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

1. Florida Gators
Road Score 1 | 198.150 |
Road Score 2 | 197.500 |
Home/Road Score 1 | 198.275 |
Home/Road Score 2 | 197.850 |
Current NQS: | 197.944 |
Florida did not compete in week 10.

1. Oklahoma Sooners
Road Score 1 | 198.225 |
Road Score 2 | 197.925 |
Home/Road Score 1 | 197.800 |
Home/Road Score 2 | 197.800 |
Current NQS: | 197.944 |
Oklahoma was not able to achieve a counting score in week 10 and therefore remains tied with Florida. The advantage for end-of-season #1 now sits with Florida as Florida has a 197.500 to get rid of this week, while Oklahoma has a 197.800 to drop, meaning Florida is more likely to increase its NQS.

3. Michigan Wolverines
Road Score 1 | 198.100 |
Road Score 2 | 198.025 |
Home/Road Score 1 | 197.650 |
Home/Road Score 2 | 197.375 |
Current NQS: | 197.788 |
With its second 198 and second program record in as many weeks, Michigan was able to jump ahead of LSU and into 3rd place. With that 197.375 still to drop, Michigan does have a chance to challenge the #1-ranked teams, though it’s not the most likely outcome. Michigan would need a 198.000 at Big Tens to reach that 197.944 NQS mark and tie them, and then would need to hope both have meh scores at their own conference championships.

4. LSU Tigers
Road Score 1 | 197.550 |
Road Score 2 | 197.325 |
Home/Road Score 1 | 198.050 |
Home/Road Score 2 | 197.875 |
Current NQS: | 197.700 |
LSU did not compete in week 10. LSU is probably too far out to have a hope of catching the top teams, but with a similar NQS to Michigan and a similar score to drop, the 3-4 race could still go either way.

5. Cal Bears
Road Score 1 | 197.425 |
Road Score 2 | 197.225 |
Home/Road Score 1 | 198.050 |
Home/Road Score 2 | 197.600 |
Current NQS: | 197.575 |
Cal’s 197.600 from Sunday, the #3 score in program history, clinched a major coup as the team will enter Pac-12 Championships as the top-ranked school in the conference. It’s the first time since the conference became the Pac-12 that neither UCLA nor Utah will enter the championship as the top team.

6. Utah Utes
Road Score 1 | 197.575 |
Road Score 2 | 197.450 |
Home/Road Score 1 | 197.475 |
Home/Road Score 2 | 197.375 |
Current NQS: | 197.469 |
Utah was not able to record a counting score at Friday’s meet and fell behind Cal as a result. As Cal currently has the higher NQS and the lower score to get rid of at Pac-12s, Cal is in the driver’s seat for the higher ranking at the end of the season. If both teams end up improving their NQSs at Pac-12s, then Utah would need to outscore Cal by .575 in order to tie them in the rankings.

7. Minnesota Gophers
Road Score 1 | 197.375 |
Road Score 2 | 196.975 |
Home/Road Score 1 | 197.625 |
Home/Road Score 2 | 197.400 |
Current NQS: | 197.344 |
Minnesota also did not achieve a counting score over the weekend following a two-fall bars rotation, but as Minnesota’s closest challengers were idle, the team was able to retain the #7 ranking. Because Minnesota is hosting the conference championship, however, that lower road score can’t go away, so Minnesota will be vulnerable to getting passed by the 8-10 teams and needs to hope they don’t do great.

8. Alabama Crimson Tide
Road Score 1 | 197.325 |
Road Score 2 | 197.000 |
Home/Road Score 1 | 197.725 |
Home/Road Score 2 | 197.225 |
Current NQS: | 197.319 |
Alabama did not compete in week 10.

