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2022 NCAA Men’s Championships: Stanford’s Andrei Minakov Takes Top Seed in 100 Butterfly
The 2022 NCAA Men’s Division I Swimming and Diving Championships continued on Day 3 from the McAuley Aquatic Center on the campus of Georgia Tech with the 100-yard butterfly prelims.
The NCAA and American record is 42.80 set by Florida’s Caeleb Dressel in 2018. One of Dressel’s records went down on Day 2 in the 200 IM, but this record does not look to be as in danger as the 200 IM. The top seed heading into the meet was Stanford sophomore Andrei Minakov (43.90).
Stanford’s Andrei Minakov built an early lead in the final heat, then turned on the jets and won the heat in 43.77, just under his seed time. He won his heat over NC State’s Nyls Konstantje (44.43).
Several of the late heats were closely contested, setting up a pretty intriguing NCAA final.
Georgia’s Luca Urlando won heat 4 with a 44.24, just ahead of Ohio State’s Alex Quach (44.93).
Virginia Tech’s Youssef Ramadan won heat 5 with a 44.21 with a strong back half of the race, just ahead of Tomer Frankel of Indiana (44.38).
Who has something left in the tank? Who left it all in the prelims just to make the final? Tonight’s final will be especially intriguing to see if Minakov can continue his blistering pace, and to see if anyone else in the field can elevate to that level at the right time for a spectacular finish.
The NCAA Finalists
1. Andrei Minakov, Stanford, 43.77
2. Youssef Ramadan, Virginia Tech, 44.21
3. Luca Urlando, Georgia, 44.24
4. Tomer Frankel, Indiana, 44.38
5. Nyls Korstanje, NC State, 44.43
6. Nicolas Albiero, Louisville, 44.61
7. Umitcan Gures, Harvard, 44.63
8. Aiden Hayes, NC State, 44.78
Event 9 Men 100 Yard Butterfly
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NCAA: N 42.80 3/23/2018 Caeleb Dressel, Florida
Meet: M 42.80 3/23/2018 Caeleb Dressel, Florida
American: A 42.80 3/23/2018 Caeleb Dressel, Florida
U. S. Open: O 42.80 3/23/2018 Caeleb Dressel, Florida
Pool: P 44.01 3/24/2016 Joseph Schooling, Texas
Name Year School Seed Prelims
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=== Preliminaries ===
1 Minakov, Andrei SO Stanford 43.77P
r:+0.62 20.23 43.77 (23.54)
2 Ramadan, Youssef SO VT 44.21
r:+0.58 20.55 44.21 (23.66)
3 Urlando, Luca SO Georgia 44.24
r:+0.64 20.45 44.24 (23.79)
4 Frankel, Tomer SO Indiana 44.38
r:+0.58 20.68 44.38 (23.70)
5 Korstanje, Nyls JR NCSU 44.43
r:+0.61 20.38 44.43 (24.05)
6 Albiero, Nicolas 5Y Louisville 44.61
r:+0.62 20.97 44.61 (23.64)
7 Gures, Umitcan JR Harvard 44.63
r:+0.60 21.07 44.63 (23.56)
8 Hayes, Aiden FR NCSU 44.78
r:+0.60 20.78 44.78 (24.00)
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9 Burns, Brendan JR Indiana 44.81
r:+0.60 21.04 44.81 (23.77)
10 Quach, Alex FR Ohio St 44.93
r:+0.59 21.11 44.93 (23.82)
11 Cohen Groumi, Gal FR Michigan 44.96
r:+0.58 20.96 44.96 (24.00)
12 Ivanov, Antani SR VT 44.98
r:+0.67 20.95 44.98 (24.03)
13 Jiang, Alvin 5Y Texas 45.00
r:+0.64 20.97 45.00 (24.03)
14 Kovac, Danny SR Missouri 45.05
r:+0.59 21.08 45.05 (23.97)
15 Van Zandt, Zac SO Texas 45.07
r:+0.61 20.95 45.07 (24.12)
16 Rose, Dare SO California 45.16
r:+0.62 20.75 45.16 (24.41)
Men - Team Rankings - Through Event 7 1. Texas 180 2. Florida 159 3. California 158 4. NC State 124 5. Arizona St 111 6. Georgia 100 7. Stanford 94 8. Indiana 78 9. Virginia 70.5 10. Virginia Tech 69 11. Ohio St 56 12. Arizona 48 13. Louisville 46 14. Alabama 41 14. Harvard 41 16. Lsu 36 17. Michigan 24 18. Texas A&M 20 19. Tennessee 17.5 20. Purdue 16 21. Columbia 15 22. UNC 11 23. Auburn 8 24. Princeton 5 25. Minnesota 4 25. Smu 4 27. Utah 2 28. Georgia Tech 1
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