Men's mile - 2023 NCAA indoor track and field championships

One of four Washington Huskies competing in the men's mile final, Luke Houser finished first with a time of 4:03.33. Watch the full race here.
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[@brandonmroe265]

Isaac Basten must be the coolest dude in track for how many positive comments I see in every comments section about him

[@egbduf]

i think hes a youtube guy

[@C-R-A-C-K-E-R]

​@@egbduf He's a friend of Fogg Dog Exclusive

[@talling]

He really is awesome

[@Volleybalex]

Lol fr tho 😂

[@tylerbailey4873]

Fogdog turned me into a huge Basten fan. Cool to see how well he is doing

[@nathanstinson9816]

Basten went crazy, one of my favorite runners to watch

[@BigLando]

Basten taking notes from Yaseen

[@Clift0n]

By getting 2nd ??

[@LifeupNinjaTeam]

@@Clift0n no. Basten is taking notes on how to run a tactical race. But in regards to BigLando’s original comment; With all due respect, Basten was already a great tactician before this race. And Yaseen even admitted himself that he’s not a great tactician, so idk what BigLando is talking about really lol

[@forrestm]

@@LifeupNinjaTeam faceplanting on the track

[@EthanMiller_track]

Isaac basten 💯

[@BigLando]

Basten wins outdoor mile calling it now.

[@Foration3]

so close

[@ianbusche1471]

1500, but yea he had the fastest last 200 by quite a bit just always seems to be too far out of it for him to make it up

[@matthiasngo2190]

Too bad there’s no outdoor mile race

[@BigLando]

@@matthiasngo2190 Some might say "the metric mile."

[@joelwillems4081]

@@ianbusche1471 Something that plagues a lot of US milers. They all think they have the biggest kick and can just wait to pounce. Might win them a lot of meets and even conference titles but the Nationals are a different thing with loads of talent.

[@elijah4973]

Basten will get redemption. That last 200 was crazy.

[@andrewburke1185]

This UW team is insane. I don't think I've ever seen anything like it. Loved following them all season. All 8 of their top guys under 4 at least twice in the same race! That's crazy. Then they come here and send 6 guys to indoors and 4 guys from the same team to the final. Ridiculous. I've never heard of dominance like this in a single event before. (if anyone has similar examples though please tell me i'd love to see it) I'm a sprinter, and a mile is about the longest race i can stand to watch in one sitting if it's fast. And boy do these 8 keep it fast. Go dawgs!

[@martydobbins5071]

UTEP used to have an incredible distance group (all foreigners) in the late 70's and early 80's. In the 1981 NCAA Outdoor track championships, they went 1-2-3-5 in the 10,000m. Their main guy, Suleiman Nyambui, won four straight NCAA titles in the 10,000 meters, one of only five Division I men to ever accomplish such a feat, and the only Division I man to win four straight indoor 1 mile championships. He also won three straight NCAA titles in the 5,000 meters and was the 1980 NCAA Cross Country champion.

[@rsatterth]

@@martydobbins5071 not to mention Nyambui won a silver medal in the Olympic 5K. I remember my teammate at Dartmouth Keith Hampton lined up to Nyambui at the NCAA cross country championships thinking ' why are we in the same race" the year after Nyambui won the silver. Keith was a 14 minute 5k guy no slouch but Nyambui was like 25 or so at the time I think

[@martydobbins5071]

@@rsatterth Cool! I remember Keith’s name from those great Deerfield HS teams; we were both class of 78. It was slightly unfair as an 18yo lining up against 25yo Freshman Olympians like Nyambui and Rono.

[@bouncejuggle]

Look up John McDonnell (Arkansas’ former head coach). He won 84 conference men’s team championships. 42 NCAA D1 championships. He did that by focusing on dominating in distance running. Arkansas has far more championships and history than Oregon, but because of Nike that is not the story most Americans believe. But you can’t argue with the championships.

[@rsatterth]

@@martydobbins5071 i rechecked and Nyambui was 27 at the time of that race lol. Yes, Keith had a running singlet with "cross country national champions" from his high school days. Keith was a sub 4:10 miler and third on his team behind twin brothers, I don't recall their names. I thought about that team during this past year of craziness at Newbury Park. That Dartmouth 1980 appearance at the NCAA's was Vin Lanana's first year at Dartmouth. I went out for three years in the Army then came back for the mid 1980 teams that placed at the NCAA's. I just missed going to NCAA's in 1986. I didn't feel so bad given that 5 of the 7 guys in front of me ended up being all Americans at some point (Frank Powers, Bob Kempanien, Tom Paskus, Mike Donoghue and Mike Andrews). Vinny would go on to even greater success at Stanford and Oregon, but the talent (not me!) Lanana was able to get at Dartmouth was crazy given no athletic scholarships and terrrible weather. An even better story is that I have a patient in Pasadena who one of the rare Americans on the those UTEP teams. He ran with all of those dudes you list.

