Oops said: You're all acting like children. Congrats to Wheating for winniing. He ran well. Maybe Bobby could have ran faster but they both ran their races. They always come fomr behind and they finshed 1 & 2. They balled out and they are probably two of the best atheltes in the NCAA this year. Congrats to them both. They both ran AMAZING
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Ditto. Great race. My take is that Andrews paid a big price for his youth and his inexperience. Even though he chose to run only one event, he just doesn't have the race experience and strength that Andy Wheating has. I think that Andrews did remarkably well holding up through his conference meet and then having to race in the ridiculous Regional mess. He probably made a fairly big mistake by running his semi at the time he chose to. He did not have to WIN that race, he could have finished in second, saving some marginal strength for the final. When he actually got to the final, he found himself up against one of the great collegiate middle distance guys in the last 20 years, and he did pretty damn well, beating the rest of the field. No shame in that. People forget that when Andews beat Wheating the two times before, it wasn't on a really level playing field (Wheating was just starting his season the first race, and the second was relay event). This time, the playing field was as level as its going to get (Wheating had to race 1500 the day before, while Andrews rested, but Andrews had to run in a faster 800 heat). Andrews will get stronger and he will hopefully learn more race tactics.