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Feb. 3, 2010

WHAT:  No. 1 Texas (4-1 dual meets) resumes dual-meet competition this weekend at No. 19 Texas A&M and No. 23 SMU. 

WHEN/WHERE: 
Texas at Texas A&M – Friday, Feb. 5 – 6 p.m. – Student Rec Center Natatorium, College Station
Texas at SMU – Saturday, Feb. 6 – 5 p.m. – Perkins Natatorium, Dallas 

LAST TIME OUT:  Texas suffered its first dual-meet defeat of the 2009-10 season last weekend at No. 3 Arizona, who defeated the Horns, 187-177. 

LAST MEETINGS AGAINST TEXAS A&M AND SMU: 
Texas defeated Texas A&M by a 108-90 count on Feb. 6, 2009 in Austin.  Texas defeated SMU by a 155-103 margin on Feb. 7, 2009 in Austin. 

STATE FARM LONE STAR SHOWDOWN
As is the norm, the winner of the Texas-Texas A&M men’s swimming and diving meet will earn one point for its school in the State Farm Lone Star Showdown, the annual all-sports series between the two schools.  Texas holds a 5.5-1.5 lead over Texas A&M with 12 points remaining to be awarded this season.  Texas won the men’s swimming and diving point in the five previous State Farm Lone Star Showdown meetings.

INDIVIDUAL NATIONAL RANKINGS (Top 20)
50 Freestyle
4. Jimmy Feigen (UT) – 19.74
100 Freestyle
4. Jimmy Feigen (UT) – 43.47
6. Dave Walters (UT) – 43.66
200 Freestyle
1 Ricky Berens (UT) – 1:34.62
1,000 Freestyle
12. Jackson Wilcox (UT) – 9:08.98
1,650 Freestyle
16. Jackson Wilcox (UT) – 15:16.85
100 Backstroke
8. Cole Cragin (UT) – 47.58
13. Hill Taylor (UT) – 47.80
200 Backstroke
10. Austin Surhoff (UT) – 1:44.21
100 Breaststroke
12. Scott Spann (UT) – 54.58
200 Breaststroke
12. Scott Spann (UT) – 1:58.40
13. Eric Friedland (UT) – 1:58.44
100 Butterfly
2. Ricky Berens (UT) – 46.44
14. Hill Taylor (UT) – 47.67
200 Butterfly
7. Ricky Berens (UT) – 1:44.98
200 IM
10. Ricky Berens (UT) – 1:47.01

THE 2009-10 LONGHORNS:  Under the direction of 32nd-year head coach Eddie Reese, the Texas men's swimming and diving roster features a pair of Olympic gold medalists and world champions in seniors Ricky Berens and Dave Walters.  Sophomore Jackson Wilcox joined Berens and Walters to compete at the FINA World Championships over the summer in Rome.  Junior Scott Spann was a finalist in the 200-meter breaststroke at the Beijing Olympics.  UT also returns senior Hill Taylor, a three-time individual All-American at the 2009 NCAA Championships, and sophomore diver Drew Livingston, the 2009 NCAA one-meter diving champion.

The Longhorns return 11 All-Americans from the 2008-09 squad that placed second at the NCAA Championships and earned UT’s 24th top-three NCAA finish under Reese.  CollegeSwimming.com ranks Texas’ class of eight newcomers as the second-best in the nation.  The class features a pair of current and former national high school record holders in Cole Cragin and Nick D’Innocenzo. 

Cragin holds the national mark in the 100-yard backstroke (46.75) and D’Innocenzo once held the national mark in the 200-yard individual medley. 

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