B1G Women's Swimming & Diving Championships - Day Two
February 16th, 2017 at 12:10 PM ^
Wow - the 500 free prelims are done. Michigan has three in A finals: 1, 3 and 7. Wisconsin has two swimmers in A finals.
February 16th, 2017 at 12:16 PM ^
Michigan gets 3 finalists in the 500 Free: G Ryan (#1), Yirong Bi (#3) and Becca Postoll (#7). Nobody in the B or C finals.
February 16th, 2017 at 1:51 PM ^
How do A, B, and C work? You qualify into one of those categories?
February 16th, 2017 at 2:04 PM ^
The top 8 qualifiers from the preliminaries go to the "A" finals. The swimmers who qualify #9 to #16 go to the "B" finals, and #17 to #24 go to the "C" finals.
Instead of "A", "B", and "C", think of it as the "finals", "consolation" and "second consolation."
So, for example, the last place finisher of the "A" final tonight finishes 8th in that event, and the first place finisher of tonight's "B" final finishes 9th in that event, and so on.
February 16th, 2017 at 2:50 PM ^
That makes perfect sense, thanks! I was thinking only the winners (or top 3) or something for each of the A, B, and, C get points and that didn't make sense to me for obvious reasons.
February 16th, 2017 at 4:25 PM ^
The worst is pulling the stunt I did in high school: I didn't make the championship final in the 100 free, and then I swam the fourth best time during the evening...still only good for ninth place :(
February 16th, 2017 at 9:54 PM ^
Or at least a moral 4th place. Glad you had a place to put it in writing.
February 17th, 2017 at 8:04 AM ^
Did the exact same thing in the 50 free my senior year.
February 16th, 2017 at 12:18 PM ^
eww 500 free. I have respect for distance swimmers. I never had and never will have that kind of stamina both mental and physical.
February 16th, 2017 at 12:31 PM ^
never had a problem with it until my coach said the point was to do it fast... And how can anyone concentrate with a water basketball hoop RIGHT there?
February 16th, 2017 at 8:19 PM ^
February 16th, 2017 at 12:34 PM ^
Siobahn Haughey (#2), Clara Smiddy (#3) in the top 8. Also 1 in the B and 1 in the C.
Michigan & Indiana lead the way in this event with 2 "A" finalists.
February 16th, 2017 at 12:37 PM ^
And keep the updates coming. We aqua fans appreciate that you're doing the work of the faithful.
And Go Blue!
February 16th, 2017 at 12:51 PM ^
50 free - one in A; one in B; one in C - a very fast Chinese girl from OSU is top seed.
February 16th, 2017 at 12:54 PM ^
Catie DeLoof (#3) with an "A" final for Michigan in the 50 Free. Wisconsin was the only team with 2 "A" finalists.
February 16th, 2017 at 6:27 PM ^
1m diving prelims next, and then finals start tonight at 6:30pm EST - see ya then! GO BLUE!
February 16th, 2017 at 12:59 PM ^
It will be a 2-team race between Michigan and Wisconsin for the lead after this evening's events. No idea how good Wisconsin is at diving, though.
Michigan picked up 6-A, 2-B and 2-C finalists. Wisconsin had fewer "A"s, but their bigger number of "B" finalists will help them keep pace. They had 5-A, 4-B and 2-C. Indiana will almost certainly be in 3rd at the end of the day, with 2-A, 7-B and 4-C.
An "A" finalist will score 22 to 32 points.
A "B" finalist will score 11 to 20 points.
A "C" finalist will score 1 to 9 points.
Michigan leads Wisconsin by 4 points after yesterday's events.
February 16th, 2017 at 1:12 PM ^
Are relays worth more points?
February 16th, 2017 at 1:19 PM ^
Relays are double. There's no qualifying, though; they just have 2 final heats & rank the teams #1 to #13 based on time (Maryland, in case you were wondering).
So the first-place in a relay gets 64, and 13th place gets 28. But be careful not to get DQ'd, because that will get you 0.
