Saturday, March 6 |
Scores | Stream |
1:00pm ET/10:00am PT – North Carolina @ William & Mary | LINK | FREE |
2:00pm ET/11:00am PT – [19] Illinois @ [17] Iowa | LINK | BTN+ |
4:00pm ET/1:00pm PT – NC State @ New Hampshire | LINK | FREE |
5:00pm ET/2:00pm PT – [10] UCLA @ [9] Cal | LINK | FREE |
6:00pm ET/3:00pm PT – Arizona @ [7] Arizona State | LINK | FREE |
The main thing we learned about the code yesterday is that controlled landings are no longer required if your first pass is a full-in, so I expect that to be maintained throughout every meet today. All that matters is that you did it and we’re so proud of you for trying, so we want to give you a 10 to make us all feel warm and gooey. Who cares if someone else is doing the exact same thing for 9.875? She’s not in front of us right now and therefore does not exist.
Onward and upward to Illinois and Iowa. I mentioned in the rankings post this week that Iowa’s score-scape could really use some similar drugs right now because the solid 196s that got the team into the top 10 a few weeks ago are now basically garbage scores because anyone who’s anyone gets a 197 for every cough. Though it will be tough to improve the current setup this week because Iowa already has two strong home scores of 196.800 and 196.775. So today would have to be better than that to count. Illinois, meanwhile, has a 196.075 to get rid of and could even pass Iowa in the rankings with a huge score today.
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