SwimSwam’s Official 2022-23 Faculty Swimming Previews Index

As we prepare for the 2022-2023 NCAA season, we might be previewing the top-12 males’s and girls’s Division I groups. The rating is predicated on how the groups completed on the 2022 NCAA Championships.

Previews go up recurrently, and you’ll maintain observe of all of them–and the way the groups stack up towards one another–with the desk beneath. In case you don’t understand how our rating system works, we’ve acquired an explainer for that as properly.

This index will replace as we maintain counting as much as the #1 groups. After we’ve performed previews for final yr’s prime 12, we’ll launch our preseason rankings for the 2022-2023 season.

Grading Standards

Two years in the past, we unveiled a brand new, extra data-based grading standards based mostly on ‘projected returning factors’, a stat of our personal making that concerned lots of handbook calculations involving departing seniors, redshirts, freshmen, and so forth. We favored the objectiveness of that stat, however on condition that there’s nonetheless lots of uncertainty for this yr, we’re adopting a hybrid method this yr. The “stars” will rely closely on what swimmers really did final yr, however we’ll additionally give credit score to returning swimmers or freshmen who’ve occasions that might have scored final yr.

Since we solely profile the highest 12 groups on this format, our grades are designed with that vary in thoughts. Within the grand scheme of school swimming and in comparison with all different faculty packages, prime 12 NCAA packages would just about all grade properly throughout the board. However within the curiosity of constructing these previews informative, our grading scale is hard – designed to point out the tiers between the great stroke teams, the good ones, and the 2015 Texas fly group sorts.

• 5 star (★★★★★) – a uncommon, elite NCAA group projected to attain 25+ factors per occasion
• 4 star (★★★★) – a really, superb NCAA group projected to attain 15-24 factors per occasion
• 3 star (★★★) – a very good NCAA group projected to attain 5-14 factors per occasion
• 2 star (★★) – a strong NCAA group projected to attain 1-4 factors per occasion
• 1 star (★) –  an NCAA group that’s projected to attain no factors per occasion, although that doesn’t imply it’s with out potential scorers – they’ll simply must leapfrog some swimmers forward of them to do it

We’ll grade every occasion self-discipline: dash free (which we outline to incorporate all of the relay-distance freestyle occasions, so 50, 100 and 200), distance free, IM, breaststroke, backstroke, butterfly and diving. Use these grades as a jumping-off level for dialogue, moderately than a purpose to be offended.

Ladies

Males