[@miriclamier2875]

Good effort Basten! Woof woof

[@larryguinee6344]

26 last 200.... very nice. Dwight is a good commentator.

[@kevinpye3140]

Basten , Fogg Dogs old wingman sooo close

[@markzylstra2947]

Go Huskies!!

[@truth8508]

Unreal finishing speed. Amazing how close so many runners were after a mile.

[@anibaljrbalt]

Powell doing good work at Washington.

[@Bug-vl3pb]

BASTEN!! You were so close, boxed in a bit but the kick is insane probably the best in NCAA right now

[@lackattack7785]

Luke Houser - tactical genius and hottest miler in the NCAA

[@isaacmohn]

Gotta give the UW guys credit, they’re all handsome in their own right. Not sure what’s in the water up there in Seattle

[@JDDSportsPro]

Fastest milers in the country and all drop dead gorgeous. Sometimes life just isn’t fair

[@George-nx4bp]

If Basten was in Essayi's spot at 100m to go, on the outside of lane 1 swinging wide for the finish, he would have won. You can see him lose momentum at about 75 meters to go from whatever dude was right in front of him

[@Kryptic7072]

My favorite ncaa runner rn

[@kevincruikshank9371]

Basten is a badass athlete..and he is training in Iowa!

[@tylerr4184]

Could have been a potential DQ on the winner- surprised it wasn't appealed. Though he did it unintentionally thinking he'd won by a decent bit, he put his arms out before the line and looked to have impeded Basten slightly. With the time difference being 0.03, that could make a real difference...

[@mikephalen3162]

Disagree.

[@KindaMaoriCuz]

This comment genuinely can't be serious, he put his arms out on the finish line. Basten was not, and could not, get passed him at that point. Let it go

[@ayeeffvee8173]

What? No

[@tylerr4184]

@@KindaMaoriCuz Being completely serious. Not saying that it was worth a DQ, but just surprised there was no protest. Rewatch. Arms come out about 5 meters from the finish and Basten was finishing like a freight train. 0.03 second is the amount he won by (given in real time it looked like he won by a bit more), so it's not out of the world to say without the celebration, the result could have been different. It's not as if Basten didn't initially have the room to make the pass.

[@KindaMaoriCuz]

@@tylerr4184 Whilst I understand the 0.03 point, Houser did not put his arms out 5 metres from the finish, 2 metres at absolute maximum (rewatch), at which point there was nothing Basten could do whether Houser's arms were out or not. There was probably no appeal because the Drake coaches were realistic, knew Basten hadn't been impeded and wasn't going to get there regardless

[@PaulJohnson-zk1yr]

I have now seen 2 races from essayi and completely unimpressed by both of them. Winning conference is one thing but winning ncaa's is another. Hopefully things change this outdoor season

[@crazycuber8440]

Basten could have easily won if he wasnt boxed in all race. Unfourtunate

[@jimrabbit96]

Basten shoulda won that. Bro got blocked in and lost momentum about 75 to go. Take that outdoor yo!!

[@spencerwencer4237]

Go Dawgs

[@Kryptic7072]

Issac ❤

[@bo2.4u6]

DAMN!!!!! ❤️

[@sq_zakarya9722]

This is morocco ❤️

[@AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH]

Waskom looks like the bad guy in every Disney movie

[@colinimhoff4884]

If the mile was 1611 meters Basten wins that. He ran a great race but came up a little short.

[@mikephalen3162]

If.

[@JHank-yb4jv]

I am new to running and can’t believe how these dudes do a mile in 4 minutes

[@nxtdanny2036]

there are highschoolers running sub 4

[@evanyoung6993]

So many DQs and sketchy wins this championship

[@chaser27]

I was a little frustrated with how the Oregon guy was obviously changing pace to keep the Washington guy on the outside, but then Washington just boxed everyone in and raced (albiet with team tactics) , but for me as a spectator, ruined the race. I understand it, but I think it kills the competition for me. They do it in cycling all the time. Form a wall, let your guy get ahead with a gap. Push the pace just enough to keep people behind you, etc. I miss the old days of cycling before everyone had a computer and power meters. I fear that track is headed the same direction

[@alohatigers1199]

Imagine if there’s an indoor Olympics track race like this where there’s an banked turn rather than a flat turn. In theory, a banked turn is better than a flat turn. I wonder what Usain Bolt can do with a track like this.

