With news of all NCAA Championships getting canceled also came the news that some conferences are also prohibiting any kind of organized team activity for an extended period of time — that means practices, potential intrasquad meets, and the likes. Below, we’ve compiled a list of what we know about the teams from Power 5 conferences, which comprised 100% of the teams picked in SwimSwam’s final 2019-2020 season power rankings.
Update: since publishing, all Power 5 conference teams have been put on hiatus from practicing or competing.
ACC Conference
The ACC was the first major conference to place a blanket ban on all athletics-related activity “until further notice” — that means ACC teams were going to withdraw from the NCAA Championships before the event was canceled. Now, it’s up to schools whether they’re sending students home for the year or not, but athletes won’t be able to practice.
Teams affected: Florida State, Miami, Virginia Tech, Louisville, Georgia Tech, NC State, North Carolina, Pittsburgh, Boston College, Notre Dame, Virginia, Duke
Big Ten Conference
Like the ACC, the Big Ten Conference has now suspended all organized team activity through April 6.
“The Big Ten has previously announced that in addition to canceling the Men’s Basketball Tournament it will be canceling all conference and non-conference competitions through the end of the academic year, including spring sports that compete beyond the academic year, and participation in all NCAA tournaments and competitions,” it announced Friday. “The Conference also has announced a moratorium on all on- and off-campus recruiting activities for the foreseeable future.”
Teams affected: Penn State, Ohio State, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern, Michigan State, Iowa, Wisconsin, Purdue, Indiana, Illinois, Maryland, Rutgers
SEC Conference
The SEC announced Friday that all “athletics activities,” again including competitions and practices, are suspended through April 15
“The SEC had previously announced that all competition was suspended until March 30. That suspension of competition has been extended through April 15 and now includes all organized team activities,” the conference wrote. “SEC athletics programs will cease practices, individual and team workouts effective the end of the day Friday, March 13. Team meetings shall conclude no later than 5 pm local time on Monday, March 16.”
Teams affected: LSU, Alabama, Florida, Auburn, Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, Texas A&M, Arkansas, Missouri, Kentucky, Vanderbilt
Pac-12 Conference
Update: as of noon Saturday, the Pac-12 Conference is suspending all athletics-related activities until at least March 29th, and competitions through the end of the year.
The Pac-12 Conference has yet to release further guidelines after canceling its 2020 Men’s Basketball Tournament midway through and canceling all conference events “until further notice.” It appears that Pac-12 student-athletes can continue to practice, or compete at intrasquad events, so long as their home schools are allowing them to remain on campus.
Teams affected: Cal, Stanford, Arizona State, Arizona, UCLA, USC, Washington State, Utah
Big 12 Conference
Like three of the other Power 5 conferences, the Big 12 has suspended all athletics-related activity until March 29. Competitions are suspended though the end of the school year. That presumably means that the Texas men, who said they were “working on” putting together an end-of-season intrasquad meet, cannot do it.
Teams affected: Kansas, Texas, Iowa State, West Virginia, TCU
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At this point, I’m betting the only teams still swimming are clubs that outright own their own pool. Seems virtually every school/college/city/county/state has a full-on ban for at least a few weeks otherwise.
I believe some high profile club teams still practicing
Who?
NCAP posted that all practice is suspended except for their 22 OT qualifiers
Wait… So Washington DC, who’s push for social distancing for the rest of the US is causing everyone to stop training, has a team still practicing? /sarcasm?
I uhh…what? That’s the opposite.
Yes, certainly in the sense of limiting the team size, but in respect to the,I think some what rash action, to stop all training with no exception at universities and clubs at public pools for OT athletes it just seems odd. And I did of course note partial sarcasm as any of the other groups could have, maybe will, work out something.
Have u checked on any teams? U have a few u cover religiously. “Organized activity “ different than individual workouts
Ugh. This is, um, sub-optimal for the 100-day run up to Trials. If OTs happens on schedule.
I’d say one swimmer who stands out as having zero interruption is Michael Andrew!
So……none.
So Kentucky said nah we’re good? From the SEC?
Sydney Pickrem posted an Instagram of aggies using home pool.
Well that was stupid of her.
Actually pretty smart since she does not want to train -She wants to go to the beach, hand out and chill.
Sydney is a post-grad. I don’t think the SEC has any say over her any longer.
They sure do if it is an SEC pool facility.
Aggie pool is run by student rec center….a post grad can do whatever she wants to.
SwimSwam in the interest of keeping things rowdy, can we please have an article on the estimates of future events: Winning NCAA times in all events in 2025, OR Winning Olympic Times in 2020 OR the decade in which Eddie Reese will retire? OR just some fun and provocative downtime articles, perhaps written by young swimmers, old coaches or Para-swimmers? Surely we all work to the end of enhancing our future sport interest by being creative and fun? If nothing else I will estimate the Men’s 1650 @ sub 14 mins in 2025. Good hunting to all! Let all men/women/non-gender/old/young and even UVA and NCSTATE pull together!
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Dressel goes a 20.1 in the 50 free 2024