Howard's injury made him the longest shot of the three to be an Olympian when the outdoor season began last March. But that's heart. He'd been there before as a 1996 U.S. Olympian and his heart beat to return. So Evans ranked as the longest shot, third place at the NCAA Outdoor and now in a field of such post collegians as Austin and former Razorback Matt Hemingway, a nationally indoor leading 7-9. That didn't faze Arkansas' coolest cucumber.
More misses hit hard when several tie at the same height.
But I don't know if anybody was more confident because I don't know how consistent they had been. Kenny has now jumped in six NCAA Championships indoors and outdoors and made All-American every time. He won Indoors as a freshman and has been up there battling Mark Boswell, the Canadian born Texas Longhorn, ever since. They had some great newspaper articles there. So I am glad that everything worked out.