2022 Big Ten Men’s Championships: Brendan Burns Wins Twice as Indiana Seals Title

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2022 Big Ten Men’s Championships: Brendan Burns Wins Twice as Indiana Seals Title

If Indiana was looking for a flourish to finish off the 2022 Big Ten Men’s Championships, Brendan Burns provided it Saturday night.

Burns won the men’s 200 backstroke and then turned around barely an hour later to claim the 200 butterfly. That gives him back-to-back Big Ten Swimmer of the Championship honors and six career individual Big Ten titles. Teammate Andrew Capobianco earned consecutive Diver of the Championship nods, with Capobianco completing the diving sweep with a platform title Saturday night.

Both standouts added a team title to their ledger, the first for the Hoosiers since 2019 and fourth in six years. The surged on Friday, consolidated Saturday morning and capped it in the night session to run away from Ohio Sate and end to a two-year run of Michigan dominance.

All the action from the final night at Purdue:

2022 Big Ten Men’s Championships Links

Team Scores

 Men - Team Rankings - FINAL                     
 
  1. Indiana University             1499.5   2. Ohio State University          1406.5
  3. Michigan, University of        1056.5   4. Wisconsin, University of, Madi  869.5
  5. Purdue University                 821   6. Northwestern University           796
  7. University of Minnesota           637   8. Pennsylvania State University     626

1,650 freestyle

In what is usually Michigan’s territory, Charlie Clark reigned Saturday, going 14:36.02 to set a Purdue pool record and win. It’s also the lone NCAA A cut of the meet. Michigan’s Jake Mitchell was eight seconds back in second, with fellow Olympian Michael Brinegar fourth. Wisconsin’s Yigit Aslan was third.

Event 15  Men 1650 Yard Freestyle
=========================================================================
     B1G Meet: # 14:29.25  2/25/2017 Felix O Auboeck, Michigan
         Pool: ! 14:36.61  2016      Patrick Ransford, Michigan
                 14:37.31  A NCAA Qualifying
                 15:26.19  B NCAA Provisional
    Name           Year School               Seed     Finals       Points 
=========================================================================
  1 Clark, Charles   SO OSU-OH           14:42.21   14:36.02!A       32  
    r:+0.70  24.50        50.92 (26.42)
       13:41.42 (27.17)    14:08.92 (27.50)    14:36.02 (27.10)
  2 Mitchell, Jacob  SO MICH-MI          14:56.99   14:44.22 B       28  
    r:+0.74  24.52        51.07 (26.55)
       13:51.18 (27.17)    14:18.12 (26.94)    14:44.22 (26.10)
  3 Aslan, Yigit     FR WISC-WI          14:40.77   14:46.23 B       27  
    r:+0.68  24.71        51.03 (26.32)
       13:54.36 (27.62)    14:21.34 (26.98)    14:46.23 (24.89)
  4 Brinegar, James  JR IU-IN            14:40.23   14:46.53 B       26  
    r:+0.73  24.31        50.74 (26.43)
       13:55.81 (26.76)    14:22.35 (26.54)    14:46.53 (24.18)
  5 Dalu, Fabio      JR OSU-OH           14:53.34   14:51.41 B       25  
    r:+0.67  24.78        51.44 (26.66)
       13:58.20 (27.39)    14:25.48 (27.28)    14:51.41 (25.93)
  6 Briggs, Warren   SO IU-IN            15:06.02   14:58.03 B       24  
    r:+0.74  24.92        51.62 (26.70)
       14:01.98 (28.46)    14:30.52 (28.54)    14:58.03 (27.51)
  7 Dannhauser, Jos  SR WISC-WI                NT   14:58.54 B       23  
    r:+0.72  24.59        51.24 (26.65)
       14:04.84 (27.64)    14:32.10 (27.26)    14:58.54 (26.44)
  8 Soloveychik, Ba  FR MINN-MN          15:00.23   15:00.14 B       22  
    r:+0.70  24.60        51.18 (26.58)
       14:06.49 (27.53)    14:33.78 (27.29)    15:00.14 (26.36)

200 backstroke

Brendan Burns got the hard part of his double out of the way first, going 1:39.34 to set a pool record in an NCAA B cut time. He entered as the second seed. It was the third seed that pushed him. That was 500 free champ Jacob Newmark of Wisconsin, who led by three tenths at 150 yards before Burns closed in 25.47 to nip him by .16. Burns’ Indiana teammate Gabriel Fantoni was third in 1:40.26.

