No. 3 Razorbacks primed to challenge for NCAA Outdoor title

AUSTIN – No. 3 Arkansas will have a similar formula for scoring points at the NCAA Outdoor Championships that earned the Razorbacks a national team title at the NCAA Indoor meet earlier this season. Action this week takes place Thursday and Saturday at Mike A. Myers Stadium.

The same three teams that were ranked 1-2-3 heading into the indoor national meet, follows suit outdoors with No. 1 Texas, No. 2 Florida, and No. 3 Arkansas. Indoors, the Razorbacks produced a world best 4 x 400m relay to capture the national team title by four points over Texas.

Austin last served as host of the NCAA Championships in 2019, when Arkansas entered the final event tied with USC and a runner-up finish in the 4 x 400m relay secured the team title, the second of three championships the Razorbacks earned in a Triple Crown year.

A sweep of NCAA Indoor and Outdoor women’s titles has been accomplished 16 times, with LSU achieving the feat nine times, its last in 2003. Florida swept the titles in 2022, after Arkansas in 2019.

Texas, who produced the first national title sweep in 1986, has done it three times (1998, 1999). Other schools include Arizona State (2007) and Oregon (2017).

With the Razorback men also in contention to sweep NCAA Championships this season, Arkansas would become the first school to ever sweep all four NCAA track and field titles in the same season.