UTEP's superstar 800-meter runner Emmanuel Korir is only a freshman, but he just added another brick to a growing legend.
At the Brutus Hamilton Invitational in Berkley, in a race that turned into a training run, Korir ran the second-fastest 800 in NCAA history, clocking a 1:43.73 that won by more than eight seconds and was just off the NCAA record of 1:43.55. He's the second collegiate runner in history to break 1:44.
And he did it by himself. The meet arranged a rabbit to set him up for something special, but he left the rabbit and only went through the 400 mark in 52.