[@bobgutjahr8606]

So, the championships were run at 5,300 feet. I see we learned nothing from the Mexico Olympics concerning either sprints/jumps, which should have been considered wind aided, or distance.

[@Myrr21]

This announcer out here still calling races in yards like it's 1920 or something.

[@pranavrajan6817]

damn if basten has some more space he would've gapped the udub kids💀💀💀

[@C-R-A-C-K-E-R]

If Isaac would have made his move with 100 to go and wouldn't be boxed in, he would have won. Also that arm is kinda sketchy.

[@slaythedragonstrackclub]

The fact that new balance was faster😭

[@coreygrizzell6138]

They were good cuz Yared wasn’t there.

[@lynnzick4317]

Last turn ever-so-slight fallback by Basten cost him the win.

[@isaacmohn]

Houser simply more fit and better than everyone else, also he’s better looking than 2nd place. Not sure there’s a debate there

[@marcdurso6411]

Nine runners. Talk about one, over and over. Too much color commentary! Just describe the dynamics of the race. Often commentary lags moves made.

[@BigPeters32]

i dont watch track. why did 3 washington people start away from everyone else

[@samjacobsen9256]

They do it so they’re not all crowded at the front of the race. They run the same distance but are just staggered. It happened to be three UW runners by chance

[@adityabhatia2177]

why did washington start so fucking slow

[@talkshitko9234]

Kid who came second has got to be real disappointed with himself

[@4plum]

Disappointed in the times - was expecting much faster.

[@amosglitterz2649]

It's impossible to predict the winner going to these distance races as YOU KNOW it's gonna be a jog-fest until a lap to go. With 3:56 just to get into the meet, they all have leg speed and when they wait too long to kick, anyone in the field can win. Happens at Worlds, Olympics, Nationals, etc. Instead of going for the win, they try not to lose. After the race, I'm sure there were a lot of "I could have, I should have, I would have..." Next big race, they do it again. Booooring! ( in my humble opinion.)

[@jimoconnor8597]

Until Ingebritzen shows up and runs the WR....

[@amosglitterz2649]

@@jimoconnor8597 Well, yeah. He just doesn't give a f....! He just says "Come on, boys! Try to beat me!" He and a few others have really changed championship racing lately.

[@Xhadp]

Four UW in the final? Shocked at that. Did not know that UW was that good. How is the field not good enough to get a sub 4 time? There really needs to be incentives or something to get people actually pushing and kicking themselves rather than it being just vs. a field.

[@samjacobsen9256]

They ran a 1:54 last 800m. It is at altitude and was a championship race so tactics were more important

[@Xhadp]

@@samjacobsen9256 Ah altitude that makes sense. I love middle distance but the sandbagging with tactics makes it annoying to watch.

[@joelkirsch3473]

Commentary like this is why people don't watch our sport.

[@Jake-fd1oj]

Slow

[@davidrosenthal5795]

Lord that woman is terrible. She just makes stuff up it’s funny if it wasn’t so bad.

[@dre3951]

DIII mile championship was faster.

[@averageenjoyer1690]

Exactly, like why are people happy about a race like this ever? 4:03 to be the best for D1 NCAA? That’s sad, they should keep the pace honest and not have it be a sprint.

[@manvswoodbeam]

it was also 5000 ft lower elevation with a totally different group of athletes.

[@samjacobsen9256]

So? None of them could come close to these runners. 4 3:52 milers or faster. The rest sub 3:56. They closed in 1:54 for the second half

[@samjacobsen9256]

@@averageenjoyer1690 a win is a win. It was at altitude and was tactical because the Oregon guy ran 65 for first 400. Once houser got to the front he made it 3:48 pace. Nobody in D2 or D3 would have been able to keep up with that

[@averageenjoyer1690]

@@samjacobsen9256 Fair, that guy was the only real reason it was slowed down. Obviously only D1 guys would be able to keep up I just like an honest pace for finals whenever possible. Not in this context, but I feel like some people use the term “tactical race” way to broadly.

[@johntron86]

Announcers, please stop with the backstories and just call the race. Insufferable

[@gotohellpunk]

Isaaaaaaaaaacccccccccccc