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2023 Men’s NCAAs Day 3 Ups/Downs: Arizona State Makes A Push (Updated With Diving)

2023 NCAA DIVISION I MEN’S SWIMMING & DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS

For those unfamiliar with swimming terminology, the concept of “Ups” and “Downs” is a good way to track which teams performed best at prelims. In prelims, swimmers qualify for one of two finals heats: the top 8 finishers make the A final, and places 9th through 16th make the ‘B’ final. In finals, swimmers are locked into their respective final, meaning a swimmer in the B heat (spots 9-16) can only place as high as 9th or as low as 16th, even if they put up the fastest or slowest time of any heat in the final.

With that in mind, we’ll be tracking “Ups” and “Downs” after each prelims session. “Up” refers to swimmers in the A final, and “Down” refers to swimmers in the B final.

TEAM STANDINGS – THRU DAY 2

  1. Cal – 184
  2. Texas – 165
  3. ASU – 154
  4. NC State – 151.5
  5. Florida – 145
  6. Indiana – 99
  7. Tennessee – 87
  8. Stanford — 74
  9. Auburn — 57
  10. Louisville — 55
  11. Virginia — 53
  12. Virginia Tech — 52
  13. Texas A&M — 44
  14. Georgia — 36
  15. Ohio State — 31.5
  16. Alabama – 26
  17. LSU – 22
  18. Wisconsin – 19
  19. Notre Dame – 17
  20. UNC – 15
  21. USC – 14
  22. Michigan – 12
  23. Arizona / Mizzou – 10
  24. Miami (FL) – 9
  25. Princeton – 4
  26. Georgia Tech – 3
  27. Pitt – 1

It was a mammoth morning for Arizona State, as the Sun Devils put seven swimmers into an ‘A’ final, punctuated by the swim-off win for Patrick Sammon that put the team three up in the 200 freestyle.

Julian Hill‘s win in the first circle-seeded heat was met with a raucous cheer from the ASU swimmers and coaches, and the team finished things off with impressive showings from Jack Dolan and Owen McDonald in the 100 back.

As expected, Leon Marchand cruised to the top seed in the 400 IM for the Sun Devils, while Grant House battled to win the last heat of the 200 free and put himself into the top eight as well.

Cal and Texas, currently 1-2 in the team race, weren’t far behind ASU, however, both putting six swimmers up into ‘A’ finals.

The Longhorns are lacking in sprint prowess, specifically the 100 fly and 100 back, but made up for it by going 3/0 in the 400 IM and 2/0 in the 200 free.

Florida and Indiana had strong sessions as well, and the Gators project to overtake NC State in the fight for fourth tonight.

Stanford is in position to narrow the gap to Tennessee in the race for seventh, while Auburn and Virginia Tech aim to tighten their grip on a spot in the top 10 with Louisville only putting one swimmer into a final.

**Diving Update**

Texas matches ASU at 7/2 as the Longhorns go 1/2 in the 3-meter diving event.

Indiana put three up on 3-meter, making them 6/3 for the prelim session and putting them ahead of ASU in the scored prelim standings. The Hoosiers are now projected to move into fifth, two points back of Florida and one ahead of NC State.

DAY 3 UPS/DOWNS

Credit to Andrew Mering for running the numbers.

