2019 ACC MEN’S CHAMPIONSHIPS
- When: Wednesday, February 27th to Saturday, March 2nd | Prelims 10:00am | Finals 6:00pm
- Where: Greensboro Aquatics Center, Greensboro, NC (Eastern Time Zone)
- Defending Champion: NC State Wolfpack (results)
- Live Results: here
- Streaming: WatchESPN (subscription required)
- Psych Sheet
- Championship Central
- Day 4 Prelims Recap
- Mile heat sheets
While NC State is firmly in control for a 5th-straight ACC title, there are still some good battles for the minor spots in the standings.
Louisville has an 87 point lead on Virginia (who have been hampered by the absence of their probable top scorer Robby Giller at the meet).
Depending on how things go with the mile (which are charted below as seeded), Virginia could very-well catch Louisville for 2nd place. The Cavaliers had 4 more A-finalists than the Cardinals. While Louisville has more swimmers in each of the minor finals, they only negate about 2 of the 4-swimmer advantage that Virginia has in the A finals.
Louisville is still in control of their destiny at the meet: the Cavaliers will need to finish well within those finals and the Cardinals will have to slide for the full 87 points to disappear. But, with the 1650 points not ‘locked in,’ it’s definitely within reach for UVA.
Team Scores After Day 3 (Including All Diving):
1. North Carolina State 968.5
2. Louisville 817
3. Virginia 724
4. Florida State 600.5
5. Virginia Tech 579.5
6. Duke 507
7. Notre Dame 479
8. Georgia Tech 396
9. Pitt 371
10. North Carolina 312.5
11. Miami 161*
12. Boston College 111
*Miami only sponsors men’s diving, and therefore will score no more than 161 points
Among the other battles looming, Boston College, who DQ’ed their 400 free relay on Friday, will be fighting to catch Miami’s divers for 11th place; while Virginia Tech and Florida State are locked in a battle for 4th and Notre Dame will be trying to run down Duke for 5th. The Irish have 17 finalists on Saturday (including top-24 seeded milers), but only 2 of those are A finalists. Still, on paper, they should be able to catch the Blue Devils with a 1 A-finalist and a 5 B-finalist advantage.
A/B/C Finalists By Event:
Including mile as seeded, excluding 400 free relay:
| 200 Back | 100 Free | 200 Breast | 200 Fly | 1650 Free | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Up | Mid | Down | Team | Up | Mid | Down | Team | Up | Mid | Down | Team | Up | Mid | Down | Team | Up | Mid | Down |
| NC State | 2 | 1 | 0 | NC State | 3 | 1 | 1 | NC State | 1 | 1 | 0 | NC State | 3 | 0 | 0 | NC State | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Virginia | 2 | 1 | 1 | Virginia | 1 | 1 | 0 | Virginia | 3 | 2 | 0 | Virginia | 2 | 0 | 0 | Virginia | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Louisville | 1 | 1 | 0 | Louisville | 0 | 2 | 1 | Louisville | 1 | 1 | 0 | Louisville | 2 | 0 | 2 | Louisville | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Notre Dame | 0 | 2 | 2 | Notre Dame | 0 | 1 | 0 | Notre Dame | 1 | 0 | 1 | Notre Dame | 0 | 2 | 3 | Notre Dame | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Florida State | 1 | 0 | 0 | Florida State | 2 | 2 | 1 | Florida State | 0 | 1 | 1 | Florida State | 0 | 1 | 0 | Florida State | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Georgia Tech | 1 | 1 | 1 | Georgia Tech | 0 | 0 | 1 | Georgia Tech | 1 | 0 | 1 | Georgia Tech | 0 | 2 | 1 | Georgia Tech | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Virginia Tech | 1 | 1 | 0 | Virginia Tech | 0 | 1 | 1 | Virginia Tech | 0 | 0 | 1 | Virginia Tech | 1 | 1 | 1 | Virginia Tech | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Duke | 0 | 0 | 2 | Duke | 1 | 0 | 1 | Duke | 1 | 0 | 2 | Duke | 0 | 0 | 0 | Duke | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Pittsburgh | 0 | 0 | 0 | Pittsburgh | 1 | 0 | 1 | Pittsburgh | 0 | 1 | 0 | Pittsburgh | 0 | 2 | 1 | Pittsburgh | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| North Carolina | 0 | 1 | 2 | North Carolina | 0 | 0 | 1 | North Carolina | 0 | 1 | 1 | North Carolina | 0 | 0 | 0 | North Carolina | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Boston College | 0 | 0 | 0 | Boston College | 0 | 0 | 0 | Boston College | 0 | 1 | 1 | Boston College | 0 | 0 | 0 | Boston College | 0 | 0 | 0 |
A/B/C Finalists Day 4 Total:
Including mile as seeded, excluding 400 free relay:
| TOTALS | ||||
| Team | Up | Mid | Down | Totals |
| NC State | 11 | 4 | 2 | 17 |
| Virginia | 10 | 5 | 1 | 16 |
| Louisville | 6 | 6 | 3 | 15 |
| Notre Dame | 3 | 5 | 6 | 14 |
| Florida State | 3 | 5 | 3 | 11 |
| Georgia Tech | 2 | 5 | 4 | 11 |
| Virginia Tech | 2 | 4 | 5 | 11 |
| Duke | 2 | 0 | 8 | 10 |
| Pittsburgh | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 |
| North Carolina | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| Boston College | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
I never thought I’d live to see the day that the worst swim program in the research triangle area is UNC.
Swimulator indicates that UNC would crush William Peace University in a dual meet.
https://swimswam.com/swimulator/?type=swimulate&gender=Men&division=D1&division1=D1&team1=UNC&season1=2019&meet1=2018+Georgia+Tech+Fall+Invitat&division2=D3&team2=William+Peace&season2=2019&meet2=Janis+Hape+Dowd+Nike+Invitatio
That’s just mean Braden. Not saying it isn’t deserved, but it’s still mean. It will take a few years but the Heels will be back.
My only point was that there are far more than 3 colleges in the Research Triangle ;-). Didn’t mean to hurt anybody’s feelings at William Peace. It’s a D3 school, so they shouldn’t be expected to compete with a Power 5 program like UNC.
I’m an engineering major, but I was legit starting to question my arithmetic skill when this article first came out mentioning that NCState, UVa, and Louisville all have 9 ups
Can UNC with a GREAT recruiting year finish top 4 next year??
No
Only if all the other schools drop out. Sad to see how far they have fallen.
Why would UNC have a great recruiting year this year, same coaches, sane mentality? And even if they do get in a great recruit, they generally go slower. Has the rise of NC STATE helped cause UNC suckiness or vice versa?
Well NCState will ultimately help UNC rise meteorically over the next 2 seasons. With NCState crushing the other ACC teams, it opens the doorway for UNC to slip in and shock the doubters. Just because a school stumbles a little and has a down year or two is no reason for all of the doubters to jump all over the swimmers and coaches. If UNC will get behind Coach DeSelm, build him a new facility and expand his recruiting budget – just you wait….it will be back to the top of the ACC in a couple years. That is FACT!!!
UNC’s facility is older, but it’s perfectly nice. The pool ain’t the problem.
Not unless they hire an NC State calibur coach to help re-build there program!!!!
Dumb comment as usual.
I’ll take Bobby! Please come over
PREACH CRUSTY!!!
There are no other NC State caliber coaches out there EXCEPT at NCState – Holloway + Bernadino = THE BEST COACHING TANDEM IN THE WORLD!!!!!
UVA has 2 up in the mile and Louisville has 2 as well (seeded). Not 1 and 3 as is reported.