9. Arkansas Razorbacks
Road Score 1 | 197.425 |
Road Score 2 | 196.875 |
Home/Road Score 1 | 197.350 |
Home/Road Score 2 | 197.250 |
Current NQS: | 197.225 |
Arkansas did not compete in week 10. Arkansas and Alabama may be in a sub-meet with themselves at SECs for bragging rights, though since teams #8 and #9 go to the same regional, alternating positions doesn’t really mean anything. What would mean something is going ahead of Minnesota.

9. Denver Pioneers
Road Score 1 | 197.375 |
Road Score 2 | 196.875 |
Home/Road Score 1 | 197.650 |
Home/Road Score 2 | 197.000 |
Current NQS: | 197.225 |
Denver’s first road 197 of the season allowed the team to move up into a tie for 9th with Arkansas. As the teams both have the exact same score to drop, it will come down solely to who scores better this Saturday. (If neither improve their NQSs, Arkansas owns the tiebreak advantage.)

11. Arizona State Sun Devils
Road Score 1 | 197.050 |
Road Score 2 | 196.700 |
Home/Road Score 1 | 197.450 |
Home/Road Score 2 | 197.150 |
Current NQS: | 197.088 |
Here we have another little gap in the rankings before Arizona State in 11th, so ASU will primarily be looking to use its score at Pac-12s to stay in the #3 seeded spots (9th-12th) rather than dropping to the #4 seeded spots (13th-16th) heading into regionals.

12. BYU Cougars
Road Score 1 | 197.075 |
Road Score 2 | 196.900 |
Home/Road Score 1 | 197.300 |
Home/Road Score 2 | 196.975 |
Current NQS: | 197.063 |
BYU’s season-high 197.300 was enough to keep the team at #12 this week. With a higher non-bold score than Arizona State, it will be more challenging for BYU to move up, so advantage ASU, but it is possible.

13. UCLA Bruins
Road Score 1 | 197.100 |
Road Score 2 | 196.925 |
Home/Road Score 1 | 197.100 |
Home/Road Score 2 | 197.025 |
Current NQS: | 197.038 |
UCLA recorded its third 197 of the season in its home finale to gain one spot in the rankings, though the team is yet to break out for that huge result. UCLA is close enough to Arizona State that a big performance at Pac-12s could still get the Bruins a rung higher in the conference hierarchy (and into a more comfortable regionals setup).

14. Kentucky Wildcats
Road Score 1 | 196.900 |
Road Score 2 | 196.875 |
Home/Road Score 1 | 197.100 |
Home/Road Score 2 | 197.000 |
Current NQS: | 196.969 |
Kentucky did not compete in week 10 and lost a couple ranking spots as a result. Although if you’re Kentucky, you’re kind of fine with it because the current regional distribution (see after #16) is definitely not the worst option.

15. Auburn Tigers
Road Score 1 | 197.025 |
Road Score 2 | 196.100 |
Home/Road Score 1 | 197.125 |
Home/Road Score 2 | 197.075 |
Current NQS: | 196.831 |
Auburn did not compete in week 10, but watch out for that 196.100, which is a lot lower than the drop-able scores for the other teams in this ranking section. That means that if, say, both Kentucky and Auburn were to score 197.000 at SECs, Auburn would move ahead of Kentucky in the final rankings.

16. Illinois Illini
Road Score 1 | 196.600 |
Road Score 2 | 196.300 |
Home/Road Score 1 | 197.575 |
Home/Road Score 2 | 196.650 |
Current NQS: | 196.781 |
Just a casual highest score in Illinois history allowed the team to move into a tie with Georgia for 16th. Significantly, Illinois currently owns the tiebreak advantage (best score not used for NQS), so if neither team improves its NQS at conference championships, Illinois would go into regionals as a seeded team, and Georgia would not, which is why I have arranged them as such.
If the season ended today interlude
Alabama Regional
Florida-Alabama-Arkansas-Illinois
Georgia Regional
Oklahoma-Minnesota-Denver-Auburn
Utah Regional
Michigan-Utah-Arizona State-Kentucky
West Virginia Regional
LSU-Cal-BYU-UCLA

16. Georgia Bulldogs
Road Score 1 | 196.375 |
Road Score 2 | 196.150 |
Home/Road Score 1 | 197.325 |
Home/Road Score 2 | 197.275 |
Current NQS: | 196.781 |
Georgia did not compete in week 10, which allowed Illinois to move up into that tie for 16th. With a 196.150 still to drop, however, Georgia really should be able to get back into the seeded positions for regionals and will enjoy the advantage over Illinois in that regard. At least, with anything resembling a hit.

