2020 NCAA Division I Men’s Swimming & Diving Championships
- Wednesday, March 25 – Saturday, March 28, 2020
- IU Natatorium, Indianapolis, IN
- Prelims
- Defending champs: Cal (1x) – results
- Championship Central
- Live Stream
- Pre-selection Psych Sheets
- Live results
The NCAA has released its psych sheets for the 2020 Division I Men’s Swimming & Diving Championships, with cutlines to follow later this week.
See the full pre-selection NCAA men’s psych sheets here
The pre-cut psych sheets don’t reveal who is invited to the meet, but do show which three events each athlete chose to enter for the NCAA Championships. The NCAA selection criteria is relatively complex, based on getting exactly 270 men and 322 women into the national championship meet. You can read the finer points of that selection criteria here, but the upshot is that the top 35 to 40 women in each event should earn an invite, while the top 28 to 33 men should be in line for invites.
Stay tuned to SwimSwam as we’ll be running the numbers ourselves and projecting the cut-line later on today. You can follow that and all the rest of our pre-NCAA Championships coverage in our event channel here.
Texas appears to be the favorites to return to the top of the podium. Their four-year win streak was snapped by Cal in front of the Austin, Texas crowd last year, but an influx of elite recruits and transfers has a deep Texas team surging to reclaim the title.
It’ll be mostly fresh faces on the top of the ranks this year – only three individual event champions return from 2019: Cal’s Ryan Hoffer (50 free), Michigan’s Felix Auboeck (1650 free) and Texas’s Jordan Windle (platform diving).
What if NC’s is cancelled because of corona. Lots of schools cancelling classes like OSU and Stanford. Wonder what that means for training as well
Many of the schools have exceptions. So Penn, for example, has cancelled all university travel *without approval*. Amherst has said everyone has to leave campus by Monday *unless they remain on campus during spring break*. There seems to be exceptions to everything, so far.
You should check with Harvard too
More and more schools are canceling all athletic events. Such as the ivy league tournament for basketball. Is there a chance NCs could be canceled?
The Covid-19 response is moving fast. Wouldn’t at all be surprised if NCAAs cancelled.
Why are there some names that are on college swimming ranking but not on the list for the pre selection sheet?
Might be a chance you were looking at all divisions instead of just division one
Could be a number of reasons, including:
1) swimmers can appear on the rankings in any number of events, but have to narrow it to 3 events for official entries.
2) their team didn’t enter them in the meet, as was the case with several Texas swimmers.
3) their time in the ranks was a mistake, which happens here and there
You are right, there was no one else on the teams entered where I noticed certain swimmers not entered. Thank you!
Looks like Kieran Smith did pick the 200 free over the 400 im. I was thinking that he might do what dean did last year but with casas and hugo in the 4im, I think its a wise choice.
Kieran is doing the 100, 200 and 500 free which allows him to focus on a single stroke during these last few weeks. That should also keep his energy level up for the relays.
Doubt he will be rested but can still win 200 and 500
Do you realize that UF had to make a decision where to enter Smith before knowing about Casas in 400 IM right? No one knows who’s enter in what events until today. I was expecting to see Casas in the 100 back, Hugo in 400 IM, and Smith in the 200 Free.
Unless they talked to each other or their coaches did?
Totally. Very wise choice, he has a way better shot at the 200 than the 4im. And plus Florida has 2 other likely scorers in the 400 IM.
Wow. Casas 400 IM. That’s… unexpected.
Not after last weekend. Smart decision in my opinion. 100 back is too “violent” and unpredictable – 400IM he can control from start to end. He has much more room to drop. That was the easiest 400 IM I have ever seen in person.
He would’ve been seeded 4th in the 100 back I believe. He is 2nd seed in 400 IM.
American-record watch… seriously. I don’t think he’ll get there but 3:35 or lower is definitely possible. We’ll see how much Hugo has left, too.
If he throws that down he can probably translate it into a 4:10 lcm time
Or 1:55 lcm time 👀
I agree. I was there as well. It was scary fast and he seemed under control the entire way.
and kill his 200 back…
So haven’t finished analysis but looks like Koustik, Yeager, Peter Larson, Neri, left off this version. Missed any? Park, Scheinfeld, Josh Artmann, Colins, John Thomas, Zettle in. Will have to cut at least one more, maybe two depending on divers, right?
Staka looks like only entered in 100 back, not in 100 fly, 50 free, 100 free or 200 back.
Rooney in 50 free 100 fly, 100 free. No 200 free/200 fly
oops Staka in 100 fly. any 3rd event?
no only 2 events. Same with Scheinfeld.
don’t think Scheinfeld had a b cut in anything else
Actually 100 free, not 100 fly. You scared me there I though he put his 2 events on the same day and swam nothing else (besides maybe relays) for the rest of the meet lol.
So Casas chooses to swim 200/400 IM and 200 back, interesting.
Carson Foster events!
The Trials plot thickens!
I guess it’s a smart choice for him. Seeded top 2 in all of his events. If he chose the 1back over the 4im he would have been seeded 4th.
No 100 back when your best time is 44 mid shows INSANE versatility.