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2021 W. NCAA Picks: Can Top Seed Madden Deny Forde A Repeat Victory In The 500?

Having gone 1-2 in the event two years ago, Brooke Forde and Paige Madden will be back next week to battle it out in their last-ever NCAA 500 freestyles.

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Men’s Big 12 Picks Revisited: West Virginia Snags Second With Strong Showing

Just as we saw on the women’s side, West Virginia outswam expectations, beating TCU by 132 to remain the conference runners-up.

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Men’s Big Ten Picks Revisited: Michigan Overcomes Two-Week Pause

This was a brutal conference to call, and we narrowly picked IU over fears about Michigan’s two-week training pause during taper. Michigan proved us wrong.

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2021 W. NCAA Previews: Douglass v. MacNeil Part 3 – The 100 Freestyle

It will be their 3rd showdown of the meet and one final chance for either Douglass or MacNeil to get the upper hand at the 2021 NCAAs.

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Women’s Big Ten Picks Revisited: Nebraska Exceeds Expectations

Nebraska and Iowa were the big outliers, jumping up a full tier from where we expected them to be. Nebraska jumped three, nearly four spots from our picks.

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MSU Alumni Ask Appropriations Committee To Seek Transparency In Program Cuts

Two alumni members asked the Committee to call on the university to account for why it’s “making such a poor financial decision against its own interest.”

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2021 W. NCAA Picks: Douglass V. MacNeil Part 2 – The 100 Butterfly

After the pandemic cancelled the 2020 NCAAs, Michigan JR Maggie MacNeil and Virginia SO Kate Douglass will finally take their aims at the 100 fly NCAA title.

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2021 W. NCAA Previews: Douglass v. MacNeil Part 1 – The 50 Freestyle

The 50 free will be a bloodbath this year with Kate Douglass and Maggie MacNeil leading the charge, seeded only 0.02 seconds apart.

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The 2021 Women’s NCAA Swimming & Diving Championship Pick ‘Em Contest is HERE!

Who will win the NCAA Championship trophy? Pick right and you could be the recipient of a prize pack and the right to call yourself a swim nerd.

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Brendan Burns Returns To 100 Fly/100 Back/200 Fly Lineup For NCAAs

The extended Big Ten meet allowed Indiana’s Brendan Burns to swim and win both the 200 fly and 200 back. But at NCAAs, he’ll return to his traditional events.

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2021 Zone C: Ohio State Men Qualify 3 Divers For NCAAs On Day 1

Indiana’s Andrew Capobianco blew out the field, but Ohio State managed to qualify three divers for NCAAs on day 1 of the Zone C Diving Championships.

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Indiana’s Brendan Burns Name 2021 Big Ten Swimmer Of The Championships

Indiana University sophomore Brendan Burns was named the Big Ten Swimmer of the Championship, adding to his Freshman of the Year honor from last season.

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Michigan Men Defend Big Ten Team Title, Earns 42nd Title in Program History

The Michigan men successfully defended their Big Ten team title, earning their 42nd title in program history, the most in Big Ten history.

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Brendan Burns Takes Advantage of Big Ten Meet Schedule, Four 41s to Close Meet

Instead of the fly/back double in 100s, he was able to do the 200 of each stroke on separate days, and he broke 1:40 in both for the first time.

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2021 Big Ten Men’s Championships: Day 5 Finals Live Recap

Zane Backes (above) is racing in tonight’s 200 breast A-final for IU, as the Hoosiers are gunning for a B1G title in an extremely close race with Michigan.

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