All 400 IM 100 Fly 200 Free 100 Breast 100 Back
3 mtr Diving
Texas 7/2 3/0 0/0 2/0 1/0 0/0 1/2
Arizona State 7/2 2/1 0/0 3/1 0/0 2/0 0/0
Indiana 6/3 0/0 1/1 0/1 1/1 1/0 3/0
California 6/2 2/0 0/1 1/0 2/0 1/1 0/0
NC State 4/2 0/0 3/1 0/0 0/0 1/1 0/0
Florida 3/4 0/1 1/0 0/1 1/2 1/0 0/0
Tennessee 2/2 0/1 1/0 0/0 0/0 0/1 1/0
Stanford 1/4 0/0 1/1 0/1 0/1 0/1 0/0
Ohio State 1/3 0/0 0/0 0/1 0/0 0/0 1/2
Auburn 1/3 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/1 1/1 0/1
Missouri 1/2 0/0 0/1 1/0 0/1 0/0 0/0
Georgia 1/1 1/0 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/1 0/0
LSU 1/1 0/0 0/0 1/0 0/0 0/0 0/1
Alabama 1/1 0/0 0/0 0/1 1/0 0/0 0/0
Virginia Tech 1/0 0/0 1/0 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0
Minnesota 1/0 0/0 0/0 0/0 1/0 0/0 0/0
Louisville 1/0 0/0 0/0 0/0 1/0 0/0 0/0
Utah 1/0 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0 1/0 0/0
Columbia 1/0 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0 1/0
USC 1/0 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0 1/0
Texas A&M 0/3 0/1 0/1 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/1
Notre Dame 0/3 0/1 0/0 0/1 0/0 0/1 0/0
Michigan 0/2 0/1 0/1 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0
UNC 0/2 0/1 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/1
Wisconsin 0/1 0/1 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0
Penn State 0/1 0/0 0/1 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0
Air Force 0/1 0/0 0/0 0/1 0/0 0/0 0/0
Towson 0/1 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/1 0/0 0/0
Pittsburgh 0/1 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/1 0/0 0/0
SIUC 0/1 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/1 0/0
Purdue 0/1 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/1 0/0

SCORED PRELIMS POINTS PER EVENT

400 IM 100 Fly 200 Free 100 Breast 100 Back 3 mtr Diving
Indiana 0 22 9 23 15.5 44
Arizona State 41 0 43 0 26 0
Texas 41 0 33.5 15 0 15
California 30 5 17 29 23 0
Florida 7 20 3 24 15.5 0
NC State 0 38 0 0 22 0
Stanford 0 20 6 9 0.5 0
Tennessee 3 13 0 0 2 14
Ohio State 0 0 2 0 0 30
Auburn 0 0 0 1 17 4
Georgia 12 0 0 0 9 0
Minnesota 0 0 0 20 0 0
Columbia 0 0 0 0 0 20
Missouri 0 3 13.5 2 0 0
Texas A&M 9 2 0 0 0 7
Virginia Tech 0 17 0 0 0 0
LSU 0 0 15 0 0 2
Alabama 0 0 5 12 0 0
USC 0 0 0 0 0 13
Michigan 5 6 0 0 0 0
Louisville 0 0 0 11 0 0
Utah 0 0 0 0 11 0
UNC 4 0 0 0 0 6
Penn State 0 9 0 0 0 0
Notre Dame 1 0 7 0 0.5 0
SIUC 0 0 0 0 6.5 0
Purdue 0 0 0 0 6.5 0
Towson 0 0 0 5 0 0
Pittsburgh 0 0 0 4 0 0
Wisconsin 2 0 0 0 0 0
Air Force 0 0 1 0 0 0

SCORED PRELIMS

Prelim Scores
1. Indiana: 113.5
2. Arizona State: 110.0
3. Texas: 104.5
4. California: 104.0
5. Florida: 69.5
6. NC State: 60.0
7. Stanford: 35.5
8. Tennessee: 32.0
9. Ohio State: 32.0
10. Auburn: 22.0
11. Georgia: 21.0
12. Minnesota: 20.0
13. Columbia: 20.0
14. Missouri: 18.5
15. Texas A&M: 18.0
16. Virginia Tech: 17.0
17. LSU: 17.0
18. Alabama: 17.0
19. USC: 13.0
20. Michigan: 11.0
21. Louisville: 11.0
22. Utah: 11.0
23. UNC: 10.0
24. Penn State: 9.0
25. Notre Dame: 8.5
26. SIUC: 6.5
27. Purdue: 6.5
28. Towson: 5.0
29. Pittsburgh: 4.0
30. Wisconsin: 2.0
31. Air Force: 1.0

All told, we could be entering tonight’s 400 medley relay with the top three teams within 35 or so points of one another.

