You are working on Staging1

2024 NCAA Men’s Championships: Day 4 Ups/Downs – ASU and Cal at the Top (Updated)

2024 Men’s NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships

SATURDAY EVENING HEAT SHEETS

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, places 9 through 16 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 and divers in the A final, “Down” to B finalists.

Team Scores After Day 3

  1. Arizona St – 343
  2. California – 286.5
  3. Florida – 273
  4. Indiana – 247
  5. NC State – 206
  6. Texas – 165
  7. Tennessee – 147
  8. Stanford – 144
  9. Virginia Tech – 116
  10. Georgia – 88
  11. Notre Dame – 79
  12. Auburn – 72
  13. Louisville – 69
  14. Michigan – 68.5
  15. Ohio St – 65
  16. Texas A&M – 62
  17. Alabama – 50
  18. (tie) SMU / Virginia – 41
  19. Florida St – 34
  20. Minnesota – 28
  21. Miami (Fl) – 21
  22. (tie) Missouri / Arizona – 19
  23. Towson – 17
  24. Wisconsin – 16
  25. Pittsburgh – 15
  26. LSU – 11
  27. (tie) Southern California / UNC – 9
  28. Penn St – 8
  29. Brigham Young – 7
  30. Utah – 6
  31. Purdue – 5
  32. GW – 3

UPDATED AFTER DIVING: As expected, Indiana had a big morning in platform diving, earning 3 spots in the A final. Somewhat more surprisingly, Cal picked up an A and a B to solidify their projected second-place in the team standings. Tennessee, Purdue, LSU, and Ohio State also placed a diver among the top 8. That should move Tennessee past Texas in the team race, and should pull Ohio State within 5 points of Georgia. There are still some great team battles in the works!

Arizona State has all but wrapped up its first NCAA men’s title in swimming and diving, earning 6 A-final and 3 B-final slots for Saturday night’s finals session. The Sun Devils managed 2 top-8 swimmers in both the 200 back and 200 breast, which is a testament to their depth this season. ASU’s winning margin should north of 60 points.

Meanwhile, the battle for second place, which was being waged on a daily basis between Florida and Cal, lost some momentum last night when Florida’s 400 medley relay was disqualified, but it would have been close anyway, as Cal has outperformed their seed by double digits every day. This morning was no different; the Golden Bears earned 6 A-final and 3 B-final slots, improving their seeds by 48 points.

Indiana went 4 up, 3 down, but could have another couple of A finalists in platform diving, if last night’s 1-2 finish in 3-meter springboard was any indication.

NC State and UVA had big mornings, too, outperforming the psych sheet by 25 and 26 points, respectively.

Day 4 Ups/Downs

Team All 200 Back 100 Free 200 Breast 200 Fly Platform Diving
Cal 7/4 1/2 2/1 1/0 2/0 1/1
Indiana 7/3 1/1 0/1 1/1 2/0 3/0
Arizona State 6/3 2/0 1/1 2/1 1/1 0/0
NC State 3/3 1/1 0/1 0/1 2/0 0/0
Tennessee 3/2 0/0 2/0 0/0 0/1 1/1
Florida 2/2 1/0 1/1 0/1 0/0 0/0
Notre Dame 2/1 1/1 1/0 0/0 0/0 0/0
Virginia 2/0 0/0 1/0 1/0 0/0 0/0
Michigan 1/2 0/0 0/0 0/0 1/2 0/0
Georgia 1/2 1/1 0/0 0/0 0/1 0/0
Virginia Tech 1/2 0/0 0/1 1/1 0/0 0/0
Purdue 1/1 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0 1/1
Brown 1/0 0/0 0/0 1/0 0/0 0/0
LSU 1/0 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0 1/0
Ohio State 1/0 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0 1/0
Penn 1/0 0/0 0/0 1/0 0/0 0/0
Texas 0/5 0/1 0/1 0/1 0/0 0/2
Texas A&M 0/3 0/0 0/1 0/1 0/0 0/1
USC 0/2 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/1 0/1
Auburn 0/1 0/1 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0
Pittsburgh 0/1 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/1
SMU 0/1 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/1 0/0
Stanford 0/1 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/1 0/0
Towson 0/1 0/0 0/0 0/1 0/0 0/0

