2020 Big Ten Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships Day Four Heats: Ohio State Scores Nine Up

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Paul DeLakis is leading the 200 breast field. Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick

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Big Ten Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships

Bloomington, Indiana

The 2020 Big Ten Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships continued on Saturday morning from the campus of Indiana University with the heats of the 200 back, 100 free, 200 breast and 200 fly.

Ohio State had the best morning with nine total swimmers advancing to the A-Finals as Indiana had eight and Michigan had six. The Wolverines are expected to score a lot of points in the 1650 so they should not be worried about their lead dwindling tonight.

The full ups, mids, downs report is below. The teams are in order of the scores after last night.

Details

Men - Team Rankings - Through Event 14                      
 
  1. Michigan, University of           6, 7, 2   
  2. Ohio State University             9, 3, 2
  3. Indiana University                8, 5, 6   
  4. Wisconsin, University of, Madi    3, 2, 7
  5. Purdue University                 0, 2, 5   
  6. University of Minnesota           1, 1, 4
  7. Northwestern University           2, 4, 2  
  8. Pennsylvania State University     1, 2, 2
  9. Iowa, University of               3, 4, 0  
 10. Michigan State University         0, 2, 2

200 Back

Wisconsin senior Cameron Tysoe is the top seed in the 200 back heats with a 1:40.62 as he is looking to be the first Wisconsin Big Ten champ since 2015 when Matthew Hutchins and pool record holder Andrew TeDuits won individual titles. Tysoe is seeded ahead of Penn State’s Michael Daly (1:41.42) and Northwestern’s Martos Bacarizo (1:41.56), who will also look to make history for their schools.

The Nittany Lions’ last Big Ten champ came in 2017 when Shane Ryan won the 100 back and Northwestern last had a champion in 2015 when Jordan Wilimovsky won the 1650.

Ohio State freshman Thomas Watkins (1:41.83) is the fourth seed ahead of junior teammate Colin McDermott (1:41.85).

Indiana’s Gabriel Fantoni (1:41.95), Michigan’s Robert Zofchak (1:41.98) and Ohio State’s Jonah Cooper (1:42.05) also qualified for the A-Final.

 Event 16  Men 200 Yard Backstroke
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     B1G Meet: # 1:38.89  2014      Eric Ress, Indiana
  Pool Record: ! 1:39.98  2013      Andrew Teduits, Wisconsin
                 1:39.16  A NCAA Qualifying
                 1:45.04  B NCAA Provisional
    Name           Year School               Seed    Prelims              
==================================================================
                      === Preliminaries ===                       
 
  1 Tysoe, Cameron   SR Wisconsin-WI      1:41.92    1:40.62 qB     
             23.99        49.75 (25.76)
        1:14.94 (25.19)     1:40.62 (25.68)
  2 Daly, Michael C  SO Penn St-MA        1:43.57    1:41.42 qB     
             23.72        49.11 (25.39)
        1:15.22 (26.11)     1:41.42 (26.20)
  3 Martos Bacarizo  SO Northwestern-IL   1:42.49    1:41.56 qB     
             23.70        49.31 (25.61)
        1:15.31 (26.00)     1:41.56 (26.25)
  4 Watkins, Thomas  FR Ohio St-OH        1:43.16    1:41.83 qB     
             23.78        49.69 (25.91)
        1:15.66 (25.97)     1:41.83 (26.17)
  5 McDermott, Coli  JR Ohio St-OH        1:45.73    1:41.85 qB     
             23.41        48.96 (25.55)
        1:15.29 (26.33)     1:41.85 (26.56)
  6 Fantoni, Gabrie  JR Indiana-IN        1:45.26    1:41.95 qB     
             23.52        49.27 (25.75)
        1:15.82 (26.55)     1:41.95 (26.13)
  7 Zofchak, Robert  SR Michigan-MI       1:44.31    1:41.98 qB     
             24.25        49.95 (25.70)
        1:16.09 (26.14)     1:41.98 (25.89)
  8 Cooper, Jonah L  FR Ohio St-OH        1:47.58    1:42.05 qB     
             23.97        49.70 (25.73)
        1:16.02 (26.32)     1:42.05 (26.03)

100 Free

Indiana has been on fire in the sprint relays, winning three of them so far, and they scored three up in the 100 free on Saturday morning in their home pool at the Big Ten Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships. 50 free winner Bruno Blaskovic posted a pool record time of 41.49 to just miss Blake Pieroni’s meet record of 41.43. He will be joined in the final by teammates Mohamed Samy (42.71) and Jack Franzman (42.72) who were third and fourth.