18. Iowa Hawkeyes
Road Score 1 | 196.825 |
Road Score 2 | 196.450 |
Home/Road Score 1 | 196.800 |
Home/Road Score 2 | 196.775 |
Current NQS: | 196.713 |
In the realm of preposterous things, Iowa counted a fall and still recorded its highest score of the season on Sunday. Moving ahead of the Illinois/Georgia group looks like a tough ask, but if Big Tens presents the same kind of scoring and Iowa actually hits…

19. Boise State Broncos
Road Score 1 | 196.900 |
Road Score 2 | 196.400 |
Home/Road Score 1 | 196.775 |
Home/Road Score 2 | 196.750 |
Current NQS: | 196.706 |
Another high 196 allowed Boise State to remain within sight of the top 16. Though in pretty much the exact same situation as Iowa, it’s not going to be the easiest prospect for these teams to move up because there are enough teams with lower drop scores battling it out in the same ranking section. Iowa and Boise State would have to rely on other teams to miss. Or conference championship scores being conservative…and I’ll wait for you to stop laughing.

20. Southern Utah Thunderbirds
Road Score 1 | 196.650 |
Road Score 2 | 196.175 |
Home/Road Score 1 | 197.275 |
Home/Road Score 2 | 196.550 |
Current NQS: | 196.663 |

21. Utah State Aggies
Road Score 1 | 196.775 |
Road Score 1 | 196.600 |
Home/Road Score 1 | 196.500 |
Home/Road Score 2 | 196.250 |
Current NQS: | 196.531 |

22. Iowa State Cyclones
Road Score 1 | 196.575 |
Road Score 2 | 196.125 |
Home/Road Score 1 | 196.825 |
Home/Road Score 2 | 196.375 |
Current NQS: | 196.475 |

23. Missouri Tigers
Road Score 1 | 196.850 |
Road Score 2 | 196.175 |
Home/Road Score 1 | 196.575 |
Home/Road Score 2 | 196.175 |
Current NQS: | 196.444 |

24. Oregon State Beavers
Road Score 1 | 196.550 |
Road Score 2 | 196.500 |
Home/Road Score 1 | 196.425 |
Home/Road Score 2 | 196.200 |
Current NQS: | 196.419 |

25. Central Michigan Chippewas
Road Score 1 | 196.425 |
Road Score 2 | 195.950 |
Home/Road Score 1 | 196.425 |
Home/Road Score 2 | 196.300 |
Current NQS: | 196.275 |

26. Ohio State Buckeyes
Road Score 1 | 196.400 |
Road Score 2 | 196.000 |
Home/Road Score 1 | 196.375 |
Home/Road Score 2 | 196.000 |
Current NQS: | 196.194 |
Ohio State has enough of an advantage over team #29 that I like OSU’s chances to avoid the play-in meets, but everyone lower than this will still feel somewhat vulnerable.

27. NC State Wolfpack
Road Score 1 | 195.850 |
Road Score 2 | 195.425 |
Home/Road Score 1 | 196.900 |
Home/Road Score 2 | 196.200 |
Current NQS: | 196.094 |
NC State has a weak road score to get rid of, so should have the edge in terms of staying in the top 28 and avoiding the play-ins, but NC State also hasn’t scored well away from home this season and would need to stop that trend.

