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2024 NCAA Men’s Championships: Day 3 Relay Analysis – Leon’s 48.73 BR Leads Top Medley Splits

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2024 MEN’S NCAA SWIMMING AND DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS

TEAM SCORES THRU DAY 3

  1. Arizona State — 343
  2. Cal — 286.5
  3. Florida — 273
  4. Indiana — 247
  5. NC State — 206
  6. Texas — 165
  7. Tennessee — 147
  8. Stanford — 144
  9. Virginia Tech — 116
  10. Georgia — 88
  11. Notre Dame — 79
  12. Auburn — 72
  13. Louisville — 69
  14. Michigan — 68.5
  15. Ohio State — 65
  16. Texas A&M — 62
  17. Alabama — 50
  18. SMU / Virginia — 41
  19. —
  20. Florida State — 34
  21. Minnesota — 28
  22. Miami (FL) — 21
  23. Missouri / Arizona — 19
  24. —
  25. Towson — 17
  26. Pitt — 15
  27. LSU — 11
  28. USC / UNC — 9
  29. Penn St — 8
  30. BYU — 7
  31. Utah — 6
  32. Purdue — 5
  33. George Washington — 1

Sourced from Sophie Kaufman.

400 YARD MEDLEY RELAY — TIMED FINAL

  • NCAA Record: 2:58.32 — Florida (A. Chaney, D. Hillis, J. Liendo, M. McDuff), 2023
  • Meet Record: 2:58.32 — Florida (A. Chaney, D. Hillis, J. Liendo, M. McDuff), 2023
  • American Record: 3:01.51 — Cal (R. Murphy, C. Hoppe, M. Josa, M. Jensen), 2017
  • U.S. Open Record: 2:58.32 — Florida (A. Chaney, D. Hillis, J. Liendo, M. McDuff), 2023
  • Pool Record: 2:59.22 — Texas (J. Shebat, W. Licon, J. Schooling, J. Conger), 2017
  • 2023 Champion: 2:58.32 — Florida (A. Chaney, D. Hillis, J. Liendo, M. McDuff)

Top 8:

  1. Arizona State (ASU) – 2:57.32 *NCAA, American, U.S. Open, & Pool Records*
  2. California (Cal) – 2:58.30
  3. NC State – 2:59.71
  4. Indiana – 3:00.20
  5. Stanford & Tennessee – 3:01.97
  6. –
  7. Virginia Tech – 3:02.34
  8. Texas – 3:02.44

Tonight’s men’s 400 medley relay finals were quite eventful, to say the least. Arizona State popped off and won their first-ever NCAA relay title in NCAA record-fashion this evening at 2:57.32. Runner-up California also swam under the NCAA record by 0.02s, marking in 2:58.30.

At the same time, three relays, including top-three team battle contender Florida, were plagued with early take-off disqualifications.

NC State’s Kacper Stokowski led the 100 backstroke splits at 43.57, which would have won the individual final by 0.29s, where he placed second. Florida’s Adam Chaney led off with the second-fastest split at 44.02, despite his relay being disqualified. Both Cal’s Destin Lasco (44.13) and Texas’ Will Modglin (44.32) had also split faster than individual final champion Indiana’s Brendan Burns (44.43).

Leon Marchand pulled through for ASU with the fastest flying 100 breast split ever at 48.73, taking down his previous unofficial record split of 49.23 from last year. Newly-minted event NCAA record-holder Liam Bell of Cal swam another sub-50 time, punching the 4th-fastest relay split in history at 49.70.

Notably, Florida used Julian Smith on breaststroke (50.41). In combination with his 100 free scratch, that means he will swim 5 relays for the Gators this week. This compounds the pain of the DQ because Smith, who is swimming well this week, was within scoring reach in the 100 free.

Auburn’s breaststroker, Henry Bethel flew off with an illegal -0.13 reaction time (51.26), negating a relay that would have placed 13th.

ALL-TIME TOP 5 FLYING START 100 BREAST PERFORMERS

1 48.73, LEON MARCHAND (2024)
2 49.56, Kevin Cordes (2013)
3 49.60, Ian Finnerty (2019)
4 49.70, Liam Bell (2024)
5 49.75, Will Licon (2017)

Unofficially, Florida’s Josh Liendo put up the fastest 100 fly relay split in history at 42.56, the first man to split sub-43 on a relay. Ilya Kharun was another swimmer to crack the top five relay splits ever, hitting 43.44 for ASU.

Georgia’s butterfly leg Bradley Dunham was just over the legal reaction time allowance (-0.04s, 45.54), which would have placed the Bulldogs in 16th.

ALL-TIME TOP 5 FLYING START 100 FLY PERFORMERS

1 42.56, JOSH LIENDO (2024)
2 43.34, Joe Schooling (2016)
3 43.35, Ilya Kharun (2023)
4 43.44, Ilya Kharun (2024)
5 43.48, Tom Shields (2013)

Cal’s Bjorn Seeliger positioned himself 5th all-time in history with his 40.30 relay split on the freestyle leg, with Notre Dame’s Chris Guiliano (40.43) and ASU’s Jonny Kulow (40.54) not too far off him.

