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2024 Men’s Ivy Championships: Day 2 Up/Mid/Downs: Harvard Steamrolls Through Prelims

March 1, 2024

2024 Ivy League Men’s Swimming & Diving Championships

Wednesday, February 28 – Saturday, March 2, 2024
Blodgett Pool, Cambridge, MA
Defending Champions:
- Men: Harvard (6x)
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THURSDAY EVENING HEAT SHEETS

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 and divers in the A final, “Mid” to B finalists, and “Down” to C finalists.

Scores After Day 1

Harvard – 128
Yale – 110
Princeton – 108
(tie) Columbia/Cornell – 102
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Penn – 98
(tie) Brown/Dartmouth – 90
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Harvard lowered the boom in the 500 free, scoring all 7 swimmers in either the A final (4) or B final (3) with no blank swims. That set the tone for the rest of the morning, in which the Crimson outperformed the psych sheet –and by a lot– in every event. What was projected to be a narrow 50-point margin on Day over Princeton now looks to be more like 350 points, because not only did Harvard do better than expected, but Princeton had a very difficult morning, underperforming by 82 points.

Columbia (+38) and Penn (+22) had strong performances on Thursday morning, as well.

Day 2 Up/Mid/Downs

Team	All	500 Free	200 IM	50 Free	1m Diving
Harvard	11/7/0	4/3/0	1/0/0	3/1/0	3/3/0
Princeton	8/5/7	1/1/4	4/1/2	0/3/1	3/0/0
Brown	4/3/3	1/1/0	2/1/0	0/1/3	1/0/0
Yale	3/6/8	0/1/1	0/1/2	3/1/2	0/3/3
Penn	3/4/6	2/1/1	0/1/4	1/1/0	0/1/1
Columbia	2/4/2	0/1/1	0/2/0	1/1/1	1/0/0
Cornell	1/2/4	0/0/1	1/2/0	0/0/1	0/0/2
Dartmouth	0/1/2	0/0/0	0/0/0	0/0/0	0/1/2

Scoring Day 2 Prelims (plus 200 Free Relay as seeded)

Team	All	500 Free	200 IM	50 Free	1m Diving	200 Free Relay
Harvard	462	152	32	89	125	64
Princeton	370.5	57	132	53.5	78	50
Yale	266	15	29	109	57	56
Penn	210.5	69	27	40.5	22	52
Brown	209	41	61	25	28	54
Columbia	167	25	31	42	23	46
Cornell	117	3	50	3	13	48
Dartmouth	60	0	0	0	16	44

Projected Day 2 Scores

Team	Day 1 Actual	Day 2 Scored Prelims	Day 2 Projected Rank
Harvard	128	462	590
Princeton	108	370.5	478.5
Yale	110	266	376
Penn	98	210.5	308.5
Brown	90	209	299
Columbia	102	167	269
Cornell	102	117	219
Dartmouth	90	60	150