Invitational Week Preview: Georgia Tech, Purdue, Texas A&M, Ohio State Hosting

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It is invitational week in college swimming.

More than a dozen invitationals will take place across the country in NCAA Division I pools.

Some have been highly anticipated and others could be surprising. This is usually the week where a couple of teams have a breakout and make a statement.

Who will it be this week?

Let’s start with the marquee invitationals.

Georgia Tech will host an invitational this week with many of the southern powers. Alabama, Auburn and South Carolina are scheduled to compete.

Meanwhile, a little further west, Texas A&M will host an invite that includes SEC foes LSU and Arkansas as well as the Stanford and ASU women out of the Pac-12.

Purdue will host its Early Bird Invitational and that will include teams like Indiana, Florida and Virginia Tech.

The Missouri invite will be this week as well, with regional teams such as Illinois in attendance.

Houston will host an invite that includes Vanderbilt.

The University of Texas host their diving invitational, with fellow Big 12 teams like TCU joining the action in Austin.

Those all start on Thursday.

On Friday, more will join the mix. Northwestern will host its TYR Invitational that will include Big Ten opponent Michigan State.

Meanwhile, Ohio State will host an invite with teams like NC State, Penn State, Notre Dame, Kentucky, Pittsburgh and Washington State.

Rutgers will also be hosting an invite this week, as will Louisville.

West Virginia will send their swimmers to the Ohio State Invitational while the Mountaineer divers head to Rutgers.

The University of Kansas will travel to the Kansas Classic with Big 12 rival Iowa State also competing.

On the West Coast, Cal will face Nevada in the only Pac-12 non-invitational action.

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