SCORED PRELIMS + ACTUAL

Prelim Scores + Actual
1. California: 288.0
2. Texas: 269.5
3. Arizona State: 264.0
4. Florida: 214.5
5. Indiana: 212.5
6. NC State: 211.5
7. Tennessee: 119.0
8. Stanford: 109.5
9. Auburn: 79.0
10. Virginia Tech: 69.0
11. Louisville: 66.0
12. Ohio State: 63.5
13. Texas A&M: 62.0
14. Georgia: 57.0
15. Virginia: 53.0
16. Alabama: 43.0
17. LSU: 39.0
18. Missouri: 28.5
19. USC: 27.0
20. Notre Dame: 25.5
21. UNC: 25.0
22. Michigan: 23.0
23. Wisconsin: 21.0
24. Minnesota: 20.0
25. Columbia: 20.0
26. Utah: 11.0
27. Arizona: 10.0
28. Miami: 9.0
29. Penn State: 9.0
30. SIUC: 6.5
31. Purdue: 6.5
32. Pittsburgh: 5.0
33. Towson: 5.0
34. Princeton: 4.0
35. Georgia Tech: 3.0
36. Air Force: 1.0

As has become a trend at this meet, Texas was the top performer relative to seed based on prelims points, projected to go +43.5, while Cal (+29.5) and Indiana (+25.5) also had big showings.

Jake Newmark led Wisconsin to a big plus relative to psych sheet points yesterday in the 500 free, but him missing the 200 free final hurts the Badgers as they finish a projected -21 on the session.

PRELIMS SCORES RELATIVE TO SEED

Swimming only

Team
Change From Seed
Texas +43.5
California +29.5
Indiana +25.5
LSU +15
Stanford +13.5
Penn State +9
Notre Dame +7
Purdue +6.5
Georgia +4
UNC +4
Arizona State +3.5
Minnesota +3
Alabama +1
Utah 0
Missouri -2
Tennessee -2
Louisville -5
SIUC -6
Pittsburgh -6
Virginia Tech -6.5
Towson -7
NC State -7.5
Ohio State -9.5
Auburn -11
Michigan -12
Texas A&M -14
Air Force -14
Florida -17.5
Wisconsin -21

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Gummy Shark
1 year ago

How did the consolation diving final finish? I had to step away from the tv for work.

swimswamswum
Reply to  Gummy Shark
1 year ago

Texas divers moved up getting 10th and 15th.

IU Swammer
Reply to  Gummy Shark
1 year ago

Check out diving’s version of live results here: https://secure.meetcontrol.com/divemeets/system/index.php

thezwimmer
Reply to  IU Swammer
1 year ago

Dive Meets live scoring is damn near better than meet mobile. I don’t know why it took me all these years to discover it!

Andrew
1 year ago

3 up for IU diving, could catch Florida on 200s stroke day if Mathias/2 breasters/Burns/Frankel show out

Gummy Shark
1 year ago

After a rough start, Texas goes 1A/2B in diving!!!

Bear Alum
1 year ago

Tex-1/2 in diving 15 points as seeded
IND-3/0 in diving 42 points as seeded

swimswamswum
1 year ago

texas got 1 up / 2 down

thezwimmer
1 year ago

Indiana 3/0 and Texas 1/2 in 3m

Swim Alchemist
Reply to  thezwimmer
1 year ago

Huh, so Texas and ASU both with 7/2.

Penguin
1 year ago

Rooting for University if Maxisota

swimswamswum
1 year ago

Texas has one diver who’s bubble A in 10th and two bubble B finals in 16th and 17th with one round left

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James Sutherland

James swam five years at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, specializing in the 200 free, back and IM. He finished up his collegiate swimming career in 2018, graduating with a bachelor's degree in economics. In 2019 he completed his graduate degree in sports journalism. Prior to going to Laurentian, James swam …

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