The quartet finished with a time of 9:14.19. The race was fairly close, and there was some movement between the teams until Martin pulled away in the last few laps of the 1600. Not only did the Virginia runners break the facility, meet, ACC, and Virginia school record, they also set a new NCAA record .

NCAA Indoor national champion and 2024 NCAA Indoor runner-up, enter the 2025 national championship meet in Virginia next week with the leading number of entries at 16 in 12 events.

The Virginia men's DMR shattered the NCAA, ACC, Facility, Meet and Virginia record at the Arkansas Qualifier on Friday (Feb.21)

Two-time defending NCAA Indoor champion Arkansas will carry a No. 1 national ranking into the 2025 national championship meet in Virginia next week with a leading number of 13 entries in nine events.

Friday at the Arkansas Qualifier in Fayetteville, Ark., Virginia track and field captured a legendary title — the NCAA record in the men’s distance medley relay. Graduate student Wes Porter, senior Alex Sherman, graduate student Conor Murphy and junior Gary Martin finished with a time of 9:14.19.

Virginia Tech plays the North Carolina Tar Heels after Jaydon Young scored 26 points in Virginia Tech's 101-95 overtime victory over the Syracuse Orange.

It was the 23rd ACC team title for the Tech men’s and women’s track and field and cross-country program, but the first crown under first-year director of track and field and cross country Ben Thomas. Tech won the men’s indoor crown for the fourth time in five years and for the ninth time overall.