Florida anchor, Macguire McDuff, jumped early (-0.05 reaction), unfortunately disqualifying what could have been a 2nd-place relay. McDuff’s unofficial split was 40.53, even with the top three legal splits of the field.

ALL-TIME TOP 5 FLYING START 100 FREE PERFORMERS

1 40.15, CAELEB DRESSEL (2018)
2 40.17, Chris Guiliano (2024)
3 40.23, Nathan Adrian (2009)
4 40.28, Vlad Morozov (2013)
5 40.30, Bjorn Seeliger (2024)

NOTE:
*The Florida, Auburn, and Georgia relays were disqualified for early takeoffs.
**Disqualified swimmers.

BACKSTROKE LEGS
Swimmer Team Split
Kacper Stokowski NC State 43.57
Adam Chaney Florida* 44.02
Destin Lasco Cal 44.13
Will Modglin Texas 44.32
Brendan Burns Indiana 44.43
Tommy Janton Notre Dame 44.58
Hubert Kos ASU 44.61
Ruard van Renen Georgia* 44.77
Matt Brownstead UVA 45.05
Harrison Lierz Tennessee 45.23
Jordan Tiffany Brigham Young 45.33
Cooper Morley Penn State 45.38
Nate Stoffle Auburn* 45.38
Jack Wilkening Michigan 45.54
Aaron Squeira Stanford 45.57
Max Wilson Florida State 45.57
Grant Bochenski Missouri 45.58
Youssef Ramadan Virginia Tech 45.61
Vaggelis Makrygiannis USC 46.10
Tyler Hulet Texas A&M 46.14
Charlie Crush Louisville 46.29
Ryan Hardy Arizona 46.48
Griffin Curtis LSU 46.50
Walker Davis North Carolina 46.75
Casey Stowe Minnesota 46.76

 

BREASTSTROKE LEGS
Swimmer Team Split
Leon Marchand ASU 48.73
Liam Bell Cal 49.70
Julian Smith Florida* 50.41
Noah Nichols Virginia 50.43
Carles Coll Marti Virginia Tech 50.47
Josh Matheny Indiana 50.63
Denis Petrashov Louisville 50.64
Flynn Crisci Tennessee 50.65
Ron Polonsky Stanford 51.21
Henry Bethel** Auburn* 51.26**
Sam Hoover NC State 51.37
Mariano Lazzerini Penn State 51.52
Alex Sanchez Texas A&M 51.64
Jake Foster Texas 51.66
Tommaso Baravelli Florida State 51.67
Mitch Mason LSU 51.80
Missouri Missouri 51.96
Ben Delmar North Carolina 52.13
Brendan Fitzpatrick Michigan 52.23
Brad Prolo Brigham Young 52.34
Joe Rudd Minnesota 52.35
Ryan Foote Arizona 52.50
Connor Haigh Georgia* 52.50
Ben Dillard USC 52.61
Tyler Christianson Notre Dame 52.72

 

BUTTERFLY LEGS
Swimmer Team Split
Josh Liendo Florida* 42.56
Ilya Kharun ASU 43.44
Luke Miller NC State 43.55
Andrei Minakov Stanford 43.92
Dare Rose Cal 44.17
Tomer Frankel Indiana 44.20
Dalton Lowe Louisville 44.65
Gal Cohen Groumi Michigan 44.67
Davide Harabagiu Minnesota 44.84
Connor Foote Texas A&M 44.85
Bjorn Kammann Tennessee 45.07
Boyd Poelke North Carolina 45.10
Mario Molla Yanes Virginia Tech 45.12
Tate Bacon Notre Dame 45.28
Tobias Schulrath Florida State 45.30
Bradley Dunham** Georgia* 45.54**
Sohib Khaled Auburn* 45.56
Jadan Nabor Arizona 45.57
Nate Germonprez Texas 45.59
Michal Chiemlewski USC 45.65
Tim Connery Virginia 45.72
Matthew Bittner Penn State 45.75
Jan Zubik Missouri 45.77
Tanner Edwards Brigham Young 46.17
Pawel Uryniuk LSU 46.42

 

FREESTYLE LEGS
Swimmer Team Split
Bjorn Seeliger Cal 40.30
Chris Guiliano Notre Dame 40.43
Macguire McDuff** Florida* 40.53**
Jonny Kulow ASU 40.54
Luke Hobson Texas 40.87
Rafael Miroslaw Indiana 40.94
Guilherme Santos Tennessee 41.02
Quintin McCarty NC State 41.22
Brendan Whitfield Virginia Tech 41.24
Ralph Daleiden Arizona 41.25
Rafael Gu Stanford 41.27
Peter Varjasi Florida State 41.28
Logan Tirheimer Auburn* 41.33
Jere Hribar LSU 41.36
Bence Szabados Michigan 41.49
Reese Branzell Georgia* 41.59
Guy Brooks Louisville 41.68
Connor Boyle Virginia 41.97
Ben Scholl Texas A&M 42.05
Kaiser Neverman Minnesota 42.09
Patrick Hussey North Carolina 42.16
Artem Selin USC 42.62
Frederik Rindshoej Missouri 42.86
Luigi Riva Brigham Young 42.98
Lachlan Byrne Penn State 43.20

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