February 16th, 2017 at 6:27 PM ^
Finals actually start now (6:30 EST, not CST - my bad)...500 free coming up.
February 16th, 2017 at 7:08 PM ^
First win of the night - 500 free to G Ryan!!!! We also got fifth and seventh!!
February 16th, 2017 at 7:20 PM ^
No, really. Siobhan Haughey won the 200 IM but was disqualified, apparently for not finishing the backstroke leg on her back.
So instead of 32 points for winning the "A" final, or even 22 points for finishing last, she gets 0.
Indiana 261, Wisconsin 241, Michigan 237 through 4 of the 21 events.
February 16th, 2017 at 7:24 PM ^
50 free - 6, 12, 18th places
February 16th, 2017 at 7:27 PM ^
Wisconsin 312, Indiana 281, Michigan 280, Ohio State 257.
Diving next, where Indiana might take the lead, and then the 400 medley relay, which is suddenly looking very important for Michigan, although Indiana is the #1 seed.
February 16th, 2017 at 8:15 PM ^
Made up ground in diving, of all things.
After six events, Indiana with 329, Wisconsin with 326.5, U-M with 309.
February 16th, 2017 at 8:32 PM ^
Michigan finishes third in the 400 medley relay behind Indiana & Minnesota. Michigan is in third through 7 of the 21 events: Indiana 393, Wisconsin 378.5, Michigan 363, Minnesota 361, Ohio State 307.
Those 32 points lost with the DQ in the 200 IM are the difference in the meet so far. Michigan needs a big couple of days here.
February 16th, 2017 at 8:33 PM ^
Got third in the 400 medley relay. Results after two days of competition (two left):
1. Indiana University 393 2. Wisconsin, University of, Madi 378.5 3. Michigan, University of 363 4. University of Minnesota 361 5. Ohio State University 307 6. Northwestern University 230 7. Purdue University 223 8. Pennsylvania State University 174 9. Iowa, University of 172 10. Rutgers University 171.5 11. University of Nebraska-Lincoln 155 12. University of Illinois 117 13. Michigan State University 115
February 16th, 2017 at 9:07 PM ^
So if you assume that the seeds hold up the rest of the way, we will have a final result somewhere around Indiana-1190, Minnesota-1180 and Michigan-1170. Of course, the seeds don't really hold up that well, so a margin of 20 points is essentially a dead heat.
I think if Michigan is within 50 points of Indiana and 40 points of Minnesota after tomorrow's events, they will have a good shot at the championship. Saturday will be a stronger day for them. One key will be whether or not Minnesota can repeat their 100-point performance on the 1-m springboard in the other two diving events.
The event to watch on Friday morning will be the 100 backstroke. Michigan has the #4, #6 and #9 seeds; Indiana has #2, #3, #7 and #11. If Michigan can get all 3 of Clara Smiddy, Catie DeLoof and Gabby DeLoof into the "A" final, and maybe hold Indiana to only 2 in the "A", it will be a very good sign.
February 17th, 2017 at 8:11 AM ^
Curious how you crunched the numbers. Is there a quick and easy way to download the prelim heat sheets and crunch it in excel? I assume the coaching staffs are doing this but have always thought that somone should be doing it for us fans. All 39 of us.
February 17th, 2017 at 9:00 AM ^
http://www.purduesports.com/livestats/c-swim/
The heat sheets are under each individual event. The excel part wasn't as easy as I was hoping, but it was still a good exercise, and once you get it set up it can be updated pretty easily.
February 16th, 2017 at 9:10 PM ^
year. But won by over 150 pts last year. Problem is the momentum they have now given to Indiana in their home state.
February 16th, 2017 at 10:22 PM ^
Bunch of BS. I'd like to see a replay of Haughey's touch. She won that race, typical B1G trash refs trying to screw us.
G Ryan dominated the 500 Free for our second individual title. We need some more.
Gonna need to kill it in prelims these next two days and get everyone in A and B finals, and win them.
