﻿{"id":301457,"date":"2018-03-21T05:00:15","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T12:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=301457"},"modified":"2018-03-21T05:12:41","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T12:12:41","slug":"predictions-who-wins-what-at-the-mens-ncaa-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/predictions-who-wins-what-at-the-mens-ncaa-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Predictions: Who Wins What at the Men&#8217;s NCAA Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heading into last week&#8217;s women&#8217;s meet, most swimming experts felt good about their predicted winners in more than half of the individual events on the slate. Not so with the men&#8217;s NCAA championships in Minneapolis. Outside of\u00a0<strong>Caeleb Dressel&#8217;s\u00a0<\/strong>individuals events, no event (including relays) has an obvious favorite.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s never as simple as picking the top three entrants on the psych sheet (especially when teams like Texas, Cal and others tend to post big drops at NCAAs).\u00a0<em>Swimming World<\/em> experts\u00a0<strong>David Rieder\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Andy Ross\u00a0<\/strong>returned again to make their best guesses.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/swimmingworld.azureedge.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ncaa-women-2018-psych-sheet-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Psych sheet<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/the-everything-guide-to-the-womens-ncaa-division-i-swimming-champs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meet preview<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Wednesday, March 21<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3><strong>4&#215;200 Free Relay<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>David&#8217;s Picks:<br \/>\n<\/strong>1. 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