Combined Scores
Seems a little slow recently now so I will offer one of my recurring themes about scoring at NCAA National Championships, that is, combined men’s and women’s scores to determine the National Champion. This would, in my opinion, represent a more realistic picture of who actually runs the best track and field program(s) in the country.
At the recent NCAA Indoor Championships, the team placement would look as follows using the combined scores of both the men and women (men’s scores listed 1st, women 2nd):
1. Oregon (54+21 = 75 pts)
2. Texas A&M (23+37 = 60 pts)
3. LSU (29+28 = 57 pts)
4. Arizona State U (25+30 = 55 pts)
Tie Florida State U (32+23 = 55 pts)
6. Texas (22.5+31 = 53.5)
7. Florida (36+14 = 50 pts)
8. Tennessee (5+42 = 47)
9. Texas Tech U (18+21 = 39)
10. BYU (4+33 = 37)
11. Arkansas (24+11 = 35)
12. Nebraska (25+8.5 = 33.5)
13. Stanford (19+14 = 33)
14. Minnesota (15+14 = 29)
15. Penn State U (4.5+24 = 28.5)
Obviously Oregon was the runaway winner, but the most balanced teams were LSU and Minnesota with only 1 pt difference between their men and women, although LSU places much higher overall. The most unbalanced (of the top 15 teams) were BYU with their women scoring 33 pts (89%) out of a total of 37 and Tennessee with their women also scoring 89% (42 out of 47).
There were a total of 89 schools which scored pts in 2009. There were 7 schools which scored exactly 10 pts, 5 of them women’s, all coming on one champion and no other placers. There were 13 schools which scored only 1 pt. Of course there were many who didn’t score at all. The highest placing schools which have a women’s program but no men’s program was San Diego State in 34th place with 7 pts and Hawaii in 44th place with 4.5 pts.
Although I realize this is not going to happen, it doesn’t mean it would not be a better way of scoring. An unintended (and therefore unrealistic) side effect might be to encourage school which have only women to either add men (very unlikely) or at the least to upgrade men’s programs to a commensurate level with the women.
Seems a little slow recently now so I will offer one of my recurring themes about scoring at NCAA National Championships, that is, combined men’s and women’s scores to determine the National Champion. This would, in my opinion, represent a more realistic picture of who actually runs the best track and field program(s) in the country.
At the recent NCAA Indoor Championships, the team placement would look as follows using the combined scores of both the men and women (men’s scores listed 1st, women 2nd):
1. Oregon (54+21 = 75 pts)
2. Texas A&M (23+37 = 60 pts)
3. LSU (29+28 = 57 pts)
4. Arizona State U (25+30 = 55 pts)
Tie Florida State U (32+23 = 55 pts)
6. Texas (22.5+31 = 53.5)
7. Florida (36+14 = 50 pts)
8. Tennessee (5+42 = 47)
9. Texas Tech U (18+21 = 39)
10. BYU (4+33 = 37)
11. Arkansas (24+11 = 35)
12. Nebraska (25+8.5 = 33.5)
13. Stanford (19+14 = 33)
14. Minnesota (15+14 = 29)
15. Penn State U (4.5+24 = 28.5)
Obviously Oregon was the runaway winner, but the most balanced teams were LSU and Minnesota with only 1 pt difference between their men and women, although LSU places much higher overall. The most unbalanced (of the top 15 teams) were BYU with their women scoring 33 pts (89%) out of a total of 37 and Tennessee with their women also scoring 89% (42 out of 47).
There were a total of 89 schools which scored pts in 2009. There were 7 schools which scored exactly 10 pts, 5 of them women’s, all coming on one champion and no other placers. There were 13 schools which scored only 1 pt. Of course there were many who didn’t score at all. The highest placing schools which have a women’s program but no men’s program was San Diego State in 34th place with 7 pts and Hawaii in 44th place with 4.5 pts.
Although I realize this is not going to happen, it doesn’t mean it would not be a better way of scoring. An unintended (and therefore unrealistic) side effect might be to encourage school which have only women to either add men (very unlikely) or at the least to upgrade men’s programs to a commensurate level with the women.
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