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Texas’ Will Licon skyrocketed to second all time in the men’s 200-yard IM as he delivered Texas’ fourth title of the meet at the 2016 NCAA Division I Men’s Championships.
Licon unleashed a 1:40.04 for the title, behind only David Nolan’s record of 1:39.38. That’s Texas’ third win ever in the event. Nate Dusing won in 2001, while Austin Surhoff claimed the title in 2010.
With four wins already, Texas is already closing in on its record of 11 event victories from 2001.
The overall heat also proved to be one of the fastest 200 IMs of all time as California’s Josh Prenot (1:40.14) and Ryan Murphy (1:40.27) put up the sixth and seventh-fastest 200 IMs ever.
All Time Top 10 200 IMs:
1 1:39.38 David Nolan Stanford Iowa City 3/26/15
2 1:40.04 Will Licon Texas Atlanta 3/24/16
3 1:40.07 David Nolan Stanford Federal Way 3/5/15
4 1:40.08 Ryan Lochte Daytona Beach Atlanta11/29/07
5 1:40.09 Will Licon Texas Iowa City 3/26/15
6 1:40.14 Josh Prenot California Atlanta 3/24/16
7 1:40.27 Ryan Murphy California Atlanta 3/24/16
8 1:40.49 Bradley Ally Florida TAMU 3/26/09
9 1:40.55 Ryan Lochte Florida Atlanta 3/23/06
10 1:40.58 Michael Phelps NBAC Annapolis 3/6/10
10 1:40.58 Marcin Cieslak Florida 3/27/14
Florida’s Jan Switkowski (1:41.36), Georgia’s Gunnar Bentz (1:41.57), Florida’s Mark Szaranek (1:41.59), California’s Andrew Seliskar (1:42.45) and Virginia Tech’s Brandon Fiala (1:42.77) finished fourth through eighth.
=== A - Final ===
1 Licon, Will JR Texas 1:41.36 1:40.04P 20
r:+0.71 21.78 47.90 (26.12)
1:15.74 (27.84) 1:40.04 (24.30)
2 Prenot, Josh SR California 1:41.07 1:40.14 17
r:+0.70 21.38 46.96 (25.58)
1:15.33 (28.37) 1:40.14 (24.81)
3 Murphy, Ryan JR California 1:41.15 1:40.27 16
r:+0.65 22.28 46.41 (24.13)
1:16.09 (29.68) 1:40.27 (24.18)
4 Switkowski, Jan SO Florida 1:42.15 1:41.36 15
r:+0.65 21.82 46.78 (24.96)
1:17.02 (30.24) 1:41.36 (24.34)
5 Bentz, Gunnar SO Georgia 1:41.72 1:41.57 14
r:+0.73 22.23 48.19 (25.96)
1:17.11 (28.92) 1:41.57 (24.46)
6 Szaranek, Mark SO Florida 1:42.03 1:41.59 13
r:+0.66 21.97 47.10 (25.13)
1:16.79 (29.69) 1:41.59 (24.80)
7 Seliskar, Andrew FR California 1:41.65 1:42.45 12
r:+0.65 22.22 48.07 (25.85)
1:17.79 (29.72) 1:42.45 (24.66)
8 Fiala, Brandon JR VT 1:41.95 1:42.77 11
r:+0.66 22.14 48.22 (26.08)
1:17.58 (29.36) 1:42.77 (25.19)
=== B - Final ===
9 Taylor, Jake SR BYU 1:43.29 1:42.82 9
r:+0.70 22.63 47.74 (25.11)
1:18.02 (30.28) 1:42.82 (24.80)
10 Harty, Ryan FR Texas 1:43.33 1:42.87 7
r:+0.69 22.48 48.50 (26.02)
1:18.23 (29.73) 1:42.87 (24.64)
11 DeVine, Abrahm FR Stanford 1:43.63 1:43.05 5.5
r:+0.69 22.55 47.84 (25.29)
1:18.26 (30.42) 1:43.05 (24.79)
11 Patching, Joe JR Auburn 1:42.63 1:43.05 5.5
r:+0.66 22.17 47.47 (25.30)
1:17.79 (30.32) 1:43.05 (25.26)
13 Bosch, Dylan SR Michigan 1:42.63 1:43.11 4
r:+0.65 22.65 48.65 (26.00)
1:18.33 (29.68) 1:43.11 (24.78)
14 Pebley, Jacob SR California 1:43.63 1:43.87 3
r:+0.78 22.12 47.00 (24.88)
1:18.55 (31.55) 1:43.87 (25.32)
15 McCurdy, Christian SR NC State 1:43.43 1:46.08 2
r:+0.75 22.28 48.34 (26.06)
1:19.12 (30.78) 1:46.08 (26.96)
-- Dahl, Soeren JR NC State 1:42.90 DQ
r:+0.76 22.79 49.93 (27.14)
1:19.93 (30.00) DQ (24.35)
Men - Team Rankings - Through Event 4 1. Texas 127 2. Florida 115 3. California 107 4. NC State 84 5. Michigan 70 6. Auburn 53.5 7. Georgia 47 8. Stanford 41.5 9. Missouri 36 10. Alabama 34 10. Southern Cali 34 12. Indiana 32 13. Louisville 28 14. South Carolina 23 14. Wisconsin 23 16. Tennessee 18 17. Virginia Tech 11 18. Ohio St 10 19. Brigham Young 9 20. Princeton 8 21. Arizona 7 22. Penn 6 23. Univ of Utah 3 24. Harvard 2
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