2018 MEN’S NCAA SWIMMING & DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Wednesday, March 21 – Saturday, March 24
- Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center – Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Prelims 10 AM / Finals 6 PM (Central Time)
- Defending champion: Texas (3x) (results)
- Psych Sheet
- Championship Central
- Event-by-Event Previews
- Team Power Rankings: Final Edition
- Live Stream
- Live Results
For the second day in a row, Indiana and Texas will get big boosts from their divers. Indiana has two of the top four qualifiers and three in the top eight, while Texas has two in the championship final.
Indiana will have Michael Hixon (2nd) and Andrew Capobianco (4th) in the national title hunt, and James Connor (8th) snuck into the A final as well.
Meanwhile Texas will get Grayson Campbell (5th) and Jordan Windle (6th) into tonight’s A flight.
None of the other NCAA title-contending teams will have a scoring diver. Of the current top 10, only USC has a scoring diver: Dashiell Enos, who sits 15th and will compete in the consolation final this afternoon.
Defending NCAA champ Steele Johnson sits fourth. The top qualifier was Tennessee’s Colin Zeng, who scored about six more points than Hixon in prelims.
Top 8 qualifiers:
- Colin Zeng, Tennessee – 460.70
- Michael Hixon, Indiana – 454.85
- Steele Johnson, Purdue – 444.85
- Andrew Capobianco, Indiana – 440.90
- Grayson Campbell, Texas – 438.45
- Jordan Windle, Texas – 431.15
- Juan Hernandez, LSU – 428.20
- James Connor, Indiana – 419.15
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IU is the new NC State, except they put their money where their mouth is. Let’s go Hoosiers, baby! Should have a lead going into the final day!
IU is nothing like NC State.
IU is most certainly a DIVING and swimming program while NC State is the more balanced Swimming and Diving program.
Also, NC State academics are far superior than IU.
Gotta put your money where your mouth is.
Swimming and Diving, Diving and Swimming. Whichever way you put it doesn’t matter if you get the title.
That makes no sense. What do you think balance is?
How can NC State be balanced when they don’t have scoring divers? Indiana is doing better because they’re balanced, they score in swimming and diving, unlike NC State.
“James Connor snuck into the A final as well”
Yes, 2 time Olympian James Connor snuck in 16 points ahead of 9th place finisher…even with a botched dive.
Snuck in as in he was the last person to make it in
And was outside the top 8 for much of the way
gotta love the DiveDove coverage….
I do, and let’s not forget the diver’s points go towards the overall team points and standings so the divers absolutely matter and can make or break it. IU is killing it in the pool AND on the boards and Texas needs those diving points…
Indiana’s team is the definition of small but mighty.
Small but mighty with 14 athletes…
DiveDove fans: how do these teams stack up on the platform?
IU only has 1 on platform, but he should be top 8 as well. Don’t know about the other teams.
For Texas, Windle and Cornish are better on Platform than anything based on Zones. Campbell won’t compete platform at NCAAs. Potentially 2 A finalists again for Texas and probably 1 for Indiana.
NC State’s guy is best on Platform, too, but with Ress out, they might not be in the hunt anymore.
Subjective sport so hard to truly predict.
Its time to give Texas diving the recognition they deserve. They could score atleast 80 points from diving.
Just imagine if Hixon still a longhorn.