NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships 2016: Wednesday Results and Reaction

The first day of the NCAA men's and women's outdoor track and field championships is in the books.

The four-day competition will decipher team national champions and individual titleholders in a plethora of events, and on Wednesday, 11 finals took place, including the first five aspects of the men's decathlon. The other six events saw individual national champions named, which helped contribute to the team standings:

Competition	Winner	School
Decathalon Event
100-Meter Run	Karl Saluri	Georgia
Long Jump	Zach Ziemek	Wisconsin
Shot Put	Lindon Victor	Texas A&M
High Jump	Tim Duckworth	Kentucky
400-Meter Run	Harrison Williams	Stanford
Field Event
Men's 10,000-Meter Run	Edward Cheserek	Oregon
Men's Hammer Throw	Nick Miller	Oklahoma St.
Men's Pole Vault	Jake Blankenship	Tennessee
Men's Javelin	Curtis Thompson	Mississippi State
Men's Shot Put	Filip Mihaljevic	Virginia
Men's Long Jump	Jarrion Lawson	Arkansas

Here is what the team standings look like after Wednesday:

Place	Men's School	Points
1	Oregon	19
2	Arkansas	16
3	Purdue	11
4	Miss State	10
4	Oklahoma State	10
4	Northern Arizona	10
4	Virginia	10
4	Florida	10
4	Tennessee	10
10	Cornell	9
10	UCLA	9
12	Texas A&M	8
12	Arkansas State	8
12	Virginia Tech	8
15	Colorado St.	6
15	SE Louisiana	6
15	Mid. Tenn. State	6
18	Connecticut	5
18	North Carolina St.	5
18	Colorado	5
18	Minnesota	5
18	Rutgers	5
18	Southern Miss.	5

The Oregon Ducks—the men's two-time defending national champions—are right back on the leading pace, three points ahead of the second-place Arkansas Razorbacks. 

Edward Cheserek was the only Duck to win an event on Wednesday, taking the 10,000-meter run with a time of 29:09.57. 

It was the third time he's won the 10,000-meter title and his 14th NCAA title in his career. He spoke with the Pac-12 Network after the race:

Second-place Arkansas also saw a national title winner on Wednesday when Jarrion Lawson won the high jump with a mark of 26 feet, nine inches. It was his third long-jump title and his first that came outdoors, per Bob Holt of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

But his competition is far from over, as he'll be in three different sprint finals on Friday. 

Thursday will see the second half of the decathlon, while the women's side of the competition will get going. In total, there will be 16 events on Thursday with six individual national champions crowned. 

Stats courtesy of NCAA.com.