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By David Rieder.<\/em><\/p>\n

Two events into the final day of prelims at the NCAA championships, the Texas Longhorns looked golden. Locked in a tight team battle with Indiana and Cal, it appeared that Texas had finally done enough to put themselves in position for a fourth straight team championship.<\/p>\n

Needing a big performance in the 200 back, they got it with John Shebat<\/strong> qualifying first, Jonathan Roberts<\/strong> third and Austin Katz<\/strong> fourth, with Ryan Harty<\/strong> joining them in the consolation final. One event later, Townley Haas<\/strong> and Tate<\/strong> Jackson<\/strong> finished seventh and eighth, respectively, in the 100 free, and Brett<\/strong> Ringgold<\/strong> made the B-final.<\/p>\n

Indiana, currently 19 points up on Texas in the team race, had Blake Pieroni<\/strong> in the 100 free A-final and two B-finalists out of the first two races, but Cal had a massively disappointing 100 free. After Bryce Mefford<\/strong> made the A-final of the 200 back, no Bears scored in the 100 free, with Justin Lynch<\/strong> ending up 17th and Ryan Hoffer<\/strong> 18th.<\/p>\n

That was it\u2014or so it seemed. Texas would surely not score in the 200 breast, but with Joseph Schooling<\/strong> and Sam Pomajevich<\/strong> both seeded among the top six in the 200 fly, surely that would be two more A-final swims for Texas\u2014and a total of seven for the night.<\/p>\n

The 200 breast proceeded as expected for Texas, with no one scoring. Indiana\u2019s Ian Finnerty<\/strong> claimed the top seed, while his teammate Levi Brock fell a few spots to the B-final. But the big surprise came when Cal\u2019s Connor Hoppe<\/strong>, seeded 32nd, qualified seventh to join teammate Andrew Seliskar<\/strong> in the final.<\/p>\n

Hoppe gave the Bears desperately-needed hope, and his teammates in the next event turned that hope into a fighting chance. In the 200 fly, Cal had Zheng Quah<\/strong> seeded second, Mike Thomas<\/strong> 10th, Matthew Josa<\/strong> 14th and Trenton Julian<\/strong> 21st. The actual results? Josa faded to 33rd, but Thomas took fifth, Julian exploded to finish sixth, and Quah snuck into the final in eighth.<\/p>\n

Indiana got Vini Lanza<\/strong> into the final, but Texas faltered badly. Pomajevich fell to 10th, and Schooling, in a major stunner, faded all the way to 26th. The Longhorns had missed their chance to ice the meet.<\/p>\n

All three contenders made it back into the final of the 4×100 free relay with no drama, leaving only the 1650 free and platform diving to go. Cal is projected to score 20 points in the 1650 with Nick Norman<\/strong> and Sean<\/strong> Grieshop<\/strong>, while neither of Texas\u2019 two milers, JohnThomas Larson<\/strong> and Chris<\/strong> Yeager<\/strong>, are projected to score.<\/p>\n

And in diving? Texas has two entrants, Jacob Cornish<\/strong> and NCAA record-holder Jordan Windle<\/strong>, and Indiana has one, Andrew Capobianco<\/strong>. As has been the case all week, Cal has no divers in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n

So where does that leave the team competition? Extremely close. Here are the latest projections, courtesy of Price Fishback (with the top three teams independently verified by several sources). These projections include seedings for the 1650 but nothing for diving, meaning Texas and Indiana could have even more points coming.<\/p>\n

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Yes, you read that correctly: three teams within 1.5 points. Even if Texas and\/or Indiana end up getting a diving boost, Cal is not out of it yet, with all but one of the Bears\u2019 six A-finalists seeded fifth through eighth, with room to move up.<\/p>\n

For anyone wondering, there has never been a tie for the NCAA title, and the meet has only three times been decided by one point: Michigan\u2019s win over Ohio State in 1938, Yale\u2019s win over Michigan in 1944 and USC\u2019s win over Indiana in 1974.<\/p>\n

That Trojan win in 1974 snapped a six-year Indiana win streak that began in 1968\u2014yes, during the Doc Counsilman<\/strong> and Mark Spitz<\/strong> era. Those remain the only six team championships the Hoosiers have ever won.<\/p>\n

In more recent years, the closest finish in the 21st century came back in 2002, when Texas beat Stanford by 11 points, 512 to 501. Only one other time has the margin been less than 30 points, when Cal beat Texas in 2011, 493 to 470.5. No men\u2019s title has been decided by less than 50 points since 2012.<\/p>\n

Since 2010, Texas has won four team titles, and Cal has finished second on all of those occasions. Also in that span, Cal has won three championships, each time finishing one spot ahead of Texas. The only year in that stretch where the Longhorns and the Bears did not finish as the top two teams was 2013, when Michigan won\u2014with Cal second and Texas third.<\/p>\n

The Hoosiers can break up that two-team dominance, or perhaps Cal gets back on top, or perhaps it\u2019s Texas maintaining their reign on top. We\u2019ll all find out soon enough.<\/p>\n

DIVING UPDATE:<\/strong> In platform diving prelims, Texas had Windle qualify first for finals and Cornish was 11th. Cornish also finished 11th in the consolation final, locking in those five points for Texas. For Indiana, Capobianco. If seeds hold, Texas finishes on top of Indiana by ten points, with Cal third.<\/p>\n

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