As is typical with opening night, last night the ACC men’s swimming and diving championships didn’t see too much action. Things pick up starting today with more of the individual events, where we’ll see where swimmers like Eric Cullen and Andy Dilz stack up in the ACC.
Last night’s two swims pitted the ACC’s 200-yard medley and 800-yard freestyle relay teams against one another. Just as we saw with the ladies last week, it should be a week replete with broken records for the Terps. In the medley, the Terps finished sixth with a school record time of 1:27.81. In the 800 free, they obliterated their 20-year-old school record by nearly six seconds, clocking in at 6:34.02 and finishing in seventh. Both times were good enough for NCAA B-cut times.
The Terps (50 points) currently sit in sixth place, four points behind Virgina Tech and 24 behind Virginia, whose ladies took home the title last week.
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