2018 MEN’S NCAA SWIMMING & DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Wednesday, March 21 – Saturday, March 24
- Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center – Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Defending champion: Texas (3x) (results)
- Psych Sheet
- Championship Central
As we tick down the days to the 2018 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.
| EVENT | WINNER |
| Wednesday | |
| 800 Free Relay | Florida |
| Thursday | |
| 200 Free Relay | California |
| 500 Free | Felix Auboeck, Michigan |
| 200 IM | Mark Szaranek, Florida |
| 50 Free | Caeleb Dressel, Florida |
| California | |
| Friday | |
| 400 IM | Mark Szaranek, Florida |
| 100 Fly | Caeleb Dressel, Florida |
| 200 Free | Townley Haas, Texas |
| 100 Breast | Ian Finnerty, Indiana |
| 100 Back | Coleman Stewart, NC State |
| Florida | |
| Saturday | |
| 1650 Free | Akaram Mahmoud, South Carolina |
| 200 Back | Austin Katz, Texas |
| 100 Free | Caeleb Dressel, Florida |
| 200 Breast | Mauro Castillo, Texas A&M |
| 200 Fly | Joseph Schooling, Texas |
| 400 Free Relay | Texas |
Are you guys not gonna do all the predictions? You’re running out of time! Let’s just pray Dressel is on that 800 free relay!
Hi. We’re working on them and will have them up shortly. Thanks for reading 🙂
A few predictions:
NC State has a dominant relay performance and wins the most relay titles of any team.
Florida takes the most individual titles.
Michigan impresses off of depth.
Cal underwhelms slightly.
Finally, Texas wins barely.
Just predictions, nothing more. I’ll probably be horribly off xD
Should be a fun meet!
Any prediction that reflects michigan well makes me happy XD
Any chance you can post the links to all of the articles on Zone Diving Results somewhere, so we don’t have to search through them when doing our predictions?
Can we PLEASE have a practice+pancakes on florida? Or even better, a Caeleb Dressel special? It’s his last NCAAs and it’s going to be bananas. I’m sure you’ll get plenty of views on YouTube.
someone should research how swimswam has historically performed in the pick ’em contest in terms of accuracy 🙂
Every year, I mean to do an entry that is based on our choices. Every year, I decide it’s too much effort.
This year, I’ll do it for him ^
Try to post somewhere their number they got correct for us! Or send it to them and make them write an article on it. My picks this year line up with them pretty similarly so far, except I think Shebat will win the 100 back and I’m not sure if Caeleb Dressel is even enough to overpower the stupid schools (aka Texas and Cal) in the 200 medley
I’ll try to post something on how predictions matched up when the meet is done!
Why don’t the divers appear in the psych sheets? Is there a list of divers entered somewhere? I realize it’s not “DiveDove” but diving points contribute to the overall team score and placement (it is the NCAA Swimming AND Diving Chsmpionship) so for those of us following along and doing our own picks the diving entries would be nice as would some recognition/respect for the divers.
Aquatics – we don’t put together the psych sheets. Those come straight from the NCAA. In addition, divers don’t qualify for NCAAs until after the swimming invites are out – they qualify through Zone events generally the week after NCAA psych sheets are released for women and the week they are released for men.
“Shhhhhh, We want to keep teams focusing on scoring the swimming psych sheets” – Texas Longhorns