Will Licon Skyrockets To 2nd All Time in 200 IM With 1:40.04, 4th Texas Title

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Texas’ Will Licon skyrocketed to second all time in the men’s 200-yard IM as he delivered Texas’ fourth title of the meet at the 2016 NCAA Division I Men’s Championships.

Licon unleashed a 1:40.04 for the title, behind only David Nolan’s record of 1:39.38. That’s Texas’ third win ever in the event. Nate Dusing won in 2001, while Austin Surhoff claimed the title in 2010.

With four wins already, Texas is already closing in on its record of 11 event victories from 2001.

The overall heat also proved to be one of the fastest 200 IMs of all time as California’s Josh Prenot (1:40.14) and Ryan Murphy (1:40.27) put up the sixth and seventh-fastest 200 IMs ever.

All Time Top 10 200 IMs:

1 1:39.38 David Nolan Stanford Iowa City 3/26/15
2 1:40.04 Will Licon Texas Atlanta 3/24/16
3 1:40.07 David Nolan Stanford Federal Way 3/5/15
4 1:40.08 Ryan Lochte Daytona Beach Atlanta11/29/07
5 1:40.09 Will Licon Texas Iowa City 3/26/15
6 1:40.14 Josh Prenot California Atlanta 3/24/16
7 1:40.27 Ryan Murphy California Atlanta 3/24/16
8 1:40.49 Bradley Ally Florida TAMU 3/26/09
9 1:40.55 Ryan Lochte Florida Atlanta 3/23/06
10 1:40.58 Michael Phelps NBAC Annapolis 3/6/10
10 1:40.58 Marcin Cieslak Florida 3/27/14

Florida’s Jan Switkowski (1:41.36), Georgia’s Gunnar Bentz (1:41.57), Florida’s Mark Szaranek (1:41.59), California’s Andrew Seliskar (1:42.45) and Virginia Tech’s Brandon Fiala (1:42.77) finished fourth through eighth.

                          === A - Final ===                            
 
  1 Licon, Will            JR Texas             1:41.36    1:40.04P  20  
    r:+0.71  21.78        47.90 (26.12)
        1:15.74 (27.84)     1:40.04 (24.30)
  2 Prenot, Josh           SR California        1:41.07    1:40.14   17  
    r:+0.70  21.38        46.96 (25.58)
        1:15.33 (28.37)     1:40.14 (24.81)
  3 Murphy, Ryan           JR California        1:41.15    1:40.27   16  
    r:+0.65  22.28        46.41 (24.13)
        1:16.09 (29.68)     1:40.27 (24.18)
  4 Switkowski, Jan        SO Florida           1:42.15    1:41.36   15  
    r:+0.65  21.82        46.78 (24.96)
        1:17.02 (30.24)     1:41.36 (24.34)
  5 Bentz, Gunnar          SO Georgia           1:41.72    1:41.57   14  
    r:+0.73  22.23        48.19 (25.96)
        1:17.11 (28.92)     1:41.57 (24.46)
  6 Szaranek, Mark         SO Florida           1:42.03    1:41.59   13  
    r:+0.66  21.97        47.10 (25.13)
        1:16.79 (29.69)     1:41.59 (24.80)
  7 Seliskar, Andrew       FR California        1:41.65    1:42.45   12  
    r:+0.65  22.22        48.07 (25.85)
        1:17.79 (29.72)     1:42.45 (24.66)
  8 Fiala, Brandon         JR VT                1:41.95    1:42.77   11  
    r:+0.66  22.14        48.22 (26.08)
        1:17.58 (29.36)     1:42.77 (25.19)
 
                            === B - Final ===                            
 
  9 Taylor, Jake           SR BYU               1:43.29    1:42.82    9  
    r:+0.70  22.63        47.74 (25.11)
        1:18.02 (30.28)     1:42.82 (24.80)
 10 Harty, Ryan            FR Texas             1:43.33    1:42.87    7  
    r:+0.69  22.48        48.50 (26.02)
        1:18.23 (29.73)     1:42.87 (24.64)
 11 DeVine, Abrahm         FR Stanford          1:43.63    1:43.05    5.5
    r:+0.69  22.55        47.84 (25.29)
        1:18.26 (30.42)     1:43.05 (24.79)
 11 Patching, Joe          JR Auburn            1:42.63    1:43.05    5.5
    r:+0.66  22.17        47.47 (25.30)
        1:17.79 (30.32)     1:43.05 (25.26)
 13 Bosch, Dylan           SR Michigan          1:42.63    1:43.11    4  
    r:+0.65  22.65        48.65 (26.00)
        1:18.33 (29.68)     1:43.11 (24.78)
 14 Pebley, Jacob          SR California        1:43.63    1:43.87    3  
    r:+0.78  22.12        47.00 (24.88)
        1:18.55 (31.55)     1:43.87 (25.32)
 15 McCurdy, Christian     SR NC State          1:43.43    1:46.08    2  
    r:+0.75  22.28        48.34 (26.06)
        1:19.12 (30.78)     1:46.08 (26.96)
 -- Dahl, Soeren           JR NC State          1:42.90         DQ  
    r:+0.76  22.79        49.93 (27.14)
        1:19.93 (30.00)          DQ (24.35)

                 Men - Team Rankings - Through Event 4                  
 
  1. Texas                             127   2. Florida                           115
  3. California                        107   4. NC State                           84
  5. Michigan                           70   6. Auburn                           53.5
  7. Georgia                            47   8. Stanford                         41.5
  9. Missouri                           36  10. Alabama                            34
 10. Southern Cali                      34  12. Indiana                            32
 13. Louisville                         28  14. South Carolina                     23
 14. Wisconsin                          23  16. Tennessee                          18
 17. Virginia Tech                      11  18. Ohio St                            10
 19. Brigham Young                       9  20. Princeton                           8
 21. Arizona                             7  22. Penn                                6
 23. Univ of Utah                        3  24. Harvard                             2

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