ACC – Men’s Swimming & Diving
- Wednesday, February 27 – Saturday, March 2 (Diving February 14-17)
- Greensobo Aquatic Center, Greensbobo, NC (Eastern Time Zone)
- Defending Champion: NC State (4x) (results)
- Live results
- Live Video
- Championship Central
While the NC State Wolfpack women’s swimming & diving team were picking up their 2nd ACC title in 3 seasons this weekend in Greensboro, the men’s meet was underway simultaneously in the form of the diving competition.
The Miami Hurricanes, who don’t have a swimming program (and as such are done with scoring), swept the diving events. Briadam Herrera won the 1-meter and 3-meter competitionns, while David Dinsmore and Zach Cooper went 1-2 on platform in his absence. The Hurricanes’ big run resulted in 67 more diving points than last year, which helped push down most of the other teams.
That includes Duke, who are down 42 points as compared to diving last year, and Florida State, who are down 51 points.
Among the teams battling for positions at the top of the team table, NC State, the 4-time defending champions and 2019 favorites, went big in men’s diving (after they had some clutch performances in women’s diving as well). That’s going to make it hard for anyone to jump the gap to catch them in swimming: Swimulator projects them to be 210 points better in the lanes than Louisville and 293 points better than Virginia. Louisville also had a big showing from their divers, who outperformed their 2018 diving scoring by 85 points.
| Rank | Team | Score | Divers Used | Points Last Year |
| 1 | Duke | 170 | 4 | 212 |
| 2 | Miami | 161 | 2 | 94 |
| 3 | Florida State | 143 | 3 | 194 |
| 4 | Louisville | 123 | 3 | 38 |
| 5 | NC State | 111 | 3 | 65 |
| 6 | Virginia Tech | 98 | 2 | 179 |
| 7 | Virginia | 82 | 3 | 19 |
| 8 | Georgia Tech | 81 | 3 | 56 |
| 9 | North Carolina | 78 | 3 | 119 |
| 10 | Notre Dame | 39 | 3 | 95 |
| 11 | Pitt | 0 | 2 | 14 |
| 12 | Boston College | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Yup, it’s over before it started. Kudos to Louisville for significantly upping their diving game and to UVA for making strides, but the guys who have to drive 90 minutes (to the GAC) to use a platform made a big jump, came through, and held serve enough. Won’t get them over the NCAA hump yet, but they’re trending the right way and maybe they can keep making progress and avoid becoming the next Cal and winning the swimming but not the swimming and diving (not that any of us would really complain about becoming Cal).
Safe to say NC State taking home both ACC titles this year
Will SwimSwam be publishing a fan guide for Mens ACC championship?
Yup! Hoping to have it out tomorrow!
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Game over
This doesn’t bode well for any team hoping of an upset.
2019 ACC Champions – NC State Wolfpack
I don’t think there was ever any real shot this year of an upset. Maybe in the coming years…