NCAA Men’s Championships: Cal Set for Saturday Championship Surge (Heat Sheet)

Cal's Destin Lasco -- Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick

NCAA Men’s Championships: Cal Set for Saturday Championship Surge (Heat Sheet)

Texas and Cal are battling for the team title at the NCAA Men’s Championships, and the title will be decided on the final day. The Golden Bears are set for a huge final day as the 200 backstroke, 100 freestyle, 200 breaststroke and 200 butterfly will be contested.

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Cal is seeded 1-2 in the first event of the day, the 200 back. Sophomore Destin Lasco finished second to Shaine Casas last season, and he is the top seed in the event, while fifth-year swimmer Daniel Carr is seeded second and fellow fifth-year (and U.S. Olympian) Bryce Mefford enters in fifth. Carson Foster should be in contention for Texas.

In the men’s 100 free, LSU’s Brooks Curry is favored to add a title to his earlier win in the 50 free, and he will have to fend off a field including the Texas duo of Danny Krueger and Drew Kibler. In the 200 breast, Max McHugh will seek to complete the breaststroke double for the second straight year after his triumph in the 100 breast Friday, and his competition includes Penn freshman Matt Fallon, Texas’ Caspar Corbeau, Arizona State’s Leon Marchand and the Cal duo of Reece Whitley and Hugo Gonzalez.

The 200 fly could be one of the top races of the meet with defending champion Nick Albiero of Louisville entering as the top seed ahead of Georgia’s Luca Urlando and Cal’s Trenton Julian. Georgia’s Matt Sates will swim his first non-freestyle event of the week here as well.

Team Scores Through Friday:

  1. California                      320.5   2. Texas                             313
  3. Florida                           272   4. NC State                          214
  5. Indiana                           183   6. Arizona St                        167
  7. Stanford                          159   8. Georgia                           150
  9. Louisville                        108   9. Ohio St                           108
 11. Virginia Tech                    89.5  12. Alabama                            80
 13. Virginia                         77.5  14. Harvard                            76
 15. Lsu                                65  16. Arizona                            61
 17. Purdue                             42  17. Texas A&M                          42
 19. Tennessee                        40.5  20. Michigan                           34
 21. Columbia                           30  22. Minnesota                          27
 23. UNC                                24  23. Southern California                24
 25. Auburn                             22  26. Missouri                            7
 26. Princeton                           7  28. Northwestern                      6.5
 28. Penn                              6.5  30. Notre Dame                          5
 31. Smu                                 4  31. Georgia Tech                        4
 31. Towson                              4  31. Wisconsin                           4
 35. Utah                                2

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