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1972 NCAA University Division swimming and diving championships

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1972 NCAA University Division swimming and diving championships
Host cityNew York (state) West Point, New York
Date(s)March 1972
Venue(s)Crandall Pool
United States Military Academy
Teams29
Events18
1971
1973

The 1972 NCAA University Division swimming and diving championships were contested at the 36th annual swim meet sanctioned and hosted by the NCAA to determine the individual and team national champions of men's collegiate swimming and diving among its University Division member programs in the United States, culminating the 1971–72 NCAA University Division swimming and diving season.

These championships were hosted by the United States Military Academy at Crandall Pool on its campus in West Point, New York.

Four-time defending champions Indiana again topped the team championship standings, the Hoosiers' fifth NCAA national title.[1]

Team standings

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  • (H) = Hosts
  • (DC) = Defending champions
  • Italics = Debut appearance
Rank Team Points
1st place, gold medalist(s) Indiana (DC) 390
2nd place, silver medalist(s) USC 371
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Tennessee 170
4 UCLA 168
5 SMU 121
6 Washington 109
7 Florida 99
8 Stanford 91
9 Ohio State 89
10 Michigan 47
11 Southern Illinois 42
12 Yale 35
13 Princeton 33
14 Minnesota 29
15 Cornell 27
16 NC State 26
17 Oregon 25
18 Pacific 16
19 Michigan State 14
20 BYU 13
21 Long Beach State 10
22 LSU 4
Penn
Texas
Villanova
Wisconsin
27 Johns Hopkins 5
28 Harvard 2
29 UC Santa Barbara 1

Individual events

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Swimming

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Event Champion Team Time
50 yard freestyle David Edgar (DC) Tennessee 20.442
100 yard freestyle David Edgar (DC) Tennessee 45.003
200 yard freestyle Jerry Heidenreich SMU 1:38.357
500 yard freestyle John Kinsella (DC) Indiana 4:24.496
1,650 yard freestyle John Kinsella (DC) Indiana 15:33.582
100 yard backstroke Paul Gilbert Yale 51.293
200 yard backstroke Charles Campbell Princeton 1:50.557
100 yard breaststroke Tom Bruce UCLA 56.998
200 yard breaststroke Brian Job (DC) Stanford 2:02.592
100 yard butterfly Mark Spitz (DC) Indiana 47.988
200 yard butterfly Mark Spitz (DC) Indiana 1:46.898
200 yard individual medley Gary Hall Sr. (DC) Indiana 1:51.507
400 yard individual medley Gary Hall Sr. (DC) Indiana 3:58.717
400 yard freestyle relay Thomas Lutz
Kenneth Knox
David Edgar
John Trembley
Tennessee 3:01.118
800 yard freestyle relay Edward McCleskey
Stephen Tyrrell
Tom McBreen
Jim McConica
USC (DC) 6:38.635
400 yard medley relay Bruce Kocsis
David Mayekawa
Frank Heckl
Michael Weston
USC 3:23.118

Diving

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Event Champion Team Score
1 meter diving Todd Smith Ohio State 503.25
3 meter diving Craig Lincoln Minnesota 545.4

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "DIVISION I MEN'S SWIMMING AND DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS RECORDS BOOK" (PDF). ncaa.org. NCAA. Retrieved August 31, 2024.