Arkansas wins the 2026 DI men's outdoor track and field championship
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Key Points:
- Arkansas won the 2026 men's outdoor track & field national championship with 56 points, their first outdoor title since 2003 and 11th overall, the second-most in NCAA men's history; Georgia and Tennessee finished second and third respectively.
- Arkansas scored points across multiple events without winning any individual titles, marking the second consecutive year a men's team champion swept indoor and outdoor titles without individual wins.
- Auburn's Ja'Kobe Tharp set the fastest collegiate 110 meter hurdles time ever at 12.90 seconds, and Kayinsola Ajayi ran the men's 100 meters in 9.72 seconds (+2.2 wind), the second-fastest all-conditions collegiate time.
- On the women's side, Illinois freshman JaiCieonna Gero-Holt leads the heptathlon after Day 1, while Georgia’s Adaejah Hodge set a new NCAA 100 meter record and Washington’s Amanda Moll set a collegiate record in the pole vault with 4.84 meters.
- BYU’s Ben Barton won the men’s decathlon with 8,169 points, the first BYU title since 1981, while Washington leads the women's team standings and Nebraska leads the men's after Day 2 of the championships.