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NCAA Schedule

NCAA Week 8 & Elite – Schedule and Links

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Wednesday, February 24
 Scores Stream
4:00pm ET/1:00pm PT – Arizona @ [17] Arizona State LINK FREE
Thursday, February 25
 Scores Stream
10:00am ET/7:00am PT – Winter Cup – Senior Men Podium Training A N/A FLO
1:30pm ET/10:30am PT – Nastia Liukin Cup Podium Training N/A FLO
4:30pm ET/1:30pm PT – Winter Cup – Senior Men’s Podium Training B N/A FLO
6:00pm ET/3:00pm PT – UW-Eau Claire @ Hamline LINK FREE
Friday, February 26
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8:00am ET/5:00am PT – Winter Cup – Elite Team Cup (Junior Men) Podium Training N/A FLO
10:00am ET/7:00am PT – Winter Cup – Senior Women’s Podium Training N/A FLO
2:30pm ET/11:30am PT – Promising Young Nastia Cup LINK NBCSN
5:00pm ET/2:00pm PT – Big Five ([8] Minnesota, [19] Illinois, [21] Ohio State, Nebraska @ Maryland) LINK BTN+
6:00pm ET/3:00pm PT – New Hampshire, Towson @ LIU LINK FREE
6:00pm ET/3:00pm PT – UW-Stout @ Gustavus Adolphus   FREE
7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT – [2] LSU @ [14] Kentucky LINK SECN
7:30pm ET/4:30pm PT – Winter Cup – Senior Men Day 1 LINK NBCSN
7:30pm ET/4:30pm PT – Illinois State, Centenary @ SEMO LINK  
8:00pm ET/5:00pm PT – [10] Denver, Lindenwood, TWU @ [3] Oklahoma LINK FSOK
8:00pm ET/5:00pm PT – [7] Alabama @ [6] Arkansas LINK SEC+
8:00pm ET/5:00pm PT – [15] Georgia @ [23] Missouri LINK SEC+
8:30pm ET/5:30pm PT – [18] Auburn @ [1] Florida LINK SECN
9:00pm ET/6:00pm PT – [9] Cal @ [4] Utah LINK P12N
9:00pm ET/6:00pm PT – [22] Utah State @ [11] BYU LINK BYUTV
Saturday, February 27
 Scores Stream
8:00am ET/5:00am PT – Winter Cup – Junior (and select seniors) Women’s Podium Training N/A FLO
12:30pm ET/9:30am PT – Winter Cup – Senior Women LINK NBC
2:00pm ET/11:00am PT – Oregon State @ [13] UCLA LINK P12N
2:00pm ET/11:00am PT – Big Five ([12] Iowa, Penn State, Michigan State, Rutgers @ [5] Michigan) LINK BTN+
3:00pm ET/12:00pm PT – Kent State @ Northern Illinois LINK NIU($)
3:00pm ET/12:00pm PT – San Jose State @ Stanford    
4:00pm ET/1:00pm PT – North Carolina, Temple @ [25] NC State   ACCN
5:00pm ET/2:00pm PT – Winona State @ UW-Whitewater LINK FREE
5:00pm ET/2:00pm PT – UW-Oshkosh @ UW-La Crosse   FREE
5:00pm ET/2:00pm PT – Winter Cup – Elite Team Cup (Junior Men) LINK FLO
8:00pm ET/5:00pm PT – [16] Southern Utah @ [20] Boise State LINK FREE
Sunday, February 28
 Scores Stream
12:00pm ET/9:00am PT – Winter Cup – Junior (and select seniors) Women LINK FLO
2:00pm ET/11:00am PT – Bowling Green @ Central Michigan LINK ESPN+
2:00pm ET/11:00am PT – Centenary @ SEMO LINK  
3:00pm ET/12:00pm PT – Western Michigan @ Ball State LINK  
4:00pm ET/1:00pm PT – New Hampshire, Pittsburgh, Towson @ LIU   FREE
4:00pm ET/1:00pm PT – Arizona, TWU @ Air Force    
5:00pm ET/2:00pm PT – [17] Arizona State @ Washington LINK FREE
5:30pm ET/2:30pm PT – Winter Cup – Men’s (Junior & Senior) Day 2 LINK FLO
Monday, March 1
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7:30pm ET/4:30pm PT – West Virginia @ [24] Iowa State LINK ESPN+

Links will continue to be added as they become available.

