2024 Ivy League Men’s Swimming & Diving Championships
- Wednesday, February 28 – Saturday, March 2, 2024
- Blodgett Pool, Cambridge, MA
- Defending Champions:
- Men: Harvard (6x)
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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 three finals heats: the top 8 finishers make the A final, places 9 through 16 the B final and places 17 through 24 the C 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,” “Mids” and “Downs” after each prelims session. “Up” refers to swimmers and divers in the A final, “Mid” to B finalists, and “Down” to C finalists.
Scores After Day 1
- Harvard – 128
- Yale – 110
- Princeton – 108
- (tie) Columbia/Cornell – 102
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- Penn – 98
- (tie) Brown/Dartmouth – 90
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Harvard lowered the boom in the 500 free, scoring all 7 swimmers in either the A final (4) or B final (3) with no blank swims. That set the tone for the rest of the morning, in which the Crimson outperformed the psych sheet –and by a lot– in every event. What was projected to be a narrow 50-point margin on Day over Princeton now looks to be more like 350 points, because not only did Harvard do better than expected, but Princeton had a very difficult morning, underperforming by 82 points.
Columbia (+38) and Penn (+22) had strong performances on Thursday morning, as well.
Day 2 Up/Mid/Downs
| Team | All | 500 Free | 200 IM | 50 Free | 1m Diving |
| Harvard | 11/7/0 | 4/3/0 | 1/0/0 | 3/1/0 | 3/3/0 |
| Princeton | 8/5/7 | 1/1/4 | 4/1/2 | 0/3/1 | 3/0/0 |
| Brown | 4/3/3 | 1/1/0 | 2/1/0 | 0/1/3 | 1/0/0 |
| Yale | 3/6/8 | 0/1/1 | 0/1/2 | 3/1/2 | 0/3/3 |
| Penn | 3/4/6 | 2/1/1 | 0/1/4 | 1/1/0 | 0/1/1 |
| Columbia | 2/4/2 | 0/1/1 | 0/2/0 | 1/1/1 | 1/0/0 |
| Cornell | 1/2/4 | 0/0/1 | 1/2/0 | 0/0/1 | 0/0/2 |
| Dartmouth | 0/1/2 | 0/0/0 | 0/0/0 | 0/0/0 | 0/1/2 |
Scoring Day 2 Prelims (plus 200 Free Relay as seeded)
| Team | All | 500 Free | 200 IM | 50 Free | 1m Diving | 200 Free Relay |
| Harvard | 462 | 152 | 32 | 89 | 125 | 64 |
| Princeton | 370.5 | 57 | 132 | 53.5 | 78 | 50 |
| Yale | 266 | 15 | 29 | 109 | 57 | 56 |
| Penn | 210.5 | 69 | 27 | 40.5 | 22 | 52 |
| Brown | 209 | 41 | 61 | 25 | 28 | 54 |
| Columbia | 167 | 25 | 31 | 42 | 23 | 46 |
| Cornell | 117 | 3 | 50 | 3 | 13 | 48 |
| Dartmouth | 60 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 44 |
Projected Day 2 Scores
| Team | Day 1 Actual | Day 2 Scored Prelims | Day 2 Projected Rank |
| Harvard | 128 | 462 | 590 |
| Princeton | 108 | 370.5 | 478.5 |
| Yale | 110 | 266 | 376 |
| Penn | 98 | 210.5 | 308.5 |
| Brown | 90 | 209 | 299 |
| Columbia | 102 | 167 | 269 |
| Cornell | 102 | 117 | 219 |
| Dartmouth | 90 | 60 | 150 |