The CSCAA’s inaugural Dual Meet Challenge has its bracket set.
Based on the relative-rankings of the four participating programs, Virginia, Michigan, Tennessee, and Arizona State, will be seeded into a four-team double elimination bracket for the meets, a format designed to test out the theory that a dual meet tournament is a more exciting and engaging version of the sport for the public audience. Those schools each come from one of the so-called Power 4 Conferences that rule college athletics: Arizona State from the Big 12, Michigan from the Big Ten, Tennessee from the SEC, and Virginia from the ACC.
Men’s Bracket
Overall Rankings:
- #2 Arizona State
- #9 Tennessee
- #11 Michigan
- #12 Virginia
Bracket
Women’s Bracket
Overall Rankings
- #1 Virginia
- #7 (T) Michigan
- #9 Tennessee
- #18 Arizona State
Bracket
The meet will be held at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville from November 20-23 and will essentially replace the traditional mid-season invite for participating programs. There will also be a related invite for swimmers who don’t make the dual meet teams, and divers, who are not included in the CSCAA Dual Meet Challenge.
While the women’s side of the bracket has a better-defined hierarchy, led by the five-time defending NCAA Champions from Virginia, the men’s bracket is a little more muddled. There, the Arizona State men, 2024 NCAA Champions, are the front-runner, but young teams from Tennessee, Virginia, and Michigan could all rise up to become the prime challenger to the Sun Devils.
Meet Start Times (EST)
Friday, November 21:
- Meet 1 – 3:00 PM
- Meet 2 – 6:00 PM
Saturday, November 22:
- Meet 3 – 12:00 PM
- Meet 4 – 3:00 PM
- Meet 5 – 6:00 PM
Sunday, November 23:
- Meet 6 (Race for Third) – 10:00 AM
- Meet 7 (Championship Meet) – 1:00 PM
stupid stupid mid season meet
in some cases, a swimmer might only swim two races the whole weekend it’s not even pre-lim final. Just horrible
There’s a whole other invite going on where swimmers can enter as many other races as they want if they’re not getting enough from the duals.
Livestream?
What is the related invite for swimmers who don’t make the dual meet teams?
Do we know if teams be using this as a midseason/taper meet? Or saving for US Open?
The Toyota U.S. Open is LCM and thus not a primary midseason/taper meet for the vast majority of college athletes.
I think US open is long course so I think they will use it as a mid season taper.
Your dates are wrong, it’s November (next week) but I guess everyone will realize that since October is over
Thanks, fixed.
do the men and women compete together?
and each teams combined score determines the meet winner
and moves on to the next bracket?
No. They compete separately. That’s why there are separate men’s and women’s brackets with separate seedings for each.
still confused?
early info stated each meet alternates women/men
if not scored combined- after meet one arizona men and uva women move to winners bracket
and arizona women and uva men move to losers bracket the next day.
and then here is a third meet that day?
there cant be 4 meets day one (2 men 2 womens)
6 meets day two (3 men 3 women)
and 4 meets the final day???
that would put coaches and women and men teammates cheering each other there all day!!
help please?
there was really no reason to rank teams, they could draw straws for day one, just as fair?
Here’s the schedule from CSCAA:
Friday, November 21:
Saturday, November 22:
Sunday, November 23: