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Men's Swimming and Diving to Take on Spartans in Dual-Meet Finale
2/5/2019 6:54:00 PM | Men's Swimming & Diving
Friday, Feb. 8 -- at Michigan State (East Lansing, Mich.), 6 p.m.
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With weeks remaining until the Big Ten Championships, the No. 4-ranked University of Michigan men's swimming and diving team (6-1, 3-1 Big Ten) closes out the dual-meet portion of its schedule with a final road meet on Friday (Feb. 8) at Michigan State (3-3, 0-2 Big Ten). The meet will begin at 6 p.m. inside McCaffree Pool.
Schedule of Events
200-yard Medley Relay
200-yard Freestyle
50-yard Freestyle
400-yard IM
100-yard Butterfly
100-yard Freestyle
100-yard Backstroke
500-yard Freestyle
100-yard Breaststroke
400-yard Freestyle Relay
One-Meter Diving/Three-Meter Diving
Notes
• Michigan remains at No. 4 in the latest CSCAA poll, released Jan. 23. The final poll of the year will be released next Wednesday (Feb. 13). [ Poll ]
• Since 2007, U-M is 96-7-1 in dual meets, going 60-4 against Big Ten opponents.
• One of the team's biggest breakout performers in the pool this season has been sophomore Luiz Gustavo Borges. The son of 10-time NCAA champion and Michigan swimming great Gustavo Borges, the younger Borges leads the Big Ten in the 50-yard freestyle (19.11) and is ranked second in the 100-yard freestyle (42.53), establishing career bests in both events as well as in the 200-yard freestyle (1:35.70).
• The junior quartet of Charlie Swanson, Tommy Cope, Jacob Montague and Jeremy Babinet look to make waves in the breaststroke and IM races for the second consecutive postseason. All four men were NCAA Championships qualifiers last year and are ranked in the top eight of the Big Ten in both the 100- and 200-yard breaststroke events. Swanson and Cope are ranked 1-2 in the 400-yard IM, while Swanson, Cope and Montague are 2-3-4 in the 200-yard IM.
• Sophomore Ricardo Vargas swept the distance events (500-yard freestyle, 1,000-yard freestyle) in the team's last four short course competitions (Ohio State, Indiana, UGA Invite, Iowa/Denver). Among all Big Ten swimmers, Vargas is ranked first in both the 500-yard freestyle and 1,650-yard freestyle, and third in the 400-yard IM.
• All four divers have qualified for the NCAA Zone C Diving Championships, to be held March 14-16 in West Lafayette, Indiana. Junior Jake Herremans and sophomores Chris Canning and Ross Todd have qualified in all three events, while senior/junior Collin DeShaw has scores on both springboard events. For this year's NCAA Championships, Zone C is allotted 11 spots on one-meter and eight spots on both three-meter and on platform. [ Diving Scores ]
The Opposition
Michigan State
The Spartans are 3-3 on the season and 0-2 in the Big Ten. They are coming off 188-108 loss to Notre Dame on Feb. 2 in East Lansing. Scott Piper has team-best times in four events (200-yard backstroke, 200-yard butterfly, 200-yard IM, 400-yard IM).
Michigan holds an 89-5 record in the all-time series against Michigan State and the Wolverines have won 40 consecutive meetings in the series.
Up Next
• Sat-Sun., Feb. 23-24 -- at Michigan First Chance Meet (Canham Natatorium), 11 a.m.
• Wed-Sat., Feb. 27-March 2 -- at Big Ten Championships (Iowa City, Iowa), 11 a.m./6:30 p.m. CST
Players Mentioned
