Dillon on pole for Kentucky truck race

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10/01/2011 - Sparta, KY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Austin Dillon will start on the pole for Saturday night's Kentucky 225 Camping World Truck Series race after topping the charts in qualifying at Kentucky Speedway.

Dillon, the current points leader, turned a lap at 179.868 mph, which set a new tracking qualifying record at this 1.5-mile track. Bill Lester held the previous record here at 178.141 mph, set in 2005.

It is Dillon's fifth pole of the season and the 12th of his truck career. He also won the pole for last year's race at Kentucky.

Ron Hornaday Jr. earned the outside pole with a lap at 178.601 mph.

Nelson Piquet Jr. qualified third, while Brian Ickler and Justin Lofton rounded out the top-five.

Ty Dillon, who is Austin's younger brother and the grandson of NASCAR team owner Richard Childress, qualified 15th in what will be his first start in a NASCAR national series race.

The 225-mile truck race at Kentucky is scheduled to start just after 8:00 p.m. (et).

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Work left to do: Texas Tech, Oklahoma State, Kansas State

Texas joins Texas A&M and Kansas as locks after getting league win No. 11. Texas Tech greatly helped its own hopes and crippled OK State's with the two-point win Saturday. Is K-State the last reasonable hopeful? Could be an elimination match in Stillwater on Tuesday, at least for the Cowboys.

Work left to do:

Texas Tech [18-11 (7-7), RPI: 44, SOS: 12] A critical two-point win over OK State leaves the Red Raiders with Baylor and at Iowa State left. Get both and the Red Raiders likely are good to go. Get one and there could be some interesting comparisons with a K-State team that could finish two or three games "ahead" of them in the standings but doesn't have any of the quality wins Texas Tech has. Not a lot in nonconference play (against Arkansas in Little Rock being the best win, by far) to lean on.

Oklahoma State [18-9 (5-8), RPI: 50, SOS: 35] Still without a road win, the Cowboys now need to win two on the road just to get to .500 in conference play. It's hard to recall a team (OK, other than Clemson) falling so precipitously from lock status to almost certainly out of the NCAAs at this point. There are wins to be had in the last three, including a very big home game against K-State on Tuesday, but this team is reeling. Can you tell the pressure to win is getting to them with the way the final possession played out at Texas Tech? There are some good nonconference performances to lean on, specifically beating Missouri State and Syracuse on neutral floors and Pitt in OK City, but if the Pokes don't right this very, very soon, that won't be enough.

Kansas State [20-9 (9-5), RPI: 56, SOS: 96] It pays to be in the Big 12 North. The nine league wins are Colorado (twice), Missouri (twice), Iowa State (twice), Baylor, Nebraska and (a good one against) Texas. That helps explain the middling computer profile. The win over USC is nice, but the nonconference leaves a lot to be desired. The game at OK State in Stillwater on Tuesday is huge, as it could KO the Cowboys and leave K-State with a home date against Oklahoma with which to work.