2025 Men’s Ivy Championships: Day 3 Up/Mid/Downs: Friday is Crimson Day

2025 Ivy League Men’s Swimming & Diving Championships

• Dates: Wednesday, February 26–Saturday, March 1
• Location: Katherine Moran Coleman Aquatics Center, Providence, RI
• Defending Champions: Harvard men (7x)
• Championship Central
• Fan Guide
• Pre-scratch psych sheet
• Live Results
• Live Video: ESPN+
• Live Recaps: Day 1 ׀ Day 2
• Official Results (PDF): Day 1 ׀ Day 2

FRIDAY 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 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.

Team Scores After Day 2

1. Yale University – 486.5
2. Princeton University – 407.5
3. Harvard University – 360.5
4. Brown University – 322
5. Cornell University – 305.5
6. Columbia University – 292.5
7. University of Pennsylvania – 245
8. Dartmouth College – 225.5

Day 3 always feeds into Harvard’s strengths, and the Crimson took advantage of every opportunity they had this year, stuffing the A finals of the 100 fly, 200 free, and 100 back with four swimmers each. Harvard also has three entrants in the 1000 free who could all potentially score in the top 8. Points-wise, Harvard did about as expected for the morning, overperforming by 33 points in the 200 free but underperforming relative to the psych sheet in every other individual event. But with 12 “A” finalists, Harvard is expected to jump to the top of the team standings tonight.

Princeton was down across the board, missing expected “A” finals in everything but the 100 breast. Still, the Tigers managed 3 more “A” finalists than the Bulldogs and should pull even with, if not pass, Yale in the team race tonight. Yale should score big points in the 200/1000 freestyle events and the 100 breast, but their lack of depth in the other three individual events will be a drag on their momentum.

The other exciting team races are for fourth, fifth, and sixth. Cornell had a strong morning, but Brown is expected to score big in the 1000 free to remain out of reach at fourth in the team standings.

Day 3 Up/Mid/Downs

Scoring Day 3 Prelims (plus 1000 Free and 400 Medley Relay as seeded)

Projected Day 3 Scores