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)
- Psych Sheet
- Live results
One of the fun things about intercollegiate sports is that fans get lots of different ways to argue about whose team is better. And while your school may have bitter rivalries within your own athletic conference, it makes your team look better when you’re in a “better” conference, right?
We see this from time-to-time in swimming, and seemingly a little more recently, with suggestions along the lines of, that the ACC is improving, or that the SEC isn’t as strong this year. And while there’s really no way one to decide these things, here’s a little data you can use to help you to further your own argument however you’d like. We’ll follow up with a fuller breakdown, either after each of the next two nights, or as part of our post-meet analysis.
In short, the ACC has scored the most total points as a conference through day 2, with NC State leading the conference with 136 points. But Pac-12 and the SEC are within 10 points of the ACC. Cal has scored 212 of the Pac-12’s 326 points, while no team in the SEC has scored more than Florida’s 76 points, but nine teams have scored (same as the ACC). Indiana currently leads the Big 10, accounting for 155 of the conference’s 288 points, and Texas has racked up 188 points for the Big 12. Meanwhile, schools outside of the Power 5 Conference, aka “Mid-Majors,” have scored 82 points, with 70 points coming from Harvard. Note that these scores include diving.
Quick Glance
| Conference | Points |
| ACC | 336 |
| SEC | 328 |
| Pac-12 | 326 |
| Big 10 | 288 |
| Big 12 | 188 |
| Mid-Major | 82 |
| Total | 1548 |
Full Breakdown
| Team | Conference | Score |
| NC State | ACC | 136 |
| Louisville | ACC | 71 |
| Virginia | ACC | 38 |
| FSU | ACC | 37 |
| Duke | ACC | 17 |
| Georgia Tech | ACC | 15 |
| Miami | ACC | 13 |
| Virginia Tech | ACC | 6 |
| Notre Dame | ACC | 3 |
| ACC total | 336 | |
| Indiana | Big 10 | 155 |
| Ohio State | Big 10 | 40 |
| Michigan | Big 10 | 30 |
| Minnesota | Big 10 | 29 |
| Purdue | Big 10 | 17 |
| PennState | Big 10 | 17 |
| Big 10 total | 288 | |
| Texas | Big 12 | 188 |
| Big 12 total | 188 | |
| Harvard | Mid-Major | 70 |
| Penn | Mid-Major | 7 |
| Navy | Mid-Major | 4 |
| Denver | Mid-Major | 1 |
| Mid-Major total | 82 | |
| California | Pac-12 | 212 |
| Arizona | Pac-12 | 42 |
| USC | Pac-12 | 32 |
| Stanford | Pac-12 | 22 |
| Arizona St | Pac-12 | 18 |
| Pac-12 total | 326 | |
| Florida | SEC | 76 |
| Missouri | SEC | 60 |
| Alabama | SEC | 60 |
| Texas A&M | SEC | 54 |
| Tennessee | SEC | 30 |
| Georgia | SEC | 21 |
| South Carolina | SEC | 13 |
| LSU | SEC | 9 |
| Kentucky | SEC | 5 |
| SEC total | 328 |
This is good info.
It would be interesting to go back several decades to see which schools have consistently been in the Top 20. Some, like UCLA, have abandoned their programs. Others fell by the wayside through the years, only to seem resurgent with new facilities, coaches, and a commitment to put a quality program in the pool. All of which makes the staying power of a program like Texas all the more amazing.
For instance, Wikipedia has the Top Ten
1989 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_NCAA_Division_I_Men%27s_Swimming_and_Diving_Championships
1999 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_NCAA_Division_I_Men%27s_Swimming_and_Diving_Championships
2009 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_NCAA_Division_I_Men%27s_Swimming_and_Diving_Championships
This is great!! Thank you! Did you do this for the women’s ncaa’s,? I’d love to see it!
Virginia 38
USC 32
Michigan 30
Tennessee 30
Stanford 22
Georgia 22
Take any 2 of these formerly elite teams, and they combine for less than, or in one case equal to, 70 points.
Harvard alone has 70 points.
Michigan or Tennessee, Stanford, and Georgia combined have 74 points.
Harvard 70.
Excluding diving, the bottom half of the ACC and the SEC – Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, Kentucky, LSU, Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech, Notre Dame, Duke, Miami – COMBINED have 66 points.
H70.
USC, Michigan and Georgia are definitely still elite… Georgia is making due with what they have, and Michigan simply had a first day that is as much the polar opposite of how perfect Cal’s was as possible. They can still finish within the top 8 if they get back on track
Not with the MAN Vols diving TEAM…They put two in the big final today. Tennessee diving outscoring the swim team! We gonna calll ourselves the UT DIVE and swim program! Give that diving coach huge raise and get the swim coach in gear!
And the 400 IM just made that entire post irrelevant…
Tennessee has scored 8 points in swimming (22 diving) and this am they got NOBODY scoring in individual events!!! Their divers will bail them ut so they do not look as bad as they are…sad decline of a storied program.
It would be great to see the psyche sheet scoring in another column to see which teams had to go all in at conference.
breakdowns are good! I just hope Michigan can get back on track I feel really bad for them