2025 SEC Championships: Texas Men Projected To Extend Lead On Florida (Day 4 Ups/Mids/Downs)

2025 SEC Championships

• Dates: Tuesday, February 18–Saturday, February 22
  • Prelims: 9:30 am EST/ Finals 5:30 pm EST (Tuesday-5:00 EST)
• Location: Gabrielsen Natatorium — Athens, GA
• Defending Champions: Florida women (2x); Florida men (12x)
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• Teams: Alabama, Arkansas (women), Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas*, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt (women)
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  • Prelims: Day 3
  • Finals: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3

For those unfamiliar with swimming terminology, the concept of “Ups” and “Downs” is a good way to track which teams performed best at prelims. In prelims, swimmers qualify for one of three finals heats: the top eight finishers make the ‘A’ final, places nine through 16 in the ‘B’ final, and place 17 through 24 in the ‘C’ final. In finals, swimmers are locked into their respective final, meaning a swimmer in the B heat (spots 9-16) can only place as high as 9th or as low as 16th, even if they put up the fastest or slowest time of any heat in the final.

With that in mind, we’ll be tracking “Ups,” “Mids” and “Downs” after each prelims session. “Up” refers to swimmers in the ‘A’ final, “Mid” to swimmers in the ‘B’ final and “Down” to swimmers in the ‘C’ final.

TEAM STANDINGS AFTER DAY 3

Women

1. Texas- 677
2. Tennessee- 381
3. Florida- 369
4. Georgia- 322.5
5. South Carolina- 273
6. Texas A&M- 268
7. LSU- 248
8. Alabama- 236
9. Auburn- 180.5
10. Missouri- 177
11. Kentucky- 163
12. Arkansas- 135
13. Vanderbilt- 86

Men

1. Texas- 505
2. Florida- 421.5
3. Tennessee- 327.5
4. Georgia- 309
5. Texas A&M- 264
6. LSU- 237
7. Alabama- 225
8. Auburn- 199
9. Kentucky- 176
10. South Carolina- 152
11. Missouri- 128

The Texas women opened up a big lead in the team race heading into Thursday, and figure to extend it tonight as they put seven swimmers into ‘A’ finals and have 11 total second swims.

Florida and Tennessee are separated by just 12 points in the race for 2nd, and they had nearly the same results this morning in terms of ups/mids/downs.

Both teams have six ‘A’ final swims, but the Gators have a slight edge with two ‘B’ finalists and three ‘C’ finalists compared to Tennessee having one and two, respectively.

Texas A&M is hunting down South Carolina in the race for 5th, and although the Aggies have one more ‘A’ finalist than the Gamecocks, South Carolina figures to rack in some extra points tonight with six ‘C’ finals.

UPS/MIDS/DOWNS – WOMEN

PROJECTED SCORING

Women’s 400 IM

Women’s 100 Fly

Women’s 200 Free

Women’s Projected Totals – Day 4

Women’s Real Scores + Day 4 Projections

The men’s race for the title is much tighter between Texas and Florida, and the Longhorns project to extend their lead tonight as they have four more consolation finalists while both teams have the same number of top-eight swims with five.

Tennessee also has five ‘A’ finalists and eight total top-16 swims, which should help distance them from Georgia in the race for third tonight.

The Vols notably had four men advance into the ‘A’ final of the 100 fly (spots 5-8) despite the absence of Jordan Crooks, who raced the 200 free and qualified 5th into the final.

UPS/MIDS/DOWNS – MEN

Updated with diving.

PROJECTED SCORING

Men’s 400 IM

Men’s 100 Fly

Men’s 200 Free

Men’s 1-Meter Diving

Men’s Projected Totals – Day 4

Men’s Real Scores + Day 4 Projections