Somers, Wis. – The Seton Hall men's swimming & diving team is ranked 29th in the Collegeswimming.com Top-50 Mid-Major Final Standings of the 2016-17 season.
The Pirates capped a stellar year with their first-ever BIG EAST Championship following a spirited four-day marathon at Nassau Aquatic Center on Long Island. Junior Noah Yanchulis (Arnold, Md.) was named BIG EAST Most Outstanding Swimmer for the second consecutive season after finishing with the most individual points at the championships.
As a team, The Hall broke eight school records during the championship run alone. Yanchulis broke the 100 and 200-yard freestyle records and was also a part of the record-setting 200, 400 and 800 free relay squads.
Sophomore Lior Grubert (Yehud-Monosson, Israel) and junior Vadim Jacobson (Arnold, Md.) finished two-three in the overall individual point standings and won a combined four BIG EAST titles.
Top-50 Mid-Major Final Standings:
1. Harvard
2. Penn
3. Denver
4. Yale
5. Air Force
6. UC-Santa Barbara
7. Missouri State
8. Columbia
9. Wyoming
10. UNLV
11. Cincinnati
12. East Carolina
13. Southern Methodist
14. Grand Canyon
15. William and Mary
16. Army
17. Navy
18. Hawaii
19. Eastern Michigan
20. Cornell
21. Pacific
22. Connecticut
23. George Washington
24. Buffalo
25. Oakland
26. Southern Illinois
27. Brown
28. UMBC
29. Seton Hall
30. La Salle
31. Cal Poly
32. Towson
33. Miami-OH
34. Incarnate Word
35. Drexel
36. IUPUI
37. Cleveland State
38. North Dakota
39. Brigham Young
40. Rider
41. Boston University
42. Bucknell
43. Gardner-Webb
44. CSU-Bakersfield
45. Saint Louis
46. Fordham
47. Davidson
48. Xavier
49. Dartmouth
50. Massachusetts
Beginning in 2015, CollegeSwimming defined Mid-Majors as those programs outside of the Power 5 (Big Ten, Pac 12, Big 12, ACC, and SEC) or those that offered fewer than 50% of the maximum number of scholarships allowed by the NCAA.
http://www.shupirates.com/news/2017...ming-ranked-in-final-mid-major-standings.aspx
