The 2021 NCAA Division I Men’s Swimming and Diving Championship continued Friday with preliminaries on Day 3 of the meet.
The events scheduled are the 400 IM, 100 butterfly, 200 free, 100 breaststroke and 100 backstroke.
Cal has the lead heading into the day, but a late surge from Texas on Thursday night has the meet extremely close with every swim counting for both teams.
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NCAA Championships: 100 Backstroke
Cal’s Ryan Murphy has the top spot in history at 43.39, the NCAA and American record set in 2016. NC State’s Coleman Stewart is next at 43.62, followed by Harvard’s Dean Farris (43.66) and Texas A&M’s Shaine Casas, in 43.87. … Stanford has 13 titles in history, while USC and texas each have eight. … Murphy and USC’s John Naber each claimed four titles in the event, while Peter Marshall, Yoshi Oyakawa and Jeff Rouse each claimed three.
Texas A&M junior Shaine Casas continued his strong start to the NCAA Championships. After winning the first title in Aggies’ history on Thursday in the 200 IM, he took the top seed in the 100 backstroke on Friday with a time of 44.41.
Cal freshman Destin Lasco has the second seed in 44.55, ahead of NC State sophomore Kacper Stokowski (44.70).
Louisville senior Nicholas Albiero, in the middle of an impressive double, finished with the fourth seed in 44.85. He also took the fourth seed in the 100 butterfly earlier in the session, making the finals in both events.
Indiana sophomore Brendan Burns took the fifth spot, followed by Javier Acevedo, a senior from Georgia, who touched the wall in 44.95.
Texas senior Alvin Jiang took the seventh seed in 44.97, also in a double, after making the final in the 100 butterfly.
Cal senior Bryce Mefford took the eighth spot in 45.04.
Cal has two in the final sin the event with one for Texas as the teams battle for every point.
Event 12 Men 100 Yard Backstroke
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NCAA: N 43.49 3/25/2016 Ryan Murphy, California
Meet: M 43.49 3/25/2016 Ryan Murphy, California
American: A 43.49 3/25/2016 Ryan Murphy, California
U. S. Open: O 43.49 3/25/2016 Ryan Murphy, California
Pool: P 44.04 2/28/2020 Coleman Stewart, NC State
Name Year School Seed Prelims
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=== Preliminaries ===
1 Casas, Shaine JR TAMU 43.87 44.41
r:+0.67 21.28 44.41 (23.13)
2 Lasco, Destin FR California 45.21 44.55
r:+0.66 21.74 44.55 (22.81)
3 Stokowski, Kacper SO NC State 44.82 44.70
r:+0.63 22.10 44.70 (22.60)
4 Albiero, Nicolas SR Louisville 44.85 44.85
r:+0.66 21.72 44.85 (23.13)
5 Burns, Brendan SO Indiana 47.17 44.87
r:+0.89 21.90 44.87 (22.97)
6 Acevedo, Javi SR Georgia 44.96 44.95
r:+0.56 22.10 44.95 (22.85)
7 Jiang, Alvin SR Texas 45.09 44.97
r:+0.72 21.87 44.97 (23.10)
8 Mefford, Bryce SR California 45.38 45.04
r:+0.66 21.78 45.04 (23.26)
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9 Armstrong, Hunter SO Ohio St 44.92 45.15
r:+0.66 21.69 45.15 (23.46)
10 Chaney, Adam FR Florida 44.99 45.24
r:+0.65 21.69 45.24 (23.55)
11 Katz, Austin SR Texas 46.39 45.27
r:+0.60 21.95 45.27 (23.32)
12 Staka, Chris SR Texas 45.12 45.35
r:+0.68 21.99 45.35 (23.36)
13 Menke, Matthew SO Alabama 45.18 45.39
r:+0.69 21.87 45.39 (23.52)
14 Steele, Jacob SR Indiana 45.39 45.48
r:+0.63 21.96 45.48 (23.52)
15 Fantoni, Gabriel SR Indiana 45.26 45.51
r:+0.80 21.86 45.51 (23.65)
16 Carr, Daniel SR California 45.35 45.53
r:+0.60 21.77 45.53 (23.76)
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