2017 MEN’S B1G SWIMMING & DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS
- When: Wednesday, February 22th to Saturday, February 25th | Prelims 11am | Finals 6:30pm
- Where: Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (Eastern Time Zone)
- Defending Champion: Michigan Wolverines (results)
- Live Results
- Streaming (BTN subscription required)
- Championship Central: here
Taking down the B1G 400 medley relay record were the Indiana Hoosiers, blasting a 3:03.28 to clear the old record by 1.12 seconds. Northwestern held the old record at 3:04.40, which Ohio State also got under in their 2nd place finish tonight (3:04.13). On the relay, Blake Pieroni, Vini Lanza, and Ian Finnerty posted the top splits of the entire field.
SPLITS
| OLD RECORD | NEW RECORD | ||
| Northwestern | Indiana | ||
| Matt Grevers | 45.83 | 46.11 | Glover |
| Mike Alexandrov | 51.28 | 51.18 | Finnerty |
| Kyle Bubolz | 44.95 | 44.64 | Lanza |
| Bruno Barbic | 42.34 | 41.35 | Pieroni |
| 3:04.40 | 3:03.28 |
NU set this record back in their Matt Grevers golden days; they also set the NCAA record in the same swim with their 3:04.40 at the 2007 NCAA Championships, winning the national title in the process. IU, today, took over a full second off of that record, with Pieroni being noticeably much faster than NU’s anchor.
IU’s time of 3:03.28, meanwhile, sets themselves up very well for the NCAA Championships– that time rockets them up to #1 in the country this year.
Is Northwestern University any good nowadays?
Imagine how fast they’ll go when they wear caps and tech suits at NCAAs
Lanza had an amazing night of swimming! Its crazy that he just started Swimming three years ago after quitting his modeling career!