{"id":467367,"date":"2021-03-27T08:05:22","date_gmt":"2021-03-27T15:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=467367"},"modified":"2021-03-27T11:10:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T18:10:34","slug":"2021-ncaa-mens-championships-reece-whitley-takes-200-breast-top-seed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/2021-ncaa-mens-championships-reece-whitley-takes-200-breast-top-seed\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 NCAA Men&#8217;s Championships: Reece Whitley Takes 200 Breast Top Seed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California&#8217;s <strong>Reece Whitley<\/strong> hasn&#8217;t yet had the NCAA Men&#8217;s Championships he would&#8217;ve wanted. He enters the final day of the meet without a gold medal to his name, settling for third in the 100 breaststroke and a B final in the 200 individual medley. The Golden Bears finished second and third in the two medley relays.<\/p>\n<p>That stands to change in the Cal junior&#8217;s signature event, the 200 breast.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/swimmeetresults.tech\/NCAA-Division-I-Men-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Live Results<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/watch\/player?id=b6b4ccf9-05fe-41ce-8728-fbd72e85017b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Live Stream<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/meet\/2021-ncaa-division-i-mens-swimming-and-diving-championships\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Meet coverage<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>NCAA Men&#8217;s Championships: 200 Breaststroke<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>It&#8217;s going to take a special swim Saturday night to unseat the record that has been on the board since 2017. That mark, 1:47.91, belongs to <strong>Will Licon,<\/strong> who set the NCAA, meet, American and U.S. Open records all in one fell swoop four years ago.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For the third straight race Saturday morning, a Cal Golden Bear is the top seed. This time the honor went to Whitley, who set a pool record of 1:49.87 in the final prelims heat. That downed the mark set a heat earlier by Minnesota <strong>Max McHugh,<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/max-mchugh-wins-minnesotas-first-ncaa-mens-swimming-title-since-1964-with-100-breast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the historic champion of the 100 breast<\/a>, in 1:50.88. Both times downed the Greensboro Aquatic Center mark set by Louisville&#8217;s <strong>Evgenii Somov<\/strong> at the ACC Championships a month ago at 1:51.26.<\/p>\n<p>Somov, the fourth seed in the race, declared a false start and flew back to Russia for next month&#8217;s Olympic Trials.<\/p>\n<p>Cal could pick up some ground in the team race, with Whitley first and <strong>Hugo Gonzalez<\/strong> tied for the sixth seed (with Virginia Tech&#8217;s <strong>Carles Coll Marti<\/strong>). Texas, the other title contender, only pushed fourth seed <strong>Caspar Corbeau<\/strong> into the A final. But the Longhorns have the ninth and tenth seed, <strong>Braden Vines<\/strong> and <strong>Jake Foster,<\/strong> respectively, lurking in the B final.<\/p>\n<pre><b>Event 18  Men 200 Yard Breaststroke<\/b>\r\n==================================================================\r\n         NCAA: N 1:47.91  3\/25\/2017 Will Licon, Texas\r\n         Meet: M 1:47.91  3\/25\/2017 Will Licon, Texas\r\n     American: A 1:47.91  3\/25\/2017 Will Licon, Texas\r\n   U. S. 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