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2025 Men’s NCAA Championships: SwimSwam Preview Index

2025 Men’s NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships

The 2025 Women’s NCAA Championships begin this week but after that, it’s a short turnaround to the Men’s NCAA Championships, which also take place in Federal Way, Washington.

In between sessions of the women’s meet, you can start prepping for the men’s championships with our event-by-event previews — plus, you can use them to formulate your predictions for the Pick’Em Contest, which is now live.

Don’t miss a moment of our preview action and the concurrent comment section discussion – you can bookmark this page, which will be updated with links to each preview as we publish them. Disagree with our winner picks? Leave your own picks, predictions, expectations in the comments.

Below are all of the events in their NCAA order, broken down by day. You can click on the event name and follow the link to our full preview and check out our picks for the entire top eight.

DAY EVENT PREDICTED WINNER
Wednesday Tennessee
800 Free Relay Texas
Thursday 500 Free Rex Maurer (Texas)
200 IM Destin Lasco (Cal)
50 Free Jordan Crooks (Tennessee)
200 Free Relay Tennessee
Friday 400 IM Rex Maurer (Texas)
100 Fly Josh Liendo (Florida)
200 Free Luke Hobson (Texas)
100 Breast Julian Smith (Florida)
100 Back Owen McDonald (Indiana)
Florida
Saturday 1650 Free David Johnston (Texas)
200 Back Hubert Kos (Texas)
100 Free Josh Liendo (Florida)
200 Breast Matt Fallon (Penn)
200 Fly Luca Urlando (Georgia)
400 Free Relay Tennessee
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Walsh-Madden-Grimes-Weinstein
9 days ago

The University of Texas:

May the choke be with you.

Walsh-Madden-Grimes-Weinstein
Reply to  Walsh-Madden-Grimes-Weinstein
9 days ago

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fly is the best
9 days ago

Bob Bowman, The Greatest showman, UVA has no men, Lakers in 5

barelyaswammer
Reply to  fly is the best
9 days ago

Spencer Nicholas and David King are legit

Walsh-Madden-Grimes-Weinstein
9 days ago

Anyone
But
Texas

Coach
9 days ago

Does swimswam have a team scoring prediction (top 5 or something )??

lol
18 days ago

sweetness in 5

Strugglebus
Reply to  lol
9 days ago

Top 4 is where the hardware is in NCAAs!

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