Rutgers | Balance Beam Situation

Saturday, March 12

12:00 ET/9:00 PT – Cornell @ West Chester
1:00 ET/10:00 PT – Big Five Meet #1: Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa, Rutgers @ Penn State – SCORES – TV: Big Ten Network
1:00 ET/10:00 PT – Bridgeport @ Pennsylvania

4:00 ET/1:00 PT – Big Five Meet #2: Nebraska, Illinois, Michigan State, Maryland @ Ohio State – SCORES – BTN2Go (login)
4:00 ET/1:00 PT – Northern Illinois @ Bowling Green – SCORES

6:00 ET/3:00 PT – Temple, S. Connecticut, Rhode Island @ Brown

7:00 ET/4:00 PT – Georgia @ Utah – SCORES – TV: Pac-12 Network

7:00 ET/4:00 PT – LSU, Oregon State, New Hampshire @ Texas Woman’s – SCORES – Flog($)

7:00 ET/4:00 PT – Ball State @ NC State – SCORES – Stream

9:00 ET/6:00 PT – Denver, Seattle Pacific @ Washington – SCORES – Stream

Getting started early today with the first of two Big Five qualifying meets. The one that’s on TV. The other one isn’t. Earlier, I said BTN was dumb. Turns out, I’m dumb. I thought BTN was showing an old meet between Nebraska and Penn State after this instead of the second Big Five meet, but they’re actually showing a men’s meet between Nebraska and Penn State. Which is also tape delayed. So not better. And in my defense…

Continue reading Saturday Live Blog – Georgia @ Utah; Big Five →

For Saturday and Sunday, I probably won’t be doing much of the normal routine-by-routine live blogging (save that for Monday, when I’ll be all over it), but I’ll be popping in and out watching bits of things over the two days and will keep this post here for some basic reactions and impressions as needed. Feel free to use the comments to communicate all your feelings/profanities/side-eyes/insane commentator quotes/crack-smoking-judge reports from whatever you’re watching. I’d love to know what I’m missing. We’re all in this together. We can get through NCAA gym as a family.

Saturday, January 16

1:00 ET/10:00 PT – Illinois @ Rutgers
1:00 ET/10:00 PT – Brown, Springfield, Ithaca @ Southern Connecticut

1:00 ET/10:00 PT – Ursinus @ Brockport

1:00 ET/10:00 PT – Cortland, Rhode Island @ West Chester

3:00 ET/12:00 PT – Hamline, UW-Eau Claire, UW-La Crosse @ UW-Oshkosh

4:00 ET/1:00 PT – Ohio State @ Michigan

4:00 ET/1:00 PT – Nebraska @ Penn State

5:00 ET/2:00 PT – Maryland @ Minnesota

5:00 ET/2:00 PT – Illinois-Chicago @ Northern Illinois

8:00 ET/5:00 PT – Ozone Classic (Iowa State, Pittsburgh, SEMO, Air Force)

Sunday, January 17

1:00 ET/10:00 PT – Eastern Michigan, Bowling Green @ Western Michigan

1:00 ET/10:00 PT – Towson @ Ball State

1:00 ET/10:00 PT – North Carolina, Penn, Cornell, Temple @ George Washington

2:00 ET/11:00 PT – Arizona @ Texas Woman’s

3:00 ET/12:00 PT – Oklahoma @ Arkansas

4:00 ET/1:00 PT – Alabama vs. Auburn (Birmingham, AL)

4:00 ET/1:00 PT – New Hampshire @ West Virginia

The Rutgers/Illinois feed was going Rutgers-only for the first half of the meet (it’s also fun when they cut away from a floor routine to show a judge just doing some judging), but I’m still slightly appalled that a team with Horth, Kato, and O’Connor all going on bars can keep scoring a 2. Those are three would-be 9.9s. I picked Illinois to have a big year before the season started, and I’m sticking to it. The pace at halfway is still an improvement on last week, though. Ish. This will not be a usable score for Rutgers after a bars rotation in which every single person fell on a gienger. Did I spy with my little eye a Mustafina dismount, though? You go, Rutgers.

Continue reading Saturday and Sunday Meets →

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