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MEET INFORMATION
Purdue Men at the Big Ten Championships
Wednesday to Saturday, Feb. 26 to 29
Opening Night Relays at 5 p.m. ET
11 a.m. ET Prelims, 6:30 p.m. Finals / BTN+
Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatics Center / Bloomington, Indiana
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue men's swimming & diving returns to the home pool of its rival to the south as week two of the sport's championship season shines the spotlight on the Big Ten Championships at Indiana's Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatics Center.
Action in Bloomington begins Wednesday at 5 p.m. ET, a time that was moved up a bit from recent years, and continues through Saturday night. The opening session features the 200 medley and 800 freestyle relays. Preliminaries are set for 11 a.m. ET. Relays are contested, Big Ten champions determined and team points earned in the evening finals, which begin nightly at 6:30 p.m. Diving prelims begin daily at 1 p.m. as the afternoon bridge between the sessions.
The Big Ten Network will televise the Saturday finals session Monday, March 2 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. ET. The BTN+ app and website will also be offering live pay-per-view webcast coverage of the first six sessions. Saturday finals will be streamed live on the Fox Sports app and website.
The Boilermakers have finished fourth at the Big Ten Championships each of the last two seasons and three times in the last five years. Fourth place matches the program's best-ever showing. During the modern era of the meet, Purdue's 2009 and 2010 teams were the only others to finish fourth in consecutive years.
PURDUE'S MOST RECENT BIG TEN CHAMPIONS
• Diving: Brandon Loschiavo – Platform, 2019
• Swimming: Marat Amaltdinov – 200 Breast, 2017
BIG MEET FOR THE BOILERMAKERS AT BIG TENS A YEAR AGO
• Purdue set nine team records – three individual, three relay, three freshman – at the 2019 Big Ten Championships. Nikola Aćin was part of five records and Trent Pellini contributed to three.
• Aćin broke freshman records in the 50, 100 and 200 freestyle, scoring in the B finals of all three races. He also contributed to relay records in the 200 medley and 400 free events to open and close the meet.
• Pellini eclipsed the program record in the 100 breast that had stood since 2014, registering the time that helped send Purdue's relays to the NCAA Championships. He was also part of both medley relay records. The 200 medley relay team's time of 1:24.53 was an NCAA A Cut and trigged the auto-qualifying status for Purdue once Pellini earned an individual berth with his time in the 100 breast. He was out touched by .03 hundredths of a second for bronze in the event.
• In the dive well, the Boilermakers won medals in all three events. Brandon Loschiavo repeated as the Big Ten champion on the tower, with Ben Bramley winning bronze in the same event. Greg Duncan was a two-time bronze medalist in the springboard events in his debut at Big Tens.
• Current Boilermakers Nikola Bjelajac and Ryan Lawrence also contributed to the 400 free relay record, helping eclipse a benchmark that had stood since 2014. Purdue has broken its 200 medley relay record to open Big Tens each of the last two years.
• This year the Boilermakers have an opportunity to make a run at the program's 200 free relay record (1:17.71), which has stood since 2012. Ryan Hrosik matched Aćin's career-best time of 19.51 at the Purdue Invitational in November. Bjelajac and Lawrence also figure to be contenders to be part of that quartet.
VERY VERSATILE
• Twenty Boilermakers scored at Big Tens last season, including six in all three of their individual events. Of that group, Nikola Aćin, Ben Bramley and Trent Pellini are all back a year older and a year stronger. Aćin and Bramley both competed at the 2019 FINA World Championships.
• However, Purdue will be without three of its top 10 active career scoring leaders at Big Tens. Brandon Loschiavo and Batuhan Hakan have both exercised Olympic practice waivers this season. An injury in the fall ended Kristian Komlenic's swimming career. He has remained a big part of the team in a coaching capacity. Komlenic would have had an opportunity to be a four-year scorer at Big Tens this year.
• Greg Duncan won a league-high six Big Ten Diver of the Week honors this season and is among the favorites in the springboard events this week. Ben Bramley is equally talented on the tower, qualifying for the championship final at NCAAs as a freshman last year and also competing for USA Diving at the Pan American Games as well as the FINA World Championships.
• Nick Sherman and Brett Riley have made big strides as sophomore this season and figure to be among the team's top performers in the individual medley races. Riley won multiple events at three different meets after the calendar flipped to 2020.
