College Swimming Weekly Preview: January 26 – February 1

After last week’s busy schedule, this week is a bit lighter. Highlighting the week are the dual meets between Cal and Stanford as the men will compete on Friday and the women on Saturday.

Those meets will be top 10 showdowns on both sides with the Cal men sitting at #7 and the Stanford men sitting at #8. On the women’s side, Stanford sits at #2 and Cal sits at #6.

Louisville will have a busy weekend, first racing Indiana on Saturday before competing against Cincinnati on Sunday. The #7 Louisville women are coming off of an upset over the #3 Texas women and will look for another upset this week as the Indiana women sit at #5. Anastasia Gorbenko notably set two school records for the Cardinals while down in Texas.

The Iron Bowl will take place in Tuscaloosa with Alabama hosting Auburn. Alabama is coming off wins over fellow SEC foe Texas A&M while Auburn had this past weekend off.

Looking at the Ivy League schedule, the tri-meet between Harvard, Yale, and Princeton (HYP) will be one to watch. Mitchell Scott of Princeton notably broke a Michael Phelps pool record earlier this month at the Naval Academy.

SwimSwam’s Post Invite Power Rankings (Women)

SwimSwam’s Post Invite Power Rankings (Men)

Note: Many members of the SwimSwam staff have searched websites to compile this list. Meets are occasionally added/removed after this list is compiled. Some schools also have conflicting data ie, one school posts the meet being X date while the other posts Y date.

Meet Date Men Women
Cal vs Stanford 1/31 Yes
Cal vs Stanford 1/30 Yes
Duke v. Tennessee 1/30-31 Yes Yes
Louisville v. Indiana 1/31 Yes Yes
Cincinnati v. Kentucky 1/30 Yes Yes
Louisville v. Cincinnati 2/1 Yes Yes
WVU v. Penn State 1/30 Yes
Harvard v. Yale v. Princeton 1/30-31 Yes Yes
NC State v. UNCW 1/30 Yes Yes
Northwestern v. Purdue v. Minnesota 1/30-31 Yes Yes
Ohio State v. Pitt 1/31 Yes Yes
Auburn at Alabama 1/30 Yes Yes
Texas A&M vs Texas 1/30 Yes Yes
Arkansas vs Vanderbilt 1/30 Yes
Florida vs Florida St 1/30 Yes Yes
Iowa v. St. Thomas 1/30 Yes
Georgia vs Emory 1/31 Yes Yes
Missouri vs Southern Illinois (SIU) 1/31 Yes Yes
UCLA vs USC 1/30 Yes
UCLA vs Nevada 1/31 Yes
Nebraska vs Rutgers 1/30-31 Yes
Butler at IU Indianapolis 1/31 Yes
Georgetown vs Seton Hall 1/31 Yes Yes
Providence vs Holy Cross 1/31 Yes Yes
Navy Invite (Navy, American, Lehigh, Lafayette, 1/31 Yes Yes
UMBC at Towson 1/31 Yes Yes
Utah vs SMU 1/31 Yes Yes
Siena vs St Peters 1/31 Yes
Bryant vs Bridgeport 1/30 Yes Yes
Washington State vs Idaho 1/30-31 Yes
GW v. Penn State 1/31 Yes Yes
Oakland at Cleveland State 1/30 Yes Yes
Fresno State at San Jose State 1/31 Yes
UNLV at Grand Canyon (GCU) 1/31 Yes Yes
FGCU vs North Florida 1/30-31 Yes
Miami OH at Buffalo 1/31 Yes
Toledo at Bowling Green 1/30-31 Yes
Ohio at Akron 1/30-31 Yes
Eastern Illinois vs Southern Illinois 1/30 Yes Yes
Eastern Illinois at Illinois State 1/31 Yes
Indiana state at Ball State 1/30 Yes
Air Force Sprint Eliminator 1/31 yes yes
Coyote Invite (South Dakota, Northern Iowa (UNI), 1/30-31 yes yes
Southern Indiana v. Evansville 1/31 yes yes
Valparaiso at Ball State 1/31 yes yes
NAU Lumberjack Diving Invite 1/29-31 yes
New Mexico State v. New Mexico 1/31 yes
NAU v. Utah Tech 1/30-31 yes
Idaho v. Washington St 1/30-31 yes
Colorado Sprint Championships 1/31 yes yes
Rice at Houston 1/31 yes
San Diego vs UC San Diego 1/31 Yes
Missouri State vs UIC 1/30-31 yes yes
UT Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) vs Arkansas little rock 1/30-31 yes
LIU vs Wagner 1/30-31 yes yes
Howard vs Catholic 1/31 yes yes
Brown v Cornell 1/30-31 yes yes
Columbia v Dartmouth 1/31 yes yes
UC Davis vs Pacific 1/31 yes
Marist at Le Moyne 1/31 yes yes
The Sterkel Classic 1/31 yes yes
Michigan vs Denison 1/31 yes yes
Cal vs Pacific 1/29 yes
William & Mary at Johns Hopkins 1/31 yes yes
UCSB Invite (UCSB, 1/30-1/31 yes yes
Dunquese v. St Bonaventure 1/30-31 Yes
Fordham v. UMASS 1/31 Yes Yes
URI v. Stony Brook 1/31 Yes
Binghamton v. Wagner 1/31 Yes Yes
Milddlebury Invitational 1/30-31 Yes Yes
FIU v. FAU 1/31 Yes
Air Force Diving Invite (Air Force, Fresno State, 1/28-31 Yes Yes
Iowa State v. Iowa 1/31 Yes
TCU v. Incarnate Word 1/31 Yes Yes
Davidson v. Gardner-Webb 1/31 Yes Yes
La Salle v. Monmouth 1/31 Yes Yes
UW Milwaukee v. Steves Point 1/30 Yes Yes

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Yswim
4 months ago

yeah
Stanford and Cal
two “Atlantic” Coast Conference rivals!
was just looking at basketball standings, ACC now has 16 teams, I think Big10 also has 16
crazy

MigBike
Reply to  Yswim
4 months ago

Being so far from the Atlantic coast must mean the real estate is not expensive?

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