28. Kent State Golden Flashes
Road Score 1 | 196.050 |
Road Score 2 | 195.650 |
Home/Road Score 1 | 196.375 |
Home/Road Score 2 | 195.850 |
Current NQS: | 195.981 |
Kent State jumped way up into avoiding-play-ins position after Friday’s 196, though there are several other teams too close for comfort. Saturday will be about score watching.

29. Eastern Michigan Eagles
Road Score 1 | 196.100 |
Road Score 2 | 195.975 |
Home/Road Score 1 | 195.825 |
Home/Road Score 2 | 195.800 |
Current NQS: | 195.925 |
EMU (and Towson) currently sit in the top spots that would go to the play-in meets, though EMU’s relative disadvantage comes from its drop score being a 195.800, which is pretty high. The conference championship score would have to be really strong to see EMU get to the top 28.

29. Towson Tigers
Road Score 1 | 196.150 |
Road Score 2 | 195.550 |
Home/Road Score 1 | 196.150 |
Home/Road Score 2 | 195.850 |
Current NQS: | 195.925 |
Towson also still entertains a shot at avoiding the play-in meets, but for a team that has not advanced to regionals in 21 years, the fact that a position in the top 36 looks pretty solid right now is already a massive victory. It’s not a given for any of the teams in this ranking zone this year (because what if West Virginia gets a 198 on Saturday, it could change everything), but if I’m sitting above 32nd at this point, there are enough teams between me and the bad zone that I’d feel pretty good.

31. Maryland Terrapins
Road Score 1 | 196.275 |
Road Score 2 | 195.725 |
Home/Road Score 1 | 196.025 |
Home/Road Score 2 | 195.350 |
Current NQS: | 195.844 |
Maryland has some serious ground to make up to get into the top 28 now, but as a 196-able team with a low 195 left to drop, keep it in mind as a possibility.

32. Penn State Nittany Lions
Road Score 1 | 196.000 |
Road Score 2 | 195.850 |
Home/Road Score 1 | 195.925 |
Home/Road Score 2 | 195.325 |
Current NQS: | 195.775 |
Penn State’s ranking has fallen to a vulnerable-enough position that I’d say the focus will simply be on getting to regionals at this point rather than avoiding the play-ins. PSU is certainly a top-36 team on quality, but as they’re just .075 ahead of the 37th-place team—which translates to 3 tenths in raw meet scores—Penn State is still in a tenuous position. Definitely favored to make regionals, but could really use a hit meet at Big Tens to clinch it.

33. Western Michigan Broncos
Road Score 1 | 196.050 |
Road Score 2 | 195.575 |
Home/Road Score 1 | 196.025 |
Home/Road Score 2 | 195.425 |
Current NQS: | 195.769 |
Several weeks of non-counting scores have rendered Western’s position more vulnerable than it seemed in late February. WMU is hosting conference championships with a home score still to drop and will hope that provides the boost necessary to get a safe score.

34. Ball State Cardinals
Road Score 1 | 195.975 |
Road Score 2 | 195.725 |
Home/Road Score 1 | 195.650 |
Home/Road Score 2 | 195.550 |
Current NQS: | 195.725 |
Like Towson, it would be a massive victory for Ball State to advance to regionals, which hasn’t happened in 22 years. But Ball State is still very much a bubble team and will be in nail-biting zone all day Saturday. The fear for Ball State is that those bigger-conference teams ranked below like Nebraska, Arizona, Washington, and West Virginia will get to bask in famous-team scoring at their championships, so Ball State really needs to hit for their lives on Saturday to fend them off.

35. New Hampshire Wildcats
Road Score 1 | 196.100 |
Road Score 2 | 195.300 |
Home/Road Score 1 | 196.125 |
Home/Road Score 2 | 195.350 |
Current NQS: | 195.719 |
With a second consecutive 196, New Hampshire is making a late push into the regionals spots, though it’s going to be right down to the wire with UNH in pretty much the exact same position as Ball State. Currently in the top 36, but the hyenas are gathering.

