It's championship weekend for the collegiate ranks. The NCAA Indoor Championships for Division I, Division II and Division III will all be held on Friday and Saturday - March 11 - 12. The University of Minnesota will send a handful of athletes to College Station, Texas. An NSIC contingent will compete at the Division II championship hosted by Adams State in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Finally, many athletes from the MIAC will head off to Capital University in Columbus, Ohio for the Division III champs.
Pick Ten has a simple concept: predict the finish place for each of 10 Minnesota athletes at the Indoor National Championship meets. You will score points for each athlete who scores at or above the finish place you predict for them, following the 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 scoring system.
For example: If you pick Elliot Heath to place first in the 5K, and he places first, you get 10 points. If you pick Heath to place first and he finishes second, you get zero points. If you pick Heath to finish third in the race and he places first, second or third, you get 6 points, since you that's the place you picked him for.
To play Pick Ten, cut and paste the list of names/events below into an e-mail and add your place predictions -- 1st or 2nd or 3rd...8th. Send your predictions by 9:00 A.M. CST on Friday, March 11th to DtBFantasy [AT] gmail [DOT] com. Make sure your full name is in the e-mail. As with our Yes/No contests, we don't offer any prizes, so no one needs to fear running afoul of NCAA or other anti-gambling regulations. (The glory you could earn by winning, however, is immeasurable!)
We'll announce the winner of this week's contest and compile results of all of the year's Pick Ten contests to name a grand champion for 2011.
Pick 10 ... NCAA Indoor National Track and Field Championships:
Elliot Heath - D1 5K:
Micah Hegerle - D1 Weight Throw:
Ben Peterson - D1 Pole Vault
Kristi Buerkle - D2 400m
Lauren Stelten - D2 Pole Vault
Rebecca Stier - D2 Shot Put
Laquone Robinson - D2 Heptathlon
Brennan McKeag - D3 Shot Put
Mike Hutton - D3 800m
Janey Helland - D3 Pentathlon
To Help You Make Your Picks ...
Here are the heat sheets for the meets:
Elliot Heath has the second-best 5000 meter time in the nation this year. He has run 13:37 and is just a fraction of a second behind #1-seed Sam Chalenga. (The Winona native will also compete in the 3K, which is not part of our contest.) Micah Hegerle is currently ranked #3 on the entry lists for the National Meet. The Gophers sophomore will make his National Meet debut in 2011. Hegerle's teammate - Ben Peterson will also compete at his first National Meet. Peterson's best vault this year is tied for #5 on the D1 charts.
Kristi Buerkle has run 54.92 indoors and currently sits #2 on the 400 meter entry list. Buerkle is only 9/100ths of a second behind the seed time of the top 400 meter runner going into the meet. Lauren Stelten is one of only two female D2 athletes to pole vault over 4 meters this year. She is ranked second on the National Meet entry list.
Rebecca Stier has the #5 throw among D2 women in the shot put in 2011. Another NSIC athlete - Laquone Robinson will compete in the Heptathlon. Robinson is seeded #4 in the hep with a score of 5005.
Brannen McKeag goes into the National Meet with the second best toss in the shot put. The MIAC champion from Hamline will attempt to become the second straight National Champion from the MIAC after John Schantzen from St. Olaf won last year. Mike Hutton is ranked #5 in the 800 at the National Meet. (Hutton's brother, Nick, will also compete this weekend - he will run the DMR for the Gophers.) Janey Helland is seeded #2 in the pentathlon with the fifth best mark in Division III history.
Good luck!
The fantasy contest question from last week was: "Yes/No: Will Andrew Brueggen break the MIAC Indoor Championship Meet Record in the weight throw?" The answer was yes. Brueggen threw an all-time MIAC record 64-6 3/4. Twenty seven players answered correctly last week, led by overall leader Chris Rivers. Rivers is perfect on the year and followed closely by seven contestants with four points.
For full standings of both contests, please visit DtB Fantasy Corner.
For full standings of both contests, please visit DtB Fantasy Corner.
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