Spurred by LaTarsha Stroman's world-leading time in the 400 meters, LSU won its 11th consecutive women's title at the NCAA Track and Field Championships on Saturday.
Arkansas rode Seneca Lassiter's victory in the 1,500 to its sixth straight men's crown.Stroman's triumph, in 50.60 seconds and LSU's fourth in the 20-event women's competition over four days at rain-soaked Billy Hayes field, helped the Lady Tigers finish with 63 points, one ahead of Texas.
Lassiter's triumph, along with a long jump-triple jump double by Robert Howard, enabled the Razorbacks to finish the 21 events with 55 points, 121/2 in front of second-place Texas.
Stroman's time chopped .07 seconds off the previous world-leading time of 50.67 by Cathy Freeman of Australia and was much faster than her previous best of 51.41 in the semifinals.
Stroman appeared slower out of the blocks than defending champion Suziann Reid of Texas, but midway through the race she powered into the lead and went on to win by more than three meters over Reid.
LSU's first 40 points came on victories - by its 400-meter relay team and triple jumper Suzette Lee on Friday and by 100-meter hurdler Astia Walker in 12.85 and Stroman on Saturday.
The Lady Tigers then picked up 11 points in the 100 on Peta-Gaye Dowdie's third and Kwajalein Butler's fourth, and clinched the title with Walker's second and Dowdie's fifth in the 200.
Those sprint finishes enabled LSU to offset Texas' victory in the final event, the 1,600-meter relay, in 3:28.43, the fastest in the world this year. The Longhorns ran with a team of 800-meter champion Dana Riley, Donna Howard, Toya Brown and Reid. LSU did not have a team in the relay.
The Lady Tigers have not lost the outdoor title since 1986, when Texas won, and have won the last five indoor titles.
Making it an even better day for the school, the men's baseball team won the College World Series.
Arkansas, which last lost the outdoor title to Tennessee in 1991 and has won 13 of the last 14 indoor championships, trailed the points race until Lassiter, a sophomore, overcame Canadian Olympian Kevin Sullivan of Michigan in the final 10 meters to win the 1,500 in 3:40.22.
Sullivan, who was leading down the stretch, lost when he stumbled shortly before the finish line.
Howard, the NCAA indoor long jump and triple jump champion, completed a sweep of the indoor and outdoor titles by winning the triple jump Saturday at 55 feet, 61/2 inches. He won the long jump Thursday at 26-111/4.
Arkansas' other points came from Phillip Price's sixth in the 1,500, Ryan Wilson's second in the 5,000 and third in the 10,000, and Kevin White's second in the 110 hurdles.
In addition to Howard, there were several other double winners.
Obadele Thompson of Texas-El Paso became the first to sweep the men's 100 and 200 since another UTEP runner, Olapeded Adeniken, did it in 1992. Thompson streaked to victory in the 100 in 10.13 and the 200 in 20.03, second-fastest in the world this year, behind former BYU sprinter Frankie Fredericks' 19.90 and ahead of Michael Johnson's 20.05.
Mebrahtom Keflezighi of UCLA, winner of the men's 10,000 Wednesday, won the 5,000 Saturday in 13:44.17, beating Wilson by nearly 15 meters.
Arizona's Amy Skieresz, winner of the women's 10,000 Friday, came back and won the 5,000 Saturday in 15:46.76.
The last men's double in those events was Brigham Young's Ed Eyestone in 1985 and the last women's 5,000-10,000 winner was Midre Hamrin of Lamar in 1983.