FAMILIAR POOL
• Excluding the years that Purdue hosted the Big Ten Championships, the current campaign marks the eighth time this century that the Boilermakers have already competed in the pool hosting the conference championship meet earlier that season. It also happened in 2002 (at Indiana, 8th), 2003 (at Michigan, 7th), 2006 (at Indiana, 5th), 2007 (at Ohio State, 6th), 2012 (at Iowa, 7th), 2018 (at Minnesota, 4th) and 2019 (at Iowa, 4th).
• Purdue visited Bloomington in January for the annual rivalry dual. Selected Boilermakers also raced at IU's pool for the 2018 Indiana Senior State Championships (in July) and at the First Chance meet this past weekend.
FRESHMEN TO WATCH
• At the Purdue Invitational in November, Michael Juengel set a Purdue freshman record with a time of 1:43.75 in the 200 backstroke. He already ranks among the all-time top 10 in program history in the backstroke events. Fellow freshman Keelan Hart (100 free), Khadin Soto (100 breast), Elliot Cooper (200 fly) and Liam Walker (200 fly) also added their names to an all-time list at the Purdue Invite.
• On this week's episode of the program's Behind the Blocks web show, Nick McDowell and Trent Pellini nominated Jack Smith and Skyler Younkin as more first-year Boilermakers poised for a potential breakout meet.
BIG TEN'S RANKED TEAMS IN CSCAA TOP 25
• No. 3 Michigan, No. 4 Indiana, No. 17 Ohio State, No. 20 Iowa, No. 22 Northwestern
• Indiana has won the last three conference titles. Michigan claimed six straight before that, including the last time IU hosted in 2013.
YEAR FIVE OF THE NEW SCORING BREAKDOWN
• A Final: 32-28-27-26-25-24-23-22
• B Final: 20-17-16-15-14-13-12-11
• C Final: 9-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 (and 17th through 24th in Diving Prelims)
• Relays: 64-56-54-52-50-48-46-44-40-34
MEET INFORMATION
Purdue Men at the Big Ten Championships
Wednesday to Saturday, Feb. 26 to 29
Opening Night Relays at 5 p.m. ET
11 a.m. ET Prelims, 6:30 p.m. Finals / BTN+
Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatics Center / Bloomington, Indiana
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue men's swimming & diving returns to the home pool of its rival to the south as week two of the sport's championship season shines the spotlight on the Big Ten Championships at Indiana's Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatics Center.
Action in Bloomington begins Wednesday at 5 p.m. ET, a time that was moved up a bit from recent years, and continues through Saturday night. The opening session features the 200 medley and 800 freestyle relays. Preliminaries are set for 11 a.m. ET. Relays are contested, Big Ten champions determined and team points earned in the evening finals, which begin nightly at 6:30 p.m. Diving prelims begin daily at 1 p.m. as the afternoon bridge between the sessions.
The Big Ten Network will televise the Saturday finals session Monday, March 2 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. ET. The BTN+ app and website will also be offering live pay-per-view webcast coverage of the first six sessions. Saturday finals will be streamed live on the Fox Sports app and website.
The Boilermakers have finished fourth at the Big Ten Championships each of the last two seasons and three times in the last five years. Fourth place matches the program's best-ever showing. During the modern era of the meet, Purdue's 2009 and 2010 teams were the only others to finish fourth in consecutive years.
PURDUE'S MOST RECENT BIG TEN CHAMPIONS
• Diving: Brandon Loschiavo – Platform, 2019
• Swimming: Marat Amaltdinov – 200 Breast, 2017
BIG MEET FOR THE BOILERMAKERS AT BIG TENS A YEAR AGO
• Purdue set nine team records – three individual, three relay, three freshman – at the 2019 Big Ten Championships. Nikola Aćin was part of five records and Trent Pellini contributed to three.
• Aćin broke freshman records in the 50, 100 and 200 freestyle, scoring in the B finals of all three races. He also contributed to relay records in the 200 medley and 400 free events to open and close the meet.
• Pellini eclipsed the program record in the 100 breast that had stood since 2014, registering the time that helped send Purdue's relays to the NCAA Championships. He was also part of both medley relay records. The 200 medley relay team's time of 1:24.53 was an NCAA A Cut and trigged the auto-qualifying status for Purdue once Pellini earned an individual berth with his time in the 100 breast. He was out touched by .03 hundredths of a second for bronze in the event.
