Category: NCAA

The pressure is not on the top 6, it’s on teams close to Regional qualification.

Next week, once we know final maximum RQSs to be achieved after conference championships, I’ll get into the race for the top 36 in more detail, but for now, here’s the group to keep an eye on.

Balance Beam Situation – WEEK 9 RANKINGS, NOTES, RQS UPDATE

Read Logan Bradley’s excellent weekend review:

Indeed it was as the Huskers (418.35) defeated Iowa (413.5) and Penn State (409.6). It marked the first time since 1999 that Nebraska has defeated PSU in the regular season. …

The eighth-ranked Air Force men’s gymnastics team claimed the program’s first-ever victory over California on Saturday, March 4, as it downed the 10th-ranked Bears by a 403.900-395.750 margin during a triangular meet in Berkeley that included SC United (289.950). The Falcons’ victory snapped a 0-40 skid against their Mountain Pacific Sports Federation foes from California. …

Go Air Force

Congratulations Jeff Robinson.

Road to Nationals declares these teams mathematically guaranteed a ticket to Regional Championships:

1. Oklahoma
2. LSU
3. Florida 
4. UCLA
5. Utah
6. Alabama 
7. Georgia 
8. Denver 
9. Oregon State
10. Boise State

Read the entire list.

In front of the third-largest crowd in school history, No. 2 LSU defeated No. 3 Florida, 198.150-196.600, to capture the Southeastern Conference regular-season title Sunday afternoon at the Maravich Center.

The Tigers, which totaled the third-highest score in school history against the Gators, improved to 12-1 for the season and extended its streak inside the PMAC to 27-0 since 2014. …

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It’s impossible to beat Oklahoma. … That’s what we used to think. 🙂

Ron Noe:

If there has been a better dual meet in the last decade or so, I want to hear about it. …

And it did go all the way to the finish, thanks to Robert Neff, Stanford’s anchorman on high bar.  Neff not only became just the fifth gymnast to hit for 15 on that event this season, but he destroyed the previous NCAA high score.  Neff’s 15.50 enabled Stanford (432.05) to come within .25 of tying the top-ranked Sooners (433.30). …

Their team HB score established a new NCAA standard (73.65), and almost accomplished the practically unthinkable task of knocking off the defending national champs.  Neff and Allan Bower had a battle royale of their own in the AA.  The two newly minted Senior National Team members ended their personal contest with Bower barely on top (86.95-86.40). …

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