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By Tyler Mayforth, USTFCCCA January 8, 2020

2020 NCAA DI Women’s Indoor Track & Field Rating Index – Preseason

*** Ratings UPDATED at Thursday, January 9, 9:15 a.m., Central ***

NEW ORLEANS – Fight on!

For the first time in program history, Southern California tops the NCAA Division I Women’s Indoor Track & Field National Rating Index. The Women of Troy lead defending national champion Arkansas in the Preseason Edition, which was released on Wednesday by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA).

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1
Southern California

2
Arkansas

3
Georgia

4
Texas

5
Texas A&M

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Big things are expected out of Southern California, a program that had three women on The Bowerman Preseason Watch List on Monday. Two of those three women will compete indoors as Chanel Brissett (60 hurdles) and Twanisha Terry (60) are ranked among the top-2 of their respective events in the USTFCCCA Individual Rankings, which take into account past and present performances (Angie Annelus, the third on The Bowerman Watch List, is out of indoor eligibility and will look to defend her outdoor 200 title for the third year in a row). Kaelin Roberts and Kyra Constantine give the Women of Troy a dynamic combination at No. 1 and No. 2, respectively, in the 400.

Arkansas is looking to become the first program since Oregon to defend its national title (The Ducks went back to back in 2013 and 2014). The Razorbacks graduated a few important pieces from last year’s squad, but return a strong contingent and added a star in the offseason. Look for Cal Poly transfer Katie Izzo to be a linchpin for Arkansas as she already proved her mettle in cross country and opened the indoor season with the second fastest mark in collegiate history over 5000 meters. Lauren Gregory (mile/3000) and Kelsey Herman (pentathlon) should add valuable points for the Razorbacks, among others.

Georgia enters the season ranked third, the same place it began the 2017 and 2018 editions. Those seasons didn’t turn out too bad for the Bulldogs as they finished runner-up in 2017 and won the national title in 2018. Georgia is stacked once again in the field events and bolstered its group with the addition of Kansas State transfer Nina Schultz, who is ranked No. 1 in the pentathlon and No. 2 in the high jump in the USTFCCCA Individual Rankings. Schultz and Aliyah Whisby (No. 2 in the pentathlon) will form a potent one-two punch for the Bulldogs in the combined events throughout the season and should add to the program’s storied history.

Texas is ranked fourth to begin the season, its best preseason mark since 2016. The Longhorns already saw a blistering mark out of Julien Alfred in the 60 this season (7.18) and are hoping Georgia transfer Tara Davis leaves her mark in the long jump and 60 hurdles. Texas should also see a boost in the sprints from Kynnedy Flannel, who is ranked fourth in the USTFCCCA Individual Rankings in the 200 and 13th in the 60.

Texas A&M comes in ranked No. 5. The Aggies have an assortment of depth across each of the sprints, horizontal jumps and in the combined events. Syaira Richardson (400), Deborah Acquah (long jump) and LaJarvia Brown (triple jump) are all ranked in the top-5 of their respective events according to the USTFCCCA Individual Rankings. Texas A&M will also look for Tyra Gittens to make the next step in the pentathlon.

The next National TFRI will be released on Monday, January 27 and will continue all season long until the 2020 NCAA Division I Indoor Track & Field Championships, which will be held on March 13-14 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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National Rank	Team	Points	Conference	Region	2019 FINAL
1	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA	144.41	MPSF (2)	West	2
2	ARKANSAS	123.52	SEC (1)	South Central	1
3	GEORGIA	106.81	SEC (3)	South	20
4	TEXAS	89.60	Big 12 (1)	South Central	12
5	TEXAS A&M	88.30	SEC (6)	South Central	10
6	NEW MEXICO	78.43	Mountain West	Mountain	5
7	MINNESOTA	78.31	Big Ten (2)	Midwest	---
8	SOUTH CAROLINA	78.18	SEC (12)	Southeast	7
9	OREGON	65.94	MPSF (1)	West	3
10	KENTUCKY	62.77	SEC (5)	Southeast	21
11	FLORIDA STATE	62.52	ACC (6)	South	35
12	COLORADO	61.53	MPSF (10)	Mountain	33
13	IOWA	55.74	Big Ten (8)	Midwest	33
14	PENN STATE	54.76	Big Ten (3)	Mid-Atlantic	11
15	HOUSTON	53.48	American (1)	South Central	15
16	LSU	49.99	SEC (2)	South Central	15
17	WASHINGTON	43.79	MPSF (3)	West	48
18	FLORIDA	42.33	SEC (7)	South	6
19	STANFORD	42.17	MPSF (5)	West	12
20	LOUISVILLE	41.07	ACC (7)	Southeast	27
21	ALABAMA	40.30	SEC (4)	South	7
22	MIAMI (FLA.)	37.60	ACC (2)	South	15
23	UCLA	37.19	MPSF (5)	West	41
24	TEXAS TECH	37.03	Big 12 (2)	Mountain	15
25	WISCONSIN	34.30	Big Ten (9)	Great Lakes	21

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Week-by-Week Ranking

Only showing those with a season-best ranking in the top 25.

