NCAA Division I Men’s Championships: Texas 6-Shooters Make NCAA History With Top 4 Sweep in 100 Fly

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Texas not only set an NCAA with the most A finalists in event with six this morning in the 100-yard fly, but the Longhorns made history with a 1-2-3-4 effort at the NCAA Division I Men’s Championships.

Texas’ Joseph Schooling (44.51), Jack Conger (44.55), Tripp Cooper (45.06) and Will Glass (45.56) went 1-2-3-4 with teammates Matt Ellis (46.12) and John Murray (46.72) taking sixth and eighth for the historic 92 points.

To our knowledge, no other team has ever gone 1-2-3-4 in a single event in NCAA history. The last time a team went 1-2-3 happened in 1987 with USC going it in the 500 free and Stanford in the 100 fly.

USC’s Dan Jorgensen (4:16.25), Thomas Fahrner (4:16.31), Mike O’Brien (4:17.01) and Chris Chalmers (4:21.99) went 1-2-3-8 in the 500, while Stanford’s Pablo Morales (46.47), Jay Mortenson (47.09) and Anthony Mosse (47.72) went 1-2-3 for the Cardinal.

USC had held the previous record for dominance for a team in an A final with a 1-2-3-5 effort in the 1976 400-yard IM. Rob Strachan (3:55.63), Steve Furniss (3:55.67), Scott Brown (3:57.88) and David Hannula (3:59.84) pulled off that feat with Tennessee’s Lee Engstrand (3:58.82) ruining the top-four sweep.

Other 1-2-3 efforts also happened in 1971 as Indiana posted a top-three sweep in the 200 back. Gary Hall (1:50.60), Michael Stamm (1:51.47) and Santiago Esteva (1:52.22) put up those times. The top-three sweep also happened in the 60s. Yale did it in 1964 in the 200 free with S. Clark (1:44.4), D. Lyons (1:45.3) and E. Townsend (1:46.2) accomplishing the feat.

This is Texas’ sixth win in the event’s history. Other Texas wins:

1981 Scott Spann, Texas, 47.22
2001 Ian Crocker, Texas, 45.96
2002 Ian Crocker, Texas, 45.44
2003 Ian Crocker, Texas, 45.67
2004 Ian Crocker, Texas, 49.07 *SCM

Schooling moved to second all time in the 100 fly, while Conger now stands third all time.

All Time 100 Fly

Rank	Name	Time
1	Austin Staab	44.18
2	Joseph Schooling	44.51
3	Jack Conger	44.55
4	Albert Subirats	44.57
5	Tom Shields	44.59

Even more history was made as Schooling’s .04 win against Conger tied the record for the NCAA in the men’s 100-yard fly.

Iowa’s Rafal Szukala beat Florida’s Stephen Clarke, 47.43 to 47.47, back in 1994.

It is fitting that all of this history was made in the birthplace of the butterly. Former Iowa coach David Armbruster is credited with creating the modern day butterfly back in 1934 here in Iowa.

The 92 points vaulted Texas to 315 points, while California was a distant second with 190 points.

  1 Schooling, Jose  FR Texas               45.04      44.51         20  
    r:+0.60  21.11        44.51 (23.40)
  2 Conger, Jack     SO Texas               45.17      44.55         17  
    r:+0.70  20.82        44.55 (23.73)
  3 Cooper, Tripp    SR Texas               45.33      45.06         16  
    r:+0.71  20.89        45.06 (24.17)
  4 Glass, Will      SO Texas               45.40      45.56         15  
    r:+0.71  21.14        45.56 (24.42)
  5 Lewis, Sam       JR UNC                 45.60      45.66         14  
    r:+0.62  21.12        45.66 (24.54)
  6 Ellis, Matt      JR Texas               45.92      46.12         13  
    r:+0.68  21.58        46.12 (24.54)
  7 McHugh, Matt     SO Ohio St             45.82      46.45         12  
    r:+0.65  21.51        46.45 (24.94)
  8 Murray, John     JR Texas               45.89      46.72         11  
    r:+0.65  21.32        46.72 (25.40)

  1. Texas                             315   2. California                        190
  3. Florida                           174   4. Michigan                          137
  5. Alabama                           113   6. Georgia                         112.5
  7. Southern Cali                     110   8. Auburn                             97
  9. Stanford                           75  10. Arizona                          68.5
 11. Missouri                           67  12. NC State                         63.5
 13. Louisville                         48  14. Tennessee                          43
 15. UNC                              38.5  16. Ohio St                            33
 17. Miami (Fl)                         29  17. Indiana                            29
 19. Purdue                             20  20. Georgia Tech                       14
 21. Univ of Utah                     12.5  22. Unlv (M)                           12
 23. Wisconsin                          10  24. Virginia Tech                       9
 25. Texas A&M                         4.5  26. Minnesota                           4
 27. Florida St                          2  27. Northwestern                        2
 27. South Carolina                      2

2015 NCAA Division I Men’s Swimming & Diving Championships, Live Results – Results

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Jim Christian

9 years ago

UT has a sub-3:00 400 fly relay. Think about that for a minute…