2019 MEN’S NCAA SWIMMING & DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Wednesday, March 27 – Saturday, March 30
- Lee & Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center, Austin, Texas
- Prelims 10 AM / Finals 6 PM (Central Time)
- Defending champion: Texas (4x) (2018 results)
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The California men have mathematically clinched the 2019 NCAA team title after the 200 breaststroke.
Cal headed into the final day with a 43-point lead, and dominated with 11 scoring swims out of prelims this morning. Two more milers scored to put Cal firmly in control, but they now have enough points that they could still win the meet over Texas even with DQs to all their remaining events.
The max Texas can score in the final relay is 40. They could score a max of 29 on platform diving, and a max of 9 in the 200 butterfly, leaving them with 78 potential points left. Cal currently leads by 88 after Andrew Seliskar and Reece Whitley went 1st and 5th in the 200 breast.
We’ll have a more full scoring analysis coming later tonight, but Cal’s win goes all the way back to day 2 prelims, when they tore up the field with huge moves from seed. That night, Cal won almost every A and B final they had a swimmer or relay in, setting a dominant tone for the meet and building a points lead they never relinquished.
The win will snap a four-year Texas run as team champs. Interestingly, the last NCAA meet Texas lost was also hosted here in Austin: the 2014 edition of the meet, which Cal won over Texas by 51.
Cal won the meet before it ever started
Proud to be a Bear. What a fantastic meet.
If Cal doesn’t DQ their relay they will score the most swimming points by a program in at least 15 years. Even if they do DQ their relay, they still would do the same. Wow
Have they really been that dominant? More so than classic Auburn/2016 Texas?
Yes. 2019 Cal outscored 2016 Texas by almost 80 points in swimming. Last team that may have outscored 2019 Cal in swimming was 2004 Auburn, coached by David Marsh and…….Dave Durden
Cal just had everything go their way this meet well done!
Cal killed it It never really seemed liked Texas was ever in it. Texas was flat from day one. They were destined for failure. So many swimmers under performanef.
Max from MN will be 1:48 next year
So same as 2018… doing work.
They really were on their A game this year! Well deserved.
they were so hungry after last year.