Scoring the NCAA Men’s Teams Based on 2017-18 Midseason Rankings

We’re now through the second round of NCAA midseason invites and it’s time to take a look at where the division 1 teams stand. Per the request of some of our commenters, we’ve gone through and scored out how the men’s NCAA team battle would go based on the midseason rankings. This article only discusses scores based on the men’s rankings, which you can find here. We’re currently working on the women’s version, which will be posted soon.

It should be noted that a handful of teams were without some of their best swimmers, but those swimmers are expected to be back in action in the second half of the season. For example, Florida only had Caeleb Dressel for day 1 of the Purdue Invite, but didn’t get a chance to swim the 100 fly or 100 free individually as he had to tend to a personal matter. Georgia’s Gunnar Bentz and USC’s Carsten Vissering were absent altogether. These guys will not only add plenty of individual points for their respective teams, but they’ll also make a big difference on relays.

A FEW THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND:

  • Ocasionally, we’ll see a swimmer rank in the top 16 of more than 3 individual events. In that case,  we take their 3 highest finishes and dropped them out of the others, bumping the next fastest swimmers up into the top 16 and assigning scores accordingly.
  • It should also be noted that swimmers were able to swim all 5 relays at these invites, which they won’t be able to do at NCAAs unless the only swim 2 individual events.
  • Diving will play a role in the team scoring at NCAAs, which isn’t accounted for here.
  • The article only includes division 1.
  • In some cases, the top teams may have had more than one relay rank in the top 16. We have only ranked and scored the fastest relay for each school.
  • If there was a tie for 8th or 16th, both swimmers were given the normal amount of points for their place because we can’t just call them up and ask for a swimoff.

NCAA MEN’S TEAM SCORES BASED ON MIDSEASON RANKINGS:

Place Team Score
1 Cal 476
2 Texas 357
3 NC State 294
4 Stanford 226.5
5 Michigan 216.5
6 Florida 199
7 Alabama 189.5
8 Indiana 157
9 Arizona State 151.5
10 Tennessee 130
11 Southern Cal 127.5
12 Auburn 121
13 Missouri 114
14 Texas A&M 107
15 Arizona 92
16 Denver 78.5
17 Grand Canyon 73
18 Georgia 70
19 Louisville 62
20 Florida State 51
21 Notre Dame 26
22 Utah 26
23 Ohio State 23
24 UC Santa Barbara 22
25 Kentucky 21
26 Georgia Tech 21
27 Minnesota 18.5
28 Missouri State 17.5
29 Loyola Maryland 15
30 Harvard 15
31 UNLV 13
32 Cornell 10.5
33 South Carolina 9
34 Virginia 9
35 Purdue 9
36 Yale 3
37 Cincinnati 2

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Back2Back
6 years ago

Recent article in Swim Swam pointed to CAL being the dual meet leader- and thus when scored has them leading Texas in the mythical points. Now that should translate well into a National Championship right? Perhaps Texas should concentrate on the dual meet season more!!!

Don’t think it is the Conference schedule that determines the outcome of the NC anymore than the dual meet record does…

Sccoach
6 years ago

In the coaches poll article I questioned Alabama being ranked #17, and this article kind of confirms my suspicions.

JP input is too short
Reply to  Sccoach
6 years ago

I don’t think anybody really expected Laurent Bams to morph into a breaststroker and save their otherwise awesome medley relays (as well as sitting top 8 in the 100 breast thus far). Also helps that Robert Howard went from not qualifying individually last year to being a top-3 overall sprinter thus far this year. If that holds then sure, they’ll definitely be better than 17th.

Steve Schaffer
Reply to  Sccoach
6 years ago

The CSCAA Coaches Poll is based on dual meet head to head comparisons of Times Swim to date, they do not attempt to predict NCAA Championship team rankings. Teams in the CSCAA poll with good top end swimmers but weaker depth will not be ranked as high.

osd
6 years ago

I think you should call the schools and ask for swim-offs. They could post them to YouTube – it would be fun

Bupwa
6 years ago

Add divers to the tally and TENNESSEE finishes 6th! GO VOLS

Swimmer1
6 years ago

Iowa?

completelyconquered
Reply to  Swimmer1
6 years ago

Probably gonna win it all.

swimmer2
Reply to  Swimmer1
6 years ago

Hawaii?

Swimmer1
Reply to  swimmer2
6 years ago

Missouri State? Cornell?? Loyola?? Ya….. they’re crazy fast arnt they….

swimmer2
Reply to  Swimmer1
6 years ago

Southeast New Mexico State!

swimmer2
Reply to  Swimmer1
6 years ago

Maine?

swimmer2
Reply to  Swimmer1
6 years ago

Montana?

JP input is too short
Reply to  Swimmer1
6 years ago

New Hampshire!

Swimmer
Reply to  Swimmer1
6 years ago

People sleep on north Alaska state every year

Murica
Reply to  Swimmer
6 years ago

Thats cause U Alaska is a powerhouse and has better facilities. NAS always has a tough time recruiting but they do a great job with development!

Oldswimfan
6 years ago

IU would go up just base of their free relays. They dqed 2 fast free relays and those relays would’ve been top 3

FormerTexasLonghorn
6 years ago

Thank you Swim Swam for this!

Troy
Reply to  Lauren Neidigh
6 years ago

Will the you do one on the girls???

Lauren Neidigh
Reply to  Troy
6 years ago

I’ve been putting the finishing touches on a school assignment this afternoon but I will post the women’s rankings tonight and the scoring article either tonight or tomorrow morning. Sorry for the delay.

das swimmer
Reply to  Lauren Neidigh
6 years ago

you’re putting school before swimswam? shame

ACC fan
6 years ago

Awesome! Thank you SwimSwam!

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Lauren Neidigh is a former NCAA swimmer at the University of Arizona (2013-2015) and the University of Florida (2011-2013). While her college swimming career left a bit to be desired, her Snapchat chin selfies and hot takes on Twitter do not disappoint. She's also a high school graduate of The …

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