• In the dive well, the Boilermakers won medals in all three events. Brandon Loschiavo repeated as the Big Ten champion on the tower, with Ben Bramley winning bronze in the same event. Greg Duncan was a two-time bronze medalist in the springboard events in his debut at Big Tens.
• Current Boilermakers Nikola Bjelajac and Ryan Lawrence also contributed to the 400 free relay record, helping eclipse a benchmark that had stood since 2014. Purdue has broken its 200 medley relay record to open Big Tens each of the last two years.
• This year the Boilermakers have an opportunity to make a run at the program's 200 free relay record (1:17.71), which has stood since 2012. Ryan Hrosik matched Aćin's career-best time of 19.51 at the Purdue Invitational in November. Bjelajac and Lawrence also figure to be contenders to be part of that quartet.
VERY VERSATILE
• Twenty Boilermakers scored at Big Tens last season, including six in all three of their individual events. Of that group, Nikola Aćin, Ben Bramley and Trent Pellini are all back a year older and a year stronger. Aćin and Bramley both competed at the 2019 FINA World Championships.
• However, Purdue will be without three of its top 10 active career scoring leaders at Big Tens. Brandon Loschiavo and Batuhan Hakan have both exercised Olympic practice waivers this season. An injury in the fall ended Kristian Komlenic's swimming career. He has remained a big part of the team in a coaching capacity. Komlenic would have had an opportunity to be a four-year scorer at Big Tens this year.
• Greg Duncan won a league-high six Big Ten Diver of the Week honors this season and is among the favorites in the springboard events this week. Ben Bramley is equally talented on the tower, qualifying for the championship final at NCAAs as a freshman last year and also competing for USA Diving at the Pan American Games as well as the FINA World Championships.
• Nick Sherman and Brett Riley have made big strides as sophomore this season and figure to be among the team's top performers in the individual medley races. Riley won multiple events at three different meets after the calendar flipped to 2020.
| Purdue's Active Career Scoring Leaders at the Big Ten Championships ^ – Not competing this season |
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| Boilermaker | Career Points | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 |
| Brandon Loschiavo^ | 174 | 55 | 48 | 71 |
| Trent Pellini | 87 | 51 | 36 | NA |
| Ben Bramley | 62 | 62 | NA | NA |
| Greg Duncan | 54 | 54 | NA | NA |
| Nikola Aćin | 49 | 49 | NA | NA |
| Kristian Komlenic^ | 49 | 14 | 15 | 20 |
| Nick McDowell | 35 | 4 | 31 | -- |
FAMILIAR POOL
• Excluding the years that Purdue hosted the Big Ten Championships, the current campaign marks the eighth time this century that the Boilermakers have already competed in the pool hosting the conference championship meet earlier that season. It also happened in 2002 (at Indiana, 8th), 2003 (at Michigan, 7th), 2006 (at Indiana, 5th), 2007 (at Ohio State, 6th), 2012 (at Iowa, 7th), 2018 (at Minnesota, 4th) and 2019 (at Iowa, 4th).
• Purdue visited Bloomington in January for the annual rivalry dual. Selected Boilermakers also raced at IU's pool for the 2018 Indiana Senior State Championships (in July) and at the First Chance meet this past weekend.
FRESHMEN TO WATCH
• At the Purdue Invitational in November, Michael Juengel set a Purdue freshman record with a time of 1:43.75 in the 200 backstroke. He already ranks among the all-time top 10 in program history in the backstroke events. Fellow freshman Keelan Hart (100 free), Khadin Soto (100 breast), Elliot Cooper (200 fly) and Liam Walker (200 fly) also added their names to an all-time list at the Purdue Invite.
• On this week's episode of the program's Behind the Blocks web show, Nick McDowell and Trent Pellini nominated Jack Smith and Skyler Younkin as more first-year Boilermakers poised for a potential breakout meet.
BIG TEN'S RANKED TEAMS IN CSCAA TOP 25
• No. 3 Michigan, No. 4 Indiana, No. 17 Ohio State, No. 20 Iowa, No. 22 Northwestern
• Indiana has won the last three conference titles. Michigan claimed six straight before that, including the last time IU hosted in 2013.
YEAR FIVE OF THE NEW SCORING BREAKDOWN
• A Final: 32-28-27-26-25-24-23-22
• B Final: 20-17-16-15-14-13-12-11
• C Final: 9-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 (and 17th through 24th in Diving Prelims)
• Relays: 64-56-54-52-50-48-46-44-40-34