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2018 ACC Men’s Champs: Day 2 Finals Live Recap – NC State Blasts 1:15.34 200 Free Relay

2018 ACC MEN’S CHAMPIONSHIPS

  • When: Wednesday, February 21st to Saturday, February 24th | Prelims 10:00am | Finals 6:00pm
  • Where: Greensboro Aquatics Center, Greensboro, NC (Eastern Time Zone)
  • Defending Champion: NC State Wolfpack (results) fix
  • Psych Sheet: here
  • Live Results: here
  • Streaming: WatchESPN (subscription required)
  • Championship Central: here
  • Day 2 Prelims Live Recap
  • Day 2 Up/Mid/Down Report

The first full night of the 2018 ACC Championships will feature three individual races and one relay event.  NC State and Louisville, unsurprisingly, are projected to score the most points tonight, with a pretty wide gap between those two schools and the rest of the field.

The Wolfpack claimed the top seed in each of this morning’s individual races, with Anton Ipsen, Andreas Vazaios, and Ryan Held throwing down the swiftest times in the 500 free, 200 IM, and 50 free respectively.  NC State also has the fastest seed time in the 200 free relay, a timed final event, by over a second, and there’s a very strong chance that NC State sweeps all four swimming events tonight.

500 Freestyle

Conference Record: Matt McLean, Virginia, 4:10.00 (2009)
Meet Record: Matt McLean, Virginia, 4:10.00 (2009)
Defending Champion: Anton Ipsen, NC State, 4:11.92

  1. Anton Ipsen, NC State, 4:11.21
  2. Zach Yeadon, Notre Dame, 4:12.74
  3. Marcelo Acosta, Louisville, 4:13.70

It was the Anton Ipsen show tonight, as the NC State senior led from pretty much beginning to end.  Ipsen took the lead at the 100 and never relinquished, looking strong all the way through to end and touching in 4:11.21.

Notre Dame freshman Zach Yeadon stayed in the 2nd position for most of the race and finished in 4:12.74, just off the NCAA ‘A’ cut, but still a very strong time for the freshman.  Louisville’s Marcelo Acosta rounded out the top three with a 4:13.70.  Teammate Zach Harting thew down a 4:14.92 in the B final, a time that would’ve finished 4th in the A final.

200 Individual Medley

Conference Record: Andreas Vazaios, NC State, 1:41.25 (2017)
Meet Record: Andreas Vazaios, NC State, 1:41.25 (2017)
Defending Champion: Andreas Vazaios, NC State, 1:41.25

  1. Andreas Vazaios, NC State, 1:42.43
  2. Norbert Szabo, Virginia Tech, 1:42.70
  3. Daniel Sos, Louisville, 1:43.86

A bearded Andreas Vazaios made it two in a row for the Wolfpack, but Virginia Tech’s Norbert Szabo kept things interesting.  Bryce Keblish actually went out the fastest, opening up with a 21.87 fly leg, but Vazaios quickly surged ahead with a 24.65 backstroke.  By that point, Szabo was just under a second behind Vazaios, and the Hokie outsplit Vazios over the last 100.  Vazaios got a bit more off the final wall, and held off Szabo to win, 1:42.43 to 1:42.70.

Louisville freshman Daniel Sos dropped almost a second from prelims to take 3rd in 1:43.86, as Louisville picked up some big points with three A-finalists.

50 Freestyle

Conference Record: Ryan Held, NC State, 18.68 (2017)
Meet Record: Ryan Held, NC State, 18.68 (2017)
Defending Champion: Ryan Held, NC State, 18.68

  1. Ryan Held, NC State, 18.75
  2. Justin Ress, NC State, 19.00
  3. Andrej Barna, Louisville, 19.16

Ryan Held, also with a beard, earned NC State its third win of the night.  The Olympic gold medalist, a senior, flipped first at the wall, and stormed home to earn the win with a time of 18.75.  Teammate Justin Ress touched just behind him with a 19.00, while Louisville’s Andrej Barna rounded out the top three with a 19.16

200 Free Relay

Conference Record: NC State, 1:15.09 (2016)
Meet Record: NC State, 1:15.63  (2015)
Defending Champion: NC State, 1:16.27

  1. NC State, 1:15.34
  2. Florida State, 1:16.30
  3. Louisville, 1:17.26

Ryan Held staked NC State to the lead with a leadoff time of 18.87, and the Wolfpack never looked back, roaring to new meet record courtesy of Justin Ress (18.41), Jacob Molacek (19.19) and Coleman Stewart (18.87).  Stewart was a bit of a surprising choice, given that Giovanni Izzo had gone 19.37 earlier tonight in the individual 50 free, but going with Stewart certainly seemed to pay off.

