2016 MEN’S NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Wednesday, March 23 – Saturday, March 26
- McAuley Aquatic Center – Atlanta, GA
- Prelims 10AM/Finals 6PM (Eastern Time)
- Defending Champion: Texas (results)
- Championship Central
- Live stream: Wednesday/Thursday prelins & finals, Friday/Saturday prelims / Friday/Saturday finals on ESPN3
- Live results
200 FREE RELAY – Finals
- NCAA Record: Auburn, 1:14.08
- American Record: Stanford, 1:15.26
- U.S. Open Record: Auburn, 1:14.08
Pool Record: NC State, 1:15.62- 2015 Champion: Texas, 1:15.86
Top 3:
- Texas – 1:14.88
- NC State – 1:15.09
- Alabama – 1:16.16
The Texas Longhorns won their second relay of the weekend, posting a winning time of 1:14.88. NC State’s Ryan Held tried to run down John Murray down on the last leg, but ran out of room at the end, finishing with an 18.28 split. Brett Ringgold led off for Texas with a 19.07 split, followed by Joseph Schooling at 18.53, Jack Conger at 18.74, and Murray at 18.54.
NC State finished in second place at 1:15.09. Simonas Bilis lead off at 18.77, followed by Joe Bonk at 19.15, Andreas Schiellerup at 18.89, and Held at 18.28.
As fast as Held’s split was, it still doesn’t compare to Caeleb Dressel‘s lead off split. The sophomore broke his own pool record, besting his time from this morning with a time of 18.24. Florida went on to finish fourth, just behind Alabama. Of note in the team points battle: Cal moved up from the 8th spot to tie Florida for 4th, getting an 18.56 split from Ryan Murphy.
The team of Ali Khalafalla, Blake Pieroni, Anze Tavcar, and Sam Lorentz from Indiana won the B final with their time of 1:17.00.
500 FREE – Finals
- NCAA Record: Peter Vanderkaay, Michigan, 4:08.60
- American Record: Peter Vanderkaay, Club Wolverine, 4:08.54
- U.S. Open Record: Peter Vanderkaay, Club Wolverine, 4:08.54
- Pool Record: Peter Vanderkaay, Michigan, 4:08.60
- 2015 Champion: Clark Smith, Texas, 4:09.72
Top 3:
- Townley Haas, Texas – 4:09.00
- Mitch D’Arrigo, Florida – 4:09.98
- Reed Malone, USC – 4:12.55
Winning their third NCAA title of the meet, the Texas Longhorns watched Townley Haas take control of the men’s 500 freestyle early on to win the event with his time of 4:09.00. That time will stand as the sixth fastest 500 freestyle in history. It also give Texas two straight NCAA wins in that event after Clark Smith won it a year ago.
Florida’s Mitch D’Arrigo and USC’s Reed Malone both made strong moves later in the race to run down Haas, but it wasn’t enough to reel in Haas. D’Arrigo picked up second with his time of 4:09.98 and Malone finished third at 4:12.55.
Akaram Mahmoud from South Carolina was the final swimmer to finish under 4:13 at 4:12.86.
Florida’s Pawel Werner won the B final with his time of 4:13.79.
200 INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY – Finals
- NCAA Record: David Nolan, Stanford, 1:39.38
- American Record: David Nolan, Stanford, 1:39.38
- U.S. Open Record: David Nolan, Stanford, 1:39.38
- Pool Record:
Ryan Lochte, 1:40.08 - 2015 Champion: David Nolan, Stanford, 1:39.38
Top 3:
- Will Licon, Texas – 1:40.04
- Josh Prenot, Cal – 1:40.14
- Ryan Murphy, Cal – 1:40.27
There is something in the air here in Atlanta. It was tight race between California’s Josh Prenot, Ryan Murphy, and Texas’ Will Licon, but Licon managed to get his hand on the wall first. His time also bumps him ahead of Ryan Lochte, giving him the second fastest performance in history and the pool record. Licon’s 200 IM is Texas’ fourth NCAA title in as many events.
