Swimming & Diving in the CSCAA Rankings: Oct. 29

BATON ROUGE, La. - The College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) released its October edition of the Division I Top 25 National Rankings Thursday afternoon, with both the LSU men’s and women’s teams remaining in the top 25.

The LSU women slid up one spot in the rankings to No. 17, while the men fell to No. 18.

Since the preseason poll, which came out on Sept. 18, the Tiger women have won by significant margins against Navy, Loyola (Md.), and Texas A&M. In the tri-meet at the Naval Academy, the LSU women won every swimming event. The squad then returned to Baton Rouge on Oct. 23 and defeated Texas A&M, 215-83, also winning every swimming event. The win over the Aggies was the program’s first in a dual meet since 2001. Sophomore Martina Bukvic broke a 15-year-old record in the 100 breast and set pool records in the 100 and 200 breast.

The LSU men rebounded from its loss to Navy by taking down Texas A&M by a score of 181.5-116.5. The victory was the Tiger men’s first in a dual over the Aggies since 2014. Senior Jere Hribar set a school record in the 100 fly to go along with three pool records. Junior Nikola Simic smashed his school record in the 1000 free, as well. On Tuesday, Hribar was named SEC Men’s Swimmer of the Week for his performance.

The Tigers will return to the pool on Thursday, Nov. 5 at noon CT in the LSU Natatorium for a dual meet against the Auburn Tigers. 

The following is the men’s rankings, followed by the women’s:

Division I Men

Rank	Prev.	Team	Points
1	1	Texas	250
2	2	Indiana	234
T-3	4	California	225
T-3	3	Florida	225
5	6	Arizona State	211
6	5	Tennessee	199
7	7	NC State	192
8	10	Virginia	179
9	12	Louisville	164
10	T-8	Stanford	160
11	T-8	Michigan	136
12	11	Virginia Tech	134
13	15	Georgia	132
14	17	Auburn	117
15	18	Alabama	103
16	20	Kentucky	97
17	16	Northwestern	93
18	14	LSU	65
19	19	North Carolina	62
T-20	NR	Navy	55
T-20	13	Ohio State	55
T-20	25	USC	55
23	RV	Notre Dame	32
24	21	SMU	21
25	RV	Arizona	15

Division I Women

Rank	Prev.	Team	Points
1	1	Virginia	250
2	3	Texas	237
3	5	Indiana	230
4	4	Tennessee	221
5	6	Michigan	205
6	7	California	201
7	8	Louisville	192
T-8	2	Stanford	177
T-8	9	NC State	177
10	11	Ohio State	155
11	12	Georgia	152
12	14	Wisconsin	130
13	10	Florida	129
14	15	Alabama	119
15	16	North Carolina	95
16	18	Arizona State	90
17	17	LSU	89
18	13	USC	88
19	19	Auburn	75
20	20	South Carolina	67
21	21	Duke	53
22	24	Minnesota	40
23	NR	Virginia Tech	26
24	22	Arizona	21
25	NR	Kentucky	17