Scoring Day 4 Prelims

Team All Difference vs Seed 200 Back 100 Free 200 Breast 200 Fly Platform Diving
Cal 126 48 33 28 15 35 15
Indiana 111 2 16 2 21 23 49
Arizona State 101 -14 29 16 36 20 0
NC State 59 25 19 6 4 30 0
Tennessee 59 -2 0 34 0 6 19
Florida 38 -23 15 21 2 0 0
Notre Dame 29 3 13 16 0 0 0
Virginia 26 26 0 13 13 0 0
Michigan 21 -1 0 0 0 21 0
Georgia 19 -21 17 0 0 2 0
Virginia Tech 30 3 0 9 21 0 0
Purdue 24 0 0 0 0 0 24
Brown 11 5 0 0 11 0 0
LSU 16 -2 0 0 0 0 16
Ohio State 11 0 0 0 0 0 11
Penn 20 3 0 0 20 0 0
Texas 28 3 6 7 6 0 9
Texas A&M 9 -7 0 3 5 0 1
USC 8 -8 0 0 0 4 4
Auburn 7 -15 7 0 0 0 0
Pittsburgh 7 0 0 0 0 0 7
SMU 5 5 0 0 0 5 0
Stanford 9 -10 0 0 0 9 0
Towson 1 1 0 0 1 0 0

Projected Day 4 Scores

Team Day 3 Actual Day 4 Prelims 1650 Free by Seed 400 Free Relay by Seed Day 4 Projected Rank
Arizona State 343 101 20 40 504
Cal 286.5 126 2 26 440.5
Indiana 247 111 5 18 381
Florida 273 38 29 36 376
NC State 206 59 25 28 318
Tennessee 147 59 0 30 236
Texas 165 28 0 8 201
Virginia Tech 116 30 0 24 170
Stanford 144 9 0 12 165
Notre Dame 79 29 0 32 140
Georgia 88 19 0 10 117
Ohio State 65 11 36 0 112
Michigan 68.5 21 0 14 103.5
Auburn 72 7 6 6 91
Texas A&M 62 9 9 0 80
Alabama 50 0 0 22 72
Virginia 41 26 0 4 71
Louisville 69 0 0 0 69
SMU 41 5 0 0 46
Florida State 34 0 0 0 34
USC 9 8 16 0 33
Purdue 5 24 0 0 29
Minnesota 28 0 0 0 28
LSU 11 16 0 0 27
Pittsburgh 15 7 0 0 22
Miami (FL) 21 0 0 0 21
Penn 0 20 0 0 20
Arizona 19 0 0 0 19
Missouri 19 0 0 0 19
Wisconsin 16 0 3 0 19
Towson 17 1 0 0 18
Brown 0 11 0 0 11
North Carolina 9 0 0 0 9
Penn State 8 0 0 0 8
BYU 7 0 0 0 7
Utah 6 0 0 0 6
South Carolina 0 0 4 0 4
George Washington 3 0 0 0 3

 

18
Leave a Reply

Subscribe
Notify of

18 Comments
newest
oldest most voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
Alexy's_my_baby
7 months ago

What happened to Florida at day 4?

Hiswimcoach
7 months ago

Bob Bowman rested them too much for conference!!! Jokes aside, ASU continues to show that elite swimmers can and should swim fast all the time

Weinstein-Smith-Ledecky-Sims
7 months ago
Swimfan1000
7 months ago

Think you are missing an A finalist for Michigan in 2 fly.

BGSwammer
7 months ago

Michigan has 1up, 2 down in the 200 Fly. Groumi, Ray and Geer.

joannietheswimmer
7 months ago

Please fix link to heat sheets. Just get an upside down image.

Jeah
Reply to  joannietheswimmer
7 months ago

Turn your computer upside down

wolfensf
7 months ago

Florida has not shown up since the relay DQ.

Spieker Pool Lap Swimmer
7 months ago

The last time Cal finished lower than 2nd was 2009. I genuinely thought the streak was going to end this year but looks like I’m probably wrong.
It’s nice to see Cal’s diving program on the upswing.
I still hope the 400 FR is meaningful for the team race.
Congratulations to the Sun Devils on their impressive performance.

ArtVanDeLegh10
Reply to  Spieker Pool Lap Swimmer
7 months ago

Would have been a lot closer if UF didn’t DQ their relay last night, but they did.

Justin Pollard
Reply to  ArtVanDeLegh10
7 months ago

Didn’t seem to matter too much after this morning. UF was still competing for 2nd as of last night, even after the DQ’d relay. I wonder what happened 🤔

Calbearfan
Reply to  Spieker Pool Lap Swimmer
7 months ago

This consistency from Cal is incredible. Go Bears! Congrats to ASU on a great team win.

About Braden Keith

Braden Keith

Braden Keith is the Editor-in-Chief and a co-founder/co-owner of SwimSwam.com. He first got his feet wet by building The Swimmers' Circle beginning in January 2010, and now comes to SwimSwam to use that experience and help build a new leader in the sport of swimming. Aside from his life on the InterWet, …

Read More »