Wait a minute? Fourth overall is 26 points? I'm not sure a sport whose national championship ends that way is yet deserving of its own board. I think that last post is enough explanation as to why.
Track and field, at the national championship level, can be won by a few individuals because athletes qualify by individual performance. There's no “true” team championship in track and field. It'd cost the NCAA too much to transport 40 to 50 athletes per team to one site.
This is basically like putting 4 Virginia Weslayan players on the court for the NCAA Tournament and having them get to the Final Four.....Either one school absolutely dominated the national meet by getting most of the points (LIKE Lynchburg in the ODAC men's meet), or track is in sad shape!
I would venture that it's more like a team winning a basketball championship with two dominating players and mediocre team mates. It's not common, but it does happen.
Most of the top-5 NCAA championship teams are in the top-8 in the M-F Power Rankings, which're based on overall team strength.