2019 MEN’S NCAA SWIMMING & DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Wednesday, March 27 – Saturday, March 30
- Lee & Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center, Austin, Texas
- Defending champion: Texas (4x) (2018 results)
- Psych Sheet
- Championship Central
- Live results
As we tick down the days to the 2019 Men’s NCAA Championships, keep track of all our event-by-event previews and winner picks here.
Don’t miss a moment of our preview action and the concurrent comment section discussion – you can bookmark this page, which will be updated with links to each preview as we publish them. Disagree with our winner picks? Well, they are infallible, but if you really don’t buy it, you can leave your own picks, predictions and expectations in the comments.
Below are all of the events in their NCAA order, broken down by day. You can click on the event name and follow the link to our full preview and check out our picks for the entire top 8.
Final Edition Team Power Rankings Here
2019 Men’s NCAA Pick ‘Em Contest Here
| DAY | EVENT | WINNER |
| Wednesday | 800 Free Relay | Texas |
| Thursday | 200 Free Relay | Cal |
| 500 Free | Townley Haas, Texas | |
| 200 IM | Andreas Vazaios, NC State | |
| 50 Free | Bowen Becker, Minnesota | |
| 400 Medley Relay | Indiana | |
| Friday | 400 IM | Abrahm DeVine, Stanford |
| 100 Fly | Vini Lanza, Indiana | |
| 200 Free | Townley Haas, Texas | |
| 100 Breast | Ian Finnerty, Indiana | |
| 100 Back | Coleman Stewart, NC State | |
| 200 Medley Relay | NC State | |
| Saturday | 1650 Free | Felix Auboeck, Michigan |
| 200 Back | John Shebat, Texas | |
| 100 Free | Justin Ress, NC State | |
| 200 Breast | Andrew Seliskar | |
| 200 Fly | Vini Lanza, Indiana | |
| 400 Free Relay | NC State | |
| Diving | Connor/Zeng/Dinsmore |
Rowdy Gaines is a terrible announcer
Wow. Yaeger 17th, (+15 seconds), the story of Texas’ meet. And Auboeck shows up for Michigan at last. Weird meet!
Not sure where to leave this, so I’m dropping it here. Here’s how I score the top 4 teams, with ups-downs for all individual events (including diving). My methodology predicts ups/downs subjectively using best times from both last year and this year. I’ve been predicting the meet for more than a decade using this approach and it’s proven pretty accurate.
Day 1
1. NC State, 40
2. Texas, 34
3. Indiana, 32
5. Cal, 28
Day 2
1. Texas, 187 (4 up, 7 down)
2. Cal, 163 (3 up, 5 down)
3. Indiana, 162 (5 up, 0 down)
4. NC State. 146 (3 up, 1 down)
Day 3
1. Texas… Read more »
Well so much for this system at this particular meet. CAL was on fire yesterday and Texas needs to be talking to Santa about some more of your “gifts”. Texas divers need to have a couple more into the B today and tomorrow. I think TX’s Friday’s taper point was a mixed bag for some of the team – let’s see if another day changes that. Here’s to a surprising Friday to make Saturday really interesting!!!
Excited for the meet! Hope I can find tix…. thanks Texas…
? Why thanx texas? It’s a small venue.
Small venue as compared to what? It has almost 2,000 seats. In terms of permanent competition pools, the only one I can think of that is significantly larger is Indy. What are the larger venues you’re thinking of?
Truth is, even though TSC is the best in US for championships for swimmers and spectators, it’s small at 2,000+
We do Trials in arena’s with what, 10K seats?
We watch Final 4 in football stadiums with 60K?
Most college natatoriums have bleacher seating and even less deck space.
It may be time to look into Myrtha pools at bigger venues….
They would sell out in a heartbeat, just like Austin that draws for lots of reasons.
I heard the women’s meet was only about half full. But I do think the men’s meet will be much better attended
Our estimate was about 60% full, but I do agree with your belief that the men’s meet will be fuller.
correct…. I was there all sessions last Friday and Saturday…about 60% full is right and maybe less for prelims …womens had plenty of tickets available so was not an issue with that to fill up….mens is sold out so will be interesting if every session is at capacity
But many don’t even travel to the venue if they can’t get tickets assured in advance. I suspect attendance would be larger if more folks had assured tickets.
So, completely unrelated, but…… everyone should follow Shane Tusup on Instagram to witness his seamless transition from coaching swimming to…. professional golf?
I still laugh every time I here about him golfing. It just seems so fitting.
Do they drug test for that “sport”? They should!
What is there to follow? I assume already he has broken all the major course records by now…
This years pick’em is going to be so much harder than last year.
We’ve been talking a lot about this in our Slack channel. Especially for teams. Power Rankings were super hard to do on the men’s side, it’s all very muddled in the middle (and at the top for that matter).
Yeah, very few events have overwhelming favorites… Technically by psych sheet entries the biggest favorite is Jackson’s 100 free followed closely by Auboeck’s 500 free and then Finke’s mile. Biggest favorite becomes Finnerty’s 100 breast followed by Haas’s 200 free if you go by best times – and those are pretty overwhelming time-wise but we know Vissering is hanging around in the 100 breast and Seli in the 200 free.
Don’t sleep on Reece Whitley. Freshman boy taper, yo
Still don’t think he can hang with Finnerty and Vissering in the 100. 200, he should challenge Seli and Finnerty.
Forgetting about max mccugh in the 100