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NCAA Men's Formchart - 4/16/2026Published by
NCAA Men's D1 Outdoor Formchart By Jack Pfeifer for DyeStat/Ken Martinez Photo Place Name School Class 100 All eight of last year’s scorers were underclassmen, but the 1-2 finishers, Jordan Anthony of Arkansas and Max Thomas of USC, turned pro. Auburn’s Ajayi (9.88 PR) was 4th in that race, then won the indoor 60 this winter and is our pick in a tight race over LSU’s Watkins (10.01), 3rd outdoors and 2nd indoors. That is, if they can both prevail over the veteran Hinchliffe (9.84w), who has returned to Houston after turning pro and then, in a first, engineering a contractual reversal of eligibility. He was NCAA champion in the 100 in 2024 for the Cougars, then that summer made the Olympic semis in Paris in the century and won a bronze medal in the 4x1 for his native Great Britain. Iowa’s Walker (9.94) won the Big Ten 60 this winter, then was 3rd at Nationals, ahead of Okon (5th) (9.91w) and Jimenez (6th) (10.11w). We expect the indoor 4th-placer, Malachi Snow (10.00w) of Texas Tech, to focus on the HH. Tennessee has two contenders in T’Mars McCallum (9.83) and Davonte Howell (9.98), both finalists a year ago, and Georgia has two good freshmen in Maurice Gleaton (9.87w) and Brayden Williams (9.82w). 200 7 T’Mars McCallum Tennessee Sr 8 Jaleel Croal South Florida Sr Kaalund (19.85), 3rd a year ago, is the top returnee. He scared the world record in winning indoors. Orogot (19.75) redshirted last year and is gradually rounding back into the form that took him to the semifinals for Uganda in the ’24 Olympics and the ’25 Worlds. McCoy (19.93) missed the 2025 outdoor season with an injury; he ran the 100 and 200 for the Bahamas in the Paris Games and was runnerup to Kaalund indoors. Watkins (20.24) was 3rd indoors, Banks (20.37) 4th. McCallum (19.73) ran in last year’s Worlds for the U.S., Nketia (20.24) for Australia, Croal (19.95) for the British Virgin Islands. 400 5 Auhmad Robinson Texas A&M Sr 8 Josiah Wrice South Carolina So Ogazi (44.41) is defending champion and also has stellar international credentials, including making the Olympic final in Paris in 2024. Simms was the early star of the indoor season, breaking the world Junior record (44.62), though he slipped to 4th at Indoor Nationals behind Braun (44.67) of Florida and Pierre (45.06) of Arkansas. Pierre was 3rd outdoors a year ago for nearby Arkansas/Pine Bluff. Robinson (44.61), Jones (44.76), Davis (44.84) and Wrice (44.96) all have sub-45 credentials. Jones was outdoor runnerup a year ago. 800 4 Rivaldo Marshall Arkansas Sr The success of Taylor (1:43.74) and Marshall (1:45.59) is key to Arkansas’s team title hopes, just as it was indoors when the pair went 1-2. Penn State, which went 1-2-3 at the Big Ten indoor, also has multiple contenders in Roban (1:42.87), Clay (1:45.17), Yukichi Ishii (1:46.22) and Niko Schultz (1:46.53). The Arizona newcomer Ngetich, age 17, won the recent Dual in the Desert by a large margin in 1:46.50. Socarras (1:46.28) and Narumbe (1:46.13) both made the indoor final as freshmen. Other contenders include Christian Jackson (1:44.89) of Virginia Tech, Tinoda Matsatsa (1:45.04) of Georgetown, Brian Kweyei Kiptum (1:45.09) of Clemson and Samuel Rodman (1:46.27) of Virginia. Rodman was 4th a year ago for Princeton, Marshall 3rd, McCarthy (1:45.19) 5th, Jackson 7th, Taylor 8th. 1,500 1 Colin Sahlman Northern Arizona Sr 3 George Couttie Virginia Tech So Sahlman (3:33.96 PR) is wrapping up a distinguished college career, but he’s never won an outdoor title. This winter he did however hit the finish line first twice, winning the 3,000 and anchoring the winning DMR at Indoor Nationals. He also broke the indoor collegiate record in the 800 (1:44.70). The UVa’s Martin (3:32.03), one of the fastest milers in American history (3:48.82), will also be concluding his college career looking for an inaugural individual title. He did anchor the winning indoor DMR, in 2025, and was 4th in the indoor mile, losing to the surprising Cutting (3:37.03) of BYU, who was just ahead of Couttie (3:36.40) and McFarland (3:35.80). McFarland and fellow Wolverine