Event 16  Men 200 Yard Backstroke
=========================================================================
     B1G Meet: # 1:38.89  2014      Eric Ress, Indiana
         Pool: ! 1:39.59  2/28/2009 Tyler Clary, Michigan
                 1:39.13  A NCAA Qualifying
                 1:45.04  B NCAA Provisional
    Name           Year School            Prelims     Finals       Points 
=========================================================================
                            === A - Final ===                            
 
  1 Burns, Brendan   JR IU-IN             1:40.75    1:39.34!B       32  
             23.45        48.46 (25.01)
        1:13.87 (25.41)     1:39.34 (25.47)
  2 Newmark, Jacob   SO WISC-WI           1:40.88    1:39.50!B       28  
             23.75        48.75 (25.00)
        1:13.57 (24.82)     1:39.50 (25.93)
  3 Fantoni, Gabrie  5Y IU-IN             1:40.06    1:40.26 B       27  
             23.31        48.94 (25.63)
        1:14.75 (25.81)     1:40.26 (25.51)
  4 Jekel, Wesley B  JR WISC-WI           1:41.24    1:40.89 B       26  
             23.28        48.30 (25.02)
        1:13.98 (25.68)     1:40.89 (26.91)
  5 Daly, Michael C  SR PSU-MA            1:41.45    1:41.29 B       25  
             23.93        49.54 (25.61)
        1:15.69 (26.15)     1:41.29 (25.60)
  6 Steele, Jacob A  5Y IU-IN             1:41.07    1:42.03 B       24  
             23.85        49.44 (25.59)
        1:16.08 (26.64)     1:42.03 (25.95)
  7 Daigle, Jared B  SR MICH-MI           1:41.61    1:42.05 B       23  
             23.99        49.34 (25.35)
        1:15.56 (26.22)     1:42.05 (26.49)
  8 Martos Bacarizo  SR NU-IL             1:41.65    1:42.96 B       22  
             23.97        50.02 (26.05)
        1:16.40 (26.38)     1:42.96 (26.56)

100 freestyle

Hunter Armstrong was slower than in the morning, meaning the Big Ten Championships record lives to see another year. But he still had enough speed to win in 41.78 seconds, leading a Buckeye parade to the wall.

Ohio State swept the top three spots. Ruslan Gaziev brought the outside smoke to rise from eighth in prelims to second in finals in 42.07. He was a tenth up on teammate Sem Andreis, the second seed in the morning. The point tally briefly brought Ohio State within 56 points of Indiana, but that margin would be short-lived.

Event 17  Men 100 Yard Freestyle
=========================================================================
     B1G Meet: # 41.43  2/24/2018 Blake J Pieroni, Indiana
         Pool: ! 42.10  2017      Blake Pieroni, Indiana
                 41.71  A NCAA Qualifying
                 43.80  B NCAA Provisional
    Name           Year School            Prelims     Finals       Points 
=========================================================================
                            === A - Final ===                            
 
  1 Armstrong, Jose  JR OSU-OH              41.54      41.78!B       32  
     r:+0.65  9.46        20.06 (10.60)
          30.76 (10.70)       41.78 (11.02)
  2 Gaziev, Ruslan   SO OSU-OH              42.72      42.07!B       28  
     r:+0.66  9.46        19.99 (10.53)
          31.07 (11.08)       42.07 (11.00)
  3 Andreis, Semued  SR OSU-OH              42.08      42.17 B       27  
     r:+0.66  9.61        20.31 (10.70)
          31.26 (10.95)       42.17 (10.91)
  4 Miroslaw, Rafae  FR IU-IN               42.33      42.24 B       26  
     r:+0.67  9.68        20.30 (10.62)
          31.31 (11.01)       42.24 (10.93)
  5 Samuels, Braden  FR PUR-IN              42.66      42.41 B       25  
     r:+0.68  9.45        20.19 (10.74)
          31.31 (11.12)       42.41 (11.10)
  6 Acin, Nikola     SR PUR-IN              42.64      42.52 B       24  
     r:+0.65  9.80        20.38 (10.58)
          31.39 (11.01)       42.52 (11.13)
  7 Blaskovic, Brun  5Y IU-IN               42.31      42.58 B       23  
     r:+0.59  9.60        20.29 (10.69)
          31.57 (11.28)       42.58 (11.01)
  8 Baganha, Victor  FR PSU-MA              42.71      42.73 B       22  
     r:+0.62  9.50        20.20 (10.70)
          31.42 (11.22)       42.73 (11.31)

200 breaststroke

If you can find some room on the long CV of Max McHugh, you can pencil the meet record in the 200 back onto it. McHugh went 1:49.45 Saturday to win the event in which he’s the reigning NCAA champion. He also completes the breaststroke double for the second straight year.

