Nov. 28, 2012
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina men’s swimming and diving team is ranked No. 13 in the latest CollegeSwimming.com Endless Pools Top 25.
The Gamecocks have 9.7 performance points in the poll, which reflects the team’s top performances in meets from Nov. 5-25. During that span, the Gamecocks defeated College of Charleston and finish second at the Virginia Tech Invitational. At the invitational, South Carolina posted some of the nation’s fastest times with junior Michael Flach leading the way. Flach, who earned National Swimmer of the Week honors for his performance, turned in the top 200 freestyle time (1:35.86) and the top 200 butterfly time (1:45.51) in the country.
“I’m happy with where our men sit in the poll,” South Carolina head coach McGee Moody said. “I think this reflects the hard work that they have put in. It shows the direction that our program is going. Now the goal is to continue to move up the rest of the season, and I think our guys are ready to do that.”
The points for the Endless Pools Top 25 are calculated using the average percentile rank of each team’s top twenty-seven swims in each meet. The Top 25 are ranked according on the basis of each team’s highest-scoring meet within the previous three weeks.
The Gamecocks return to action on Jan. 12 in a road dual meet at Duke. The meet is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. in Durham, N.C.
ENDLESS POOLS TOP 25Rank Team Points1 Stanford 2.22 Louisville 3.93 Southern California 5.54 Virginia Tech 5.75 Louisiana State 6.36 Virginia 8.17 Georgia 8.78 Minnesota 8.89 Wyoming 8.810 Purdue 9.011 NC State 9.212 Hawaii 9.513 South Carolina 9.714 Penn State 9.915 Indiana 10.216 Pittsburgh 10.217 Tennessee 10.518 Florida 10.619 Northwestern 10.620 Brigham Young 10.821 North Carolina 10.922 Utah 11.023 Missouri State 11.324 UC-Santa Barbara 11.725 California 11.9
