2021 GREAT TEN MEN CHAMPIONSHIPS
The Big Ten Conference Championships ends tonight and will be an electric ending. Indiana leads Michigan by 26.5 points and Ohio State by 36.5 points, while the Wolverines and Hoosiers project to score almost the same amount of points in tonight’s finals, 1,650 free included.
Michigan is estimated to win by one point.
Watch carefully, as this may fall to a single digit margin at the end, much like when Louisville claimed its first ACC crown last week by two points over the state of NC. Swimmers rising from the end of a final, or falling after holding a top seed in a final, will make all the difference.
The race for fourth place will also be fierce, as Purdue leads Wisconsin and Northwestern, but the Badgers and Wildcats each have three miles compared to the Boilermakers. NU has 1/2/5 in the A / B / C finals tonight (not including the mile), Purdue 1/2/3 and Wisconsin 0/3/2, with Purdue 61.5 points ahead of NU and 44 , 5 ahead of Wisconsin.
NU is designed to move up to fourth place, ahead of Purdue by half a point and ahead of Wisconsin by just nine.
SATURDAY NIGHT HEAT SHEETS
100 FREE – FINAL
- Big Ten meeting record – 41.43, Blake Pieroni (Indiana) – 2018
- Big Ten record – 40.83, Bowe Becker (Minnesota) – 2019
- NCAA invitation time for 2020 – 42.57
- The defending champion: Bruno Blaskovic (Indiana) – 41.88
Top 3
- Without Andreis (Ohio State) – 42.24
- Nikola Acin (Purdue) – 42.31
- Hunter Armstrong (Ohio State) – 42.37
The team race is fierce and the energy at the Ohio State Swimming tonight is turbulent. For the conference crown, the state of Ohio Without Andreis just knock it out Nikola Acin of Purdue on the wall, 42.23 to 42.31. Andreis increases his hardware collection as he won the free 50 on night two.
The Buckeyes had two finalists on the podium here, as Hunter Armstrong registered a 42.37 for the third, while Michigan’s Gus Borges tied for fourth with freshman UI Tomer Frankel and teammate River Wright, all three going to 42.50.
Indiana’s Jack Franzman was seventh at 42.60, ahead of Michigan’s second year Cam Peel (43.14).
Final B went to Wisconsin freshman Andrew Benson (42,93), a new better life for him. In the C-final, freshman from Michigan Bence Szabados got up and ran off track one for the 43.39 win, ahead of Northwestern senior Robert Cecil (43,67), as both were the best in life.
Michigan now has a 30 point lead over Indiana, while the Hoosiers are ahead of OSU by 27. The Wolverines had a great boost here to pass IU, scoring more than 100 points.
1650 FREE – FINALS WITH TIME
- Big Ten meeting record – 14: 29.25, Felix Auboeck (Michigan) – 2017
- Big Ten Record – 14: 22,88, Felix Auboeck (Michigan) – 2017
- 2020 NCAA Invitation Schedule – 14: 57.07
- The defending champion: Felix Auboeck (Michigan) – 14h30,10
Top 3
- Michael Brinegar (Indiana) – 14: 38,26
- Jake Mitchell (Michigan) – 14: 42,60
- Charlie Clark (State of Ohio) – 14: 45,24
Indiana’s Michael Brinegar opened an early lead on the field, with freshman from Michigan Jake Mitchell sitting in second place.
Brinegar did not give up, crossing to the Big Ten title with a 14: 38.26, four seconds ahead of Mitchell’s 14: 42.60. Brinegar was more than ten seconds from his best, but the weather is still good for sixth place in the country this year. Mitchell lost more than 15 seconds from his best previous mark and is now number 8 in the country.
Another freshman, Ohio State Charlie Clark, fell a lot, going from 15h07.84 in high school to a time of placing on the podium of 14h45.24. Clark is now the first Buckeye swimmer under 14:50 in this event, breaking the OSU record for more than five seconds.
Fourth, Wisconsin’s Josh Dannhauser won key points for badgers in his team race for fourth place when he was 14: 46.76.
Out of the first round, Michigan’s Will Roberts set a 14: 59.87 to lead the way to the last heat by swimming with the finals. He led a 1-2 with a teammate Danny Berlitz (15: 03.97) between the first heats, and they were fast enough to be fifth and seventh, respectively, after the last heats had swam.
In a fierce race that ended in the fourth heat, Northwestern Senior Jeffrey Durmer hurried over the past 150, dividing 26.9, 26.6 and finally 25.0 to run over the Minnesota freshman Christopher Nagy on the wall. Durmer was 15: 06.96, one hundredth ahead of Nagy. Durmer dropped nearly nine seconds from his old 2019 record, while Nagy smashed his old record of 15: 32.74. Durmer finished eighth in the final result.
Michigan is clinging to a 50-point lead, as Indiana is just 19 ahead of OSU with the mile completed. Purdue is still in fourth place, but they had no scorers in the event, so Wisconsin and NU get closer.
200 BACK – FINALS
- Record of Big Ten meetings – 1: 38.89, Eric Ress (Indiana) – 2014
- Big Ten Record – 1: 37.58, Tyler Clary (Michigan) – 2009
- 2020 NCAA Invitation Schedule – 1: 41.49
- Title Champion: Gabriel Fantoni (Indiana) – 1: 40,31
Top 3
200 BREASTS – FINAL
- Big Ten meeting record – 1:50:30, Ian Finnerty (Indiana) – 2019
- Big Ten record – 1: 49.41, Max McHugh (Minnesota) – 2019
- 2020 NCAA Invitation Schedule – 1: 54.03
- The defending champion: Thomas Cope (Michigan) – 1: 51.44
Top 3
400 FREE RELAY – TIMED FINALS
- Record Big Ten meetings – 2: 48.29, Indiana – 2017
- Big Ten Record – 2: 47,11, Indiana – 2018
- NCAA automatic qualification standard – 2: 51.11
- Champion in title: Indiana, 2: 48.43
Top 3
TEAM SCORE (THROUGH DAY FOUR)
- Michigan – 1196
- Indian – 1143
- Ohio State – 1124
- Purdue – 672
- Wisconsin – 646
- Northwest – 612
- Penn State – 518.5
- Iowa – 465.5
- Minnesota – 458
- Michigan State – 162