It's encouraging to know we're only behind Texas by less than 10 points after all 3 divers scored. But NC State Indiana, and Florida all look to be tough.
BearDevil said:
Still very wide open with five schools (Cal, Texas, NC State, IU, and Florida) that could win it. Texas and IU are the only schools with diving upside.
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Cal: 6/4
Texas: 5/2
Indiana: 5/1
NC State: 3/2
Florida: 3/1
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Indiana: 8/1
Texas: 7/2
Cal: 6/4
NC State: 3/2
Florida: 3/1
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Arizona's Nick Thorne roared in for second at 3:38.56, cutting almost a second from this morning. Andrew Seliskar was the top seed. He went out very aggressive and seemed to be making a move on breaststroke, but ran out of gas badly on free and faded to just 3:38.73, eight tenths off his morning swim. Same goes for Texas's Jonathan Roberts, who was leading the way early but faded all the way to 7th by the end in 3:40.30.
South Carolina's monster Brazilian import Brandonn Almeida came through late, surging to fourth. Behind him was Georgia's Jay Litherland, who moved from 7th to 5th over the course of his legendary crushing free leg. His teammate Gunnar Bentz was 8th, with Michigan's Charlie Swanson in between them.
Cal's Mike Thomas came out with a gutsy swim in the B final, leading through fly and back before yielding the lead to Florida's Mark Szaranek in the breaststroke. Szaranek ultimately won in 3:37.64, but Thomas moved up to 3:37.75 both guys moved up by big margins to help their teams in the points battle.
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NC State's Ryan Held finished 5th in 44.88, and Cal's stellar freshman Ryan Hoffer came through in sixth, going 44.93 from an outside lane. His teammates Justin Lynch and Matthew Josa rounded out the A heat.
oskirules said:
Bears in 3rd, close race even after all those points from Indiana and Texas divers.
Actually, UT freshmen Sam Pomajevich is 10th in the B final, which is another 8 or 9 points for Texas.UrsusArctosCalifornicus said:
Ha, just when I had thought that all was lost with Quah's relatively underperforming 200 Fly swim, he does squeak into the A final ... Thomas lays down a massive 1:40.48 PB, and Julian an equally impressive 1:40.63 lifetime best to join Quah! And as swimmer19 noted, Schooling is a non-factor, with Texas not having a single scorer for the 200 Fly (Indiana does have 1 up).
bearz012 said:
Actually, UT freshmen Sam Pomajevich is 10th in the B final, which is another 8 or 9 points for Texas.
Disappointment in the 100 free with no qualifier(s), especially with Texas & indiana expected pts in the diving. Overall, loss of critical pts in the relays (expected to do better) gives us no wiggle room. I'm just saying.bearz012 said:Actually, UT freshmen Sam Pomajevich is 10th in the B final, which is another 8 or 9 points for Texas.UrsusArctosCalifornicus said:
Ha, just when I had thought that all was lost with Quah's relatively underperforming 200 Fly swim, he does squeak into the A final ... Thomas lays down a massive 1:40.48 PB, and Julian an equally impressive 1:40.63 lifetime best to join Quah! And as swimmer19 noted, Schooling is a non-factor, with Texas not having a single scorer for the 200 Fly (Indiana does have 1 up).
Ups and downs thus far...
Cal: 6/1
Texas: 5/3 + 2 divers (Windle is the NCAA record holder & this is both of their divers' best event)
IU: 3/2 + 1 diver (likely to be A final)
PalyBear said:
Texas scored 81 total points
Indiana scored 98 total points
Cal scored 0 points
We lost to Texas by 11.5 points
Both Indiana and Texas each had 3 scoring divers and don't forget 1 diver = 0.5 swimmers.
So for Texas 1.5 "heads" scored 81 points or 54 points per head.
For Indiana 1.5 "heads" scored 98 points or 65.3 points per head
Seems to me we need to think more strategically about diving.
Lots of shoulda, coulda, and woulda but one thing they definitely bared down on day 4 and put on a show and made it a very close meet. I am proud of the Men and Women team for their outstanding performances!solobear said:
Tough loss for the bears. The most aching miss would be Sean Grieshop missing 500 A Final by 0.07s (considering your eye blink takes 0.04 second). Opportunites are defnitely there, but a couple of IMers missed the A finals, 100 freetylers missed both A & B, etc.