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2026 Men’s Big Ten Championships
Dates: Wednesday, February 25–Saturday, February 28 Location: Soderholm Family Aquatic Center, Madison, WI Defending champions: Indiana men (4x) Live Results (also available on Meet Mobile: “2026 Men’s B1G Championship”) Live Video ($): B1G+ Championship Central – Big Ten Championship Central – Wisconsin SwimSwam’s Meet Preview Teams: Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Northwestern, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue, USC, Wisconsin SwimSwam Live Recaps Prelims: Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 Finals: Day 1 Relays | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4The Indiana Hoosiers have completed a five-peat at the Big Ten Championships, winning by 336.5 points. That trails only 2025 in that run as the largest margins of victory.
Final Team Scores
Indiana – 1544.5 Michigan – 1208 Ohio State – 1035.5 Northwestern – 840 Wisconsin – 832.5 Purdue – 783 USC – 707.5 Minnesota – 644 Penn State – 426The win is Indiana’s 32nd Big Ten Championship all-time, second-most in a conference that awarded its first title in 1911. Only Michigan (42) has more team titles – and the Wolverines had 19 before Indiana won their first in 1961.
This is the 9th title in men’s swimming & diving for Indiana head coach Ray Looze. That moves him into a tie with Northwestern’s Tom Robinson as the 5th-most in conference history.
Most Titles By Head Coaches, Big Ten Men’s Swimming & Diving History
Doc Counsilman, Indiana – 23 Matt Mann, Michigan – 17 Jon Urbanchek, Michigan – 13 Mike Peppe, Ohio State – 12 Tom Robinson, Northwestern – 9 Ray Looze, Indiana – 9 Mike Bottom, Michigan – 8 Dennis Dale, Minnesota – 7 Joseph Henry White, University of Chicago – 3 August P. Stager, Michigan – 3 EJ Manley, Illinois – 2 Glenn Patton, Iowa – 2 Niels Thorpe, Minnesota – 2While an improving Michigan program and the Ohio State Buckeyes got some big wins in, Indiana overall dominated the meet thanks to depth in the right places.
They started off slow, with only one win through two days of competition, but came on big late, with multiple 1-2-3 finishes, including the 100 back, 500 free, and 1650 free. While they didn’t win either breaststroke race, the breaststroke group that they are famous for still showed up big – grabbing four in the A Final in the 100 and three in the 200.
Indiana graduates a lot of its firepower, including champions Zalan Sarkany, Owen McDonald and Kai Van Westering, the team is well set up for continued success at the Big Ten level. A swimmer like Raekwon Noel had a big breakthrough meet, and will be hoping for more at the NCAA Championships.
Indiana’s 2026 Big Ten Champions
200 free relay (Mikkel Lee, Dylan Smiley, Travis Gulledge, Vidar Carlbaum) – 1:15.61 100 back – Owen McDonald, senior – 44.52 500 free – Zalan Sarkany, senior – 4:09.14 (Meet Record) 50 free – Mikkel Lee, sophomore – 18.98 200 IM – Owen McDonald, senior – 1:40.11 1650 free – Zalan Sarkany, senior – 14:25.40 100 free – Dylan Smiley, junior – 41.81 200 back – Kai Van Westering, senior – 1:39.19 400 free relay (Owen McDonald, Dylan Smiley, Mikkel Lee, Mira Knedla) – 2:46.51Michigan senior Tyler Ray led all individual scorers with 91 points, and Owen McDonald from Indiana was 2nd in that ranking. Showing the difference between the two teams: the top 8 guys from Michigan scored about as many individual points as the top 8 guys from Indiana did, but the Indiana men just blew the Wolverines with the scoring from the back half of their roster.
Indiana Individual Scoring By Athlete
Name School Year Points McDonald, Owen Indiana SR 90 Bey, Josh Indiana FR 85 Smiley, Dylan Indiana JR 79.5 Weinrich, Maxwe Indiana SR 78 Shackell, Aaron Indiana JR 74 Sarkany, Zalan Indiana SR 73 Noel, Raekwon N Indiana SO 72 Knedla, Mira Indiana SO 72 Barnett, Toby Indiana JR 72 Cakir, Noah Indiana FR 71 Whitlock, Luke Indiana SO 71 Van Westering, Indiana SR 68 Lee, Mikkel Indiana JR 63 Gulledge, Travi Indiana SO 58 Sollenberger, J Indiana SO 54 Ellis, Luke Indiana FR 52 Avakov, Alexei Indiana SO 46 Shackell, Andre Indiana FR 37 Carlbaum, Vidar Indiana SO 35Read the full story on SwimSwam: Indiana Men’s Swimming & Diving Wins Their 5th Straight Big Ten Championship
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