Louisville senior Nick Albiero used a stellar last turn to win the 200 butterfly on Saturday night at the NCAA swimming and diving championships in Greensboro with a 1:38.64, lowering his own best time by 0.01 to put himself fifth all-time in the event. Albiero was trailing Cal’s Trenton Julian for 175 yards before taking the lead on the final kick out.
Julian finished in second for the Golden Bears with a 1:38.85 as he was quoted on the ESPN broadcast saying he wanted to win the 200 butterfly NCAA title for his father Jeff Julian, who had a battle with cancer this year. Julian added from his best time that put him third all-time earlier this season.
This is Nick Albiero’s second NCAA title of the weekend after winning the 200 medley relay last night for the Cardinals’ first ever relay national title in school history.
It was a race that was heavily hyped coming into the meet with five of the nine fastest performers in history in one pool as Virginia Tech’s Antani Ivanov was third at 1:39.26, putting the Hokies 11th in the standings as they have never been higher than 18th.
Georgia had two A-finalists in Luca Urlando (1:39.75) and Camden Murphy (1:39.99) in fourth and fifth as the Bulldogs are in line for their highest finish since getting third in 1997.
Texas’ Sam Pomajevich was sixth at 1:40.36 as the Longhorns hold a 15 point lead over Cal with diving playing in their favor.
Indiana’s Brendan Burns (1:40.42) and Arizona’s Brooks Fail (1:41.82) also swam in the championship final.
Louisville now has five NCAA titles in men’s swimming in individual events as Nick Albiero joins Carlos Almeida (200 breast, 2012) and Joao de Lucca (100 free, 2014; 200 free, 2013 & 2014) as NCAA champs for the Cardinals in men’s swimming.
All-Time Rankings:
- 1:37.35, Jack Conger, Texas, 2017
- 1:37.97, Joseph Schooling, Texas, 2016
- 1:38.53, Trenton Julian, California, 2021
- 1:38.60, Andreas Vazaios, NC State, 2018
- 1:38.64, Nick Albiero, Louisville, 2020
- 1:38.69, Shaine Casas, Texas A&M, 2021
- 1:38.80, Tom Shields, California, 2020
- 1:38.83, Zheng Quah, California, 2017
- 1:39.19, Sam Pomajevich, Texas, 2020
- 1:39.22, Brendan Burns, Indiana, 2021
- 1:39.26, Antani Ivanov, Virginia Tech, 2021
Event 19 Men 200 Yard Butterfly
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NCAA: N 1:37.35 3/25/2017 Jack Conger, Texas
Meet: M 1:37.35 3/25/2017 Jack Conger, Texas
American: A 1:37.35 3/25/2017 Jack Conger, Texas
U. S. Open: O 1:37.35 3/25/2017 Jack Conger, Texas
Pool: P 1:38.65 2/29/2020 Nicolas Albiero, Louisville
Name Year School Prelims Finals Points
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=== Championship Final ===
1 Albiero, Nicolas SR Louisville 1:39.61 1:38.64P 20
r:+0.64 22.39 47.40 (25.01)
1:12.79 (25.39) 1:38.64 (25.85)
2 Julian, Trenton SR California 1:39.66 1:38.85 17
r:+0.64 21.84 46.64 (24.80)
1:12.09 (25.45) 1:38.85 (26.76)
3 Ivanov, Antani JR VT 1:40.07 1:39.26 16
r:+0.68 21.88 46.94 (25.06)
1:12.68 (25.74) 1:39.26 (26.58)
4 Urlando, Luca FR Georgia 1:40.41 1:39.75 15
r:+0.71 22.39 47.35 (24.96)
1:13.38 (26.03) 1:39.75 (26.37)
5 Murphy, Camden SR Georgia 1:41.33 1:39.99 14
r:+0.66 22.57 47.57 (25.00)
1:13.56 (25.99) 1:39.99 (26.43)
6 Pomajevich, Sam SR Texas 1:40.77 1:40.36 13
r:+0.64 22.00 47.46 (25.46)
1:13.93 (26.47) 1:40.36 (26.43)
7 Burns, Brendan SO Indiana 1:40.83 1:40.42 12
r:+0.67 22.00 47.01 (25.01)
1:13.14 (26.13) 1:40.42 (27.28)
8 Fail, Brooks SR Arizona 1:41.17 1:41.82 11
r:+0.73 22.87 48.61 (25.74)
1:15.15 (26.54) 1:41.82 (26.67)
=== Consolation Final ===
9 Frankel, Tomer FR Indiana 1:41.73 1:40.68 9
r:+0.62 22.35 47.62 (25.27)
1:13.42 (25.80) 1:40.68 (27.26)
10 Kovac, Danny JR Missouri 1:41.89 1:41.14 7
r:+0.65 22.26 48.26 (26.00)
1:14.21 (25.95) 1:41.14 (26.93)
11 Sancov, Alexei JR USC 1:42.09 1:41.90 6
r:+0.61 22.33 48.32 (25.99)
1:14.83 (26.51) 1:41.90 (27.07)
12 Dixon, David SR West Virginia 1:42.07 1:41.91 5
r:+0.73 22.50 48.23 (25.73)
1:14.56 (26.33) 1:41.91 (27.35)
13 Wilby, Mason JR Kentucky 1:42.26 1:42.63 4
r:+0.68 22.91 48.78 (25.87)
1:15.38 (26.60) 1:42.63 (27.25)
14 Rose, Dare FR California 1:42.51 1:42.83 3
r:+0.64 23.13 49.37 (26.24)
1:15.84 (26.47) 1:42.83 (26.99)
15 Eichberg, Dylan JR VT 1:42.33 1:42.99 2
r:+0.60 22.50 48.39 (25.89)
1:15.26 (26.87) 1:42.99 (27.73)
16 Jiang, Alvin SR Texas 1:42.46 1:43.76 1
r:+0.68 22.52 48.65 (26.13)
1:15.80 (27.15) 1:43.76 (27.96)
Men - Team Rankings - Through Event 19 1. Texas 543 2. California 528 3. Florida 331 4. Georgia 268 5. Indiana 189 6. Louisville 179 7. Texas A&M 149 8. NC State 136 9. Ohio St 131 10. Virginia 130 11. Virginia Tech 109 12. Michigan 106 13. Arizona 92 14. Missouri 80 15. Stanford 78 16. Alabama 67 17. Lsu 64 18. Purdue 42 19. Minnesota 40 19. Georgia Tech 40 21. Tennessee 39 22. University of Miami 38 23. UNC 31 24. Notre Dame 29 25. Pittsburgh 28 26. Florida St 24.5 27. Southern California 21 28. Wisconsin 15 29. Kentucky 13 29. Penn St 13 31. Utah 6.5 32. West Virginia 5
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