EUGENE – The fans came to Hayward Field on a mostly sunny Saturday for a party, and the Oregon Ducks obliged.

The Ducks won their first men's title at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships, since 1984 and Oregon did it emphatically.

Mac Fleet outkicked the formidable Lawi Lalang to win the 1,500 meters, Sam Crouser won the javelin with a come-from-behind, final throw, and Devon Allen, who arrived in Eugene on a football scholarship, provided with the dramatic victory in the 110 hurdles that nailed it shut.

Oregon piled up 88 points, most by any team since the NCAA changed the number of individual scorers from 12 to eight in 1985.

Florida was a distant second with 70, a total that would have won the men's competition in the last 13 NCAA meets.

The 11,344 fans were in celebration mode throughout, roaring when Fleet came outside on the home straight to kick past Lalang and win in a 3 minutes, 39.09 seconds.

It was so close at the line that Lalang, who has won eight individual NCAA titles, was looking at the scoreboard for the outcome as he crossed in 3:39.13.

The fans screamed when Crouser, trailing Kentucky's Raymond Dykstra until his sixth, and final throw, cut loose with a winner that traveled 252 feet, 7 inches.

Moments later, with the Ducks needing just one point to clinch, Allen gave them 10 with a late burst in the hurdles to crush the form charts with a winning time of 13.16.

It obliterated Olympic gold medalist Aries Merritt's 2006 meet record of 13.21, and is the No. 2 hurdle time in collegiate history.

"I definitely heard the crowd," said Allen, who is on a football scholarship and was projected for fourth prior the meet by Track & Field News. "I could hear them the whole time: "Ahhhhhhhhhh.'"

Most fans probably didn't know what was riding on the race. UO coach Robert Johnson did.

"The gun goes off," Johnson said, " and I say to myself, 'Just get through the hurdles. It doesn't matter, just get the through the hurdles. With one more point, I don't care what (the Gators) do.'

"I was standing at hurdle six. He passes me, and he's probably in third. Then I look at the monitor, and he's second."

With a surge after the last hurdle, Allen was a winner.

So were the Ducks, who ended their three-decade dry spell with a flourish.

In 1984, the UO athletes celebrated the fifth men's outdoor national title in program history by throwing coach Bill Dellinger in the steeplechase water pit. This group, led by Allen, Crouser and hammer thrower Greg Skipper, dunked Johnson in tribute after No. 6.

"What are you going to do?" Johnson asked. "A lot of muscle there."

Muscle, speed, technique, the Ducks were too good across the board.

Fleet, the defending champion but an underdog on the form charts, spent most of the 1,500 patiently stalking Lalang, who had won what some observers termed the best 5,000 in NCAA history on Friday night.

Fleet held his fire until making a move on the Bowerman Curve on the last lap. He pulled slightly ahead on the home straight, but Lalang was with him as they roared toward the line.

"Coming down the last 100 meters, I got maybe a half-stride ahead and I could see Lawi's hands right here the entire way through," Fleet said, demonstrating his peripheral vision. "He's got that big arm swing. I knew he was there that entire way."

Lalang said he thought he caught the Oregon senior in the last five meters. Maybe Fleet's lean at the line made the difference.

"When I got to the line I looked to see the screen," Lalang said. "What he did was a nice win, really impressive."

How about Crouser, who led early but had been in second place since Dysktra zeroed in during the javelin's second preliminary flight.

Crouser went to the javelin runway for his final attempt knowing it was now or never.

The fans did too, and they cheered him on.

"You just have to go after it and attack, and use that home crowd to your advantage," Crouser said. "That's what happened."

All day long.

Here are complete results from Saturday's action.

-- Ken Goe | @KenGoe