Herger (3:36.03) currently stand 1-2 on the seasonal outdoor college list. The last Michigan victory in the event was in 1995 by Kevin Sullivan, the school’s current coach. Washington, on the other hand, has won the last four – two by Joe Waskom, two by Nathan Green. The Huskies have several contenders this season, led by Reuben Reina (3:36.48) and Thomas Diamond (3:52.49y). Reina’s namesake, Reuben Sr., won the indoor mile twice in the early 1990s, for Arkansas. The host Ducks also have several contenders, in Elliott Cook (3:37.25), the 2024 runnerup, and Tomas Palfrey (3:38.06). Their leading miler, Simeon Birnbaum (3:37.02), is expected to contest the 5,000. Steeplechase 1 Geoffrey Kirwa Louisville So 7 Rob McManus Montana State Sr James Corrigan (8:13.87), the defending champion, has not run a race since last fall’s cross country season. With his status unknown, the favorite’s role falls to Kirwa (8:13.89), last year’s runnerup and one of four Kenyan freshmen to place in the top six a year ago, followed by Ruto (8:20.47), Kipngok (8:22.67) and Kosgei (8:22.13). Virginia’s Mountain (8:14.43), a redshirt in 2025, was runnerup in ’24. 5,000 1 Brian Musau Oklahoma State Jr 6 Ernest Cheruiyot Arkansas Jr 7 Elsingi Kipruto Louisville Fr Musau (12:59.82 PR) is defending champion, taking the measure of Langon (13:05.21), who was 3rd; Samuel (13:04.92), 2nd, and Hansen (13:07.77), 5th. Cheruiyot (13:17.48) and Kipruto (13:15.74) were 3-4 indoors this winter behind Samuel and Langon. Langon beat Samuel by thousandths in a race in Boston in December. Samuel broke Henry Rono’s historic collegiate record for two miles at this year’s Millrose Games. There is a host of other challengers including a pair from Arkansas, Nick Busienei (13:21.80) and Ben Shearer (13:21.99), and two from Iowa State, Rodgers Kiplimo (13:18.35) and Robin Kwemoi Bera (13:18.72). 10,000 2 Denis Kipngetich Oklahoma State Jr 3 Ernest Cheruiyot Arkansas Jr 4 Evans Kurui Washington State So 5 Rodgers Kiplimo Iowa State Jr Kipkurui (26:50.21) and Samuel (26:51.06), New Mexico teammates, finished 1-2 at The Ten and both went under the collegiate record. Kipkurui is a freshman from Kenya, Samuel – the defending champion – a sophomore from Eritrea. Kipngetich (27:20.10) was 3rd last year. A number of other collegians have broken 28:00 this year, including Kipruto (27:50.45), Kurui (27:37.32), Young (27:48.93), Schubert (27:45.63) and Bosley (27:53.48). Kurui runs for Washington State, whose alumni include two former world record holders in the 10,000, Samson Kimobwa and the legendary Henry Rono. 110 Hurdles 5 Ja’Qualon Scott Texas A&M Sr Tharp (13.01) broke the collegiate record in winning the indoor 60 hurdles over the sophomore Franklin (13.43). He is defending collegiate and U.S. champion. Brown (13.22) ran 13.25 over the high school hurdles last year for Dudley High School, in Greensboro, North Carolina. This spring he has already won the Battle on the Bayou and Spec Towns. Prince (13.12), Smallwood (13.13) and Scott (13.09) were 3-4-5 indoors. Last year’s outdoor runnerup, Zach Extine (13.13), has moved on from Arizona to Florida State. Texas Tech’s Snow (13.30) placed indoors in both the 60 and the hurdles. Arkansas, in trying for the team title, has three solid hurdlers in Jerome Campbell (13.23), Vashaun Vascianna (13.63w) and Abdoul Sysavane (14.10). 400 Hurdles 1 Ja’Qualon Scott Texas A&M Sr 7 Jason Parrish Wichita State Jr Scott (48.29) was runnerup a year ago for the Aggies, followed by Blackwood (48.66) in 3rd and Hinti (48.44) in 5th. They are joined by the newcomer Mbatha (49.06), 4th at World Juniors in 2024 for South Africa. There are a number of other sub-49.50 hurdlers, led here by Adoini (49.16), Matulonis (49.38), Parrish (49.17) and Taylor (49.18). Matulonis placed in the 500, hurdles and 4x4 for Penn at this winter’s indoor Heps. 4x100 1 Auburn 2 Tennessee 3 Florida 4 Houston 5 Texas Tech 6 LSU 7 Minnesota 8 South Florida Auburn has won the last two titles, running 38.33 in 2025 and 38.03 in 2024, and return several members of those units. Coach Leroy Burrell’s Tigers (38.67 seasonal best) won this spring’s Florida Relays over the host Gators (38.67). Coach Carl Lewis’s Houston Cougars ran 38.69 to win Texas Relays, over Cal State Fullerton (39.08) and host Texas (39.10). Others in the 38s so far this spring include Tennessee (38.97), Texas Tech (38.53), LSU (38.80), Minnesota (38.69) and South Florida (38.97). South Florida has won the last two Penn Relays. 