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According to SwimSwam's November edition, SMU Men's Swimming and Diving program has been ranked No. 21 in their Power Rankings.

Our Mustangs (3-0), who currently compete this year in the Atlantic Sun Athletic Conference, also received votes in Swimming Worlds CSCAA Top 25 Rankings. It has been a while since we were getting national recognition.

This week our annual SMU Invite will host Drury, Hawaii, Yale, and BYU,

Stanford, Cal & SMU should help strengthen ACC swimming & diving

Charleston Pony wrote:Stanford, Cal & SMU should help strengthen ACC swimming & diving

Here is the Swimming World Rankings this month. Note that next year's ACC Men's Swimming Program will include 9 currently ranked schools (which includes Cal, Notre Dame, and Stanford), plus a rising SMU.

Division I Men
Rank Previous Team Points
1 NA Arizona State 299
2 NA [b]California 289[/b]
3 NA Florida 272
4 NA [b]NC State 264[/b]
5 NA Indiana 254
6 NA Tennessee 234
7 NA Texas 228
[b]8 NA [b]Stanford 210[/b]
9 NA Georgia 199
10 NA Auburn 186
11 NA Virginia Tech 182
12 NA Louisville 168[/b]
13 NA Texas A&M 161
14 NA Ohio State 148
15 NA [b]Virginia 129[/b]
16 NA Southern California 121
17 NA Notre Dame 100[/b]
18 NA Michigan 86
19 NA Alabama 84
20 NA Missouri 75
21 NA Harvard 41
22 NA Wisconsin 38
23 NA [b]Georgia Tech 36
24 NA Florida State 29[/b]
25 NA Kentucky 14

Also receiving votes: Princeton (13), Arizona (12), Minnesota (11), UNLV (8), Southern Methodist (5), UNC-Wilmington (2), North Carolina (2)

So you are suggesting things are going to get tougher for our Swimming & Diving programs?

Charleston Pony wrote:So you are suggesting things are going to get tougher for our Swimming & Diving programs?

Absolutely.

However, swimming and diving in a "bigger pool" is highly desirable in the absolute toughest conference which improves our recruiting profile, level of competition, and relevance.

Candidly, being the top half of the ACC is ambitious but a smaller fish in a bigger pond is how we get better.

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