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2024 ACC Championships: Day 3 Ups/Mids/Downs

February 23, 2024

2024 ACC SWIMMING AND DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS

Tuesday, February 20 to Saturday, February 24, 2023
Greensboro Aquatic Center, Greensboro, North Carolina
Defending Champions: NC State men / Virginia women
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For those unfamiliar with swimming terminology, the concept of “Ups” and “Downs” is a good way to track which teams performed best at prelims. In prelims, swimmers qualify for one of three finals heats: the top 8 finishers make the A final, places 9 through 16 the B final and places 17 through 24 the C final. In finals, swimmers are locked into their respective final, meaning a swimmer in the B heat (spots 9-16) can only place as high as 9th or as low as 16th, even if they put up the fastest or slowest time of any heat in the final.

With that in mind, we’ll be tracking “Ups,” “Mids” and “Downs” after each prelims session. “Up” refers to swimmers in the A final, “Mid” to swimmers in the B final and “Down” to swimmers in the C final.

Diving has now been added.

TEAM SCORES — THRU DAY 2

Women:

Virginia — 552
Louisville — 473.5
NC State — 418
Duke — 332
UNC — 328
Notre Dame — 274
Virginia Tech — 253.5
Florida State — 217
Pitt — 183
Georgia Tech — 177
Miami — 162

Men:

NC State — 531.5
Notre Dame — 335.5
Louisville — 302
Virginia Tech — 298.5
Florida State — 292
Virginia — 249.5
Georiga Tech — 235
UNC — 223
Pitt — 193
Duke — 130
Miami — 54

DAY 3 UPS/MIDS/DOWNS — WOMEN

Credit to Andrew Mering for running the numbers.

	All	400 IM	100 Fly	200 Free
Virginia	10/1/2	3/0/0	2/1/1	5/0/1
Louisville	5/5/2	2/1/0	2/1/0	1/3/2
NC State	4/3/1	2/2/1	1/1/0	1/0/0
Duke	1/4/4	0/1/1	0/2/2	1/1/1
Miami	1/2/1	0/0/0	1/0/0	0/2/1
Florida St	1/1/4	0/0/2	1/1/1	0/0/1
GT	1/1/1	1/1/0	0/0/1	0/0/0
PITT	1/1/1	0/0/0	1/1/1	0/0/0
UNC	0/4/3	0/2/2	0/1/1	0/1/0
VA Tech	0/2/4	0/1/1	0/0/1	0/1/2
ND	0/0/1	0/0/1	0/0/0	0/0/0

Scored Prelims — Women

Virginia, 306
Louisville, 214.5
NC State, 150
Duke, 102.5
UNC, 78
Miami, 53
FSU, 51
VA Tech, 49
GA Tech, 41
Pitt, 40
Notre Dame, 1

POINTS PER EVENT – WOMEN

	Virginia	Louisville	NC State	Duke	UNC	Miami	Florida St	VA Tech	GT	PITT	ND
400 IM	87.0	59.0	86.0	26.0	43.0	0	7	18	35	0	1
100 Fly	81.0	66.5	40.0	33.5	20.0	23	43	9	6	40	0
200 Free	138.0	89.0	24.0	43.0	15.0	30	1	22	0	0	0

No surprise, but it was another big morning for the Virginia women as they put 10 swimmers into ‘A’ finals in just three events, most notably putting five up in the 200 free despite three-quarters of their record-setting 800 free relay not racing the event.

In the team race behind the Cavaliers, Louisville further distanced themselves from NC State with consistency across the board, putting two up in both the 400 IM and 100 fly and going 1/3/2 in the 200 free.

Duke also opened things up on UNC with five top-16 swims on the day for the Blue Devils and just four, all ‘B’ finals, for the Blue Devils.

With two of the three diving events in the books, Virginia Tech is starting to pull away from Notre Dame, and Florida State is right on the Fighting Irish’s heels after getting a pair of top-16 swims in the 100 fly.

Day 2 Scores + Prelim Projections — Women

Virginia, 858
Louisville, 688
NC State, 568
Duke, 434.5
UNC, 406
VA Tech, 302.5
Notre Dame, 275
FSU, 268
GA Tech, 218
Miami, 215
Pitt, 223

DAY 3 UPS/MIDS/DOWNS — MEN

Credit to Andrew Mering for running the numbers.

	All	400 IM	100 Fly	200 Free	3 mtr Diving
NC State	7/3/2	2/0/0	4/0/1	1/3/1	1/0/1
VA Tech	4/2/2	1/1/0	1/1/2	2/0/0	1/0/1
Louisville	4/4/1	1/2/0	1/0/0	2/2/1	0/0/0
UNC	3/1/3	1/1/2	1/0/1	1/0/0	1/2/0
ND	2/6/6	0/2/2	1/4/3	1/0/1	1/1/1
Virginia	2/2/4	2/0/2	0/1/1	0/1/1	0/0/0
PITT	1/2/0	1/1/0	0/0/0	0/1/0	2/0/2
GT	1/1/2	0/1/1	0/0/0	1/0/1	1/0/1
Florida St	0/3/3	0/0/0	0/2/0	0/1/3	0/2/1
Duke	0/0/1	0/0/1	0/0/0	0/0/0	0/2/1
Miami	0/0/0	0/0/0	0/0/0	0/0/0	1/1/0

Scored Prelims — Men

NC State, 277.5
Notre Dame, 223
Louisville, 175
VA Tech, 160
UNC, 151
Pitt, 117
Virginia, 100
FSU, 84
Georgia Tech, 96.5
Duke, 36

POINTS PER EVENT – MEN

	NC State	ND	VA Tech	Louisville	Virginia	UNC	PITT	Florida St	GT	Duke
400 IM	55.0	41.0	35.0	61.0	61.0	42	39	0	22	6
100 Fly	113.0	98.0	54.0	24.0	19.0	30	0	24	0	0
200 Free	81.5	36.0	45.0	90.0	20	24	13	18	34.5	0
3 mtr Diving	28	48	26	0	0	55	65	42	30	30

NC State went big with nearly 250 points projected out of Thursday’s prelims, including putting four up in the 100 fly which translates to over 100 points. The Wolfpack are running away with the meet as expected, but there are plenty of interesting races in the standings below.

Notre Dame pulled through with depth on the day, matching Louisville in projected points despite just one ‘A’ finalist in 200 free favorite Chris Guiliano.

Getting a pair of consolation finalists in the 400 IM and then four in the 100 fly was big for the Irish, who figure to hold a lead over the Cardinals heading into the final day.

With diving added in, Notre Dame pushes 48 points further clear of Louisville to sit a projected 81.5 points up at day’s end.

Virginia Tech was right on Louisville’s heels after last night but lost some ground this morning in the pool, but made some of that up on the boards.

With diving included, Virginia slides down to 7th with FSU and UNC overtaking them with strong diving performances.

Day 2 Scores + Prelim Projections — Men