In the process, he destroyed the pool record (Marat Amaltdinov, 2016) by more than three seconds and trimmed .85 off the meet record, held since 2019 by Indiana’s Ian Finnerty.

Indiana’s latest breaststroke star, Josh Matheny, finished second in 1:50.65. Both he and McHugh clocked A cuts. Caleb Aman got Wisconsin another podium place in third.

 Event 18  Men 200 Yard Breaststroke
=========================================================================
     B1G Meet: # 1:50.30  3/2/2019  Ian J Finnerty, Indiana
         Pool: ! 1:52.67  2016      Marat Amaltdinov, Purdue
                 1:52.28  A NCAA Qualifying
                 1:58.43  B NCAA Provisional
    Name           Year School            Prelims     Finals       Points 
=========================================================================
                            === A - Final ===                            
 
  1 McHugh, Maxwell  SR MINN-MN           1:52.92    1:49.45#A       32  
    r:+0.62  24.78        52.32 (27.54)
        1:20.59 (28.27)     1:49.45 (28.86)
  2 Matheny, Joshua  FR IU-IN             1:53.16    1:50.65!A       28  
    r:+0.66  25.06        53.02 (27.96)
        1:21.60 (28.58)     1:50.65 (29.05)
  3 Aman, Caleb R    SR WISC-WI           1:54.84    1:53.86 B       27  
    r:+0.69  26.18        55.14 (28.96)
        1:24.47 (29.33)     1:53.86 (29.39)
  4 Raisanen, Daniel JR PSU-MA            1:54.03    1:54.05 B       26  
    r:+0.67  25.37        54.06 (28.69)
        1:23.65 (29.59)     1:54.05 (30.40)
  5 Reich, Maxwell   SO IU-IN             1:53.83    1:54.18 B       25  
    r:+0.60  25.62        54.65 (29.03)
        1:24.47 (29.82)     1:54.18 (29.71)
  6 Mok, Kai Tik M   JR NU-IL             1:54.32    1:54.36 B       24  
    r:+0.68  26.02        54.71 (28.69)
        1:23.99 (29.28)     1:54.36 (30.37)
  7 Morikawa, Connor SO NU-IL             1:55.49    1:54.53 B       23  
    r:+0.65  25.51        54.10 (28.59)
        1:23.81 (29.71)     1:54.53 (30.72)
  8 Barr, Luke D     FR IU-IN             1:55.44    1:56.05 B       22  
    r:+0.57  25.88        54.93 (29.05)
        1:25.06 (30.13)     1:56.05 (30.99)

200 butterfly

Brendan Burns had a loaded final heat to contend with, but he navigated it with aplomb. Ahead by the halfway point, Burns pulled away, working a 25.59 third 50 to push past Gal Groumi and win in 1:39.81. The time is a pool record, six tenths slower than his time from last year. It’s also an NCAA A cut.

Michigan’s Groumi finished second in 1:40.59, followed by 100 fly champ Alex Quach in 1:41.81. Both are freshmen. Federico Burdisso, Northwestern’s Italian Olympian, was fourth.

