Michigan W Swim wins 2nd straight B1G Championship

Last year, Michigan won their first B1G Championship on the Women's side of Swimming & Diving for the first time in 12 years.

It was won at Canham Natatorium with Jim Harbaugh in attendance.

This year's team looked very poised to repeat and challenge for the NCAA National Championship in March. 

Things looked hairy after day 2 when Michigan's star from Hong Kong, Siobhán Haughey, was disqualified after allegedly not finishing a touch on a turn during the 200 IM.

No replay was ever showed, and the angles provided no view to tell if this actually happened. Haughey beat Indiana's USA Olympic Gold Medalist, Lilly King, by almost half of a body's length. Due to the DQ that was called, Michigan received 0 points as opposed to the 32 she would have brought her team. A huge hole which Indiana climbed up through.

Michigan found itself in 3rd place behind rival Indiana and Wisconsin after day 2, 30 points out of first place. 

Thanks to two straight mornings of HUGE performances in the preliminaries where Michigan qualified a combined 37 swimmers for the finals (including 17 of 19 this morning!), Michigan powered back into 1st place last night. 

That heroic prelims showing this morning provided HUGE scoring opportunities tonight, which Michigan capitalized on. 

The unsung heros of this team in my opinion are those who did not take home medals or stand on the podium: the divers. Michigan had 5 diver entrants in Platform Diving this morning, and all 5 of them scored to give Michigan 61 in diving. Indiana only had 1 entrant that scored.

To start things off tonight, G. Ryan won her second individual B1G championship of 2017 (the 4th for Michigan) by absolutely TORCHING the field in the mile with a time of 15:44.93

While not having the champion or favorite in the 200 Breaststroke, Michigan got SEVEN swimmers into the A, B, C finals tonight. This includes Jamie Yeung who snuck in, finishing 24th in prelims and went on to win the C final. 

In the final single-swimmer event in the 200 Butterfly, Michigan's Vannessa Krause and Astrid Swneson took 2nd and 3rd place on the podium, all but officially clinching the title.

Don't call it a comeback. We've been doing this for years. 16 times, in fact.

Here are the individual championships won by Wolverines this week-

• 800-yard Freestyle Relay: Rose Bi, Siobhán Haughey, Gabby DeLoof and G Ryan
• 500-yard Freestyle: G Ryan
• 200-yard Freestyle: Siobhán Haughey
• 1,650-yard Freestyle: G Ryan

But this was about The Team, The Team, The Team. 26 of 28 athletes who traveled to West Lafayette, scored points for Michigan today alone.

Michigan wins the B1G Championship for the second straight season, the 16th time in program history. The most of any B1G team.

Mike Bottom has his second B1G Championship as head coach of the Women's team, and his 9th overall as the head coach of both the #6 Women and the #9 Men.

Final standings