Team	Preseason	Week #1	Week #2	Week #3	Week #4	Week #5	Week #6	Week #7
LSU	16	6	6	6	1	1	1	1
Southern California	1	1	1	1	4	4	2	2
Texas A&M	5	7	5	3	5	5	3	3
Georgia	3	2	2	4	2	2	4	4
Arkansas	2	3	3	2	3	3	5	5
Kentucky	10	5	7	7	6	6	6	6
Oregon	9	17	9	9	7	7	8	7
Washington	17	13	11	11	12	10	7	8
Texas	4	4	4	5	9	12	10	9
Colorado	12	15	15	10	13	13	12	10
Florida	18	11	10	14	8	11	13	11
Stanford	19	19	8	8	10	8	11	12
Alabama	21	29	34	20	19	17	16	13
Ohio State	33	24	27	28	25	26	14	14
UCLA	23	27	33	33	16	19	18	15
Texas Tech	24	16	23	24	15	14	17	16
Penn State	14	14	17	19	17	15	15	17
New Mexico	6	8	12	12	22	23	19	18
Iowa	13	18	19	17	21	21	23	19
BYU	34	25	14	16	11	9	9	20
Kansas State	55	55	40	40	23	24	21	21
Ole Miss	68	20	20	21	14	20	24	22
Virginia Tech	29	35	30	27	24	18	26	23
Minnesota	7	9	13	13	20	22	22	24
North Carolina A&T	60	30	32	26	18	16	25	25
Houston	15	21	21	22	61	36	29	26
Notre Dame	39	39	36	37	38	25	28	27
Florida State	11	12	18	18	29	32	20	28
Miami (Fla.)	22	26	28	30	30	33	27	29
North Dakota State	36	50	42	34	26	27	32	30
Wisconsin	25	28	25	23	32	30	31	31
Tennessee	65	38	39	44	27	28	30	32
Penn	48	58	57	58	33	34	34	33
Arizona State	26	32	26	29	31	31	36	34
Indiana	35	36	31	35	28	29	33	35
Oklahoma	27	31	37	36	35	40	35	36
Clemson	30	33	38	38	58	48	44	37
Baylor	32	22	22	25	34	37	38	38
Washington State	105	74	73	76	43	38	39	39
Michigan State	56	65	55	59	42	45	43	40
Akron	43	46	49	43	40	42	40	41
SMU	79	82	45	46	41	43	42	42
South Carolina	8	10	16	15	36	35	37	43
Delaware					131	134	45	44
Stephen F. Austin	49	51	47	50	39	41	41	45
Memphis	50	57	60	61	48	53	48	46
Louisville	20	23	24	31	45	50	47	47
Toledo		96	103	106	55	58	63	48
Norfolk State	28	42	29	32	44	44	61	49
Auburn	53	54	58	56	46	49	57	50
Virginia	94	100	101	102	68	73	46	51
Rice	40	45	54	53	85	68	49	52
Alabama A&M				89	37	39	50	53
Georgia Tech	31	34	35	39	89	92	54	54
Purdue	58	60	61	60	62	63	52	55
Nevada	62	68	68	70	52	52	55	55
Furman	84	80	79	63	63	65	67	57
TCU	67	62	62	62	47	46	58	58
Duke	47	48	59	65	50	64	51	59
Northwestern State	45	47	44	45	49	47	53	60
Harvard	61	69	69	68	64	66	80	61
Wake Forest					92	51	60	62
Providence	89	89	87	86	60	60	65	63
Bethune-Cookman					88	54	62	64
Brown	100	105	111	111	86	87	59	65
Air Force	117	121	114	111	70	71	69	66
Michigan	82	77	78	80	59	56	56	67
Central Michigan	51	53	52	52	54	62	66	68
Richmond					119	120	82	69
Rhode Island	97	78	81	82	76	75	81	70
Iowa State	74	88	86	88	75	74	77	71
Temple					79	80	79	72
Missouri	63	66	71	72	51	57	64	73
Oklahoma State	72	72	76	74	130	122	72	74
San Francisco					87	86	89	75
South Dakota	41	41	41	41	56	59	70	76
Colorado State	57	61	65	71	96	97	68	77
San Diego State	95	97	106	57	65	67	71	78
NC State	46	44	46	47	66	70	76	79
Cincinnati	81	93	96	97	94	95	74	80
Cornell	104	79	97	93	100	88	75	81
Jacksonville	78	75	80	81	57	61	73	82
Arizona			83	83	72	77	78	83
Rutgers	91	85	84	84	73	78	84	83
Prairie View A&M		108	114	111	73	78	84	83
Boston College	88	91	98	99	90	96	98	86
Nebraska	38	37	43	42	71	72	86	87
Columbia		116	121	98	67	93	93	88
Wofford	73	71	67	69	77	76	88	89
Kansas	44	49	51	51	82	69	83	90
Arkansas State	113	124	124	124			91	91
Towson	124		126		78	81	94	92
Southern Illinois	83	83	74	79	69	83	90	93
UNLV	37	40	48	48	97	100	87
UTEP	87	104	99	101	80	82	92
Tennessee Tech		114	92	RV	84	85	95
Northern Illinois	80	84	90	96	134	134	96
UCF	115	99	102	103	83	84	97
Georgetown	111				102	89	99
Quinnipiac						91	100
Iona					93	94	101
UTRGV	128	121	93	RV	91	90	102
South Alabama	52	52	53	54	53	55	103
Youngstown State	71	72	76	74	120	118	104
Utah	77	76	75	78	81	98	105
McNeese State			106	107	126	131	106
UMass Lowell					118	116	107
East Carolina	119	98	100	100	103	102	108
Northwestern	70	67	64	66	109	109	109
Mississippi State	75	86	85	87			110
Cal Poly		105	109	111	115	109	111
Xavier					115	114	111
Abilene Christian		127	127	127	134		111
George Mason	85	87	88	90	98	101	114
Cal State Fullerton	101	108	114	111	104	104	115
UMass	119	127	127	127	104	104	115
Illinois State	119				104	104	115
Middle Tennessee	124				104	104	115
Milwaukee					104	104	115
High Point		105	109	111	115	115	120
Wyoming	106	116	121	120	101	111	121
Bowling Green	119	116	111	110	109	117	121
St. John's (N.Y.)					95	99	123
Pittsburgh			108	105	99	103	124
Yale					112	112	124
Tulane					120	123	124
Northern Arizona					123	123	124
North Carolina	42	43	50	49	113	123	128
Albany	113	121	121	121	113	123	128
Grand Canyon					139		128
Idaho State	128						128
Kennesaw State		115	126	115	111	113	132
Connecticut	69	70	72	77	128	129	132
UTSA	59	59	70	73	125	118	134
Wichita State	90	93	94	93	122	121	134
Sacramento State					131	134	134
Campbell			114	RV	RV	RV	RV
Miami (Ohio)					RV	RV	RV
Kent State	110	103	124	122	123	127
South Florida	119	127	111	107	126	128
Portland					128	129
Samford					131	132
West Virginia					134	133
Liberty	126				134
North Texas					134
Illinois	96	102	104	109	139
Villanova	54	56	56	55
Boise State	64	63	63	64
Vanderbilt	66	64	66	67
Dartmouth	76	81	82	85
Southeastern Louisiana	86	90	89	91
California	93	92	91	92
Western Kentucky	91	93	94	93
Syracuse	107	108	105	104
Eastern Michigan	99	108	114	111
Long Beach State	101	108	114	111
Maryland	101	108	114	111
Montana	109	119	119	119
CSUN	112	120	120	120
Utah State	98	101	123	121
ULM	107	124	126	124
VCU	118	126	126	126
New Hampshire	126	127	124	127
Oral Roberts	115
Buffalo	128
Southeast Missouri	128
Southern Miss	128
Appalachian State	128
Idaho	128

