9. Arizona fails to win NCAA track and field title, 1998

The best track team in UA history scored a career-high 41 points in Buffalo. Javelin thrower Esko Mikkola and decathlete Klaus Ambrosch won national titles. Abdi Abdirahman scored 13 points with two terrific distances runs. Chima Ugwu finished second in the shot put. But the UA’s expected 15 to 20 points in the pole vault and other events netted zero. Arkansas won with 58 points. The UA was forever left with “what ifs?’’ 

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