Males’s Swimming and Diving to have fun 2026 National Championship with UT Tower lighting Tuesday night time

AUSTIN, Texas – The University of Texas Tower will likely be lit in burnt orange with the quantity ‘1’ on Tuesday, March 31, to have fun Texas Men’s Swimming and Diving’s 2026 NCAA Championship.

Fans are inspired to reach in entrance of the Littlefield Fountain on twenty first Street from 8-8:30 p.m. CT to look at the crew take group pictures.

Per UT custom, the campus landmark is lit in burnt orange from top-to-bottom with the quantity “1” lit on all 4 sides when a University of Texas athletics crew wins an NCAA crew championship.

The Longhorns totaled 445.5 factors to win this system’s seventeenth NCAA title and it is second consecutive underneath second-year head coach Bob Bowman on March 28 in Atlanta, Ga.

This marked the primary crew nationwide championship for The University of Texas throughout the 2024-25 tutorial yr. Texas now owns 69 all-time National Championships, together with 65 NCAA crowns. It additionally marks the Eleventh-straight full tutorial yr (not together with the 2019-20 season that was lower quick as a consequence of COVID-19) that the Longhorns have claimed a NCAA crew title.

In addition to clinching this system’s seventeenth NCAA title, UT has a complete of 38 top-three finishes on the nationwide meet, together with 13 runner-up finishes. The Longhorns have received the NCAA crew titles in 1981, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2010, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2025 and 2026. Texas has 46-consecutive top-10 finishes at NCAAs. It’s Texas’ second-consecutive National Championship since 2018 and its seventh since 2015. Texas has notched 11 National Championships since 2000.