36. Nebraska Cornhuskers
Road Score 1 | 196.150 |
Road Score 2 | 195.350 |
Home/Road Score 1 | 196.100 |
Home/Road Score 2 | 195.250 |
Current NQS: | 195.713 |
Nebraska came very close to a deus-ex-score on Sunday but it all fell apart at the end of the floor rotation to leave the Huskers vulnerable, currently in the 36th and final spot for regionals. I’d still favor Nebraska’s chances given the low score that still needs to be dropped and the fact that there are some go-to 9.9 routines on this team, but also how will the untimely injury to Martina Comin affect those lineups at Big Tens?

37. Arizona Wildcats
Road Score 1 | 196.075 |
Road Score 2 | 195.650 |
Home/Road Score 1 | 196.000 |
Home/Road Score 2 | 195.075 |
Current NQS: | 195.700 |
Arizona is currently sitting outside the regionals spots but has an ace in the hole—that 195.0 to drop. It’s clearly lower than the drop scores for the other teams in this ranking section, affording Arizona slightly more ease in its quest to move up.

38. West Virginia Mountaineers
Road Score 1 | 195.900 |
Road Score 2 | 195.350 |
Home/Road Score 1 | 196.100 |
Home/Road Score 2 | 195.400 |
Current NQS: | 195.688 |
Things are getting scary for West Virginia now. The scores have started to come, but it might be too late. Hosting Big 12s provides the opportunity for a comfortable home score, but it also means that lower road number can no longer be dropped. The Big 12s score needs to be BIG if WVU is going to advance a team to its home regional as Nebraska and Arizona have more comfortable scores still to get rid of.

39. Temple Owls
Road Score 1 | 196.025 |
Road Score 2 | 195.925 |
Home/Road Score 1 | 195.400 |
Home/Road Score 2 | 195.100 |
Current NQS: | 195.613 |
Spending the weekend recording 2 of the top 3 scores in program history has allowed Temple to make a very late push for a historic regionals qualification. This push may end up being just a week too late, but Temple is close enough now that the hope should stay alive.

40. North Carolina Tarheels
Road Score 1 | 195.600 |
Road Score 2 | 195.250 |
Home/Road Score 1 | 196.150 |
Home/Road Score 2 | 195.300 |
Current NQS: | 195.575 |
North Carolina got a much-needed 196 this week but is now faced with having to leapfrog four teams in order to advance to regionals. That’s a lot of teams to root for to have falls.

41. Washington Huskies
Road Score 1 | 196.025 |
Road Score 2 | 194.125 |
Home/Road Score 1 | 196.525 |
Home/Road Score 2 | 195.000 |
Current NQS: | 195.419 |
Don’t forget about Washington. Washington is making a very (very) late run at regionals and is currently still far behind, but keep an eye out because UW just went 196 while counting a fall and still has a low 194 to drop. If Washington even goes 196 flat again at Pac-12s, the team would have the kind of NQS I expect to advance to regionals. Despite the ranking, Washington’s position right now is sounder than that of West Virginia, Temple, or North Carolina and advancing is more likely for Washington.

