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Stanford Men's Swimming--Pac-12 news - EBSteve - 03-02-2022

Stanford men recently broke Cal's dual-meet win streak that went all the way back to 2018-19. Undefeated in conference duals this year, Stanford is now at the Pac-12 conference championships through Saturday. You can view via the Pac-12 Networks (multiple options on Sling), and finals usually start at 6PM.
This will be one of the tightest swim championships ever because there are now three top teams: Stanford, Cal, and ASU. Stanford is starting out with 131 diving points, ASU with 31, and Cal with zero. Two races this evening: Stanford won the first (200 medley relay), and it should be noted that the 50-yard butterfly split by our swimmer, Minakov, just happens to be the third fastest in history. Stanford came in second in the 800 free relay tonight while ASU was first with the fastest time in the nation this year. We are currently in the lead but ASU is top seed in some other relays, and Cal is deeper than we are. This will be an exciting meet so invite you to tune in.

RE: Stanford Men's Swimming--Pac-12 news - terry - 03-03-2022

Thanks for the info, Steve. Very helpful.

RE: Stanford Men's Swimming--Friday Pac-12 news - EBSteve - 03-04-2022

During timeouts when watching Stanford WBB tonight, check out Pac-12 Men's swimming (finals start at 6 on Pac-12 Networks LA). Stanford started the meet with a 131 diving point lead over Cal. Stanford still ahead but after finals tonight their lead is projected to be less than 50 points so tonight and tomorrow will be crunch time. Cal has more swimmers, more entries, and more finalists. Cal also benefitted greatly from a re-swim for one of their 100 back swimmers who went from 17th place (no points) to the A final, and last night a Cal swimmer in the 200IM final was at the blocks in an illegal suit. Instead of an expected DQ, the officials gave him plenty of time to replace the suit while all the other swimmers had to stand around, losing focus. 
100 Butterfly starts soon. Stanford's redshirt freshman Minakov was first in prelims this morning, breaking the conference meet record.
Update: Minakov won the 100 fly with the 5th fastest time ever.

RE: Stanford Men's Swimming--Pac-12 news - cardfan77 - 03-04-2022

Stanford won the 400 medley relay. After tonight, team score as follow

Stanford -579.5
Cal - 516.5
ASU - 459.5

With six events left, the final team score will be really close. The final relay will likely determine the champion

RE: Stanford Men's Swimming--Pac-12 news - M T - 03-05-2022

Is it just me, or are these announcers defocussing on Stanford except when they have to.  Amy is not that obvious, but the guy seems to be quite focused on Cal.  (Amy's announcing style still annoys me.) 

The PAC-12's page on the championships only has results from 2 days ago.  If you want Live Results, go here.  (However, I note the Live Results notation of Pac-12 Championships record for the 400MR is incorrect. The winning 2021 time was 3:02.60.  So, don't trust their listing of records.)

Also, at least for day 3, the TV coverage was showing incorrect times for some of the championship records. (They were showing women's record times, but the men's record holder's name)

For instance, in the 400MR, they didn't even recognize how well Stanford was doing until after the race, when they finally realized it was a conference meet record.   The obvious flipping back and forth to the swimming-only scoring from the swimming & diving score.  Should we put up the score without, say, the backstroke events, and see how that scoring goes?

As I was watching the race, I was thinking they were doing better (place-wise) than I expected.  The first leg (backstroke) was, surprisingly, won by Stanford.  Ok, a great swim.  But then, I couldn't figure out why Cal's breaststroke didn't smoke Stanford's 2nd swimmer to make the race close.  I mean, Stanford's only breaststroker in the A finals was 1.3 seconds slower than Cal.  Butterfly gave us an insurmountable lead.  If we'd had good announcers, they'd have known that Stanford didn't have much of a chance, yet they were swimming away with it.  Really good announcers would have been talking about the times these guys were going, and recognizing they were going to be close to the PAC-12 record.  But not the announcers doing this meet.  (Ok, afterwards, Amy did say something about "That's why you swim it.")

In the 400MR, Stanford's first 3 swimmers each had the fastest splits for their legs. 
Back: 45 minutes earlier, Stanford's McAlister finished 3rd in the 100 Back with a 45.21, behind the 44.88 of the winner (Sellinger, Cal).  In the relay (same start as the individual race), McAlister swam a 44.75, beating Cal by nearly 0.7.
Breast: Whitley of Cal had a slow time, having a 51.57 for the 100Br after winning the 100Br an hour earlier with a 51.30 (flat start).    Stanford's Polonsky (Fr) swam 50.60(!).  Add a half second for a flat start, and that would be the 4th fastest time this year.  Why wasn't he swimming the 100Br individual event???  (Oh, he swam the 400IM for 4th with a fast B time at the start of the day.)  Stanford's performance list indicates his best time was 53.98 (4th on the team), just barely a B time.   I see he got 3rd in the 200IM with an A time.  So he's eligible to swim 200IM, 400IM, 100Bk, 200Bk, 100Br, 200Br, 200Free at Nationals.  This guy is good.  On the 800FR, he swam a 1:31.50 (relay start), just behind Forst's 1:31.15 (relay start) - Forst got 2nd in the individual event at 1:32.48.
Fly: Minakov had swum a 43.90, the 5th fastest time ever in the 100 Fly earlier in the night.  He was a shade slower on the relay, 44.16, but extended the lead by another 0.4 seconds.
When he finished (2:19.51), Stanford had 1.98 second lead on ASU and 2.48 on Cal. 
Free: Stanford's Maurer needed some of that brobdingnagian lead, but still won by 1.21 seconds.

RE: Stanford Men's Swimming--Pac-12 news - BostonCard - 03-06-2022

Unfortunately, we came up short.

https://admin.gostanford.com/news/2022/3/5/mens-swimming-diving-second-place-finish.aspx

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