Texas Projected to Win 2016 NCAA Division I Men’s Championships

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It’s not much of a surprise following the outcome of the 2015 meet, but the Texas Longhorns are the clear favorite to give Eddie Reese his NCAA-record 12th championship at the 2016 NCAA Division I Men’s Championships.

University of Arizona economist Price Fishback ran the numbers, and here’s the projections for the upcoming meet.

2016 NCAA Division I Men's Championships Projections

Rank	TEAM	Day 1 Score	Day 2 Score	Day 3 Score	Day 4 Score	Total Score
1	Texas	32	128	90	158	408
2	NC State	40	112	97	128	377
3	Florida	34	149	72	64	319
4	Auburn	26	93	70	94	283
5	California	22	52	109	96	279
6	Indiana	24	59	72	67	222
7	Michigan	28	95	45	54	222
8	Alabama	2	65	55	57	179
9	Louisville	30	33	64	28	155
10	Georgia	14	24	61	48	147
11	Missouri	8	52	34	31	125
12	Southern California	18	29	46	25	118
13	Stanford	12	29	33	35	109
14	Arizona	6	22	39	14	81
15	Tennessee	0	15	29	27	71
16	Ohio State	4	10	32	14	60
17	Virginia Tech	0	17	28	15	60
18	South Carolina	0	15	0	25	40
19	Wisconsin	10	9	0	20	39
20	North Carolina	0	8	20	5	33
21	BYU	0	11	6	6	23
22	Princeton	0	13	0	8	21
23	Minnesota	0	10	5	4	19
24	Duke	0	0	15	0	15
25	Harvard	0	14	0	0	14
26	LSU	0	0	14	0	14
27	Penn	0	0	0	14	14
28	UNLV	0	14	0	0	14
29	Air Force	0	0	13	0	13
30	Iowa	0	6	7	0	13
31	Virginia	0	0	0	13	13
32	West Virginia	0	0	13	0	13
33	Cornell	0	0	0	11	11
34	Florida State	0	0	9	0	9
35	Yale	0	0	0	7	7
36	Cleveland State	0	0	6	0	6
37	Notre Dame	0	0	0	6	6
38	Arizona State	0	0	0	5	5
39	Utah	0	1	0	4	5
40	Denver	0	0	0	2	2
41	George Washington	0	0	1	0	1

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Niles Keeran

8 years ago

More than half of the Big 12 Conference doesn’t even field a swim team. Texas sucks. Boomer Sooners!

Hubert Humphrey

8 years ago

Reply to Niles Keeran

Ooh, wow, we got an edgy land thief over here. Was losing in October not enough for you?

Just Keep Swimmin'

8 years ago

Reply to Niles Keeran

Oh look…now it’s 2:49; and OU still sucks. Sorry you can’t manage to put together a team. All of the OU potential “swimmers” must all be out noodlin’. You’d probably only qualify for some sort of new OU Family Division games anyway because of challenges associated with lack of genetic diversity.

Derek Fisher

8 years ago

I didn’t realize potentially winning another national title qualifies as sucking? Tell me, where will Oklahoma finish?

Andrew McCloskey

8 years ago

Illinois Big Ten, dont lose focus

Just Keep Swimmin'

8 years ago

Oh look…it’s 2:25; and OU still sucks. Sorry you can’t manage to put together a team. They must all be out noodlin’