Official 2015 NCAA Indoor Day 1 Thread - Plus Notes from Yesterday's Press Conference

Break your arm patting yourself on the back; Flotrack nailed it too.

Oregon just DESTROYED Colorado... kind of surprising it wasn't closer in XC

I'd estimate scott's gone out in about 218 for 800. So maybe 67-71.

How did Cranny not end up at Colorado?

Move over quigley.

My gosh. Scott is HOT!! And a South African accent. Why don't people talk about her as being the hottest NCAA distance runner.

I hate the DMR. this is is why. A guy run like a beast Kemboi on teh 1200 and it doesn next to nothing for them. I wish the NCAA would go to the 4 x 800.

How slow did that white boy run for Iowa State for 400.

How bad were those 1200 legs? Only a couple of teams broke 3:00. Practically everyone panicked, moved up and back and choked it. Wasted way too much energy.

Cheserek gets it 2.5 seconds down. He's go tthis baby. Unless the gtown and iowa state guy work together I don't see how ches doesn't easily catch them. The key is not to do it too quickly which ches seems to be doing.

Cheserek made tha tup way quicker than I would have wanted. 27.5 but it doens't matter. Game over.

Congrats Oregon. You'v got this. No way anyone else wins.

What the hell happened to Nova?

rojo wrote:

I hate the DMR. this is is why. A guy run like a beast Kemboi on teh 1200 and it doesn next to nothing for them. I wish the NCAA would go to the 4 x 800.

How slow did that white boy run for Iowa State for 400.

How bad were those 1200 legs? Only a couple of teams broke 3:00. Practically everyone panicked, moved up and back and choked it. Wasted way too much energy.

Cheserek gets it 2.5 seconds down. He's go tthis baby. Unless the gtown and iowa state guy work together I don't see how ches doesn't easily catch them. The key is not to do it too quickly which ches seems to be doing.

Cheserek made tha tup way quicker than I would have wanted. 27.5 but it doens't matter. Game over.

Congrats Oregon. You'v got this. No way anyone else wins.

What the hell happened to Nova?

I'd rather they kept the DMR and added a 4x800, more 400 and miler types jumping in the competition.

Gtown kid has a nice looking stride. How amazing would it be if he somehow beat cheserek?

Wow Cheserek looks good. I was out to eat with my wife and didn't watch the mile prelims but can i take back my mile prediction of Seratos? Might as well just hand Ches the mile now. Right? How can Seratos beat that?

-Rojo

PS. that being said.

"6 ncca titles for the sophomore" said Dwight Stones

He should have added "21-year old sophomore". Cheserek is admittedly a year older than is normal for his grade. February 1994 birthday.

Cheserek continues to be a pleasure to watch....I didn't like in HS...boy was I wrong. I wish I would have went to the meet just to meet him!

cheserek won't be fresh for the mile/3k tomorrow but there is nothing wrong with him now, if there was at Millrose, given how he just destroyed that field on the first turn of the bell lap. very impressive and that after he caught up very fast on the first lap and tucked in and drafted.

Women's DMR result. A great 4:28 split for Scott to get the win. Cranny ran 4:31.50 which is nice as well.

