It’s September, and that means the start of the college swimming season.
We’ve spent the past few weeks dissecting every possible aspect of the coming NCAA season. You can check out any coverage you missed here, with links back to all of our preseason coverage, plus a few hints at what’s still to come.
TEAM-BY-TEAM COLLEGE SWIMMING PREVIEWS
As we do every year, we previewed each of the top 12 men’s and women’s teams in the nation in-depth. You can find all our previews here, or on our College Swimming Previews channel.
NCAA Division I Preseason Event Winner Picks
We got 8 staff members to pick each event winner half a year out. See our picks here:
- SwimSwam’s 2019-2020 NCAA Division I Women’s Preseason Picks
- SwimSwam’s 2019-2020 NCAA Division I Men’s Preseason Picks
RANKING THE NCAA RECRUITING CLASSES
We also ranked out the incoming freshman classes, pulling out the 12 best recruiting classes nationwide for both men and women:
- Women’s classes #9-12
- Women’s classes #5-8
- Women’s classes #1-4
- Men’s classes #9-12
- Men’s classes #5-8
- Men’s classes #1-4
- Individual recruit rankings – Girls final rankings (June 2019)
- Individual recruit rankings – Boys final rankings (June 2019)
COMING SOON:
In addition, we’ll be rounding out our preseason coverage with an updated set of our traditional Power Rankings, as voted on by a panel of SwimSwam writers and updated to include newly-revealed redshirts and surprise roster additions. Stay tuned to our College channel to keep an eye out for those rankings.
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Love looking into this stuff. Thanks SwimSwam!
The BEST articles for true NCAA swimming fans! Thank you.
Wild guess: Texas and Cal rank 1 and 2 for men. Not sure why, but I just get the feeling.
You mean Cal and Texas rank 1 and 2.
Nah, I wrote that right.
Will the women of Cal or Stanford be #1 & #2 or #2 and #1?
Is that really a question? Stanford had them by a significant amount
Nope Hoos should be #1. No grad pts. The #1 freshman class by miles. Stanford looses Eastin & Ruck.
But betcha Swimswam will show there bias and put DeSorbo’s team in #2. They like Meehan a lot here.
Nonono. You’ve got it wrong. We currently have a PRO-Virginia bias, not an ANTI-Virginia bias. We haven’t had an ANTI-Virginia bias in at least 3 years. I know it can be hard to keep up with, since we have biases both pro and against every team in the country, but don’t worry, we’re here to help keep you organized!
da desorbo fans showin lack of class as usual
always full of loud self praise hyping their no 1
go watch Coach Meehan prep his team minus all da trash talk n fireworks
no hype needed gonna keep dominatin ncs over da upstarts n everybodys
good response Braden
#fearthetree
I agree. Virginia should be numero uno. They have the best freshmen class by far. Hard to say if they will beat Stanford of Cal at NCAAs but they sure are looking good for the next few years
I think Stanford has this one, though Cal has a great and very developmental freshman class, along with some current swimmers on the rise.
Everyone talking about the #1&2 teams… Which is pretty much set in stone. 😂 😂 😂
I’m here to see the ranked #3-5 teams and how the early evaluations think this year will go!
Where do the UVA women, IU men and women, NCState men and women, Louisville women, USC men & GA men to fall? 🤔🤔🤔
*missed seeing the Louisville women at #12…. So we know how they rank 🙈
I’ll predict women’s #6-#3 will likely be (in order) Texas, Tenn, NC State, Virginia. Texas and Tenn could be flipped, it’s a tough call. IU is out of the top 12. That is not a tough call.
On the men’s side, IU, with the loss of Zapple, Finnerty, and Lanza, loses 147 points just from those three for individually and more for relays and I dont think Brendan Burns can pull that up. NC state mainly loses Ress and Vazaios (66 points), but gain a lot of good freshmen. Louisville lose Harting and Marcelo (which was only 26 points) and wasn’t even ranked in honorable mentions in swimswams rankings of recruiting groups. Alabama loses Howard and Laurent but mainly gains Bell. Harvard loses Brennan to graduation and Farris to redshirt but not much else for relay legs. Missouri loses all their individual points. Im really bad a ranking but the only things I know is that IU… Read more »
Top 5 for men will be Cal, Texas, IU, NC state, Michigan
Top 5 for women is Stanford, Cal, Virginia, Tennessee, NC state
EDIT* I’ll put IU in 5th, moving NC state and Michigan up
Will any SEC team be ranked ahead of the UF guys?
Doubt it. Next 6 should be Cal, Texas, Michigan, Indiana, NC State and Louisville (In no order). Might be a bit of a down year for the SEC as Alabama, Missouri and Tennessee all lost pretty key contributors
so Did florida with transfers
This is a free plug at this point…unless Braden wants to pay me, but if y’all would subscribe to SwimSwam magazine and help these guys keep this going you would already know the answers to all your speculation. They’ve already published their top teams and top swimmers in the magazine…and it is awesome.
Thanks SwimParent! I’ve extended your subscription by one issue just as a ‘thank you’ for bringing some positivity to the comments sections, which so often lack it. 🙂
The suspense is killing me!