

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

JAVELIN
1. Ioánnis Kyriazís’	Texas A&M	Sr
2. Anderson Peters’	Mississippi State	Fr
3. Sindri Gudmundsson’	Utah State	So
4. Nicolas Quijera’	Mississippi State	Sr
5. Chris Mirabelli	Rutgers	Sr
6. Curtis Thompson	Mississippi State	Sr
7. Sam Hardin	Texas A&M	Sr
8. Fabian Dohmann’	Texas	Sr
9. Matija Muhar’	Virginia Tech	So
10. Michael Biddle	Penn State	So

DECATHLON
1. Tim Duckworth’	Kentucky	Sr
2. Harrison Williams	Stanford	Sr
3. Hunter Veith	Wichita State	Sr
4. Karl Saluri’	Georgia	Sr
5. Scott Filip	Rice	Sr
6. Johannes Erm’	Georgia	Fr
7. Cody Walton	Nebraska	Sr
8. Tyler Adams	Sam Houston St	Sr
9. TJ Lawson	Kent State	So
10. Tim Ehrhardt	Michigan State	Sr

COMPLETE TEAM SCORES
1. Florida	68
2. Houston	51
3. Texas A&M	49
4. USC	38
5. Alabama	37
6. Georgia	35
7. Texas Tech	31
8. LSU	24
9. Stanford	22
10. Arkansas	21
11. Mississippi	20
=12. Auburn	18
=12. Northern Arizona	18
14. Nebraska	17
15. Mississippi State	16
16. Virginia Tech	15
17. Georgetown	14
18. Oregon	13
=19. Kansas	12
=19. Penn State	12
=19. Rutgers	12
=19. South Carolina	12
=23. Arkansas State	10
=23. BYU	10
=23. Colorado State	10
=23. Kentucky	10
=23. New Mexico	10
=23. South Dakota	10
=23. UTEP	10
=30. Florida State	9
=30. Illinois	9
=30. Ohio State	9
=30. Texas	9
=30. Utah State	9
=35. Kansas State	8
=35. Oklahoma	8
=35. Southeastern Louisiana	8
=35. Syracuse	8
=35. TCU	8
=40. Baylor	7
=40. Iowa	7
=42. Akron	6
=42. Cal	6
=42. North Carolina	6
=42. UMKC	6
=42. Wisconsin	6
=42. Wichita State	6
=48. Tulane	5
=48. Wake Forest	5
=50. Arizona	4
=50. Boise	4
=50. North Carolina A&T	4
=50. Portland	4
=50. Rice	4
=50. Tennessee	4
=56. Eastern Kentucky	3
=56. Samford	3
=56. Virginia	3
=59. Cincinnati	2
=59. Furman	2
=59. Maryland	2
=59. Michigan	2
=59. Missouri	2
=59. North Dakota State	2
=59. Sn Mississippi	2
=66. Michigan State	1
=66. Sam Houston St	1