2025 Men’s NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships
- March 26-29, 2025
- Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatics Center, Federal Way, Washington
- Short Course Yards (25 yards)
- Psych Sheet
- SwimSwam Pick’Em Contest
- SwimSwam Preview Index
Think you know how all the action at the 2025 Men’s NCAA Championship will play out? It’s time to put your predictions to the test in our annual Men’s NCAA Championship Pick’Em Contest! The contest is open now and will be live until the afternoon of Wednesday, Mar. 26. The contest will close a few hours before the first finals session gets underway in Federal Way, Washington.
Not sure who to pick? We’ll be publishing event-by-event previews and updating our preview index.
Thank you to Andrew Mering for setting up the form
Read on for a refresher on the scoring system and prize eligibility. Unlike international championship pick’ems, there’s a part of these pick’ems about team standings, so make sure you know how scoring that section works.
SCORING SYSTEM
Correctly picking a swimmer to place earns:
- 1st – 7 points
- 2nd – 5 points
- 3rd – 4 points
- 4th – 3 points
Correctly picking a swimmer to place in the top 4, but putting them in the wrong spot, will earn you 1 point.
Team picks will be streamlined with 10 points awarded for picking the winning team and 5 additional points for each correctly-guessed team after that:
- 1st – 10
- 2nd-10th – 5
Note that on the Google Doc, you must scroll to the left to reveal the column to make your #10 team selection.
Picks will close at 5 pm Eastern Time on Wednesday, March 26th. After picks close, we’ll post everyone’s picks for them to see.
The Google Form allows you to edit your responses up until the form closes. You can also use this “edit responses” ability to print or save your answers.
For team selections, you can use the “Unselect” column if you want to switch your picks after they’re first made. If you don’t change your mind, feel free to leave these blank.
The tie-breaker for prizes, if necessary, will be the most correctly-picked winners in the relevant time period, then 2nd-place finishers, then 3rd-place finishers, etc. in the relevant time period.
Prizes
Daily Prizes: A subscription to SwimSwam Magazine
Grand Prize: $100 credit to the SwimSwam Swag Store
OFFICIAL RULES
Anybody is eligible to play, but only certain people are eligible for prizes. For starters, only one entry per person is allowed. If we discover that you have made multiple entries, we may disqualify all of your entries.
To win prizes, entrants must:
- Be 18 or older
- Accept responsibility for any and all taxes
- Accept responsibility for any impact on high school or college eligibility
- Be a legal resident of the United States or Canada (prizes will only be mailed to these countries)
- Must enter contest using their real name
- No purchase is required for ent
- Agree to allow SwimSwam to provide their personal information to the sponsor in order to distribute prizes
Again, you may still enter if you aren’t eligible for prizes–bragging rights are one of the best prizes around.
If I were a sports book here would be my over unders on what times will win/make the a final
500 free 403.8/409.2
200 Im 138.0/139.8
50 free 17.9/18.56
100 fly 42.95/44.45
400im 333.6/339.7
200 free 128.7/131.0
100 breast 49.3/50.5
100 back 43.8/44.9
1650 1424/1437
100 free 40.1/40.9
200 back 135.3/139.4
200 breast 147.9/150.8
200 fly 137.4/139.5
Did a 44.9 even make the A final of the 100 back last year?
Over on 500 Free (both times)
Over on 50 Free (both times)
Over on 400 IM (both times)
Over on 100 Fly (final)
Over on 200 IM (final)
Over on 1650 Free (both times)
Over on 100 Free (final)
Think even with swimflation you’re drastically overrating the field (which is fine because we like hype)
Just a reminder, same as last year, don’t forget Luke Hobson in the 500
Thanks, stranger…err…Isaac
Lol
FYI, to the best of my knowledge entering the contest as a college/high school athlete and accepting prizes should not affect eligibility. Because it is an open contest and you are not wagering money or items, and rewards are not based on your athletic achievements, it should be okay
If I enter, will I be the first non-American (including Canada in ‘American’ in this case I guess) to ever do this particular contest?
You will not. But don’t let that stop you from entering!
It won’t! Growing the sport and all that.
Aussie Aussie Aussie, Aya Aya Aya.
Some of us Aussies have been doing the pick ems’ for a while now. More often for World champs and olympics though.
Oh I know that 😀 I meant specifically for NCAA’s.
Didn’t they make Canada a state?
Does winning a prize affect my eligibility if I’m not a division 1 swimmer?
Yo put it in your parents name lol
prolly
I am not an expert in eligibility, so don’t take this as advice, but I don’t think it actually impacts any college swimmers (and probably never did, because there’s no entry – no stake – no wager). College athletes have always been allowed to enter free March Madness pools, for example, like the ones hosted on ESPN or CBS.
But we cannot account for every situation and every rule from every level (high schools?), so it’s best for every athlete to review their own personal eligibility/compliance situation.