M Swim captures another B1G individual title on day 3

#11 Michigan entered 23 swimmers into prelims this morning, and all but one of them made it back tonight for scoring opportunities.

Another outstanding prelim performance which is absolutely needed by the swimmers in order to win our 7th straight B1G Championship.

The night began in the 100 Fly where we had 2-2-0 distributed in the A-B-C finals respectively. Freshman James Jones won the B final and Vinny Tafuto took second place, a big 37 points right out of the gate.

In the A final, we went 4-6 to finish the event up with 87 points, closing the gap on Indiana.

In the 400 IM, we had 0 entrants in the B and C finals. We had four in the championship final for a MASSIVE opportunity to gain ground.

Michigan went 1-5-6-8 in this one with Charlie Swanson winning the B1G 400-yard Individual Medley Championship in 3:41.13, his first B1G title. It was close until the breaststroke and that was that.

We briefly took the lead in the standings until the 200 Free. Michigan went 3-11-13-21 overall, but Indiana scored big points winning the event and re-taking the lead.

A runner-up finish by freshman Jacob Montague in the 100 BR and a 5-6 finish by Swanson and Luke Papendick in the 100 BK cut team deficit to just half of a point.

But alas, diving hurt us again. This time we had some scorers with Colin DeShaw and Jacob Herremans taking 16th and 21st in the consolation finals, netting Michigan 15 points. Unfortunately Indiana had 4 entrants in 3M Diving to our 2. They passed our point total with 2 consolation finalists alone and had 2 in the championship finals that included the 1st place finisher, once again re-creating a gap in the standings via diving.

OSU had 6 entrants in 1M diving and took 3 of the top 8 spots in the A final, allowing them to pass us for 2nd place.

OSU also took the 200 Free relay title with Indiana finishing 2nd and Michigan finishing 3rd, so the standings after 1M diving will hold until 6:30pm tomorrow. 

Michigan is in 3rd place after day 3 with 923.5 points. 

Going to need another near-perfect day from our swimmers again. I think we can do it. We need a couple breaks to go our way, though. Some DQs and/or poor scores from Indiana, especially in diving would be fantastic. 

It's tough being 75.5 out of first place, but crazy things can happen as we saw last week in W Swim. One DQ can change everything.