Reigning Champion Texas Males Return Most Points For 2027 NCAA Season

Yesterday, we appeared on the ladies’s returning factors for the 2026-202 season and at the moment we’re having a look on the males’s. The two-time champion Texas males are wanting excellent to problem for a 3rd straight title in 2027 with essentially the most returning factors for the season.

See the ladies’s returning factors breakdown right here.

At the 2026 NCAA Championships, the Texas males scored 284.5 particular person factors, simply half-a-point greater than Florida’s particular person variety of 284. The Longhorns, nonetheless, have a comparatively excessive variety of returning factors for 2026 with 63.8% coming again for a complete of 181.5 returning factors. This is precisely 40 greater than Indiana’s 141.5 returning.

As we talked about yesterday, there are a variety of things to contemplate when making predictions for the 2027 males’s NCAA Championships, however returning factors inform a significant a part of the story.

Before we get into the evaluation, there are just a few essential notes:

• This knowledge comes straight from our 2026 NCAA Championships field rating article courtesy of Andrew Mering.
• Class and returning scoring comes from an athlete’s listed official class within the NCAA outcomes, which suggests there is perhaps just a few hiccups from swimmers who’ve a redshirt yr, however had been categorized as seniors. If you discover any be happy to tell us within the feedback.
• We have gone in and eliminated “returning” factors from groups who misplaced athletes to transfers. We haven’t added these factors to their new faculty’s complete. We did our greatest to account for all transfers, however might need missed some.
• The NCAA and native/federal courts are at present battling over fifth yr eligibility for the 2026-2027 season for athletes who graduated highschool in 2022. For the needs of this text, we aren’t together with them within the returning factors.

Like yesterday, the very first thing we’re is the entire scored by every class on the 2026 NCAA Championship meet.

The males’s knowledge is much more clear in relation to complete factors scored, with every class scoring extra factors than the category earlier than them. The seniors had essentially the most complete factors scored on the meet, bringing in 781.5 factors, or 31.51% of the 2480 complete particular person factors on the meet.

The junior class was subsequent with 570 factors (22.98%), then got here the sophomore class with 497 factors (20.04%), and eventually the freshmen class with 481 factors (19.40%).

The fifth years scored the least with 150.5 factors, or 6.07% of the entire, which is to be anticipated since most athletes with further COVID eligibility graduated in 2025.

Points Scored By Class

	Points
Freshmen	481	19.40%
Sophomore	497	20.04%
Junior	570	22.98%
Senior	781.5	31.51%
fifth Year	150.5	6.07%

The graduating factors knowledge reveals an analogous pattern with the share of returning scores coming in decrease throughout the board than we noticed on the ladies’s facet. None of the groups who completed within the top-five in 2026 are returning greater than 70% of their factors. Texas leads the way in which with 63.80% returning for the 2026-27 season.

Virginia Tech is the best ending staff that’s returning all of their particular person factors from 2026 with all 42 of their 42 particular person factors.

• Arizona State, who was bolstered by a very sturdy switch class final yr to complete 4th general, returns one of many lowest percentages of factors within the top-10 groups with solely 41.78% (61 factors) of their 146 2026 particular person factors returning for the season.
• Michigan solely returns 26 factors (28.89%) of their 90 particular person factors which helped them end eighth general in 2026. They sit in sixteenth within the returning factors rankings. They have some sturdy transfers although, together with divers, which can assist.
• Indiana returns 60.73% (141.5 factors) and Tennessee returns 62.28% (104 factors).
• Pittsburgh did very nicely on the 2026 NCAA Championships, and they won’t return any of their particular person factors after Julian Koch introduced his switch to Tennessee and a lot of their relay swimmers have additionally transferred following the resignation of head coach Chase Kreitler.
• Cal, who had their worst end in latest reminiscence of seventh general, can be hoping to maneuver again into the top-five this season, returning 78.05% (96 factors) of their 123 complete from 2026.
• The University of Virginia males will even be looking for a possible top-five end as they return 89.81% (97 factors) of their 108 factors, the best returning share within the top-ten ending groups,

Returning Points

	Team	Individual Score	Returning	Percent
1	Texas	284.5	181.5	63.80%
2	Indiana	233	141.5	60.73%
3	Florida	284	130	45.77%
4	Tennessee	167	104	62.28%
5	UVA	108	97	89.81%
6	California	123	96	78.05%
7	NC State	128.5	82.5	64.20%
8	Stanford	88	63	71.59%
9	Arizona State	146	61	41.78%
10	VT	42	42	100.00%
11	SMU	40	40	100.00%
12	Miami (FL)	46	39	84.78%
13	Alabama	39	33	84.62%
14	Purdue	32	32	100.00%
15	UNC	38.5	30.5	79.22%
16	Michigan	90	26	28.89%
17	Louisville	40	25	62.50%
18	LSU	39	24	61.54%
18	Texas A&M	24	24	100.00%
20	Georgia	56.5	20.5	36.28%
21	Northwestern	19	19	100.00%
22	Florida St	18	18	100.00%
23	GT	17	17	100.00%
24	Army	17.5	13.5	77.14%
25	USC	55	12	21.82%
25	Kentucky	28	12	42.86%
25	Arizona	23	12	52.17%
25	ND	16	12	75.00%
29	Yale	17	9	52.94%
29	Harvard	9	9	100.00%
31	Princeton	29	6	20.69%
31	Missouri	32.5	6	18.46%
33	Ohio State	40	4	10.00%
34	Auburn	19	3	15.79%
35	PITT	28	0	0.00%
35	Minnesota	22	0	0.00%
35	Wisconsin	1	0	0.00%
35	Utah	17	0	0.00%
35	Delaware	12	0	0.00%
35	IU Indianapolis	6	0	0.00%
35	Penn State	5	0	0.00%