Nick Mirabelli finishes in 4th! What a day for the warrior!

Way to screw up the results/graphics again ESPN.

GO ERIC! WE GET POINTS IN THE 10K!

Taylorswift13's Day 1 MVP's

Men: Nick Mirabelli, Eric Casarez, Sam Whitmarsh

Women: Katelyn Fairchild

Barrett looks like she could be related to Kennedy.

Agree with what Zephyr said about Plain. So steady and dependable. 100% quality person too. Couldn't be happier seeing her getting faster nearly every time out. She's earned it.

I wouldn't be shocked to see Sam win the 800. He paced Miller in a 600 a few weeks ago and looked ridiculously strong. I think Whitmarsh wins an NCAA title before he's done.

Great to see Nick throwing well again. Feels like he's been hurt since his sophomore year. Hope he can keep it up.

Eric has been the rock of the men's distance group for what seems like years. Great to see him working his way up the charts and scoring points in events that we aren't used to scoring many points in.

The 0-fer in the men's 200 hurts a whole lot. If the 100 ends up the same way I could see us sliding several places in the final team score. We need to hit in every spot up and down the lineup to even have a chance to win. On a positive note, the 800 group looks incredible (I think we've got two NCAA scorers now) and James Smith looks as good as he ever has so that's a small bonus. I think Mpoke went out too hard early but will fix that in the final. With Burrell not looking 100%, I think Mpoke is the guy to beat. Two of the top three in the 400H would be big.

On the women's side, I would have liked to have seen Davidson at least in the top four, if not the top three. Not having Wilson-Perteete out there hurt too. On the plus side, Andress has a shot at scoring for the first time ever and the rest of the girls that competed did quite well either qualifying for finals or setting lifetime bests (which is all you can ask for).

Just an update on our points shifts

Women
The Ladies were projected to score 14 points in the Javelin being ranked 2nd and 3rd in the conference. So we lost two points in the Javelin having finished 2nd and 5th
We were projected to score 4 points in the 800m but Avi was a DNS, so we lost another 4 points based on the rankings
We are projected to score 6 points in the women's 200m so I hope Laila could at least give us 3rd for the 6 points (Currently 4th ranked going into the finals)
We are projected to score 5 points in the women's 400m hurdles so we hope Wise could give us 4th place (currently ranked 5th going into the finals)

Men
We were projected to score 3.5 points in the 200m from Achane but no one advanced.
We were not projected to score any points in the Javelin so we picked up 5 points from Nick.
We were not projected to score any points in the 10,000 so we gain 3 points from Eric
We are projected to score 8.5 points in 800m but I think Sam and Brandon could give us more points.
We are projected to score 19 points in the 400m hurdles but the max we can score is 18 points with Collins not making the finals