We’re giving you an event-by-event preview of the 2025 Men’s NCAA Championships.
- 0:00 Men’s NCAA Preview Introduction
- 0:55 500 Free
- 7:56 200 IM
- 14:00 50 Free
- 21:44 100 Fly
- 27:00 400 IM
- 34:28 200 Free
- 39:40 100 Breast
- 47:54 100 Back
- 55:00 1,650 Free
- 1:00:49 200 Back
- 1:04:07 100 Free
- 1:08:44 200 Breast
- 1:13:40 200 Fly
- 1:19:00 Over/Under – 3.5 Take Home Relay Titles
- 1:23:14 Over/Under – 6.5 Individual NCAA records get broken
- 1:27:25 Who is winning this meet???
Texas sweeps opening night relays if Liendo isn’t used in the 2 medley
Cal will smoke them in the 8 frr just like last year. It wasn’t close and won’t be this year either despite a 1:28 Hobson lead off
Disagree I think Texas is the slight favorite for the 800 free relay and both teams have the potential to break 6 minutes this year I think it’ll come down to .5-1 second between both teams.
Texas wil have a 1:28, 2×1:29’s and a 1:30.
I guess I’m stuck on what Henveaux can do, there’s not much to go off of with him. Cal will have 3×129’s besides him
I don’t think Texas has a real shot at winning 2-Medley unless there’s a magic fly split from Kos.
I disagree with Andrew that Cal will smoke Texas in that relay. If both teams are on point I think it’s a toss up. Texas will likely get two swimmers under 1:30, Cal might get 3. Mauer is the wildcard for Texas assuming he swims it. His best flat is a 1:31.5, if he can roll a second faster than that and Carrozza or Taylor get into the 1:31’s (and Coby has been 1:30.5) then Texas is looking at sub 6:00.
1:28.8 (Hobson), 1:29.8 (Guiliano), 1:31.0 (Coby) and 1:31.5 (Rex) is right at 6:01.00
1:29.7 (Alexy), 1:29.7 (Jett), 1:30.00 (Lasco)… Read more »
I don’t care if it’s Texas or Cal or both, but someone better be sub-6:00. I’m tired of being teased with what could be, I want to see a 5:5x minute 8 FR.
On paper the 800 free relay is one of the potentially tightest races almost every NCAAs but it almost never turns out that way unfortunately
However, I do think Cal should run away with it. Gabe Jett should easily be 1:30 low if not 1:29 high, Alexy has been 1:29 flat start and Lasco is consistently a 1:29 split on this relay as well. Their “weakest” leg is Henveaux who is a 1:46.0 LC and if he drops like the rest of the Cal guys at NCAAs they should be right around the 6 minute mark vs. Texas who has 2 realistic sub 1:30s and 3 wild cards that could MAYBE be under 1:31.
Agree
This year might be different
I’m counting on a magic fly split from Hubert. All I know is Modglin & Kos will not be 20.3 and 19.7 tomorrow
I hope I will be proven wrong, but I’m not that big on Hubi’s butterfly currently. Apart from that speedy 44.04 it has been a bit ho-hum this season.
I just feel we haven’t seen anything close to 100% Hubert, he’s had a handful of fast results/times that are indicative of his potential (1:40.5 IM in November, SC Worlds as a whole, 44.0 fly in January, and the 1:36.1 back at SEC’s) I don’t think Hubert will have to be much faster than 19.3/19.4 for the fly leg to have Texas win 2 medley. I believe Modglin will be faster than 20.3 tomorrow and I’m hoping Germonprez & Giuliano match their SEC splits. That puts them way closer to the times Tennessee and Florida put up at SEC’s.
Texas 3rd place after being the on paper favorites the whole year lmfaooo
🔥Hot take 🔥
Texas wins the 2Medley relay! 🤘
Delusions of grandeur
You are (as you are well aware) very unreasonably Texas-negative, but I agree, they aren’t winning the 2 medley relay. There are 2 stronger teams, and another two that are roughly equal to Texas in potential.
Predictions for events/winning times
200 medley relay: either Texas/Florida: 1:19.90
800 free relay: Texas: 5:58.70 (yes I know really fast)
500 free: Rex Maurer: 4:03.25
200 IM: Julian Smith 1:38.11
50 Free: Jordan Crooks 17.83
200 Free Relay: Arizona State: 1:12.33
400 IM: Rex Maurer: 3:31.68
100 Fly: Josh Liendo: 42.65
200 Free: Luke Hobson: 1:28.25
100 Back: Johnny Marshall: 43.25
100 Breast: Julian Smith: 49.29
400 Medley Relay: 2:54.78
1650 Free: David Johnston: 14:21.03
200 Back: Hubert Kos: 1:34.86
100 Free: Josh Liendo: 39.98
200 Breast: Matt Fallon: 1:47.85
200 Fly: Luca Urlando: 1:36.77
400 Free Relay: Tennessee: 2:41.63
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Who’s got good diving analysis? IU has 131 points on the pyschs, but anything further than that?
No, Sir, Cal cannot close a c. 200-point ‘chasm’ and will run into 2nd place.
Texas Longhorns for the win by over 100 points.
Cal will close the gap but IU’s divers will push them over the edge for the win. Texas falls to third as the team underperforms vs their seed (which ASU did on average over the last 3 years)
Not a Texas homer but I don’t see how it can be argued that Texas was tapered for SECs and therefore primed to add from their seed times. All their top guys were off their mid season results. Maybe Bob is adjusting from his ASU strategy. It’s also worth noting that ASU had a much different timeline for conference to NCAA with men’s PAC 12s being 2-3 weeks later on the calendar than SECs. He probably has a lot more flexibility for resting/ tapering for both now.
if you score out the pysch sheets on how CALs top guys will idealistically finish, I see them gaining about ~140 points vs pysch sheets. I also see Indiana outscoring by about 30-40.
So it’s not unrealistic that CAL can get second. Really comes down to diving and how much Miroslaw + Corbeau have been saving for NCAAs imo.
I only had Tomac scoring in the 200BK. Or guys like Humberto or Nans scoring, so if they have good meets they could get 2nd.