Place Name Affiliation Time L1 L2 L3 L4

1 Arkansas Arkansas 10:51.89 3:22.87 [3:22.87] 4:15.71 [52.84] 6:23.00 [2:07.29] 10:51.89 [4:28.90]

2 Stanford Stanford 10:53.66 3:23.69 [3:23.69] 4:17.30 [53.62] 6:22.17 [2:04.87] 10:53.66 [4:31.50]

3 Michigan Michigan 10:58.64 3:23.78 [3:23.78] 4:18.72 [54.95] 6:23.43 [2:04.72] 10:58.64 [4:35.21]

4 Baylor Baylor 11:04.21 3:24.60 [3:24.60] 4:17.62 [53.02] 6:23.05 [2:05.44] 11:04.21 [4:41.17]

5 Washington Washington 11:08.50 3:25.45 [3:25.45] 4:20.98 [55.53] 6:29.56 [2:08.58] 11:08.50 [4:38.94]

6 North Carolina St. North Carolina St. 11:10.41 3:28.21 [3:28.21] 4:23.88 [55.68] 6:32.50 [2:08.62] 11:10.41 [4:37.92]

7 Georgetown Georgetown 11:11.50 3:24.34 [3:24.34] 4:20.51 [56.17] 6:27.55 [2:07.05] 11:11.50 [4:43.95]

8 Villanova Villanova 11:11.56 3:21.86 [3:21.86] 4:24.81 [1:02.96] 6:32.54 [2:07.73] 11:11.56 [4:39.02]

9 Notre Dame Notre Dame 11:15.96 3:27.23 [3:27.23] 4:21.08 [53.85] 6:37.15 [2:16.08] 11:15.96 [4:38.82]

10 Michigan State Michigan State 11:17.26 3:27.76 [3:27.76] 4:22.66 [54.91] 6:33.72 [2:11.06] 11:17.26 [4:43.54]

11 New Mexico New Mexico 11:17.98 3:24.37 [3:24.37] 4:19.69 [55.32] 6:28.32 [2:08.64] 11:17.98 [4:49.66]

12 Florida State Florida State 11:31.24 3:30.67 [3:30.67] 4:25.71 [55.04] 6:36.81 [2:11.10] 11:31.24 [4:54.44]

Jordy Williamsz with a 3:55 1600 anchor for Nova! Shame to not see his name in the mile/3000 tomorrow.

Anyone know why the Women's DMR is under protest?

http://www.ncaa.com/sites/default/files/external/track-field/results/d1/indoor15/026-1-01.htm

rojo wrote:

What the hell happened to Nova?

They got back into it on the anchor that's for sure. What a nasty split.

3:55.46!!!! I'm assuming that was Jordan Williamsz.

Men's DMR Results

Place Name Affiliation Time L1 L2 L3 L4

1 Oregon Oregon 9:30.53 2:59.05 [2:59.05] 3:45.87 [46.82] 5:32.85 [1:46.99] 9:30.53 [3:57.68]

2 Penn State Penn State 9:32.21 2:58.18 [2:58.18] 3:45.04 [46.86] 5:32.65 [1:47.61] 9:32.21 [3:59.57]

3 Iowa State Iowa State 9:32.48 2:55.38 [2:55.38] 3:43.67 [48.29] 5:30.18 [1:46.52] 9:32.48 [4:02.31]

4 Georgetown Georgetown 9:32.51 2:56.90 [2:56.90] 3:43.62 [46.72] 5:30.55 [1:46.94] 9:32.51 [4:01.97]

5 Villanova Villanova 9:32.96 2:58.88 [2:58.88] 3:47.23 [48.36] 5:37.51 [1:50.28] 9:32.96 [3:55.46]

6 Virginia Virginia 9:33.24 2:59.01 [2:59.01] 3:45.36 [46.36] 5:33.82 [1:48.47] 9:33.24 [3:59.42]

7 Duke Duke 9:39.32 3:00.83 [3:00.83] 3:48.61 [47.78] 5:39.13 [1:50.53] 9:39.32 [4:00.19]

8 Arkansas Arkansas 9:40.83 3:01.01 [3:01.01] 3:48.00 [46.99] 5:37.42 [1:49.43] 9:40.83 [4:03.41]

9 Oklahoma State Oklahoma State 9:47.78 3:00.08 [3:00.08] 3:47.45 [47.37] 5:39.49 [1:52.04] 9:47.78 [4:08.30]

10 Stanford Stanford 9:50.50 3:10.98 [3:10.98] 3:58.34 [47.37] 5:48.55 [1:50.22] 9:50.50 [4:01.95]

11 Virginia Tech Virginia Tech 9:53.98 3:07.82 [3:07.82] 3:56.73 [48.91] 5:48.03 [1:51.31] 9:53.98 [4:05.95]

DNF Alabama Alabama -

there's a protest in the women's DMR according to the results.. anything big?

rojo wrote:

Wow Cheserek looks good. I was out to eat with my wife and didn't watch the mile prelims but can i take back my mile prediction of Seratos? Might as well just hand Ches the mile now. Right? How can Seratos beat that?

-Rojo

PS. that being said.

"6 ncca titles for the sophomore" said Dwight Stones

He should have added "21-year old sophomore". Cheserek is admittedly a year older than is normal for his grade. February 1994 birthday.

I'm lucky, The King is right at my age limit for NCAA athletes. If he was 22 I couldn't be a raving fan cos, as I've said a zillion times, I can deal with athletes graduating at 23...however 23 year old freshmen/women, ain't fair.

I'm guessing it has to do with Nova dropping the baton. Didn't get a good look from the espn3 coverage whether the contact was incidental or warranting a dq.. they didn't replay it 5x like the VT guy falling

Well, according to my sources in the Eugene running scene, Ches graduated from high school in Kenya and then re-did high school in NJ. So, he's more like 23. Personally, I don't care. The guy is a pleasure to watch. No way Soratos beats him tomorrow. He'll take the 3k as well - even if they take it out hard they won't be able to run the kick out of him.