2024 MEN’S NCAA SWIMMING AND DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS
- March 27-30, 2024
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400 YARD MEDLEY RELAY — TIMED FINAL
NCAA Record: 2:58.32 — Florida (A. Chaney, D. Hillis, J. Liendo, M. McDuff), 2023Meet Record: 2:58.32 — Florida (A. Chaney, D. Hillis, J. Liendo, M. McDuff), 2023- American Record: 3:01.51 — Cal (R. Murphy, C. Hoppe, M. Josa, M. Jensen), 2017
U.S. Open Record: 2:58.32 — Florida (A. Chaney, D. Hillis, J. Liendo, M. McDuff), 2023Pool Record: 2:59.22 — Texas (J. Shebat, W. Licon, J. Schooling, J. Conger), 20172023 Champion: 2:58.32 — Florida (A. Chaney, D. Hillis, J. Liendo, M. McDuff)
Top 8:
- Arizona State – 2:57.32 *NCAA, American, U.S. Open, & Pool Records*
- California – 2:58.30
- NC State – 2:59.71
- Indiana – 3:00.20
- Stanford & Tennessee – 3:01.97
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- Virginia Tech – 3:02.34
- Texas – 3:02.44
It took until day 3 of the meet, but Arizona State finally won their first NCAA relay title in program history, putting up a stunning performance in the 400 medley relay. The Sun Devils combined for a 2:57.32, taking exactly 1 second off the NCAA Record that Florida set at last year’s NCAAs.
Hubert Kos led off in 44.61, then Leon Marchand threw down a 48.73 breast split (more on that later), freshman Ilya Kharun went 43.44 on fly, and Jonny Kulow anchored in 40.54 to get the job done. Here is a split comparison between Arizona State tonight and Florida’s NCAA Record from last year:
| Splits | Arizona State – 2024 NCAA Championships | Florida – 2023 NCAA Championships |
| Backstroke | Hubert Kos (44.61) | Adam Chaney (44.28) |
| Breaststroke | Leon Marchand (48.73) | Dillon Hillis (50.23) |
| Butterfly | Ilya Kharun (43.44) | Josh Liendo (42.91) |
| Freestyle | Jonny Kulow (40.54) | Macguire McDuff (40.90) |
| FINAL TIME | 2:57.32 | 2:58.32 |
As the table above shows, the biggest difference between Arizona State’s relay tonight and Florida’s relay from last year was the breaststroke leg. Marchand was nothing short of exceptional. In fact, his 48.73 breast split tonight marks the fastest breaststroke split in history. That means we saw two of the fastest 100 breaststrokes in history tonight, as Marchand went the fastest relay split of all-time, while Cal’s Liam Bell cracked the NCAA Record in the 100 breast earlier in the session with a 49.53.
The crazy thing about Arizona State’s relay is that they could have been faster. Kos led the team off in 44.61, which is well off his season best of 43.75. Had Kos been near his best leading off the relay tonight, the Sun Devils would have gone under 2:57.
We should also point out that Kulow had a reaction time of -0.01 on the final exchange for ASU tonight. That’s a legal reaction time, but it’s notable because Kulow has been in risky territory with his starts all week. On the 200 medley relay on Wednesday night, Kulow had a -0.02 reaction time, and he was (positive) 0.06 on the 200 free relay last night.
Of course, ASU did not set an American record.
I hope UF comes out swinging today and makes up the 34 points they’re missing. That was really unfortunate.
The guy that commented that it was a necessary to win at least a relay for winning the title 🤡
What took so long? In comparison, the University of Virginia women won four relays this year without Kate Douglass.
the UVA women have (arguably) the greatest SCY sprinter of all time so idk if this is a fair comparison
Poking the bear.
UVA won the women’s 4 x 200 freestyle relay at the 2021, 2023 NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships without Gretchen Walsh.
and how’d they do this year
UVA doesn’t have Dressel..
World class hater. Job well done
Or Kulow is just good at relays
And they would’ve been in 2:56s if Kos was within .5 of his PR
Kos has been a little off so far and if you look at his face at the award ceremony for the 100 back he is not happy about it. I hope things are better for him tomorrow.
You’ve got to put it together at the same time everyone else does. Relays are a team sport, no use saying “they could have done x” … facts prevail, they didn’t do x.
Ah, but in this instance “THEY” DID do it.
Kulow’s consistency with the splits is very interesting. Wonder if Herbie’s been working on them with the sprinters this year
Great race! Poolside Perspective has posted video of the 400 medley relay on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPQmB_eG55w