2022 NCAA Men’s Swimming Championships: Pre-Cut Psych Sheet Released

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The pre-cut psych sheet has been released for the 2022 NCAA Division I Men’s Swimming and Diving Championship.

The top seeds are locked in, as well as all of the provisional qualifiers, and the cut line will be determined later this week for each event, determining who officially will be invited to the NCAA Championships.

There are only two swimmers who have multiple top seeds in the meet. Arizona State’s Leon Marchand has the top spots in the 200 IM and 400 IM. Meanwhile, Minnesota’s defending NCAA champion Max McHugh has the top seed in both breaststroke events.

All five of the NCAA top seeded relays have top seeds from different schools with no team doubling up.

Marchand is on the psych sheet in the 200 breaststroke as well as some of the third events for swimmers became clear with the release of the sheet. Carson Foster will swim the 200 backstroke in addition to the IM events. Florida’s Kieran Smith will swim the 200 backstroke in addition to the 200 and 500 free at the NCAA Championships. Harvard’s Dean Farris will swim the 50 and 100 free, but instead of the 200 free, where he holds the NCAA record, he will instead swim the 100 backstroke. Georgia’s Matthew Sates will swim the 200 butterfly in addition to the 500 free (top seed) and 200 free.

Indiana’s Brendan Burns had a lot of options. He is the top seed in the 100 backstroke and will sum the 100 butterfly, opting for the shorter events.

Swimmers who have achieved NCAA automatic cuts are in, but the provisional, or “B” cuts will be determined based on the number of divers who have qualified and the number of the rest of the swimmers is evenly distributed by event to reach 235 total qualifiers.

• Full pysch sheet

NCAA DIVISION I TOP SEEDS

500 Freestyle: Matthew Sates, Georgia, 4:09.06
200 IM: Leon Marchand, Arizona State, 1:39.65
50 Freestyle: Jordan Crooks, Tennessee, 18.53
400 IM: Leon Marchand, Arizona State, 3:34.45
100 Butterfly: Andrei Minakov, Stanford, 43.90
200 Freestyle: Grant House, Arizona State, 1;30.23
NCAA 100 Breaststroke: Max McHugh, Minnesota, 50.58
100 Backstroke: Brendan Burns, Indiana, 44.31
1650 Freestyle: Bobby Finke, Florida, 14:27.70
200 Backstroke: Destin Lasco, Cal, 1:38.81
100 Freestyle: Brooks Curry, LSU, 40.99
200 Breaststroke: Max McHugh, Minnesota, 1:49.45
200 Butterfly: Nick Albiero, Louisville, 1:37.92

NCAA DIVISION I TOP RELAY SEEDS

200 Medley: Louisville, 1:21.84
800 Free: Arizona State, 6:07.51
200 Free: Virginia, 1:14.47
400 Medley: Indiana, 3:00.95
400 Free: Cal, 2:45.94

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