Will Licon Blasts 4th-Fastest 200 Breast Ever With 1:49.43 in Prelims

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Texas’ Will Licon uncorked the fourth-fastest time in the men’s 200-yard breast at the 2016 NCAA Division I Men’s Championships.

Licon turned in a top time of 1:49.43, bettering the 1:49.48 he used to win the NCAA title last year. Licon now owns three of the top 10 times ever.

All Time Top 10 200 Breast:

1 1:48.66 Kevin Cordes Arizona 3/29/14
2 1:48.68 Kevin Cordes Arizona 3/28/13
3 1:49.38 Kevin Cordes Arizona 12/5/13
4 1:49.43p Will Licon Texas Atlanta 3/26/16
5 1:49.48 Will Licon Texas 3/28/15
6 1:49.53 Kevin Cordes Arizona 3/28/15
7 1:49.54 Will Licon Texas 3/28/15
8 1:49.74 Cody Miller Badger 12/19/15
9 1:49.79 Kevin Cordes Arizona 3/28/13
10 1:50.02 Kevin Cordes Arizona 3/28/15

Licon, the defending champion, is looking to join the long list of swimmers who have won a pair of 200 breast NCAA titles.

Multiple 200 Breast Winners:

4 – Brendan Hansen, Texas
3 – Mike Barrowman, Michigan
3 – Brian Job, Stanford
3 – John Moffet, Stanford
3 – D. Graham Smith, California
2 – Ron Clark, Michigan
2 – Kurt Grote, Stanford
2 – John Hencken, Stanford
2 – Steve Lundquist, SMU
2 – David Wilkie, Miami (Fla.)
2 – Vlad Polyakov, Alabama
2 – Kevin Cordes, Arizona

Texas currently has seven wins this week in Atlanta. Licon is the squad’s best bet to move to eight total as Texas looks to chase down its own NCAA title for most event wins in a meet.

California’s Josh Prenot moved up to eighth all time in the event’s history with a second-seeded time of 1:51.45.

Alabama’s Anton McKee (1:52.53), Virginia Tech’s Brandon Fiala (1:52.82), Missouri’s Fabian Schwingenschlogl (1:53.31), Virginia’s Yannick Kaeser (1:53.96), Louisville’s Carlos Claverie (1:54.04) and Indiana’s Tanner Kurz (1:54.29) qualified third through eighth.

