The University of Oregon is projected to score 90 points this weekend at the NCAA indoor championships. It's remarkable, really, just how good their roster is. 

Team	2017 Projections	2016 Finish
Oregon	90 points	53 points (1st)
Georgia	48 points	45 points (3rd)
Arkansas	41 points	50 points (2nd)
LSU	24 points	15 points (14th)
Texas	24 points	44 points (4th)

The Ducks come in with all running event entries, and depth is on their side. Particularly, the women's 200m (we're projecting a 1-2-3 sweep) and 3K (All-Americans Katie Rainsberger, Samantha Nadel, and Alli Cash) could be huge point grabbers. 

We've outlined just how good this team is here, and not much has changed since publication. In fact, if every Oregon athlete finished one place worse than our projections, and every Georgia athlete finished one place better than our projections, Oregon would still win the meet 71-55.

FULL NCAA EVENT PROJECTIONS

Oregon won the team title with just 53 points last year. We've got Georgia (48 points) and Arkansas (41 points) contending for runner-up honors in 2017. 

Georgia returns nearly all of their field event scorers, including three-time NCAA pentathlon champion Kendell Williams. They add former Iowa State jumper Kate Hall and still have the best high jumpers in the NCAA in Tatiana Gusin and Madeline Fagan (1.90m this season). Last year, Georgia only scored 8 points in the high jump after Williams recorded a NH and Fagan and Chanice Porter failed to score. Jumping to their full potential could give them the edge over Arkansas, who has the potential to earn consecutive runner-up honors.

According to our FloTrack rankings, we do not have any Arkansas Razorbacks scoring in the mile or 3K. Nikki Hiltz and Therese Haiss will likely be in the Razorbacks' fifth-ranked DMR, but could contend also for points should they make the mile final. Hiltz scored in the 2015 mile final while running for Oregon and made the 1500m final outdoors that same year. True freshman Taylor Werner ran 9:06 at the Husky Classic, won the SEC 5K two weeks ago, and was the Razorbacks' top scorer at the NCAA XC championships (16th) and the second freshman to cross the finish line. The Razorbacks also have three entries in the pentathlon (they scored three in the event in 2016), and the ever-dominant Weeks sisters in the pole vault. Alexis is the reigning indoor and outdoor NCAA champion and Olympian, and sister Tori finished sixth and 15th, respectively, in 2016. They're on the same page this season as the only entries in the NCAA to jump over 15', so you've got to be thinking the Razorbacks are counting on 18 points from the duo. 

When the pentathlon ends on Friday, Georgia and Arkansas will be on top of the leaderboard. But give it time, track fans. The Ducks are on mission to leave College Station as the best team in NCAA indoor history.