2021 NCAA MEN’S SWIMMING & DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS
- When: Wednesday, March 24 – Saturday, March 27, 2021
- Where:Â Greensboro Aquatic Center / Greensboro, NC (Eastern Time Zone)
- Prelims 10 AM/ Finals 6 PM (Local Time)
- Short course yards (SCY) format
- Defending champion: Cal (1x) – 2019 results
- Streaming:
- Championship Central
- Psych Sheets
- Live Results
The NCAA has released its official psych sheets (along with the invite line) for the 2021 Men’s NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships. The meet itself takes place later this month, from March 24-27 in Greensboro, North Carolina.
You can see all the relevant documents here:
- Official Psych Sheets (with cutlines)
- Invited Swimmers by Team (Doesn’t include relay-only swimmers)
- Eligible Relays
- Alternates List
The cut-line went a little bit deeper than our original projections – that seems to be based on the late scratches from Texas, which qualified 26 men but had to cut its roster down to 18 before this round of cuts. (The Longhorns will likely qualify multiple divers, so they’ll almost-certainly be cutting one or two more swimmers to open up roster spots for divers).
The cut line moved into line 33, with all events having 32 athletes invited and a few events getting the 33rd-ranked swimmer in.
The tiebreak for alternates with the same ranking is a comparison of the swimmer’s time to the NCAA A cut, with the swimmer who is the closest to the A cut in their event (based on a percentage of the total seconds) getting first priority.
See our previous coverage:
- NCAA reveals pre-selection psych sheets
- Projecting the cutline
- Scoring the psych sheets
- Full event coverage
Top seeds by event:
- 500 free – Kieran Smith, Florida – 4:06.32
- 200 IM – Shaine Casas, Texas A&M – 1:38.95
- 50 free – Adam Chaney, Florida – 18.76
- 400 IM – Carson Foster, Texas – 3:35.27
- 100 fly – Youssef Ramadan, Virginia Tech – 44.32
- 200 free – Kieran Smith, Florida – 1:29.48
- 100 breast – Max McHugh, Minnesota – 50.19
- 100 back – Shaine Casas, Texas A&M – 43.87
- 1650 free – Bobby Finke, Florida – 14:12.18
- 200 back – Shaine Casas, Texas A&M – 1:36.54
- 100 free – Daniel Krueger, Texas – 41.33
- 200 breast – Reece Whitley, Cal – 1:48.53
- 200 fly – Trenton Julian, Cal – 1:38.53
- 800 free relay – Texas – 6:07.34
- 200 free relay – Florida – 1:15.21
- 400 medley relay – Texas – 3:02.11
- 200 medley relay – Michigan – 1:22.35
- 400 free relay – NC State – 2:48.19
Is it fair to say that every individual American Record other than Dressel’s 50 and 100s are at risk at this meet? I’d say next toughest one would probably be 2 fly but who knows what Julian has left to drop from Pac-12s
Don’t forget about Pomajevich
For all the talk about Florida not being a sprint school, look who has the top seed in the 200 free relay.
Plus the 50, the 200, the 500, and the mile.
The fact that if Hugo swam the 2 back Cal had a chance to put 6 swimmers into the A-Final is so crazy to me.
Durden can sure coach backstroke. From Pebs and Murphy last go round to all these guys.
Nobody:
Swimswam posting something about the NCAA meet: *instert a random shane cassas or drew kibler picture*
..favorite find of the psych sheet is 6 of the top 8 50 guys are underclassmen..
When’s Pick ‘Em? 🙂
Cole Crane, Ethan Harder, Ethan Heasley are the three seeded Texas scorers to be cut.
John T. Larson, Carrozza, and Scheinfeld are in.
surprised Heasley got cut to be honest…
Yeah same I would’ve thought they could’ve taken Heasley over scheinfeld. Unless there’s something wrong I thought he had a chance to score in the mile with a decent drop
Breaststroke insurance
Shaine mvp for sure
Shaine and Kieran
Casas and Kieran Smith look like solid bets for the Olympic squad.
Depends on his relay performances aswell. If kieran hits two American record wins and drops a 18.6 in the 200 free relay, while getting points in the 100 free, it might be hard to overlook him. Especially because his events might be more “stacked”.