FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- Wichita State seniors Dylan Hartnett, Todd McKown, Lawson Montgomery and Audacia Moore competed Friday at the Arkansas Last Chance meet trying to post their best times of the season in hopes of making the NCAA Indoor Championships.

Missouri Valley Conference champion McKown just missed his personal best in the men's 60-meter hurdles by one-hundredth of a second, finishing second in 7.86, while Montgomery finished third in the race with a personal best 7.87 at the University of Arkansas Randal Tyson Track Center.

Typically the nation's top 16 athletes in each event advance to the NCAA meet. Montgomery and McKown entered the meet both ranked among the nation's top 41 and needed to post a time of 7.70 to automatically qualify for the NCAA meet and a 7.77 to rank among the nation's top 20 in the event.

Moore ran her best time of the season in the women's 200 meters, finishing seventh in 24.42. The automatic NCAA qualifying time for the event is 23.12 this season and the current top 20 times nationally are below 23.62.

Hartnett finished 12th in the men's 200 meters in 21.92, but was unable to better his personal best and MVC championship time of 21.69 in the event this season. The NCAA automatic qualifying time in the event is 20.73 this season and the nation's top 20 athletes currently have times below 21.10.

Shocker junior Aliphine Tuliamuk automatically qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships in the women's 5,000 meters earlier this season and will represent Wichita State March 9-10 in Nampa, Idaho. Her time of 9:11.49 in the women's 3,000 meters from earlier this season currently sits 16th nationally. Where that time ends up ranking on the final NCAA qualifier list will determine if Tuliamuk will also have the opportunity to compete in the 3K at nationals.

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