Okay, here we go. As usual, I'm just following the current TFRRS listing, but minus anyone who doesn't have a mark in 2015. I'm leaving off fractions and I don't try to decide whether doubles/triples/etc. are "do-able" or not--I just follow the list! For the MEN:
Individual track: Harvard 76, Princeton 51, Brown 39, Columbia 36, Penn 34, Dartmouth 28, Cornell 25, Yale 20
Field: Cornell 80, Princeton 64, Penn 20, Brown 11, Harvard 8, Dartmouth 1, Columbia and Yale 0
Relays: Penn and Princeton 18, Columbia and Cornell 14, Brown 10, Dartmouth 7, Yale 3, Harvard 2
Heptathlon: Brown and Cornell 10, Dartmouth 6, Penn 4, Princeton 1
Totals minus relays and hept: Princeton 115, Cornell 105, Harvard 84, Penn 54, Brown 50, Columbia 36, Dartmouth 29, Yale 20
Totals including relays and hept: Princeton 134, Cornell 129, Harvard 86, Penn 76, Brown 70, Columbia 50, Dartmouth 42, Yale 23
Thoughts:
*My new "to stay alive, have a mark in one-five" rule eliminates Cornell's Max Hairston, who had a brilliant meet in December but has been absent since. As a result Cornell loses ten points in the hurdles and others gain them (primarily Princeton, which picks up four).
*Though the field events once again turn this into a virtual Cornell-Princeton dual meet, Harvard's third-place points are notable--particularly because they include only two points in the relays (just the 4x4). With its projected scoring performers in the individual middle-distance events, H certainly stands to pick up substantial points in the 4x8 and DMR; could the Cantabs, at their home facility, break 100 points?
*Brown and especially Penn are making inroads in the field and project to be solidly competitive overall. Nice progress by the Bruins, who are having a good year, and Quakers.
I'll try to get the women done before this weekend. Amazing to think that it will probably be the last "big" weekend before Heps--where did the season go?