No. 8 USC Men’s Swim & Dive To Host No. 2 Cal, No. 11 Stanford

The No. 8 USC men's swim and dive team is set to host Bay Area rivals No. 2 California on Friday (Feb. 4) at 2 p.m. and No. 11 Stanford at 12 p.m. on Saturday (Feb. 5) at the Uytensu Aquatics Center.

USC is 4-0 on the season and 2-0 in Pac-12 meets. The Golden Bears are 4-0, 3-0 while the Cardinal is 5-0, 3-0. All three teams will be looking to maintain an unblemished Pac-12 dual-meet record.

So far this season, Troy has defeated UC Santa Barbara (W, 172-85), Arizona (W, 198-102), Arizona State (W, 155.5-138.5) and UC San Diego (W, 195.5-65.5).

While competing against A&M, TCU, Nevada, Air Force, LSU and Incarnate Word, multiple Trojans posted PR's at the Texas mid-season invite, including sophomore Ben Dillard who took the 200y breast in a personal best 1:52.44 to set a USC school record.

Most recently, USC traveled to Santa Barbara for the UCSB Invite where Trojan Ivan Puskovitch won twice, claiming both the 500y free and 1650y free. His performance earned him Pac-12 swimmer of the week honors, as announced by the conference on Wednesday (Feb. 2).

MEET INFO
Live results will be available on the Meet Mobile app.

Saturday's meet against the Cardinal will be streamed here.

TOP-25 TIMES
USC's fall semester of swimming netted a slew of NCAA A and B cuts and spots in the nation's top 25 list. (**NCAA A cut, *NCAA B Cut)

Artem Selin - 50y free (19.38*) -23rd
Nikola Miljenic - 50y free (19.39*) – 25th , 100y free (42.25*) - 9th
Alexei Sancov - 200y free (1:33.01*) - 8th, 100y fly (45.97*) – 22nd , 200y fly (1:41.81*) - 10th
Victor Johansson - 500y free (4:14.48*) - 11th , 1650y free (14:55.21*) - 17th
Vaggelis Makrygiannis - 200y back (1:41.82*) - 18th
Trent Pellini - 100y breast (51.28**) - 4th , 200y IM (1:44.29*) – 21st
Ben Dillard - 200y breast (1:52.44*) - 5th

Five of the Trojans' relays currently sit in the top-25 -- 400y medley (3:06.12*, 9th), 800y free (6:22.24, 10th), 200y medley (1:24.90, 19th), 400y free (2:51.33*, 17th) and the men's 200y free relay (1:17.95, 22nd).

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Players Mentioned

Ben Dillard

Victor Johansson

Vaggelis Makrygiannis

Nikola Miljenic

Trent Pellini

Ivan Puskovitch

Alexei Sancov

Artem Selin