03-05-2022, 03:37 AM
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.
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.