Event 19  Men 200 Yard Butterfly
=========================================================================
     B1G Meet: # 1:39.22  3/5/2021  Brendan A Burns, Indiana
         Pool: ! 1:40.86  2016      Dylan Bosch, Michigan
                 1:40.44  A NCAA Qualifying
                 1:46.69  B NCAA Provisional
    Name           Year School            Prelims     Finals       Points 
=========================================================================
                            === A - Final ===                            
 
  1 Burns, Brendan   JR IU-IN             1:40.65    1:39.81!A       32  
    r:+0.68  22.53        47.71 (25.18)
        1:13.30 (25.59)     1:39.81 (26.51)
  2 Cohen Groumi, G  FR MICH-MI           1:42.71    1:40.59!B       28  
    r:+0.63  22.40        48.30 (25.90)
        1:14.11 (25.81)     1:40.59 (26.48)
  3 Quach, Alex      FR OSU-OH            1:42.99    1:41.81 B       27  
    r:+0.63  22.14        47.70 (25.56)
        1:14.06 (26.36)     1:41.81 (27.75)
  4 Burdisso, Federico  JR NU-IL          1:42.56    1:41.82 B       26  
    r:+0.51  22.35        47.91 (25.56)
        1:14.24 (26.33)     1:41.82 (27.58)
  5 Gambardella, Corey  5Y IU-IN          1:42.95    1:42.12 B       25  
    r:+0.59  22.82        48.34 (25.52)
        1:14.66 (26.32)     1:42.12 (27.46)
  6 Lamastra, Connor SR NU-IL             1:43.69    1:42.93 B       24  
    r:+0.60  23.09        49.04 (25.95)
        1:15.73 (26.69)     1:42.93 (27.20)
  7 Gustafson, Chachi   JR OSU-OH         1:42.57    1:43.01 B       23  
    r:+0.69  22.74        48.91 (26.17)
        1:15.78 (26.87)     1:43.01 (27.23)
  8 Frankel, Tomer   SO IU-IN             1:43.65    1:43.06 B       22  
    r:+0.62  22.94        48.41 (25.47)
        1:15.50 (27.09)     1:43.06 (27.56)

Platform diving

Well, the balloting for Big Ten Diver of the Year should be fairly straightforward.

There’s no doubt about it being Andrew Capobianco, who went 3-for-3 in conference titles. This one was fairly comfortable, though he wasn’t the top seed out of prelims, sitting in fifth. He left no doubt in the final, scoring 469.90 points to win by 26 points.

The future is bright, though, with four freshmen in the top eight and five in the top 10, led by Purdue’s Jordan Rzepka. His 443.10 edged fellow rookie Carson Tyler of Indiana by just over two points. It’s Rzepka’s second silver medal of the week.

 Event 20  Men Platform Diving
=========================================================================
     B1G Meet: # 557.90  2011      David Boudia, Purdue
         Pool: ! 538.15  2010      David Boudia, Purdue
                 300.00  A NCAA Qualifying
    Name           Year School            Prelims     Finals       Points 
=========================================================================
                            === A - Final ===                            
 
  1 Capobianco, Andrew  SR IU-IN           398.95     469.90 A       32  
  2 Rzepka, Jordan   FR PUR-IN             373.95     443.10 A       28  
  3 Tyler, Carson    FR IU-IN              410.30     440.90 A       27  
  4 Fielding, Jacob  SR OSU-OH             399.75     431.15 A       26  
  5 Downs, Tyler     FR PUR-IN             437.95     428.70 A       25  
  6 Siler, Jacob     SR OSU-OH             400.70     424.10 A       24  
  7 Todd, Ross       SR MICH-MI            377.70     406.20 A       23  
  8 Chaplin, Clayton FR OSU-OH             397.30     395.75 A       22

400 freestyle relay

One more meet record for Hunter Armstrong and Ohio State on the way out. It’s not a surprise that the team producing the top three finishers in the individual event and then adding 100 fly champ Alex Quach would win this relay. But Indiana gave the Buckeyes a push, coming within eight tenths of the upset.

Armstrong set the Buckeyes into clean water with a leadoff 41.60, just .06 off the time he set in the morning and shy of the individual Big Ten Championships record. The squad of Armstrong, Sem Andreis, Quach and Ruslan Gaziev did down the meet mark, though, in 2:47.16, more than a second quicker than Indiana’s 2017 time.

Indiana was also under the record, finishing second in 2:47.96, also an A cut. Purdue nabbed an auto cut in third, as did Michigan in fourth.

