The Minnesota Invite features eight ranked programs – six of them inside the top 10 – and highlights the coming weekend of NCAA swimming & diving action.
The #1 Cal men, #2 Texas men, #5 Michigan men, #12 Arizona men and #16 Minnesota men will battle it out in Minneapolis, along with the #2 Cal women, #5 Texas women and #7 Michigan women. That meet is arguably the most loaded of any mid-season college invite, coming two weeks after the flood of fast meets including the Art Adamson Invite, NC State Invite and Tennessee Invite.
This weekend should provide some clarity in NCAA event rankings, as well as lock some swimmers into early NCAA invite times or “A” cuts. It’ll also give us our final bits of data before our next round of NCAA Power Rankings for women and men.
Outside of that meet, there are a handful of other events to watch for. A few top college swimmers are competing in long course meters at the U.S. Open in Atlanta. Both Minnesota and the Rutgers Invite will host long course sessions on Sunday for attempts at Olympic Trials cuts. And in dual meet action, we’ll keep an eye on Auburn vs Alabama in a bitter SEC rivalry match between very new staffs: Coley Stickels is in his first year with Alabama and Gary Taylor just his second season with Auburn.
Below is a list of the D1 meets we’ll be covering at SwimSwam this week. If we missed any, please leave them in the comments and we’ll get them added.
| Meet | Date | Men | Women |
| Minnesota Invite | 12/4-12/7 | x | x |
| U.S. Open | 12/4-12/7 | x | x |
| Rutgers Invite | 12/4-12/7 | x | x |
| Auburn vs Alabama | 12/5 | x | x |
| Yale vs Southern Connecticut | 12/5 | x | x |
| Miami (OH) Diving Invite | 12/5-12/7 | x | x |
| Denison Invitational | 12/5-12/7 | x | x |
| Wheaton Invite | 1/25-12/7 | x | x |
| UNI vs Coe College | 12/6 | x | |
| Utah Diving Invite | 12/6-12/7 | x | x |
| Maine State Meet | 12/6-12/7 | x | x |
| Loyola Invite (H2Ounds Invite) | 12/6-12/7 | x | x |
| Bucknell Invite | 12/6-12/8 | x | x |
| Zippy Invite | 12/6-12/8 | x | x |
| ECAC Winter Champs | 12/6-12/8 | x | x |
| Gompei Invite | 12/6-12/8 | x | x |
| Husky Invitational | 12/6-12/8 | x | |
| Big Al Invite @ Princeton | 12/6-8 | x | x |
| North Texas vs TCU | 12/7 | x | |
| George Washington vs. Richmond | 12/7 | x | |
| Indiana State vs Eastern Illinois | 12/7 | x | |
| Nevada vs Cal State East Bay | 12/7 | x | |
| Minnesota Invite (LC Session) | 12/8 | x | x |
| Rutgers Invite (LC Session) | 12/8 | x | x |
Uhhh.. ECACs has men’s swimming? I would know, I’m going 😂
When will psych sheets be out for Minnesota invite?
Does anybody else feel like it would be more appropriate for Ryan Hoffer’s post race victory pose be of him flexing his quads instead of his arms?
I thought he was flexing his quads but then your comment made me look back and realize that was just his arm…..
Lmao
miami invite has swimming too!
NCAA preview in Minneapolis!
Sry that already went down 2 weeks back when #2 Lady Hoos didn’t need divers to rage on #3 Vols!
Also #1 Stanford bored and #4 Wolfpack snoozed #alleyesonvirginia
Didn’t UVA lose both meets to the Vols with the diving scores taken out?
Zactly correct! Also while the Minneapolis meet will be exciting on the mens side, the girls meet will be pedestrian compared to how our LADY VOLS rocked in Knoxville! Feeling an NCAA TEAM TITLE in March.
Yes, but with a biased scoring system that completely favored Tennessee. If the meet had used UVA’s scoring system the #HOO’s would have won going away. #WEMAKETHERULES #DESORBOEFFECT
What does that even mean? How did a biased scoring system favor Tennessee? Swimming is pretty straightforward– you put your hand on the wall first. Tennessee did that. Virginia, even without diving points, still didn’t out-swim Tennessee.