M Swim wins two titles on day 1 of the B1G Championships
On day 1 of the B1G Men's Swimming & Diving Championships in Iowa City, the #5 Wolverines went 2-for-2 capturing both indvidual championships up for grabs tonight in day 1 of the B1G Championships.
The first event was the 200 Medley Relay. Michigan dominating and set a new pool record, winning the championship by almost two seconds with a winning time of 1:23.47
Bruno Ortiz, Paul Powers, Jeremy Raisky and Aaron Whitaker are your 2015 B1G Men's 200 Medley Relay Champions.
The second event was the 800 Free Relay. Michigan, yet again, set another pool record and captured first place. Michigan trailed after the first leg, but Nielsen pretty much took control of the event and won it for Michigan. Blew the event wide open.
At a time of 6:12.20, Dylan Bosch, Justin Glanda, Jack Mangan and Anders Nielsen are your 2015 B1G Men's 800 Freestyle Relay Champions.
Michigan is obviously in first place after day 1 with 80 points.
Day 2 is tomorrow. Preliminaries at Noon and final on 7:30pm on BTN Plus.
Including today's action, the entire B1G Championships will be streamed live on BTN Plus.
February 25th, 2015 at 8:58 PM ^
This is a good start to the meet, obviously. I might try to get up there to Iowa City either tomorrow or Friday. GO BLUE!!
February 25th, 2015 at 9:16 PM ^
February 25th, 2015 at 10:16 PM ^
I definitely do not understand swimming nearly as well as some of the other sports we discuss around here, but I have to give a ton of respect to this team. They're right up there with softball in the discussion for most consistently excellent team on campus. Hope they can finish the job here!
February 25th, 2015 at 11:10 PM ^
Probably ahead of softball, actually. They have a more recent national championship and more top-8 finishes recently as well (the equivalent of making it to the WCWS). In fact, I would say men's gymnastics is right up there too.
EDIT: Little known fact, Michigan has more NCAA championships in Men's swim and dive than any other school. We've always been good, but we were a fucking dynasty in the early years (sound familiar?). Know who's #2? OSU. In fact, Michigan and OSU have finished in the top 2 in the same year 11 times.
February 25th, 2015 at 11:25 PM ^
The greatest college program of all time. Out of any sport.
They've been doing it the longest and have done one thing the longest and more than anyone else: win.
Since 2011-12, Michigan is 36-0 overall and 22-0 against the B1G.
All-time numbers-
- All-Time Record: 663-120-7 (.844)
- B1G Record: 431-57-4 (.880)
- National Championships: 19
- Individual NCAA Champions: 165
- B1G Championships: 37
- Individual B1G Champions: 465
- NCAA All-Americans: 588
- Olympic Medalists: 74
- Gold Medalists: 33
- Silver Medalists: 11
- Bronze Medalists: 30
A fun stat: Michigan is 57-0 against Purdue all-time. 57-0.
February 25th, 2015 at 11:29 PM ^
February 25th, 2015 at 10:29 PM ^
February 25th, 2015 at 11:04 PM ^
Sounds like things are going - er - swimmingly.
February 25th, 2015 at 11:05 PM ^
February 26th, 2015 at 10:57 AM ^
That's just ridiculous (yes, he had a relay start, blah blah blah). I wonder how far he got with his underwater segment off of his start. I was happy when I could consistently be below 10 seconds on 25 free's lol, shaved and tapered.
February 25th, 2015 at 11:05 PM ^
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February 25th, 2015 at 11:25 PM ^
but Pac12 and B12 championships yet to go. Could get surpassed.
February 26th, 2015 at 10:59 AM ^
Nice - two freshmen on the winning 200 medley relay
February 26th, 2015 at 11:57 AM ^
Prelims for today start soon: 500 free, 200 IM, 50 free and 1m diving
February 26th, 2015 at 12:00 PM ^
Hmmm...they just did a time trial for Penn State's 200 medley relay, who false-started in the final last night. They did a time that is an 'A' qualifier for NCAA's, and it would've put them third in the final.