2018 M. NCAA Division I Pre-Selection Sheets Released

The pre-selection list for the 2018 Men’s NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships was released this morning, and you can peruse the full document here.

While this is not the official psych sheet, it does tell exactly what three events some of the more versatile swimmers have decided to go after, and we’ll be spending the rest of the day breaking down some of the more notable entries.

We’ll also be crunching the numbers to predict exactly who will end up with a NCAA invite, but typically the “cut line” falls roughly along the 29th-ranked swimmer in each event.

The NCAA will go through, event by event, and add one swimmer to each, until a certain “line” (aka, all 25th-ranked swimmers) puts the field over the maximum 235 individual entries (270 total minus 35 places for divers. Swimmers with more than one entry under the cut line only count once towards the cap). At that point, swimmers will be invited based on who is the closest to the NCAA Championship Record in their event. If you want to look at the full procedure, check section 2.4 of the NCAA Pre Championship Manual.

Coaches have today to review the sheets, and the initial psych sheet should be out Wednesday.

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Pvdh
6 years ago

Who’s the lowest seeded swimmer to win at NCAAs? Because Dressel is 78th in the 100 fly

Joe
Reply to  Pvdh
6 years ago

Won’t be after they cut those who didn’t make the meet

Admin
Reply to  Pvdh
6 years ago

Pvdh – he’s not actually going to be seeded 78th. A lot of guys between 29 and 78 won’t get invited.

Pvdh
Reply to  Braden Keith
6 years ago

Sorry bad choice of words. 78th rank in the country

iLikePsych
6 years ago

We’ll probably see an article(s) about this, but what are some noteworthy line-ups/entries?
E.g Farris in the 50/200 free/200 back as mentioned by others
Dressel in his usual 50/100/100 fly
Hoffer in the same lineup
Seliskar in the 200 breast instead of the 200 fly
Szaranek in the 200 breast as well (there’s an article on this, I know)

Caleb
6 years ago

A few other interesting choices:
Maxime Rooney, 200 IM & 100 Free
Cam Craig, 50 Free
John Shebat, 100 Fly
Bryce Mefford, 200 Free
Mike Jensen, 200 Free (over 100 Fly)
Mark Szaranek, 200 Breast

Reid
Reply to  Caleb
6 years ago

Zheng Quah in 200IM over backstroke

Jay ryan
6 years ago

I count around 17 individual swimming qualifiers for Cal and Florida, 15 for Texas and Stanford, 13 each for NC State and Michigan. 9 for IU.

Interesting
6 years ago

Several events seem to be slower this year compared to last, such as 100 Breastroke, 200 Breastroke, 200 Free, even 50 Free. I wonder why that is, considering every event was faster for the women’s meet.

BSD
6 years ago

Dean Farris swimming 50 Free, 200 Back and 200 Free. Opting for one event per day instead of trying to double 100 back and 200 free.

Caleb
Reply to  BSD
6 years ago

honestly that’s pretty surprising; he’d have had a good chance to final in the 100 back (even on the double) and I don’t like his odds in the 50. Probably either a) they want to give him his best shot to win the 200; b) they think he has more taper speed left over in the 50 than anyone else knows; c) they’re really just going to put him on all 5 relays. Although if they were considering that, they could have just left him entered in the backstroke.

Mike
6 years ago

Man I really wanted to see a sub-50 100 breast from Caeleb. I guess the Schooling-Dressel rematch will be a good one to watch too.

Stan Crump
Reply to  Mike
6 years ago

Maybe we will get a 48.9 or something crazy in the 400 Medley Relay.

Sportsfan
Reply to  Mike
6 years ago

I wouldn’t count IU Finnerty out…appears IU Breaststroke group tends to pop!

SSNCOMMENTER
6 years ago

No 100 back for Dean Farris. Interesting

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