Sunday, March 20, 2011

Men's NCAA Championships Predictions

Yesterday, the Cal women's team won the NCAA Championship in Austin. Not only did I predict that, but I successfully predicted the top three teams in the correct order. Of the thirteen individual events I predicted on this blog, I got nine of them right. (Note: this does not mean what I put on Podium Pursuit...) After a fairly successful hit-out last week, I am pretty confident about my men's predictions. Here goes:

Thursday, March 24:
200 Free Relay
1. Cal
2. Auburn
3. Texas

500 Free
1. Conor Dwyer, Florida
2. Matt McLean, Virginia
3. Jackson Wilcox, Texas
Darkhorse – Hassaan Abdel-Khalik, Michigan

200 IM
1. Austin Staab, Stanford
2. Austin Surhoff, Texas
3. Kyle Whitaker, Michigan
Darkhorse – Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or, Arizona

50 Free
1. Nathan Adrian, Cal
2. Jimmy Feigen, Texas
3. Vlad Morozov, USC
Darkhorse – Josh Daniels, Cal

400 Medley Relay
1. Cal
2. Florida
3. Texas

Friday, March 25:
200 Medley Relay
1. Cal
2. Texas
3. Florida

400 IM
1. Conor Dwyer, Florida
2. Bill Cregar, Georgia
3. Kyle Whitaker, Michigan
Darkhorse – Austin Surhoff, Texas

100 Fly
1. Tom Shields, Cal
2. Austin Staab, Stanford
3. Graeme Moore, Cal
Darkhorse – Mathias Gydesen, Cal

200 Free
1. Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or, Arizona
2. Scot Robison, Virginia
3. Dax Hill, Texas
Darkhorse – Scott Jostes, Texas

100 Breast
1. Damir Dugonjic, Cal
2. Scott Spann, Texas
3. Nolan Koon, Cal
Darkhorse – Adam Klein, Auburn

100 Back
1. Cory Chitwood, Arizona
2. Tom Shields, Cal
3. Eric Ress, Indiana
Darkhorse – Vlad Morozov, USC

800 Free Relay
1. Florida
2. Texas
3. Virginia

Saturday, March 26:
1,650 Free
1. Chad LaTourette, Stanford
2. Martin Grodski, Georgia
3. Michael McBroom, Texas
Darkhorse – Richard Charlesworth, USC

200 Back
1. Cory Chitwood, Arizona
2. Marco Loughran, Florida
3. Austin Surhoff, Texas
Darkhorse – Hayes Johnson, Texas

100 Free
1. Nathan Adrian, Cal
2. Vlad Morozov, USC
3. Jimmy Feigen, Texas
Darkhorse – Conor Dwyer, Florida

200 Breast
1. Scott Spann, Texas
2. Nick D’Innocenzo, Texas
3. Adam Klein, Auburn
Darkhorse – Martii Aljand, Cal

200 Fly
1. Tom Shields, Cal
2. Mark Dylla, Georgia
3. Dan Madwed, Michigan
Darkhorse – Neil Caskey, Texas

400 Free Relay
1. Cal
2. Stanford
3. Texas

Top Ten:
1. Cal
2. Texas
3. Stanford
4. Arizona
5. Florida
6. Auburn
7. USC
8. Michigan
9. Virginia
10. Georgia

5 comments:

  1. Think you've missed a trick by ignoring Ryan Harrison in the 200 Fr and i'd throw him in as a dark horse for the 400Fr too!!

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  2. Harrison is a very good 200 freestyler. I see him and McLean as the remaining top-five 200 freestylers going into the meet, but we'll see.

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  3. You better have conor Dwyer winning everything he's in! Conor is the best!! Go gators

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  4. I'm predicting a VERY long and intense All Great Racers Part 4 David ;) with the show that the French are putting up! Hope you find the time to share some input

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