USTFCCCA NCAA Division I Indoor Track & Field

2020 Rankings Calendar

The NCAA Division I National Championsips were canceled and the season did not finish.

Weeks	National TFRI	Regional TFRI	Conference TFRI	#EventSquad
Preseason	Wed 1/8 MEN \| WOMEN
Week 1	Mon 1/27 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 1/27 MEN \| WOMEN
Week 2	Mon 2/3 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 2/3 MEN \| WOMEN		Mon 2/3 MEN \| WOMEN
Week 3	Mon 2/10 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 2/10 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 2/10 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 2/10 MEN \| WOMEN
Week 4	Mon 2/17 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 2/17 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 2/17 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 2/17 MEN \| WOMEN
Week 5	Mon 2/24 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 2/24 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 2/24 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 2/24 MEN \| WOMEN
Week 6	Tue 3/3 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 3/2 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 3/2 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 3/2 MEN \| WOMEN
Week 7	Mon 3/9 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 3/9 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 3/9 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 3/9 MEN \| WOMEN
FINAL Results (official final ranking)

Weeks	National TFRI	Regional TFRI	Conference TFRI	#EventSquad
Preseason	Wed 1/8 MEN \| WOMEN
Week 1	Mon 1/27 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 1/27 MEN \| WOMEN
Week 2	Mon 2/3 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 2/3 MEN \| WOMEN		Mon 2/3 MEN \| WOMEN
Week 3	Mon 2/10 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 2/10 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 2/10 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 2/10 MEN \| WOMEN
Week 4	Mon 2/17 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 2/17 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 2/17 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 2/17 MEN \| WOMEN
Week 5	Mon 2/24 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 2/24 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 2/24 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 2/24 MEN \| WOMEN
Week 6	Tue 3/3 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 3/2 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 3/2 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 3/2 MEN \| WOMEN
Week 7	Mon 3/9 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 3/9 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 3/9 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 3/9 MEN \| WOMEN
FINAL Results (official final ranking)

2020 NCAA DI Women’s Indoor Track & Field Rating Index – Preseason

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