42. Rutgers Scarlet Knights
Road Score 1 | 195.975 |
Road Score 2 | 195.225 |
Home/Road Score 1 | 195.525 |
Home/Road Score 2 | 194.800 |
Current NQS: | 195.381 |
It’s probably not going to happen for Rutgers, but they’re the last team I’d put in the “hey you never know” bunch.
Teams aren’t mathematically eliminated this season because no high score gets dropped (so what if Illinois State gets a 199?), but for the teams 43 and below, it would take such an unprecedented score for them to advance to regionals that I wouldn’t consider it within the realm of possibility.
If these results held, which of course they’re not likely to, Utah and Cal would be getting pretty ideal Regionals for them as the #2 seeds. But Minnesota and Alabama are in tougher positions. And if Bama goes ahead of MN after this week, they may just be swapping Arkansas for Denver, which is still not a comfortable victory for either team.
And to clarify, of course being #7 and 8 is worse than being #5 and 6 for Regionals in any season, but there’s a notable drop-off in team strength from Arkansas/Denver to ASU/BYU. So I mean the task for whichever teams are #7 and #8 is even harder this season because of how good #9 and #10 are.
I’d rather be #16 than #12 or #13. If you’re #16 you don’t have to defeat a top 5 team to advance.
The evil side of me is hoping for off meets from Florida and Oklahoma at conference championships so Michigan can ascend to #1 in the last week of the season…now THAT would be unexpected.
I would rather them beat both teams at Four on the Floor.
My ideal 4 would be Oklahoma, Florida, Cal, and Michigan.
if Michigan would be the first ranked team and make the final four that would be so epic
While someone can always crash and burn and someone can always pull out a hail Mary, but in general the top seeds for all the regionals look pretty “safe”.
There’s also a very real possibility that a top seed (or seeds) could be suddenly eliminated by Covid test results/tracing.
That won’t happen.
It’s going to be interesting. We’ll see what happens in the ball sports. The women’s basketball tournament is in Texas. A state that’s relaxed everything. Is there even Covid there?? Anyway, what if a bunch of teams have Covid issues in this basketball tournament? Could that affect other championships that are supposed to be in Texas – i.e. gymnastics? If the NCAA were really about protecting athletes, they should’ve removed competitions from states that have lax Covid protocols. Logistical nightmare, sure, but maybe keeps athletes safer.
NCAA’s for women’s gymnastics is also taking place in Texas next month on the Texas Woman’s University campus next month.
The states without lax protocols don’t WANT to host these events.
That’s incorrect.
Covid has nothing to do with states wanting or not wanting to host these events.
Both NCAA W Basketball and W Gymnastics were to be held in Texas WAY before Covid hit.
NCAA W Final Four was selected to be held in San Antonio in 2018.
Texas Woman’s University was selected as host back in 2017 for the 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 nationals. This is partially due to the NCAA having difficulty finding a neutral site for Nationals and also because they successfully hosted in 2015 and 2016.
Additionally, TWU hosting duties have been extended into 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026.
No, you’re incorrect.
The premise of Annie’s post is that the NCAA should intervene to remove hosting privileges from locations in COVID-lax states and award them to venues/schools in states with stronger protocols to protect the safety of athletes. Even assuming that could be done at the last minute, the states with stringent COVID protocols almost certainly would not want those events happening in their state right now (remember when New Hampshire was supposed to host regionals?). Further, the schools/venues in those hypothetical COVID-cautious states likely would not want to host an event if they couldn’t make money off it (or at least recoup their costs), which they almost certainly couldn’t because state limits on mass gatherings would severely curtail ticket sales, if not prohibit them altogether.
No YOU are incorrect.
You can’t just up and decide to cancel a sporting event at a venue with such short notice. You can’t just ship them off to someplace else.
Therefore the comment of removing competitions from Texas due to lax Covid restrictions is not privy to the undertakings that have to occur to hold such events. Besides the fact that the state lifted restrictions, but private venues can still reinforce Covid procedures and protocols.
These larger scale events need time to plan, this is why sites are awarded years before the event takes place.
A host like New Hampshire cancelling is a completely different story. Hosts can cancel for a myriad of reasons, other than Covid.
Plus they weren’t hosting Nationals, only regionals, which is a huge difference in terms of number of teams and athletes competing as well as attending coaches.
You def. had the right idea when you mentioned money being a factor. I would say that $$$ is the more prevalent factor here than Covid itself. Limited capacity and audience means lost income and revenue.
Again, not understanding removing NCAA sport championships from Texas when all of their professional sports teams are all currently active in their respective leagues.
If it is about safety concerns, teams and individual gymnasts always have the option of not attending. Which is exactly what various teams this year decided to do…not compete.