Defending champ Texas leads NCAA swimming

ATHENS - Texas diver Troy Dumais won his third straight 1-meter springboard title and the defending champion Longhorns topped the team standings Thursday after the opening day of the NCAA Men&#39;s Swimming and Diving Championships. <br> <br> Dumais, also seeking his third straight 3-meter title, won the springboard championship with 390.35 points. Clayton Moss of Kentucky was second with 379.90. <br> <br> Texas had 163 points, 20 more than second-place Stanford. Arizona was third with 104, followed by Florida with 91 and Auburn with 83.5. <br> <br> Stanford won both relays, including a comeback victory over Texas in the 400-yard medley. <br> <br> Stanford won both the 200-yard freestyle relay and the 400 medley relay. Stanford set an American and meet record in the 200 free relay with a time of 1 minute, 16.49 seconds, nearly half a second better than crosstown rival California. In the medley relay, Randall Bal overtook Texas&#39; Chris Kemp to win in 3:06.81. <br> <br> Stanford went 1-2 in the 200 individual medley, with Markus Rogan winning in 1:44.03 and Dan Trupin second in 1:44.08. <br> <br> Arizona&#39;s Roland Schoeman won the 50 freestyle in 19.08 seconds, a hair ahead of Olympic sprint gold medalist Anthony Ervin of California. <br> <br> Southern Cal&#39;s Klete Keller defended his title in the 500 freestyle, finishing in 4:12.83. Georgia&#39;s Robert Margalis had the fastest qualifying time, but he lost his goggles and finished eighth, 12 seconds behind Keller.

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