Men’s NCAA Championship Predictions
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By David Rieder
DURHAM, North Carolina, March 26. JUST hours remain until the men’s NCAA Championships kick off from Austin, Texas, a much more temperate venue than the Minnesota locale of the women’s meet a week ago. The Georgia Bulldogs cruised to a victory last week, but expect a much tighter team race this week as the Florida Gators and Cal Bears try to knock off last year’s winners, the Michigan Wolverines.
Check out the latest two episodes of the Morning Swim Show (yesterday’s and today’s) for the insight Jeff Commings and I shared on the meet, but here’s how I see all of the swimming races and the team title chase going down.
200 Free Relay
1. Cal
2. Auburn
3. NC State
500 Free
1. Connor Jaeger, Michigan
2. Dan Wallace, Florida
3. Michael Wynalda, Michigan
200 IM
1. David Nolan, Stanford
2. Kyle Whitaker, Michigan
3. Pavel Sankovich, Florida State
50 Free
1. Marcelo Cherighini, Auburn
2. Brad DeBorde, Florida
3. Brad Tandy, Arizona
400 Medley Relay
1. Arizona
2. Cal
3. Florida State
200 Medley Relay
1. Arizona
2. Cal
3. Michigan
400 IM
1. Chase Kalisz, UGA
2. Sebastien Rousseau, Florida
3. Kyle Whitaker, Michigan
100 Fly
1. Giles Smith, Arizona
2. Tim Phillips, Ohio State
3. Pavel Sankovich, Florida State
200 Free
1. Michael Wynalda, Michigan
2. Joao De Lucca, Louisville
3. Dimitri Colupaev, USC
100 Breast
1. Kevin Cordes, Arizona
2. Nic Fink, UGA
3. Richard Funk, Michigan
100 Back
1. David Nolan, Stanford
2. Ryan Murphy, Cal
3. Shane Ryan, Penn State
800 Free Relay
1. Michigan
2. USC
3. Florida
1650 Free
1. Connor Jaeger, Michigan
2. Andrew Gemmell, UGA
3. Arthur Frayler, Florida
200 Back
1. Ryan Murphy, Cal
2. Andrew teDuits, Wisconsin
3. David Nolan, Stanford
100 Free
1. Marcelo Chierighini, Auburn
2. Joao De Lucca, Louisville
3. Simonas Bilis, NC State
200 Breast
1. Kevin Cordes, Arizona
2. Nic Fink, Georgia
3. Cody Miller, Indiana
200 Fly
1. Dylan Bosch, Michigan
2. Sebastien Rousseau, Florida
3. Marcin Cieslak, Florida
400 Free Relay
1. Auburn
2. NC State
3. Florida
Team Scores
1. Michigan
2. Cal
3. Florida
4. Arizona
5. Auburn