As some of commenters have pointed out, that time is just a hair off the American Record time of 1:15.26, set by Stanford back in 2011.

That time by NC State puts them first in the NCAA this season, pending results from other conference meets tonight, and is about fourth-tenths of a second faster than Cal’s 1:15.73 from the Georgia Invite back in December.

Florida State’s 2nd-place finish was highlighted by a 18.67 split by Chad Mylin.  Louisville and Notre Dame also finished under the NCAA ‘A’ cut; Virginia Tech nipped a ‘B’ cut, while Duke and UVA tied with a time of 1:18.46, just off that NCAA provisional standard.

Team Scores Through Day 2:

Diving was contested last week, and the live results page currently shows the team scores without the final diving event, platform diving, factored in, while the team scores on Meet Mobile do already include platform diving.

Without platform diving

1. NC State 523
2. Louisville 417
3. FSU 401.5
4. Notre Dame 377.5
5. VA Tech 346.5
6. Duke 297
7. Virginia 283.5
8. UNC    269
9. Pitt 153
10. Georgia Tech 138
11. Boston College 66
12. Miami 34

Including platform diving (swimming points so far in parenthesis)

1. NC State   524 (459)
2. Florida State 460.5 (265.5)
3. Louisville 441 (417)
4. VA Tech 426.5 (247.5)
5. Notre Dame 393.5 (298.5)
6. Duke 368 (156)
7. Virginia 289.5  (270.5)
8. UNC 284 (165)
9. Georgia Tech 168 (112)
10. Pitt 153 (139)
11. Miami 94 (0)
12. Boston College 66 (66)

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Jay ryan
6 years ago

FSU free relay pretty swift. 1:16.30

#STATEment
6 years ago

After seeing how dominant NC State is while unrested does anyone else think they can win NCAA’s?

Wolf-Pack!

Sean Sullivan
Reply to  #STATEment
6 years ago

No, no one else thinks that.

WhaWha
Reply to  #STATEment
6 years ago

No….and no one else is kidding themselves that they are unrested as well………

ct swim fan
Reply to  WhaWha
6 years ago

They have certainly rested some, but if you looked carefully, most of their stars are definitely not fully or even partially shaved. Vazaios had thick black hair all over his chest.

WhaWha
Reply to  ct swim fan
6 years ago

Not sure what your smoking…..but maybe the top 3 aren’t shaved. Other than that they are at 100%. Believe Held actually swam slower last year at NCAAs and there was talk he wasn’t shaved at ACCs……

Swimmer
Reply to  WhaWha
6 years ago

Check your facts. Completely wrong

PITTiful
6 years ago

Did anyone watch the first heat of the 200 free relay? What in the world was Pitt’s 3rd leg doing? He was breathing every 2 and his head was up high… looked like the end of a mile or something

Korn
Reply to  PITTiful
6 years ago

Goggles malfunction

DMacNCheez
Reply to  Korn
6 years ago

That looked bizarre even for a goggle thing…Just put your head down! 22.8 vs a 19.7 in the medley last night…

Silent Observer
6 years ago

THREE sub 19s from NC State in the 200 Free 😮

18.87 Held (flat start)
18.41 Ress r:0.14
19.19 Molacek r:0.21
18.87 Stewart r:0.18

I believe that might be top time in the country?

Oldswimfan
Reply to  Silent Observer
6 years ago

They just missed the American Record… wow.

Silent Observer
Reply to  Oldswimfan
6 years ago

Courtesy of UVA swimming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh548H19g6w – 200 Free Men’s Final

SwimGeek
Reply to  Silent Observer
6 years ago

Stewart’s kickout on the 2nd 25 was super long — impressive!

40 Flat
6 years ago

I don’t think NC State is as rested as usual for this and I’m thinking Held goes under 18.5 this year.

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