Friday's final rounds of men's NCAA Fencing bouts produced the same 1-2-3 order and each of those teams posted 37 wins on Friday, leaving the margins the same – as the home team Penn State continues to lead second-place Ohio State by a narrow five points, with Notre Dame still nine back of OSU and 14 off OSU's pace. Technically, ND and OSU had slightly better days than PSU – as the Irish and Buckeyes had only 52 bouts today (due to the withdrawal of Duke foilist Daniel Cohen), while the Nittany Lions fenced the full allotment of 54 bouts (ND and OSU were 37-15 today, while PSU was 37-17). The final bouts in all three weapons will be contested starting at 2:00 p.m. eastern, with sabre the first to hit the strips.
Other teams in the top-10 after day-2 include Columbia (65), Penn (57), Stanford (53), Princeton (48), Wayne State (38) and Harvard (36).
The blog will resume later today, after the title bouts and hopefully some post-bout video interviews.