Regular-season dual meets have slowed to a final trickle, but the NCAA’s new trend, First Chance Invites, are flowing full-stream this week.
More and more teams have started kicking off their postseason momentum with early invites – sometimes to run swim-offs for the final spots on their conference travel squads, sometimes to help make relay decisions, but most often, it seems, to capture the all-important momentum factor early in the postseason.
This week, we have major ‘first chance’ meets at Ohio State, Auburn and Virginia Tech, among others.
Dual meets wrap up over the next two weeks, and it’s mostly the Pac-12 still competing, owing to their late conference championship schedule. Here are the dual meets to watch this week:
- Cal @ USC (men)
- Texas @ SMU (women & men)
- Stanford @ USC (men)
Below is a list of the D1 meets we’ll be covering at SwimSwam this week. If we missed any, please leave them in the comments and we’ll get them added.
| Meet | Date | Men | Women |
| Air Force Diving Invite | 2/6-2/8 | x | x |
| Iowa vs Western Illinois | 2/7 | x | x |
| USC vs Cal | 2/7 | x | |
| SMU vs Texas | 2/7 | x | x |
| South Florida Diving Invitational | 2/7 | x | x |
| Boston Open Water Invite | 2/7 | x | x |
| Dusquene Diving Invite | 2/7 | x | |
| Colorado State vs Northern Colorado | 2/7 | x | |
| Idaho vs New Mexico State | 2/7 | x | |
| Boston Winter Open @ Boston U | 2/7-2/8 | x | x |
| Iowa State vs Kansas | 2/7-2/8 | x | |
| UC San Diego Invite | 2/7-2/8 | x | |
| Bowling Green vs Toledo | 2/7-2/8 | x | |
| OSU First Chance Meet | 2/7-2/8 | x | |
| Jackrabbit Invite (South Dakota State) | 2/7-2/8 | x | x |
| Auburn Invite | 2/7-2/9 | x | x |
| Virginia Tech Invite | 2/7-2/9 | x | |
| Michigan Open | 2/7-2/9 | x | x |
| Arizona State vs Arizona | 2/8 | x | x |
| USC vs Stanford | 2/8 | x | |
| SMU Pre-Conference Time Trials | 2/8 | x | x |
| Columbia vs. Princeton | 2/8 | x | x |
| San Diego vs UC San Diego | 2/8 | x | |
| California Baptist Alumni Meet | 2/8 | x | |
| Duke Dog Diving Invite | 2/8-2/9 | x | x |
It’s amazing how quickly the regular season passes…
Are you not going to do a recap of NCSU vs VT?
https://swimswam.com/stewart-triples-hits-45-5-in-100-back-to-lead-nc-state-over-virginia-tech/
Just got it out. Busy weekend. 🙂
I think you might be confusing the Michigan Open at Oakland University Feb 7-9 with the First Chance Meet at the University of Michigan Feb 15-16.
UT lists the men as competing atSMU as well but maybe that outdated?
https://texassports.com/sports/mens-swimming-and-diving/schedule