2015 Men’s NCAA Championships
- Thursday, March 26 – Saturday, March 28
- University of Iowa, Iowa City
- Prelims 11AM/Finals 7PM (Central Time)
- Defending Champion: California – results
- Iowa Championship Central
- NCAA Championship Central
- Prelims Live feed: Hawkeye Sports
- Finals Live feed: ESPN3 (Friday & Saturday)
- Live results
Recent Headlines:
- Scoring out the 2015 NCAA DI Psych Sheet – Men’s edition
- FINIS to award $1250 in FINISInc.com credits in 2015 Men’s NCAA Championship Pick ‘Em Contest Prizes
- Graphical Analysis of Team Race
- Cal v Texas – The Swimming Rivalry
- Texas scratches Ganiel to make room for third diver: Stanford’s Ryan Arata pulled into the meet
- VIDEO: Dave Durden and Will Hamilton preview Cal’s NCAA Championship Meet
- Final SwimSwam 2014-2015 Men’s NCAA Power Rankings
Video Streams
Full meet coverage all in one place here
Enter SwimSwam’s official Pick ‘Em Contest Here
Event-by-Event Previews
You can follow these links to each of our specific event-by-event previews for Women’s NCAAs, including our top 8 picks in each race. We’ve listed our predicted winners below.
(Note: SwimSwam writers collectively went 13/18 in predicting women’s event winners, including a clean sweep of the relays.)
- 50 free: Kristian Gkolomeev, Alabama
- 100 free: Kristian Gkolomeev, Alabama
- 200 free: Cristian Quintero, Southern California
- 500 free: Cristian Quintero, Southern California
- 1650 free: Jordan Wilimovsky, Northwestern
- 100 back: Ryan Murphy, California
- 200 back: Ryan Murphy, California
- 100 breast: Kevin Cordes, Arizona
- 200 breast: Kevin Cordes, Arizona
- 100 fly: Jack Conger, Texas
- 200 fly: Jack Conger, Texas
- 200 IM: David Nolan, Stanford
- 400 IM: Chase Kalisz, Georgia
- 200 free relay: NC State
- 400 free relay: Auburn
- 800 free relay: Southern California
- 200 medley relay: Texas
- 400 medley relay: Alabama
I know it’s from Iowa, but the Live Results link takes you to the Big 10 results, not the NCAA Championships.
CT Swim Fan – try closing the tab, clearing your browser’s cache, then clicking the link again. It should update to show NCAAs at that point.
Thank you, I refreshed the page and it up-dated.
Schooling wins 200 fly and Conger wins 100 fly.
Licon beats Cordes on 200 breast.
Murray swims 200 IM finals (breast leg).
Tomorrow will be Texas Chainsaw/Swimming Massacre Part 2.
I just want to see Schooling versus Conger.
Gkolomeev is probably a lock for the 50. I don’t think he can repeat his 100 performance with a week off. I think dressel drops 0.4-0.5 of his time and wins.
the 200 IM and 50 Free may end up being a wash between Cal and Texas. The 500 will be the difference maker on day 1, Texas with 4 potential scorers.
Well, the 500 and diving.
Concur on Texas as the favorite, but Cal always does something incredible at this meet…somewhere on that team are guys who people project to score 8-10 point and the guy scores 25-30 points. That program is the taper kingfish right now.
This will be an awesome meet, can’t wait.
I agree. They will be there on Sunday.
agreed. but, Texas is probably going to have a pretty massive taper as well since so many guys qualified in December. If both teams go mostly season bests, Texas is going to win. Cal needs to swim lights-out, on par or better than last year, AND have Texas to either underperform to a surprising degree or DQ a relay (or two).
I agree with you guys too. Cal is going to peroform their best and also might need a little luck in order to win.
^This is a very good series of comments and reflect most of my feelings about the meet. Although Hulk, I think the team battle is over by Sunday…but the hangover battle is just beginning 🙂
It will be interesting to see if your predictions come true with Gkolomeev on the sprints and Alabama on the 400 medley. I’ve never seen someone perform at the same elite level after missing a week of swimming just a couple weeks before their championship meet. After being out a week after SECs for having his wisdom teeth removed, I find it really hard to believe Kristian will be able to repeat the times he swam there. I’m also surprised the coach was clueless enough to let his swimmer skip a full week that close to NCAAs.
Here are my final top 10 predictions. Note that I did not score NC State and Alabama using my normal methods, so I’ve simply guessed where I think they’ll end up.
For reference, I’ve been scoring this meet using my own methodology for the past decade, with pretty good predictive results, posting them on that other website. And while I’m confident in my Horns, seeing them up this big also makes me damn nervous.
The big story is Texas big, then a three team dogfight for 2nd between USC, Cal and Florida. Note that I actually have Cal and Florida exactly tied, but I’m giving the tiebreaker nod to Cal because I think they have more upside. The next cluster… Read more »
I disagree with your assessment of Cals day 2… 4 and 5? Does that include relays?
Med- California in top 8
4IM- Prenot up and Green down
Fly- Stubblefield up and Lynch down
200- Hamilton up and Guittierez down
Br- Katis up and I like Hoppe down
Bk- Murphy up and Pebley down
800- California in top 8
So I have them with 7/5 if you count relays… If they are “on”… I wouldn’t be suprised if they go 9/4…
My up/downs include diving but exclude relays, I should have clarified that. For Cal day 2, I have:
400 IM, Prenot up, Green down
100 fly, Stubblefield up
200 free, Gutierrez and Williams down
100 breast, Katis up, Hoppe down
100 back, Murphy up, Pebley down.
Diving, nada
So 4 up, 5 down, but it looks like I missed Hamilton in the 200 free. I’d assume him down, so that’s make 5/5. That’s not too different from what you are saying.
I wouldn’t be surprised at all if Cal has a great meet and outscores my predictions. They’ve certainly proven capable of that in recent years.
OK. Makes sense now. 🙂
Wethorn’s prediction for Cal in 2014: 367 points and 3rd place. ?. My reaction then: “Cal will score in the high 400s, will it be enough?” They did. It was. Is there a compelling reason why we should trust wethorn’s predictions? Like, something that changed since last year? Wethorn’s predictions last year:
1. Florida, 420
2. Michigan, 384
3. Cal, 367
4. Texas, 356
5. Zona, 315
6. Auburn, 293
7. Stanford, 233
8. USC, 222
Actual scores last year:… Read more »
1. Cal 468.5
2. Texas 417.5
3. Florida 387
4. Michigan 310
5. Georgia 259
6. Auburn 230
7. Zona 198.5
8. USC 182