February 17, 2008

Ending a meet getting thumped in any event by former Southwest Conference rival Texas, never will enhance John McDonnell's mood.

But when the event is a loss to SEC rival LSU, too, and it's the distance medley relay that his Razorbacks failed in their last attempt to improve their shaky (9: 38. 37 ) NCAA Indoor provisional qualifying mark, well, what you'd expect is what you got from the Arkansas coach Saturday.

For the Razorbacks, the conclusion of Saturday's two-day Tyson Invitational meet the Razorbacks and Lady Razorbacks co-hosted at the Randal Tyson Indoor Track was the DMR of Duncan Phillips, Chris Bilbrew, Alex McClary and Andy McClary widely missing the automatic NCAA standard (9: 35 ) at 9: 39. 63.

Meanwhile, Texas set a worldbest, American record and collegiate record, 9: 25. 79 while LSU, pulling away from Andy McClary on the mile record, ran a provisional qualifying 9: 35. 31 for second.