{"id":523985,"date":"2023-03-04T19:47:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T02:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=523985"},"modified":"2023-03-05T06:56:50","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T13:56:50","slug":"2023-pac-12-mens-championships-night-4-arizona-state-secures-team-title-despite-four-cal-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/2023-pac-12-mens-championships-night-4-arizona-state-secures-team-title-despite-four-cal-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 Pac-12 Men’s Championships, Night 4: Arizona State Captures First Team Title in Program History"},"content":{"rendered":"

2023 Pac-12 Men’s Championships, Night 4: Arizona State Secures Team Title Despite Four Cal Wins<\/strong><\/p>\n

For the first time in program history, Arizona State is the Pac-12 Conference champion, coach Bob Bowman’s<\/strong> squad leading the meet wire to wire. With two scintillating individual medley performances by Leon Marchand<\/strong> and three relay wins over the meet’s first three days, the Sun Devils entered the final night up more than 100 points over defending national champion Cal, and although the Golden Bears made things more interesting on the final night, Arizona State got a win in the 1650 freestyle before Marchand earned his third victory of the weekend while swimming the fastest time ever in the 200 breaststroke<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Cal showed some serious mettle on the final day despite Arizona State’s big lead in the team race. Three Cal swimmers recorded the fastest times in the country in their events:\u00a0Destin Lasco<\/strong> in the 200 backstroke,\u00a0Bjorn Seeliger<\/strong> in the 100 free and Gabriel Jett<\/strong> in the 200 butterfly. Cal also scored a win and the fastest time in the country in the 400 free relay to close out the meet.<\/p>\n

Arizona State ended up winning the title by 78.5 points over Cal while Stanford placed third.<\/p>\n

2023 Pac-12 Men\u2019s Championships Links<\/strong><\/h3>\n