The 2019-20 NCAA Division II time standards are now official, and the women’s cuts continue to get faster.
This season, 17 of the 28 individual women’s cuts have been made faster, 7 A cuts and 8 B cuts. On the men’s side, only the 1000 and 1650 free A cuts have been changed along with 6 B cuts to total just 8 faster updates. All the relay provisional standards for both genders have been upgraded this season as well.
During the 2018-19 season, the men experienced 18 faster cuts while the women had 15 faster times.
Another major difference between both genders is the men experienced just 4 slower cut updates, the 100/200 back, 200 fly, and 200 IM A cuts. The women did not experience any slower updates, only the 28 faster updates or have remained the same from last season.
One eye-popping similarity that both genders had in the time updates were faster 1000/1650 free A and B cuts. While all the possible 1650 free cuts dropped by 3 seconds, this only comes out to a -0.3% time change. To put that in context, that -0.3% difference would equate to the women’s 50 free A cut to change from 22.90 down to 22.84.
2019-20 NCAA Division II Time Standards
- Times updated faster are in bold, slower updates are in italics*
| Men | Women | |||
| A Standard | B Standard | Event | A Standard | B Standard |
| 19.76 | 20.75 | 50 free | 22.89 | 24.03 |
| 43.36 | 45.52 | 100 free | 49.63 | 52.11 |
| 1:35.51 | 1:40.29 | 200 free | 1:47.91 | 1:53.31 |
| 4:21.76 | 4:34.84 | 500 free | 4:50.30 | 5:04.82 |
| 9:04.90 | 9:32.15 | 1000 free | 9:54.77 | 10:24.51 |
| 15:15.38 | 16:01.15 | 1650 free | 16:33.47 | 17:23.14 |
| 46.94* | 49.26 | 100 back | 53.79 | 56.48 |
| 1:44.78* | 1:49.98 | 200 back | 1:57.04 | 2:02.89 |
| 52.91 | 55.56 | 100 breast | 1:01.03 | 1:04.08 |
| 1:55.12 | 2:00.87 | 200 breast | 2:13.33 | 2:20.00 |
| 46.79 | 49.13 | 100 fly | 53.37 | 56.04 |
| 1:45.11* | 1:50.13 | 200 fly | 1:59.37 | 2:05.34 |
| 1:46.15* | 1:51.31 | 200 IM | 1:59.39 | 2:05.36 |
| 3:48.97 | 4:00.42 | 400 IM | 4:17.69 | 4:30.57 |
| Qualifying | Provisional | Qualifying | Provisional | |
| N/A | 1:21.20 | 200 free relay | N/A | 1:34.21 |
| N/A | 2:59.60 | 400 free relay | N/A | 3:25.84 |
| N/A | 6:36.77 | 800 free relay | N/A | 7:29.84 |
| N/A | 1:28.85 | 200 medley relay | N/A | 1:43.24 |
| N/A | 3:16.58 | 400 medley relay | N/A | 3:46.75 |
Below are the official 2019-20 documents:
The 2020 NCAA Division II Championships are set to take place in Geneva, OH from March 11-14. Currently, both the men and women of Queens (N.C.) have 5 consecutive team titles under their belts and both will chase down title #6 this season. Coming in this season as the #2 and #3 men’s teams are Delta State and Indy while the women of Drury and West Chester are aiming to defend their 2019 top 3 spots.