4x400 1 Georgia 2 Alabama 3 South Carolina 4 LSU 5 Purdue 6 Texas A&M 7 Florida 8 Princeton Want to be in the conversation to win the NCAA 4x4? Run 3:02 or better. Some years this race is a war of attrition; who will be left standing and healthy? Georgia has taken the outdoor lead by running 3:01.15 to win Spec Towns on its new home track, ahead of Purdue (3:02.15) and two surprising Ivy League rivals, Princeton (3:03.72) and Penn (3:03.74). (The highest finish ever in an NCAA 4x4 was 3rd place outdoors by Cornell 60 years ago, in 1967.) LSU ran 3:01.63 to win its own Battle on the Bayou. Meantime, South Carolina (seasonal best 3:00.86i) won indoors over Alabama (3:01.63), Tennessee (3:02.46i) and Arkansas (3:03.40i). Last year’s outdoor winner was surprising South Florida (3:05.60). High Jump 4 Kyren Washington Oklahoma Jr This is the first American college season for Jack (PR 7-5 3/4i). In England Jack attended St. Albans School, a school founded in the year 948. Jack opened his outdoor campaign by winning Spec Towns at 7-4 ¼ and didn’t miss until 7-7. He tied for 3rd in this winter’s indoor NCAA, a competition won by Alofe (7-4 ½), a junior at Harvard, a school founded merely in 1640. Troupe (7-5 ½), the defending outdoor champ, was not a factor this indoor season. Washington (7-4 ½) was runnerup indoors, while Hayes (7-4 ½) tied for 2nd outdoors. In addition to Jack, Georgia has Brion Stephens (7-3 ¾) and Riyon Rankin (7-6), while Oklahoma has Washington, Ritz (7-4 ½) and Trey Bartholomew (7-3). Another potential contender is Yonathan Kapitolnik (7-7), an Israeli who appears on Illinois’s roster but has not competed for the Illini yet. Pole Vault 1 Aleksandr Solovev Texas A&M Sr 6 Ricardo Montes de Oca High Point So 8 Ismaila Sawaneh Tennessee Jr The current 19-foot club is Solovyov (19-1 ½), defending champion and runnerup indoors; Barkdull (19-0 ¼), indoor champ and 2nd to Solovyov outdoors in 2025; Rhoads (19-1), 3rd indoors and Texas Relays winner this spring; Wicker (19-0), Big Ten champ and 4th indoors, and Meacham (19-0 ¼), the most recent member of the club, 6th indoors. Montes de Oca (18-8 ¼), Gray (18-9 ½) and Sawaneh (18-9 ½) all also placed indoors. At least seven others, too numerous to mention, have cleared 18-6 or higher. One of those, Tyler Burns (18-6 ¾) of Oregon, has already competed in three different conference championship meets – the Pac-12, ACC and Big Ten. Long Jump 2 De’Aundre Ward Southern Miss Sr 3 Kennedy Stringfellow Oklahoma Jr 4 Charles Godfred Minnesota Jr 8 Tafadzwa Chikomba Kansas State Jr Can Foster become the first Ivy League athlete to win an NCAA long jump, going back to 1921? He won this year’s indoor Heps at 27-0 ½ but couldn’t match that at the NCAA Indoor, losing by inches to Lokesh Sathyanathen (26-11 ¼) – who is redshirting outdoors. The outdoor season underway, Stringfellow (27-2 1/2i PR) has taken the early collegiate lead with a legal 26-5 ¾ at the Jacobs Invitational, 3 inches up on Foster’s winning jump at Spec Towns. Southern Miss’s Ward (26-11) was 2nd indoors, but he also has to contend with teammate Tyler Nichols (26-5 1/2w). Texas’s Daniel (26-11 1/4) was indoor champion a year ago. There’s plenty of other 26-foot jumpers around, including Ryan (26-4 ½), Turner (26-1 ¼), Chikomba (26-9), Temoso Masikane (26-7 1/4i) of Florida), Henry Kiner (26-4 ½) of Arkansas, D. J. Fillmore (27-0) of Ohio State and J. C. Stevenson (26-11 ¾) of USC. Triple Jump 1 Jonathan Seremes Texas Tech Jr 3 Selva Prabhu Kansas State So 5 Theo Mudzengerere Kentucky Sr 7 Trevon Hamer Kansas State Jr 8 Aaron Antoine Kansas State Jr OU’s Green (55-7) is defending champion, defeating fellow Sooner Whittaker (53-11 1/4i). Seremes (56-7 ¼), who redshirted the 2025 season, won the indoor title this winter on his final jump, over Prabhu (55-11 ¼), Daniel (54-8 ¾), Antoine (55-0 ¼) and Mudzengerere (54-10i). Shot Put 1 Tarik Robinson-O’Hagan Ole Miss Sr 7 Dillon Morlock Michigan State So Only two throwers return from the 2025 final, 3rd-placer Robinson-O’Hagan (69-6) and fifth-placer Lawrence (67-3 ¼). O’Hagan had won the event in 2024, then won indoors this winter, over Lawrence, Moran (66-11 ¼), the freshman Smith (66-10) and multi-thrower Tanner (66-5 ¼), who is a threat as well in the disc and hammer. Discus 1 Ralford Mullings Oklahoma Sr 7 Christopher Crawford Alabama Sr Mullings (236-3) is the defending champion, having beaten the favored Mykolas Alekna by 8 feet in 2025. Since then Alekna, the world recordholder, has transferred from Cal to Oregon and had season-ending shoulder surgery. Returnees Vlad Puchko of Virginia Tech (209-9) and Michael Pinckney of UCLA (216-2) are redshirting. That leaves the Trojans’ Broderick (207-8) and Air Force’s Tanner. Tanner made a pilgrimage this spring to the DT mecca at Ramona, Oklahoma, pushing his best out 20 feet to 228-2. Alabama, pursuing a possible place on the podium, has Gunzell (209-7), Crawford (198-5) and Christopher Young (201-4). Hammer 1 Tarik Robinson-O’Hagan Ole Miss Sr 4 Angelos Mantzouranis Minnesota Jr 5 Travis Martin Cal Poly/SLO Sr 6 Nikolaos Polychroniou Virginia Sr Robinson-O’Hagan is concluding a remarkable college career. In the hammer, he has placed 6th, 7th and 3rd. Is this his year to win it all? He opened his outdoor season with a big PR throw of 254-8 at home in Oxford, but it’s never a sure thing. He must contend with Johnson, the indoor weight-throw champ who also began the year with a PR (248-6); Tanner (248-9); Polychroniou (246-10), and Minnesota’s Mantzouranis. Mantzouranis was 2nd to teammate Kostas Zaltos in last year’s NCAA, ahead of O’Hagan, and has a better PR (257-6), but this spring he has been 20 feet short of that. Cal Poly’s Martin (242-2) is the newest member of the 240 club, as fellow Mustang Rory Devaney (243-4) is redshirting. In O’Hagan’s four-year college career, he has competed in the weight throw, shot put or hammer throw finals every year, indoors and outdoors, a total of 16 competitions. Javelin 2 Keyshawn Strachan Nebraska Sr 3 Leikel Cabrera Gay Florida Jr 4 Chinecherem Nnamdi Prosper Texas A&M Sr Davis (best of 277-0), a 25-year-old redshirt senior, was Division II national champion two years ago for Southern Connecticut. He opened his lone Div. I campaign with a collegiate-leading 263-8, then lost to Strachan (276-5) at Spec Towns, 257-6 to 254-6. The Cuban Gay threw a PR 259-4 to get 2nd a year ago, ahead of Strachan (5th) and Iowa’s Mike Stein (266-4). Stein hasn’t thrown since. Nnamdi (271-8) threw for Nigeria in the Paris Olympics but has managed just 233-11 thus far this campaign. Newcomers in the 250s include Shughart (253-11) and Larriviere (253-5). Others currently on the sidelines include Slovenian Tom Tersek (265-4) of USC and Norwegian Daniel Thrana (258-6) of Oregon. Decathlon 6 Ryan Gregory Long Beach State Sr 7 Carter Morton Northern Iowa Sr 8 Jonathan Hertwig-Odegaard Texas Fr Bair (8323) won a year ago by 435 points for Mississippi State before transferring in the off-season to Oregon, for whom he won the indoor heptathlon with a record total. Till Steinforth (8287) is still listed on the Nebraska roster but has not competed since winning the Drake Relays in 2025. Illinois has a stable that includes De Greef (8039), Andreas Hantson (7733) and Tim (7157) and Luuk Pelkmans (8293 Junior). Byrd, 2nd to Bair indoors, scored 7849 last year as a freshman in finishing 4th. Barton (7998), Gregory (7898) and Morton (7882) have already opened their outdoor campaigns with solid scores. Projected Team Scores 1 Arkansas 44 2 Texas A&M 41 3 Auburn 39 4 Oregon and Florida 37 6 Oklahoma 33 7 Alabama 31 8 Georgia 30 9 Ole Miss 26 10 USC 24 Almost any team on this Top 10 list has a chance at the title, if their squad qualifies and competes well. Arkansas and USC also have room for growth if their relay teams come around. SC tied last year with Texas A&M for the championship, with the Hogs of Arkansas just 1 point back. It doesn’t get any closer than that. More news |