Two-time champ this weekend Andrew Loy is seeded second at 42.30 but he may not have enough to get by Blaskovic in the final.

Iowa’s Aleksey Tarasenko (42.90), Michigan’s Gus Borges (42.93), Ohio State’s Matthew Abeysinghe (42.96) and Ohio State’s Semuede Andreis (43.08) also qualified for the championship final.

 Event 17  Men 100 Yard Freestyle
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     B1G Meet: # 41.43  2/24/2018 Blake J Pieroni, Indiana
  Pool Record: ! 41.49  2/29/2020 Bruno Blaskovic, Indiana
                 41.71  A NCAA Qualifying
                 43.80  B NCAA Provisional
    Name           Year School               Seed    Prelims              
==================================================================
                      === Preliminaries ===                       
 
  1 Blaskovic, Brun  JR Indiana-IN          42.44      41.49!qA     
     r:+0.62  9.39        19.76 (10.37)
          30.55 (10.79)       41.49 (10.94)
  2 Loy, Andrew D    SR Ohio St-OH          43.48      42.30 qB     
     r:+0.66  9.76        20.41 (10.65)
          31.49 (11.08)       42.30 (10.81)
  3 Hassan, Mohamed  SR Indiana-IN          42.74      42.71 qB     
     r:+0.76  9.81        20.53 (10.72)
          31.79 (11.26)       42.71 (10.92)
  4 Franzman, Jack   SO Indiana-IN          43.52      42.72 qB     
     r:+0.66  9.53        20.20 (10.67)
          31.53 (11.33)       42.72 (11.19)
  5 Tarasenko, Alek  SO Iowa-IA             42.85      42.90 qB     
     r:+0.63  9.96        20.62 (10.66)
          31.82 (11.20)       42.90 (11.08)
  6 Borges, Luiz Gu  JR Michigan-MI         42.70      42.93 qB     
     r:+0.64  9.59        20.41 (10.82)
          31.71 (11.30)       42.93 (11.22)
  7 Abeysinghe, Mat  SR Ohio St-OH          43.99      42.96 qB     
     r:+0.59  9.65        20.50 (10.85)
          31.60 (11.10)       42.96 (11.36)
  8 Andreis, Semued  SO Ohio St-OH          43.56      43.08 qB     
     r:+0.69  9.62        20.32 (10.70)
          31.56 (11.24)       43.08 (11.52)

200 Breast

Ohio State’s Paul DeLakis, who has finished twice this weekend in the 200 IM and 200 free, is the top seed in the 200 breast with a 1:52.39 morning swim. He is seeded ahead of 100 champ Max McHugh of Minnesota (1:52.44). Both guys made the A-Final at last year’s NCAA with McHugh getting second and DeLakis getting sixth.

Michigan’s Tommy Cope (1:52.55) should also factor into the medals tonight as he is the third seed for the Wolverines. Michigan was able to advance seniors Charlie Swanson (1:52.88) and Jeremy Babinet (1:54.11) to the final as well.

Ohio State’s Jason Mathews (1:52.76), Iowa’s Daniel Swanepoel (1:54.54) and Wisconsin’s Jian Mao (1:54.78) also advanced to the championship final.

Event 18  Men 200 Yard Breaststroke
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     B1G Meet: # 1:50.30  3/2/2019  Ian J Finnerty, Indiana
  Pool Record: ! 1:51.03  2013      Cody Miller, Indiana
                 1:52.61  A NCAA Qualifying
                 1:58.43  B NCAA Provisional
    Name           Year School               Seed    Prelims              
==================================================================
                      === Preliminaries ===                       
 
