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Prelims Thursday through Saturday begin at 10am EST, while finals will kick off at 6pm EST.<\/p>\n<p>The Villanova women are looking to take home their fifth consecutive Big East championship title, while the Wildcat men will be aiming to improve their fourth-place finish from last year. The Seton Hall Pirates will be looking to defend their team title for the men&#8217;s championship.<\/p>\n<p>From Seton Hall, junior\u00a0<strong>Lior<\/strong><strong>\u00a0Gruber\u00a0<\/strong>and senior <strong>Sydney Simpson<\/strong> will be ones to watch, having recently received Big East weekly honors for their in-season performances.<\/p>\n<p>Villanova&#8217;s <strong>Caitlin Daday\u00a0<\/strong>will be looking to take home individual honors in the women&#8217;s distance events including the 500-yard freestyle and 400-yard IM.<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead to Wednesday night, the Villanova\u00a0women head into the evening session with the top seed in the 800-yard freestyle relay by 10 seconds, as well as the top seed in the 200-yard medley relay. The Seton Hall men hold the top seed in the 800-yard freestyle relay over Georgetown, while the Wildcat men are sitting atop the 200-yard medley relay field. Women 3M and men 1M diving will also occur during\u00a0Wednesday evening&#8217;s session.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/sidearm.sites.s3.amazonaws.com\/bigeast.com\/documents\/2018\/2\/20\/Psych_Sheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">psych sheet<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/sidearm.sites.s3.amazonaws.com\/bigeast.com\/documents\/2018\/1\/23\/2018_BE_Swim_Dive_Championship_Schedule.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">meet schedule<\/a> here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2018 Big East Swimming and Diving Championships are set to begin on Wednesday evening and will continue through Saturday as Butler, Georgetown, Providence, Seton Hall, Villanova, and Xavier compete<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4277,"featured_media":194958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,49268,49261,7],"tags":[54197,5013,21860],"class_list":["post-297218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college","category-featured-meet-coverage","category-meet-previews","category-usa","tag-big-east-swimming","tag-seton-hall","tag-villanova"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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