Prenot and Murphy finished second and third at 1:40.14 and 1:40.27, respectively. On the other side of the pool, Florida’s Jan Switkowski reached in for fourth, finishing with a final time of 1:41.36.
Brigham Young’s Jake Taylor won the B final with his time of 1:42.82, dropping nearly half a second from his morning swim.
50 FREE – Finals
- NCAA Record: Caeleb Dressel, Florida, 18:23
- American Record: Caeleb Dressel, Florida, 18:23
- U.S. Open Record: Caeleb Dressel, Florida, 18:23
Pool Record: Caeleb Dressel, 18.29- 2015 Champion: Caeleb Dressel, Florida, 18.67
Top 3:
- Caeleb Dressel, Florida – 18.20
- Simonas Bilis, NC State – 18.84
- Kristian Gkolomeev, Alabama – 18.95
Caeleb Dressel did it again, going 18.20 to lower his own American record for the third time in the past month and win his second-consecutive 50 free NCAA title.
The record was just 18.66 before Dressel got ahold of it, and the U.S. Open record was 18.47. Dressel has better both of those marks six times over the past five weeks – twice at SECs, twice this morning and now twice at tonight’s finals. Dressel now holds the six fastest swims in history in the event and four of them happened today.
NC State’s Simonas Bilis wasn’t quite able to match his twin 18.7s from prelims, but he did go 18.84 for the silver medal. Meanwhile Alabama’s Kristian Gkolomeev managed to rise all the way up to 18.95 and third place after barely scraping his way into the final through a three-way swim-off in prelims.
A trio of men finished right on the other side of 18 – Mizzou’s Michael Chadwick (19.04), Michigan’s Paul Powers (19.05) and Texas’s John Murray (19.08).
NC State’s Ryan Held fell off his prelims pace some, going 19.20, and Georgia Bulldog Michael Trice was 19.23 for 8th.
Also of note: UNLV’s Dillon Virva blasted a 19.07 to win the B final. That’s his lifetime-best by .02.
400 MEDLEY RELAY – PRELIMS
- NCAA Record: Texas, 3:01.23
- American Record: California, 3:01.60
- U.S. Open Record: Texas, 3:01.23
- Pool Record: Texas, 3:04.31
- 2015 Champion: Texas, 3:01.23
Top 3:
- Texas – 3:00.68
- California – 3:01.28
- Louisville – 3:04.73
Texas stayed red-hot through the end of night 2, winning its 5th NCAA title in just 6 swimming events so far. The team of John Shebat, Will Licon, Joseph Schooling and Jack Conger went 3:00.68 to shatter the NCAA and U.S. Open records along with their own pool record from this morning.
The splits were great all around, but particularly absurd was Schooling’s 43.3 on the butterfly. That suggests the sophomore could become the first man ever under 44 seconds in the individual 100 fly tomorrow, or at least challenge the U.S. Open record of 44.18. Schooling represents Singapore internationally, so the Texas relay doesn’t break the American record, just the U.S. Open mark, for the fastest swim ever done on American soil.
The freshman Shebat was 45.36 on the backstroke, with Licon coming off his 200 IM win to split 50.69 and Conger anchoring in 41.29.
California was actually just off the old NCAA and U.S. Open records as well. Ryan Murphy shattered the American 100 back record on the leadoff leg with a mind-numbing 43.51 to put Cal way out in the lead. Josh Prenot came off the 200 IM runner-up spot to split 50.71 on breaststroke, Justin Lynch was 45.03 on fly and Long Gutierrez 42.03 on freestyle. Cal was actually under the American record, but don’t get credited with a new national mark because Gutierrez represents Mexico internationally.
Louisville snuck in for bronze, holding off a hard-charging Missouri team. Grigory Tarasevich was 45.24 on backstroke for Louisville as the Cardinals went 3:04.73. Mizzou made a late charge on a 42.54 from Michael Chadwick on the anchor leg, but couldn’t quite run down Louisville, instead settling for fourth in 3:04.99.
