2026 NCAA Division I Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships
- Dates: Wednesday, March 25–Saturday, March 28
- Location: McAuley Aquatic Center, Atlanta, GA
- Defending Champions: Texas (1x)
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Think you know how all the action at the 2026 Men’s NCAA Championship will unfold? It’s time to put your predictions to the test in our annual Men’s NCAA Championship Pick’Em Contest! The contest is open now and will be live until 9am (Eastern Time) on Wednesday, Mar. 25.
Not sure who to pick? We’ll be publishing event-by-event previews and updating our preview index.
Read on for a refresher on the scoring system and prize eligibility. Unlike international championship pick’ems, there’s a part of these pick’ems about team standings, so make sure you know how scoring that section works.
SCORING SYSTEM
Correctly picking a swimmer to place earns:
- 1st – 7 points
- 2nd – 5 points
- 3rd – 4 points
- 4th – 3 points
Correctly picking a swimmer to place in the top 4, but putting them in the wrong spot, will earn you 1 point.
Team picks will be streamlined with 10 points awarded for picking the winning team and 5 additional points for each correctly-guessed team after that:
- 1st – 10
- 2nd-10th – 5
Note that on the Google Doc, you must scroll to the left to reveal the column to make your #10 team selection.
The Google Form allows you to edit your responses up until the form closes. You can also use this “edit responses” ability to print or save your answers.
For team selections, you can use the “Unselect” column if you want to switch your picks after they’re first made. If you don’t change your mind, feel free to leave these blank.
The tie-breaker for prizes, if necessary, will be the most correctly-picked winners in the relevant time period, then 2nd-place finishers, then 3rd-place finishers, etc. in the relevant time period.
Once the form closes, we will post everyone’s picks (with your anonymous names) as an article so you can track them throughout the week. We will also post daily winner articles along with a grand prize winner article at the end of the meet.
Prizes
Daily Prizes: A subscription to SwimSwam Magazine
Grand Prize: $200 credit to the SwimSwam Swag Store
OFFICIAL RULES
Anybody is eligible to play, but only certain people are eligible for prizes. For starters, only one entry per person is allowed. If we discover that you have made multiple entries, we may disqualify all of your entries.
To win prizes, entrants must:
- Be 18 or older
- Accept responsibility for any and all taxes
- Accept responsibility for any impact on high school or college eligibility
- Be a legal resident of the United States or Canada (prizes will only be mailed to these countries)
- Must enter contest using their real name
- No purchase is required for ent
- Agree to allow SwimSwam to provide their personal information to the sponsor in order to distribute prizes
will submitting my pickems at 11:00 count, lol
In the Pick em options for the 200 Breast, it appears Andy Dobrzanski is not listed. Correction needed?
Are there going to be team picks added? Did not see final team positions after the 400 free relay
blah blah blah I yap too much about Texas I know, but surprised to see Texas is bringing Masiuk
I don’t recall Masuik being selected to an individual event or as an alternate; Bob is likely bringing him as a relay-only option.
Since their two initial alternates(Gould and Glivinskiy), who would have likely been going as relay-onlys, got moved up into the meet, I’m guessing Bob got two additional slots to fill in with relay-onlys, and Masuik is in one of those slots.
If you understand otherwise, please note here.
I’m assuming it’s for relays too seeing as I don’t think Masiuk even made it onto the alternates list. I have to imagine the medleys and 400+800 free relays are mostly set. Only relay I could see him making it onto is the 200 free.
I don’t know if I ever realized the coaches get 2 spots for relay-only athletes. I’ve only ever followed Texas in-depth and Eddie never had that issue and Bob last year had more than enough athletes qualified individually.
ik its early but teams aren’t on the forms atm
Was there a Women’s Pick ‘Em, or did I just miss it?
Yes. We had a bit of a technical/administrative snafu on getting first two days scores out, but they’ll be up tonight.
I totally whiffed on entering