Win the relay, win the title.
That was the mantra for USC's women's 4x400 team heading into the final event of an already impressive weekend at the NCAA Championships.
If the Trojans could win the 4x400 relay, they would earn 10 points and move ahead of Georgia by 1 point to win the national title.
The 43 points USC earned before the final event came from a number of impressive performances over the weekend.
Madisen Richards put USC's first point on the board — which would end up being crucial — with an 8th place finish in the long jump by setting a PR in the very last attempt of her career.
USC's 4x100 team comprising Angie Annelus, Kendall Ellis, Deanna Hill and TeeTee Terry placed third to earn 6 points.
Terry and Hill also placed third and seventh, respectively, in the 100m dash to earn a total of 8 points for USC.
Ellis placed second in the 400m and Cockrell placed second in the 400m hurdles to pick up 16 more points for USC as the day went on.
Annelus won USC's first individual title of the day with an impressive finish in the 200m.
Hill finished 7th in the event, helping USC pick up 12 total points to head into the final event with 43 — 9 fewer than first-place Georgia, which did not qualify for the 4x400.
What happened next would send shockwaves throughout the athletic world.
After the first two legs of the 4x400, the Trojans were in fourth. On the next leg, Hill made up enough ground to hand off to Ellis in third place, but they bobbled the handoff, leaving Ellis nearly two seconds behind frontrunner Purdue.
Ellis closed the gap in spectacular fashion, finally edging Purdue in the last meter to win the race and the national title for USC.
Members of the sports world rushed to congratulate the Herculean effort by the Women of Troy.
The women's title was the second in program history and the 129th in USC history (106th NCAA).
The women delivered an exciting finale on the heels of USC's men's team setting multiple collegiate records and earning fourth place overall.
Sprinter Michael Norman wowed the crowd with a collegiate, meet and facility record of 43.61 in the 400m.
Norman's time is the current world leader and was the seventh-fastest ever recorded.
Rai Benjamin followed suit in the men's 400m hurdles with a collegiate, meet and facility record of 47.02.
His time is tied for the second-fastest ever recorded.
USC's 4x400 team comprising Ricky Morgan Jr., Zach Shinnick, Benjamin and Norman put the cherry on top with a collegiate, meet and facility record of 2:59:00.
USC's 34 points were its most since scoring 40.5 points in 2015 and the fourth-place finish was its highest outdoors since tying for fourth in 2014.