2022 NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships
- March 16-19, 2022
- McAuley Aquatic Center, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia (Eastern Daylight Time)
- Prelims 10AM /Finals 6PM
- Short Course Yards (25 yards)
- Championship Central
- Official Psych Sheets
- Live Results
- FINAL RESULTS (PDF)
They say that championships are won in the morning, and that was never more true than at this year’s NCAA Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships. Five of the top six teams in the final standings vastly improved from their projected swimming-only scores. Some achieved this via the drip method (e.g., Virginia), adding one projected B-finalist to an A final or making the B final from a seed time ranked 17th or lower. Other teams had a few big splashes (e.g., Stanford in the 200 free).
The chart below shows daily scores from swimming only, and in the “+/-” column, how many points (more, or less) those scored varied from the projections. We have added all the diving points in a separate column, as the divers were not pre-seeded prior to the start of the meet.
Over/Under Psych Sheet Projections (Swimming Only)
| Final Rank | Day 1 Swim | +/- | Day 2 Swim | +/- | Day 3 Swim | +/- | Day 4 Swim | +/- | Diving | Final Score | +/- |
| Virginia | 74 | 0 | 136 | 18 | 176.5 | 19.5 | 165 | 35 | 551.5 | 72.5 | |
| Texas | 58 | 0 | 53 | 44 | 98 | 7.5 | 107 | 32 | 90 | 406 | 83.5 |
| Stanford | 54 | -10 | 69 | 2 | 141 | 38 | 123.5 | 2 | 12 | 399.5 | 32 |
| Alabama | 38 | 8 | 82 | 17 | 57 | -10 | 111 | 17 | 288 | 32 | |
| NC State | 44 | -4 | 55 | -9 | 94 | -9 | 86 | -3 | 279 | -25 | |
| Louisville | 46 | 36 | 49 | 2 | 35 | 19 | 59.5 | 5 | 7 | 196.5 | 62 |
| Michigan | 26 | -14 | 40 | -4 | 60 | 9 | 58.5 | -4.5 | 184.5 | -13.5 | |
| California | 56 | 10 | 33 | -3 | 47 | -8 | 44 | -3 | 180 | -4 | |
| Ohio St | 38 | -18 | 45 | -1 | 48 | -21.5 | 34 | -21 | 165 | -61.5 | |
| Tennessee | 34 | -24 | 19 | -58.5 | 54 | -53 | 20 | -26 | 127 | -161.5 | |
| Indiana | 8 | -16 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 12 | -1 | 84 | 116 | -13 |
| Kentucky | 18 | -14 | 5 | 5 | 48.5 | -6.5 | 35 | -10 | 9 | 115.5 | -25.5 |
| Florida | 26 | 22 | 24 | 22 | 18 | 18 | 30 | 20 | 17 | 115 | 82 |
| UNC | 10 | 2 | 27 | -12 | 23 | 14 | 18 | 12 | 31 | 109 | 16 |
| Georgia | 34 | 28 | 23 | 5 | 14.5 | -2.5 | 33 | -5 | 104.5 | 25.5 | |
| USC | 18 | 6 | 9 | -1 | 56 | 7 | 6 | -60 | 13 | 102 | -48 |
| Wisconsin | 14 | 2 | 20 | 7 | 15 | -2 | 51 | 4 | 100 | 11 | |
| Northwestern | 8 | -6 | 7 | -5 | 41 | 11.5 | 12 | -6 | 5 | 73 | -5.5 |
| Arizona | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 45.5 | 52.5 | 3 | ||||
| Penn | 20 | 0 | 13.5 | -6.5 | 11 | 4 | 44.5 | -2.5 | |||
| Minnesota | 0 | -21 | 6 | -6 | 0 | -7 | 37 | 43 | -34 | ||
| Miami (FL) | 41.5 | 41.5 | 0 | ||||||||
| Virginia Tech | 2 | -6 | 0 | -8 | 13 | 12 | 22 | 2 | 37 | 0 | |
| Duke | 13 | 1 | 0 | -3 | 9 | 2 | 14 | 36 | 0 | ||
| Missouri | 24 | 6.5 | 1 | -12.5 | 9 | 9 | 34 | 3 | |||
| Arizona St | 12 | 10 | 7 | -17 | 2 | -4 | 8 | -12 | 29 | -23 | |
| Rutgers | 18 | 18 | 0 | ||||||||
| Arkansas | 6 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 15 | 9 | |||
| Yale | 1 | 1 | 13.5 | 13.5 | 14.5 | 14.5 | |||||
| Purdue | 14 | 14 | 0 | ||||||||
| South Carolina | 9 | 9 | 0 | ||||||||
| LSU | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||||||||
| Notre Dame | 6 | 6 | 0 | ||||||||
| (tie) Wyoming | 4 | 4 | 0 | ||||||||
| (tie) UCLA | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | |||||||
| FIU | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | |||||||
| (tie) San Diego St | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||||
| (tie) Harvard | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||||
| Texas A&M | 1 | -15 | 0 | -6 | 1 | -21 |
Arizona swimming had their worse performance in program history. Must be hard for a Busch to be thanking a diving coach for saving his job. Yikes, 5 points from swimming! It’s time to move on.
Even with the “home pool advantage,” next door to Virginia, it will take TN a lot of “rebounding” to move up from 127 points to 551.5 points in 2023,
From another perspective on the Top 15, one can really see the outliers (sorry in advance if any miscalculations):
Florida +248%
Louisville +46%
Georgia +32%
Texas +26%
UNC +17%
UVA +15%
Alabama +13%
Stanford +9%
California -2%
Michigan -7%
NCState -8%
Indiana -10%
Kentucky -18%
Ohio State -27%
Tennessee -56%
Flo-rida. Gator snapped hard.
248 looks nice, but it still 1/5 of the points when compared to Hoos
Tennessee … ouch
Tennessee ouch indeed. They will probably rebound next year though since they are hosting the NCAA meet in Knoxville and will have that home pool advantage.
Then they better not go all In for conference next year so they can save something for nationals
The last two times Texas men hosted NCAAs, Cal won! Hosting comes with no guarantees! You gotta leave room on your belt to tighten up from conference to NCAAs
they seem to be reboounding for next years always…. I know it is great family and great place to transfers to…..
Tennessee big ouch…again. Maybe setting a record for losing points versus seed. Even swimswam called that the lady vols repeatedly go all in for SECs…or Kredich doesn’t know how to double taper? Or both? Kind of embarrassing given they should be national contenders (dominated SECs…) and barely held on to a top10 finish…