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Sidetracked with the new Sweet 16... is it the best? 4026 views

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Uploaded by Alex Lohr | January 10, 2013

The NCAA has gone to a straight 16 person advancement to the indoor national championships. No autos or provisionals, just straight 16, all based on time and distance. What if there are ties?? We do not know the answer to that as of yet. Regardless, in lieu of the change, one has to wonder... is this the best move or just a good move?

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 John Wamhoff 4 months ago

I say make either 4 regions with 3 automatic qualifiers per with 4-6 at large bids or 5 regions with 2 at large qualifiers with 4-8 at large qualifiers.

CWRunner 4 months ago

This'll make Conference meets exciting to watch for sure. Everyone will be going all out with their last chance to get a spot at nationals.

Bowerman-Women 4 months ago

Lord where is that list so I can scratch a name and add Brianna Rollins of Clemson....d@ girl 7.78 in 60mH this early??????? See I LOVE when HUMBLE nice people BREAK RECORDS!!!!

Peter Rice 4 months ago

It was done this way in DIII last year too... The fifth (or so) fastest time from the year before should be the AUTO time. The odds that 16 people run faster than the 5th fastest person from the year before are very low, and would allow for a few people to have the comfort of having qualified, and being able to focus on their training...

There were a lot of Olympians that came from the NCAA this past year, and it would have been hard for them to run as fast as they did if they had been forced to chase times in January.

will M. 4 months ago

I'm to tired to really develop a way to get to this but a straight final sounds amazing no talk of who's most rested and what not just good honest race of champions

Matthew Message 4 months ago

Worked for DIII

Anonymous Coward 4 months ago

Nice Garmin Alex, I miss the yellow Soleus though

Cam Levins 4 months ago

Of course Canada has this brilliant system in place already. That model would be perfect, but it's never going to happen.

Rodger Guigou Shull 4 months ago

Though, as already mentioned, I would like to see more talk about field and sprint events where it's going to be harder to choose a definitive top 16. Lots of ties

Rodger Guigou Shull 4 months ago

I like the name sidetracked. It's good. This is new series is good.

Evan Parry 4 months ago

I'm not going to argue for or against any system, however I am glad that the NCAA is finally sticking to the DI athletes with this qualification change like they stuck it to DIII last year.

Canadian 4 months ago

Ryan is describing the Canadian University system, more or less. There are auto-qualifiers from each of four regions across the country and then the rest of the spots are filled by athletes with the fastest times. For many years the field sizes were limited to 12 although they now do a combination of the two suggestions: Top 12 times/performances plus auto-qualifiers. Typically the auto-qualifiers are in the top 12 but if they are not, the schools can still send them. Ties in the 60m, HJ, PV etc. are also sent, so the fields can be expanded if need be. Twelve as a max was chosen for a couple of reasons. It permitted a number of races to be (safely) run as straight finals, like the 1500m and 3000m, and other events such as long jump to be run as a single flight. This enables the meet to be packaged over a three day period and allows more easily for doubling of events.

I think it is a good model for the NCAA as well.

Dan Tomlin 4 months ago

Top 16 times are going to be hard to separate in the 60m, last year there were 5 guys at T-16... Will HJ and PV be based on misses if there are ties for #16?

Also did NCAA D3 went to this last year?