The back of a t-shirt says it all: "IC4A, the last really great track meet left on earth."

The competition will be outstanding -- 103 other teams trying to win in a meet the men's indoor track and field team has trained for all season, the IC4A Championships, March 3-5 at Princeton.

"More Olympians come out of the IC4As than any other championship meet," Coach Harry Groves said.

At last year's meet Penn State finished third, and over the past six or seven years the Lion's have been very competitive in IC4As.

George Mason University is the favorite in the meet. Also, Georgetown, Dartmouth, Pittsburgh and Maryland should make an impact. Coach Groves said that the Lions will also make their presence felt.

The Lions are going into the meet with a few outdoor title holders. Shot putter C.J. Hunter has won the last two titles, Michael Timpson holds the 200-meter dash outdoor title and Barry Walsh holds the outdoor decathlon title. The IC4A Championship is a team scoring meet, the oldest athletic event of any intercollegiate sport in the world, Groves said.

"You're not going to be a winner all the time," Groves said. "If a team finishes in the top 10, that is really good, but when a team finishes in the top three, that is great."

"We just want to do what we have to do to win," Ricardo Hall said. "I'd like to help the team out in any way possible."

Hall will most likely be triple jumping and possibly long jumping for the Lions in the IC4As.

Groves said the NCAA Championships are an all-star meet and that IC4As are more important as a team meet. Individuals on the team have been working all season to qualify for the IC4As in order to do well as a team, he said.

Tomorrow, Penn State will host the Last Chance Invitational at the Greenberg Indoor Sport Complex. The meet is to give athletes who have not qualified for the IC4A and the NCAA Championships a last chance to qualify.

"Some people are going to practice open events to prepare for IC4As," pentathlete Eric Steenstra said.

Four pentathletes have qualified for the IC4As: Steenstra, Barry Walsh, Tom Kleban and Erick Greffrath.

The NCAA Championships will be held one week after the IC4A Championships.