  1 Delakis, Paul J  JR Ohio St-OH        1:56.71    1:52.39 qA     
    r:+0.68  25.43        53.84 (28.41)
        1:23.09 (29.25)     1:52.39 (29.30)
  2 McHugh, Maxwell  SO Minnesota-MN      1:51.62    1:52.44 qA     
    r:+0.76  25.39        54.08 (28.69)
        1:23.06 (28.98)     1:52.44 (29.38)
  3 Cope, Thomas E   SR Michigan-MI       1:52.31    1:52.55 qA     
    r:+0.63  25.40        53.74 (28.34)
        1:22.41 (28.67)     1:52.55 (30.14)
  4 Mathews, Jason   SO Ohio St-OH        1:55.10    1:52.76 qB     
    r:+0.66  25.50        53.91 (28.41)
        1:23.05 (29.14)     1:52.76 (29.71)
  5 Swanson, Charle  SR Michigan-MI       1:53.57    1:52.88 qB     
    r:+0.69  25.37        53.92 (28.55)
        1:23.25 (29.33)     1:52.88 (29.63)
  6 Babinet, Jeremy  SR Michigan-MI       1:52.52    1:54.11 qB     
    r:+0.69  25.65        54.60 (28.95)
        1:23.97 (29.37)     1:54.11 (30.14)
  7 Swanepoel, Dani  JR Iowa-IA           1:55.46    1:54.54 qB     
    r:+0.76  26.11        55.48 (29.37)
        1:24.80 (29.32)     1:54.54 (29.74)
  8 Mao, Jian        JR Wisconsin-WI      1:55.55    1:54.78 qB     
    r:+0.70  25.95        55.20 (29.25)
        1:24.62 (29.42)     1:54.78 (30.16)

200 Fly

We highlighted the 200 butterfly as one of the races to watch coming into the meet and it should definitely live up to the hype as four guys have a chance to take home the title. Northwestern freshman Federico Burdisso, who was fourth at the World Championships while representing Italy, is the top seed at 1:42.45, but he will be surrounded by Indiana freshman Brendan Burns (1:42.47) and Michigan senior Miles Smachlo (1:42.55), who were not far behind him.

Burns was second in the 100 back and third in the 100 fly while Smachlo won last night’s 100 fly final. Ohio State senior Noah Lense (1:43.18), who was last year’s NCAA B-Final champ in this event, could also pull off the win tonight.

Indiana’s Van Mathias (1:43.56), Iowa’s Michael Tenney (1:44.18), Wisconsin’s Joseph Milinovich (1:44.44) and Indiana’s Chris Bathurst (1:44.45) also advanced to the championship final.

Event 19  Men 200 Yard Butterfly
==================================================================
     B1G Meet: # 1:39.28  3/2/2019  Vinicius M Lanza, Indiana
  Pool Record: ! 1:41.18  2013      Dillon Bosch, Michigan
                 1:40.76  A NCAA Qualifying
                 1:46.69  B NCAA Provisional
    Name           Year School               Seed    Prelims              
==================================================================
                      === Preliminaries ===                       
 
  1 Burdisso, Feder  FR Northwestern-IL   1:44.14    1:42.45 qB     
    r:+0.67  22.13        47.69 (25.56)
        1:14.63 (26.94)     1:42.45 (27.82)
  2 Burns, Brendan   FR Indiana-IN        1:41.45    1:42.47 qB     
    r:+0.70  22.93        48.48 (25.55)
        1:14.75 (26.27)     1:42.47 (27.72)
  3 Smachlo, Miles   SR Michigan-MI       1:42.72    1:42.55 qB     
    r:+0.63  22.38        48.28 (25.90)
        1:14.87 (26.59)     1:42.55 (27.68)
  4 Lense, Noah J    SR Ohio St-OH        1:44.22    1:43.18 qB     
    r:+0.65  22.76        48.80 (26.04)
        1:15.52 (26.72)     1:43.18 (27.66)
  5 Mathias, Van L   SO Indiana-IN        1:43.10    1:43.56 qB     
    r:+0.81  22.84        49.01 (26.17)
        1:16.23 (27.22)     1:43.56 (27.33)
  6 Tenney, Michael  SR Iowa-IA           1:45.76    1:44.18 qB     
    r:+0.78  23.28        49.41 (26.13)
        1:16.46 (27.05)     1:44.18 (27.72)
  7 Milinovich, Jos  SR Wisconsin-WI      1:47.02    1:44.44 qB     
    r:+0.62  23.79        50.24 (26.45)
        1:16.88 (26.64)     1:44.44 (27.56)
  8 Bathurst, Chris  FR Indiana-IN        1:47.58    1:44.45 qB     
    r:+0.63  23.70        50.30 (26.60)
        1:17.19 (26.89)     1:44.45 (27.26)
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