                      === Preliminaries ===                       
 
  1 Licon, Will            JR Texas             1:50.47    1:49.43P 
    r:+0.71  25.09        52.84 (27.75)
        1:20.92 (28.08)     1:49.43 (28.51)
  2 Prenot, Josh           SR California        1:51.75    1:51.45P 
    r:+0.69  25.34        53.21 (27.87)
        1:21.83 (28.62)     1:51.45 (29.62)
  3 McKee, Anton           JR Alabama           1:53.00    1:52.53  
    r:+0.69  25.45        54.19 (28.74)
        1:23.07 (28.88)     1:52.53 (29.46)
  4 Fiala, Brandon         JR VT                1:52.87    1:52.82  
    r:+0.66  25.11        53.62 (28.51)
        1:22.70 (29.08)     1:52.82 (30.12)
  5 Schwingenschlogl, Fab  JR Missouri          1:53.64    1:53.31  
    r:+0.68  25.29        54.01 (28.72)
        1:23.42 (29.41)     1:53.31 (29.89)
  6 Kaeser, Yannick        SR Virginia          1:53.41    1:53.96  
    r:+0.78  25.70        54.69 (28.99)
        1:24.05 (29.36)     1:53.96 (29.91)
  7 Claverie, Carlos       SO Louisville        1:53.58    1:54.04  
    r:+0.71  25.94        55.12 (29.18)
        1:25.08 (29.96)     1:54.04 (28.96)
  8 Kurz, Tanner           SR Indiana           1:54.19    1:54.29  
    r:+0.75  25.42        54.00 (28.58)
        1:23.48 (29.48)     1:54.29 (30.81)
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  9 Taylor, Cody           SO Indiana           1:52.70    1:54.39  
    r:+0.71  26.11        55.02 (28.91)
        1:24.14 (29.12)     1:54.39 (30.25)
 10 Stumph, Steven         JR USC               1:53.61    1:54.62  
    r:+0.71  26.04        54.55 (28.51)
        1:24.09 (29.54)     1:54.62 (30.53)
 11 Vissering, Carsten     FR USC               1:54.09    1:54.73  
    r:+0.70  26.32        55.58 (29.26)
        1:25.27 (29.69)     1:54.73 (29.46)
 12 Castillo Luna, Mauro   SO Tex AM            1:54.64    1:55.11  
    r:+0.66  25.98        55.37 (29.39)
        1:25.02 (29.65)     1:55.11 (30.09)
 13 Evdokimov, Alex        SO Cornell           1:53.56    1:55.17  
    r:+0.65  26.27        55.76 (29.49)
        1:25.29 (29.53)     1:55.17 (29.88)
 14 Hoppe, Connor          SO California        1:55.23    1:55.35  
    r:+0.67  25.97        55.57 (29.60)
        1:26.08 (30.51)     1:55.35 (29.27)
 15 Trussov, Roman         SR Iowa              1:56.18    1:55.36  
    r:+0.66  25.44        54.48 (29.04)
        1:24.20 (29.72)     1:55.36 (31.16)
 16 Macdonald, DJ          SR Ohio St           1:54.75    1:55.58  
    r:+0.72  26.21        56.21 (30.00)
        1:25.87 (29.66)     1:55.58 (29.71)
 -----------------------------------------------------------------
 17 Osvath, Artur          FR Missouri St       1:55.04    1:55.59  
    r:+0.65  26.19        55.40 (29.21)
        1:25.16 (29.76)     1:55.59 (30.43)
 18 Coombs, Jason          JR FSU               1:54.96    1:55.63  
    r:+0.66  25.51        54.67 (29.16)
        1:24.66 (29.99)     1:55.63 (30.97)
 -----------------------------------------------------------------
 19 Browne, Ethan          FR Tennessee         1:54.08    1:55.74  
    r:+0.65  26.53        55.60 (29.07)
        1:25.59 (29.99)     1:55.74 (30.15)
 20 McNamara, Shane        SO Harvard           1:55.39    1:55.98  
    r:+0.71  26.28        55.71 (29.43)
        1:25.41 (29.70)     1:55.98 (30.57)
 21 Romanov, Pasha         JR Alabama           1:57.21    1:56.08  
    r:+0.67  25.65        55.32 (29.67)
        1:25.71 (30.39)     1:56.08 (30.37)
 22 Cobleigh, Hunter       JR California        1:55.34    1:56.15  
    r:+0.63  26.33        55.62 (29.29)
        1:26.30 (30.68)     1:56.15 (29.85)
 23 Guest, James           FR Georgia           1:54.64    1:56.26  
    r:+0.65  26.03        55.65 (29.62)
        1:25.84 (30.19)     1:56.26 (30.42)
 24 Kimpel, Alexander      SO GT                1:54.91    1:56.37  
    r:+0.69  26.23        55.59 (29.36)
        1:25.85 (30.26)     1:56.37 (30.52)
 25 Lorenz, Christian      SO Arizona St        1:54.10    1:56.42  
    r:+0.82  26.05        55.67 (29.62)
        1:25.99 (30.32)     1:56.42 (30.43)
 26 McHugh, Conner         SO Minnesota         1:54.08    1:56.51  
    r:+0.73  26.12        55.56 (29.44)
        1:25.63 (30.07)     1:56.51 (30.88)
 27 Maly, Jakub            JR Minnesota         1:55.91    1:56.58  
    r:+0.73  26.10        55.55 (29.45)
        1:25.76 (30.21)     1:56.58 (30.82)
 28 Groters, Jordy         SO Missouri          1:56.84    1:56.60  
    r:+0.65  26.22        56.05 (29.83)
        1:26.27 (30.22)     1:56.60 (30.33)
 29 Greenhalgh, George     SR Kentucky          1:55.98    1:56.67  
    r:+0.67  26.06        55.40 (29.34)
        1:25.80 (30.40)     1:56.67 (30.87)
 30 Crosby, Gage           JR Arizona           1:55.31    1:56.73  
    r:+0.73  26.09        55.48 (29.39)
        1:25.80 (30.32)     1:56.73 (30.93)
 31 Nowicki, Devon         FR Oakland           1:55.66    1:57.53  
    r:+0.65  26.22        56.05 (29.83)
        1:26.47 (30.42)     1:57.53 (31.06)
 32 Sand, Carson           FR California        1:54.92    1:57.89  
    r:+0.69  26.18        56.19 (30.01)
        1:26.80 (30.61)     1:57.89 (31.09)
 33 Duderstadt, Michael    JR Auburn            1:53.50    1:58.00  
    r:+0.67  26.37        54.89 (28.52)
        1:26.17 (31.28)     1:58.00 (31.83)
 34 Anderson, Matt         FR Stanford          1:54.77    1:58.19  
    r:+0.70  26.19        56.32 (30.13)
        1:26.91 (30.59)     1:58.19 (31.28)
 35 Barnosky, Michael      SR Air Force         1:56.30    1:58.31  
    r:+0.71  25.70        55.54 (29.84)
        1:26.20 (30.66)     1:58.31 (32.11)
 36 Ogren, Curtis          SO Stanford          1:57.07    1:58.57  
    r:+0.72  26.15        56.15 (30.00)
        1:27.28 (31.13)     1:58.57 (31.29)
 37 Hren, Derek            JR NC State          1:57.56    1:58.90  
    r:+0.68  26.63        56.54 (29.91)
        1:27.54 (31.00)     1:58.90 (31.36)
 38 Bish, Blair            FR Arizona           1:56.23    1:58.95  
    r:+0.72  25.75        56.05 (30.30)
        1:27.79 (31.74)     1:58.95 (31.16)
 39 Mapel, Eddie           JR Missouri          1:55.86    1:59.03  
    r:+0.83  26.27        56.07 (29.80)
        1:26.89 (30.82)     1:59.03 (32.14)
 40 Finnerty, Ian          FR Indiana           1:54.43    1:59.06  
    r:+0.76  26.12        55.95 (29.83)
        1:26.88 (30.93)     1:59.06 (32.18)
 41 Cono, Benjamin         SO Loyola (MD)       1:55.70    1:59.68  
    r:+0.73  26.10        55.84 (29.74)
        1:27.35 (31.51)     1:59.68 (32.33)
 -- Wich-Glasen, Nils      SO SCAR              1:53.94         DQ  
    r:+0.70  25.45        54.65 (29.20)
        1:24.08 (29.43)          DQ (29.83)
 -- Kropp, Peter           JR Duke              1:57.75         DQ  
    r:+0.67  25.80        54.92 (29.12)
        1:24.95 (30.03)          DQ (31.40)

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