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No. 2 Men's Swimming and Diving falls to No. 3 N.C. State, 173.5-126.5
11.04.2016 | Men's Swimming and Diving
Horns win six events, including two each from Olympic gold medalist Joseph Schooling and All-America diver Mark Anderson.
AUSTIN, Texas – No. 2 Texas (2-3) collected six events Friday evening, including two apiece from Olympic gold medalist Joseph Schooling and All-America diver Mark Anderson, but No. 3 N.C. State topped the Longhorns by a 173.5-126.5 count at UT's Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center.
Olympic gold medalist Jack Conger scored the Horns' first victory of the day in the 200 freestyle, where he was victorious in 1 minute, 35.82 seconds. Junior Jonathan Roberts added a third-place mark of 1:36.35.
Schooling, the Rio Olympics gold medalist in the 100m butterfly, won the 200 butterfly, an event in which he holds the NCAA record. Schooling took the win at 1:45.82 while senior Will Glass tied for second at 1:47.80.
Anderson led a one-two Texas finish in the three-meter diving event with 439.35 points. Freshman Grayson Campbell added a second-place mark of 429.08. Anderson returned to win the one-meter event with 389.10 points while Campbell took second with 346.12 points.
Olympic gold medalist Clark Smith led from wire-to-wire in the 500 freestyle and put away a victory in 4:17.09. Schooling returned to sweep the butterfly events and finished off a win at 100 yards in 46.93. Conger followed in second at 47.60.
The Texas divers resume competition in two weeks at the UT Diving Invitational. The swimmers return at the end of the month for the start of the annual Texas Invitational. The finals sessions of both meets will air live on Longhorn Network.
POST-MEET COMMENTS
Texas head coach Eddie Reese
On the importance of Texas taking it one meet at a time: Well, this is our second loss this season and you need to know that it's no fun. But it shows where we are. The years after the Olympics, I experiment and I never experiment easy. Practices are more difficult, and we just had the greatest and the hardest September we've ever had. And, it's showing up. We couldn't compete with Indiana or N.C. State. We've got a month before our (Texas) Invitational, and if we're not a lot better there, we're going to have to do some drastic stuff.
On how the performances lived up to any expectations coming into the meet: Our only expectation is to compete well. We want to race. They raced well, but we lost most close races. Fatigue can be a factor in that, and we didn't know what the score would be. We're getting people back, Joseph Schooling was back at this meet and swam well. Will Licon will be back at the Invite, so we're getting there.
On his talks with the team after a loss: I tell them stories. One of the best teams we've ever had here was a team that won the first NCAAs. That team lost three dual meets during the season. It doesn't matter as long as you do well at the NCAAs. We're not like football or basketball, we don't have to win everything. And it's a good thing because I don't know how to do that.
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