50 free hero Caeleb Dressel split 51.8 on breaststroke for Florida, and a 45.7 backstroke from Jack Blyzinskyj helped the Gators go 3:05.19 for 5th.
Out of the B heat, Alabama added Kristian Gkolomeev to their anchor leg after leaving him off the squad this morning. Gkolomeev split 42.02 as Alabama won the heat in 3:04.32, a time that would have been 3rd in the championship heat.
Team Scores
Through 400 Medley Relay
- Texas 209
- Florida 163
- California 141
- NC State 137
- Michigan 90
- Missouri 81
- Tennessee 79
- Auburn 72.5
- Georgia 68
- Alabama 68
- Indiana 62
- Louisville 60
- Stanford 57.5
- Southern Cali 53
- Ohio St 38
- Arizona 28
- South Carolina 23
- Wisconsin 23
- University of Miami 14
- Brigham Young 12
- Pittsburgh 11
- Virginia Tech 11
- Unlv 9
- Univ of Utah 9
- Princeton 8
- Penn 6
- Georgia Tech 5
- Minnesota 4
- UNC 2
- Penn State University 2
- Harvard 2
- Texas A&M 1
Caleb in 100 fly – look out!!!
Well. I’m impressed by the quality of times overall.
A few thoughts.
Caeleb Dressel’s consistency all day was crazy. But I still wonder the use of swimming 18.29 in prelims. Keep your energy! It was useless to go that fast in the morning.
His average level now is a very high level. I’m not much interested in his 100 fly. But I want to see him break 41 in the 100 free.
Townley Haas continues to have a huge meet. Great 4.09.00 for his first NCAAs. He will fight against some fresher swimmers in the 200 free but if he’s not too tired after his monster first 2 days, I don’t see him beaten in that event. A… Read more »
Bobo –
I think for a 50, it might throw off a swimmer’s rhythm to do it less-than-100%. That race is the closest there is to diving: very short, and crucial to get every element perfect. Swimming a less-than-perfect 50 might save a little energy, but you miss a chance to try your stroke and especially turn in a new pool.
Also, as a former butterfly-er who usually had to fight to get into scoring position, I have little patience for sprint studs who can’t go all-out for a 20-second race. It just looks like showing off.
Swim historian
“He could easily join another conference if he wanted to, that’s certainly been done by a lot of other big swimming schools in the past few years.”
Individual sports programs cannot change conferences from the conference their school is affiliated with unless that conference does not sponsor that sport. So Eddie could NOT move Texas to another conference for swimming and no othe swim programs have done that either (unless part of a university change of conference).
UT would have to decide to change their conference affiliation entirely. Since UT would only move to a power 5 conference, and all conferences in the power 5 sponsor swimming, Eddie could not chose his conference he would have to… Read more »
A relay of the fastest legs ever.
43.51 Murphy
49.56 Cordes
43.34 Schooling
40.21 Morozov
2:56.62 – 4.06 seconds faster than the current record… Wow.
I like the other ‘live results’ better. Does anyone have the link for that?
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Great swimming today and this has been said before, but Sergio Lopez and the “University of Bolles” team would have been a ridiculous medley tonight:
Murphy- 43.5
Dressel- 51.8
Schooling- 43.3
And if he was swimming collegiately this year
Condorelli- 41 anything = 2:58-:59 total= Insane!!
Pretty amazing and unique to have all of that talent at the same place at the same time while at Bolles. To me, kinda cool to see all 3/4 boys go to completely different college programs yet continue to take their swimming careers to even greater heights!
Murphy 1:35.9 in the 200 back calling it
Gators are swimming lights out right now. I would watch for Szaranek in that 400 IM, and they could very well put 3 up in the 200 free. That was a gutsy swim by D’Arrigo. He usually hangs back and closes fast, but he went for it this time, and got the school record.