NCAA Monday meets will not be included as part of week 8 for ranking purposes.

Stanford has canceled its intended Friday meet against Arizona and replaced it with a Saturday meet against San Jose State. Arizona instead joins the Air Force meet on Sunday.

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Scores

Top Scores of Week 7

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For the top scores of week 7, it’s the 33 routines that got a 10.000, a 10 from one judge, or a consensus 9.950 from both judges. Deep breath.

The 10.000s

Leah Clapper – Beam – Florida

The 9.975s

Luisa Blanco – Beam – Alabama

Lexi Graber – Floor – Alabama

Luisa Blanco – Floor – Alabama

Kennedy Hambrick – Vault – Arkansas

Alexia Burch – Vault – Utah

Lexy Ramler – Vault – Minnesota

Mary Korlin-Downs – Beam – Minnesota

Natalie Wojcik – Beam – Michigan

The 9.950s

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Rankings

Week 7 Rankings & NQS Update

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Full rankings

NQS will take over in next Monday’s rankings, so with the week 7 rankings (which are still arranged by average), I’m updating where the teams currently stand in their NQS quests. Remember NQS is different this season with only four scores counting (minimum 2 away) and no dropped score.

Bold meet scores must be counted and can no longer be dropped.

1. Florida Gators

Average: 197.613

Road Score 1198.150
Road Score 2197.500
Home/Road Score 1197.850
Home/Road Score 2197.500
Current NQS:197.750

Despite Florida’s relatively dominant lead by team average, there’s still work to do maintain a ranking advantage as Florida’s NQS lead over Oklahoma is quite slim. Watch that back-and-forth as we go.

2. LSU Tigers

Average: 197.325

Road Score 1197.550
Road Score 2197.325
Home/Road Score 1198.050
Home/Road Score 2197.275
Current NQS:197.550

LSU is in 2nd place by average but 3rd place by NQS and will have to improve upon those 197.2s and 197.3s to hope to get back to #2.

3. Oklahoma Sooners

Average: 197.132

Road Score 1198.225
Road Score 2197.800
Home/Road Score 1197.475
Home/Road Score 2197.450
Current NQS:197.738

The switch to NQS will allow Oklahoma to drop those two bad meets from earlier in the season and zoom up toward the top, entertaining the possibility of passing Florida for #1 depending on how the scores play out this weekend. Oklahoma has the higher peak score and the lower score to drop, and therefore has more room to improve than Florida does during week 8—and overall, since Oklahoma has three more meets than Florida this season.

4. Utah Utes

Average: 197.113

Road Score 1197.450
Road Score 2196.900
Home/Road Score 1197.475
Home/Road Score 2197.225
Current NQS: 197.263

Utah has been competitive with the top teams on average so far, but a deficit emerges when switching to NQS because of the lack of a huge 198 on Utah’s slate (the not-dropping-the-high-score thing this year doesn’t help Utah at all right now. Utah needs some fancy scoring soon in order to hope to hang onto a #1 regionals seeding.

5. Michigan Wolverines

Average: 197.025

Road Score 1197.375
Road Score 2
Home/Road Score 1197.650
Home/Road Score 2197.225
Current NQS:N/A

Michigan’s funky schedule means the team won’t be able to fill out an NQS picture until after the March 5th road meet and will therefore be absent from the rankings entirely next Monday. But once there are enough scores, things look healthy here.

6. Arkansas Razorbacks

Average: 196.854

Road Score 1196.875
Road Score 2196.675
Home/Road Score 1197.350
Home/Road Score 2197.250
Current NQS:197.038

Arkansas is experiencing a home-road disparity in scores that will handcuff NQS to some degree, so keep an eye on those final two road scores in March to see if Arkansas can match that home level.

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