Event 21  Men 400 Yard Freestyle Relay
==================================================================================
     B1G Meet: # 2:48.29  2/25/2017 Indiana University
                          A Tavcar, A Khalafalla, M SAMY, B Pieroni
         Pool: ! 2:49.64  2018      NCSt, NCSt, LOU, NCSt, ACC
                          Stewart, Molacek, Barna, Ress
                 2:50.99  A NCAA Qualifying
                 2:52.46  B NCAA Provisional
    School                           Seed     Finals       Points 
==================================================================================
  1 OSU-OH  'A'                   2:48.84    2:47.16#A       64  
     1) Armstrong, Joseph H JR        2) r:+0.14 Andreis, Semuede SR  
     3) r:+0.19 Quach, Alex FR        4) r:+0.33 Gaziev, Ruslan SO    
    r:+0.66  19.94        41.60 (41.60)
        1:01.29 (19.69)     1:23.42 (41.82)
        1:43.37 (19.95)     2:05.45 (42.03)
        2:25.34 (19.89)     2:47.16 (41.71)
  2 IU-IN  'A'                    2:49.05    2:47.96#A       56  
     1) Miroslaw, Rafael FR           2) r:+0.21 Frankel, Tomer SO    
     3) r:+0.23 Blaskovic, Bruno 5Y   4) r:+0.09 Mathias, Van SR      
    r:+0.66  20.26        42.21 (42.21)
        1:02.20 (19.99)     1:24.40 (42.19)
        1:43.87 (19.47)     2:06.10 (41.70)
        2:25.87 (19.77)     2:47.96 (41.86)
  3 PUR-IN  'A'                   2:51.18    2:50.09 A       54  
     1) Acin, Nikola SR               2) r:+0.22 Sherman, Nicholas SR 
     3) r:+0.48 Hart, Keelan JR       4) r:+0.13 Samuels, Braden FR   
    r:+0.66  20.26        42.24 (42.24)
        1:02.51 (20.27)     1:25.03 (42.79)
        1:45.69 (20.66)     2:08.31 (43.28)
        2:28.04 (19.73)     2:50.09 (41.78)
  4 MICH-MI  'A'                  2:50.44    2:50.33 A       52  
     1) Peel, Cameron R JR            2) r:+0.17 Szabados, Bence SO   
     3) r:+0.07 Cohen Groumi, Gal FR  4) r:+0.22 Mitchell, Jacob SO   
    r:+0.65  20.43        43.47 (43.47)
        1:03.13 (19.66)     1:25.34 (41.87)
        1:45.06 (19.72)     2:07.49 (42.15)
        2:27.74 (20.25)     2:50.33 (42.84)
  5 NU-IL  'A'                    2:54.07    2:53.56         50  
     1) Burdisso, Federico JR         2) r:+0.24 Zhang, Andrew SR     
     3) r:+0.19 Schuster, Collin SO   4) r:+0.17 Lamastra, Connor SR  
    r:+0.69  20.38        42.63 (42.63)
        1:03.02 (20.39)     1:25.97 (43.34)
        1:46.50 (20.53)     2:09.80 (43.83)
        2:30.48 (20.68)     2:53.56 (43.76)
  6 WISC-WI  'A'                  2:56.33    2:53.91         48  
     1) Butera, Nico A FR             2) r:+0.14 Casey-Hrenak, saac SO
     3) r:+0.17 Delaney, Dylan SR     4) r:+0.27 Newmark, Jacob SO    
    r:+0.64  20.81        43.56 (43.56)
        1:04.27 (20.71)     1:27.42 (43.86)
        1:47.77 (20.35)     2:11.41 (43.99)
        2:31.37 (19.96)     2:53.91 (42.50)
  7 MINN-MN  'A'                  2:56.28    2:54.12         46  
     1) Neverman, Kaiser E SO         2) r:+0.16 Farrar, Lucas SO     
     3) r:+0.20 Donker, Tom 5Y        4) r:+0.36 Morris, Christpher FR
    r:+0.63  20.59        44.16 (44.16)
        1:04.40 (20.24)     1:27.10 (42.94)
        1:47.72 (20.62)     2:10.69 (43.59)
        2:31.10 (20.41)     2:54.12 (43.43)
  8 PSU-MA  'A'                   2:54.71    2:58.15         44  
     1) Houck, Jacob A SO             2) r:+0.24 Hurley, Thomas SO    
     3) r:+0.21 Chenot, Devon SR      4) r:+0.45 Daly, Michael SR     
    r:+0.62  20.93        44.28 (44.28)
        1:05.11 (20.83)     1:28.46 (44.18)
        1:49.31 (20.85)     2:13.94 (45.48)
        2:35.13 (21.19)     2:58.15 (44.21)
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