INDIANAPOLIS — Although all it would take is very simple arithmetic to project team standings (and knowledge of who qualified), apparently most coaches (and consequently players) don’t think about the team standings until everything is over. They have blinders on to have the maximum motivation to push everybody to perform to their best until the end of the last event - the 400 Free relay (which became a coronation of sort for Stanford - creating atypical relay lineup to send their senior Lia Neal out on top).
Even though the team standings have been in very little doubt for basically two days, Day 4 of the 2017 NCAA Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships was not without its intrigues.