For Star subscribers: Some bad luck in Buffalo cost the Wildcats a chance at a championship; they finished fourth instead.
Greg Hansen In the late afternoon of June 5, 1998, Arizona’s athletic department was on the brink of the greatest season in school history.
Coach Dave Murray’s team had a first-place finish in the javelin behind Esko Mikkola, a No. 2 finish in the shot put behind Chima Ugwu and a No. 2 placement in 5,000 meters behind Abdi Abdirahman. A day later, freshman Klaus Ambrosch would win the decathlon. The NCAA track community raised an eyebrow when the NCAA chose the University of Buffalo as the site for the 1998 championships, where weather in early June can be iffy. It had no regular site for the NCAA finals as it does today — Oregon has played host to the track and field championships since 2013 — but in the late ’90s the NCAA had jumped from site to site, awarding the tournament to a high bidder.
Despite the school’s two leading performers failing to score, Arizona somehow finished No. 4 overall, with 41 points. Arkansas won with 58 points, followed by Stanford at 51 and TCU at 48. Had Johnson and Reynolds finished 1-2 or 2-1, Arizona would’ve been the national champion with 59 points. The Wildcats also had a pair of seventh-place finishers with Abdirahman at 10,000 meters and Patrick Nduwimana at 800 meters.
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