AP
After a fast start earlier in the week, the BYU men’s team seemed poised to have a big finish on the final day of competition in the NCAA Track and Field Championships, but it didn’t happen. The fourth-ranked Cougars finished with 27 points, good for eighth place Friday evening in Austin, Texas.
It was, nevertheless, BYU’s best finish since 2011 (also eighth place).
Texas Tech won the 2019 men’s championship with 60 points.
The Cougars scored 21 of their 27 points in the 10,000-meter race on Wednesday night. With four qualifiers in the finals of the 3,000-meter steeplechase — one-third of the field — and two strong qualifiers in the 5,000-meter run on Friday, BYU had set the table to score more points on Friday.