Big 10 men's meet comes down to the 4 x 400 - Oregon runs 3:25 but wins as USC is controversially DQd

Oregon had Kidali run the 800 and 600 w/ just 50 minutes rest. 2nd in both. Might run the 4x4 too.

Impressive considering he had prelims for both yesterday.

But probably terrible for his long term development. He has a 1:42.66 PR. This stupid quadruple in Feb/March obviously isn't going to help him in June/July/August.

Doubt their 3:25 will hold up.

USC won with a 2nd place in the 4x4

How in the world do you get to run for Oregon and run a 52/53 split.

Who are these guys?

USC DQd 👀👀 Oregon Wins!

Saw the results, what happened? Penn State also DQed

I was interested by the dq in the 400m. Jake Palermo of Penn State is a true freshman and he was dq'd, so I looked him up and he has run 45.65 indoors this year. His high school pr was 47.51, just barely ahead of what Lutkenhaus ran as a freshman. Now he has a shot at sub-45 outdoors. That is an impressive drop.

Found a vid of the USC DQ, watching it now.

Man I really don't think anything here warrants a DQ, wonder what the reasoning was, there's contact but cmon that's to be expected.

Again another DQ I really don't think is warranted.

I agree that the DQs were BS. But at least the 400 DQ and 4x400 DQ cancelled themselves out in terms of the team competition. USC got +4 via the 400 DQ and -8 via the 4x400 DQ, so they were screwed out of 4 points by the officials. Oregon won by 7.5, so the DQs didn't determine the team champion thank God.

Was pretty wild seeing a 53.8 split live. As well as one school scratching from the heat and one school dnf’ing within the first 100 meters. And Oregon without definitive 400 runners producing a mediocre high school time.

Then winning off of a DQ. The scenes.

Totally unbiased opinion, USC got screwed. There was no infraction in their 4x4.

Here the Penn State guy definitely impedes USC. You can't cut in when you don't have space.

Same amount of interference that was called on Palermo in the 400m. I agree that neither should have been called ... then Oregon would have won but by 4 less.

No, Palermo shoved his way in front of the USC guy. That's a DQ at every level - youth, middle school, high school, olympics.

The USC runner didn't fall but had to slow down significantly to maintain balance. Palermo gained a position and a massive advantage.

I think they both cut in before being allowed on the opening leg first corner.

No they did not cut in to early. I was looking at a line.

It was a tough call. He fell down and had contact. Im not sure if he could have avoided it. Certainly it was not intentional. Also the race was not in lanes at that point.

Later in the race USC got passed on the inside and there was some contact. That was more on the guy passing on the inside though.