FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.—The only athlete in school history to make the awards podium in both the 3000 meters and the 5000 meters in the same year at the NCAA indoor meet has done it twice. That is what senior distance runner Marco Langon (Raritan, N.J.) accomplished this weekend with a third-place finish in the 3K on Saturday evening adding to his runner-up result in the 5K one night earlier. He crossed the finish line in 7:42.56 in the final individual event of the meet.
 
Langon single-handedly forged the Wildcats third straight top 20 team finish with the 14 points he scored at the 2026 NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships this weekend. Villanova placed 18^th out of the 54 teams who scored at least one point over two days of competition at Lance Harter Track at the Randal Tyson Track Center. It is the first time the Wildcats have posted three straight top 20 team finishes since 2001-03 and the 31^st time overall that Villanova has been a top 20 team indoors.
 
There were only three men's athletes at the meet who recorded top three podium finishes in more than one individual event. Langon did that along with Arkansas sprinter Jelani Watkins (60m, 200m) and Ole Miss thrower Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan (SP, WT). The only two Wildcats before Langon with a pair of top three finishes in individual events in the same year are Ron Delany (1957 and 1958 in the 880 yards/mile) and Marty Liquori (1971 in the mile and two-mile).
 
Running his second hard race in as many nights, Langon still showcased elite closing speed with a last lap of 28.05 in the 3K final. Like the 5000 meters on Friday evening, there was plenty of movement early in a race that once again featured a stacked and highly experienced field of contenders. Langon was one of five runners from the 5K final who came back to run the 3K, while the 3000 meter field also included seven other runners who either anchored the distance medley relay on Friday night and/or ran individually in the mile.
 
Langon now owns four of the top six times in school history in the 3000 meters, three of which have come this season. His time of 7:42.56 in Saturday's championship race adds to the two school records that Langon set in the 3K earlier this year. He ran 7:34.56 at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix on January 24 and later lowered his own record to 7:34.00 on February 13 at the David Hemery Valentine Invitational.
 
This weekend's results put Langon in rare territory in Villanova history after he tallied the seventh and eighth All-America honors of his collegiate career. He is the Wildcats 11^th men's athlete to earn at least eight career All-America honors, with the program record of nine All-America finishes held by three athletes, including Langon's former teammate Liam Murphy. Langon is also one of seven Villanova athletes with at least five career indoor All-America accolades.
 
The indoor NCAA Championships were first contested in 1965 and the Wildcats have scored at the meet 50 times after this year's 18^th place finish. Villanova is one of just seven schools whose men's team has scored at least 50 times. The others are BYU, Florida, Louisiana State, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Tennessee.