200 freestyle relay fifth in NCAA

Tennessee finished fifth in the 200-yard freestyle relay at the NCAA Swimming and Diving men's championships in College Station, Texas, on Thursday night.

Barry Murphy, Jonas Persson, Mike Derocco and Nolan Morrell finished in a time of 1 minite, 16.54 seconds.

Auburn set a NCAA and U.S. Open record in 1:14.08.

Texas leads after the first day of the three-day event with 171 points. Auburn is second with 141, followed by Stanford (130), Florida (107) and Cal (103). UT is eighth with 60.

UT was seventh in 400 medley relay with Morrell, Murphy, Derocco and Persson in 3:06.90.

In 1-meter diving, Ryan Helms was 13th and was in the B finals with 351.95 points. Brent Sterling did not advance past the preliminaries and was 30th with 272.65.

In the 50 free, Murphy and Persson advance to the B finals with Murphy 14th in 19:39 and Persson 16th in 19:71.

In the 200 individual medley, Michael Christy did not advance past the preliminaries and finished 25th in 1:44.76. Brad Craig was 47th in 1:46.58.

Men's Tennis: The Tennessee men's tennis hosts Arkansas (9-7, 1-3 SEC) at noon today at the Goodfriend Tennis Center.

The fifth-ranked Vols (14-3, 3-1) are tied for first in the SEC Eastern Division with Georgia.

Women's Track: The UT women's track team, fresh off winning the NCAA Indoor Championship, opens the outdoor portion of its schedule this weekend.

The bulk of the team heads to Atlanta for the Yellow Jacket Invitational at Georgia Tech. Select members of the distance corps will go to California for the Stanford Invitational.

"It's a process where you have to enjoy the results of the indoor season, which is now over, and then kind of reboot for the outdoor schedule," coach J.J. Clark said. "There's good energy as we make that transition, but you don't want to be too rah-rah in the first meet. It's the beginning of the second half of the season, and you have to get the ball rolling."