
Well, well, well. It’s the LAST WEEK OF REGULAR SEASON COMPETITION!! How did we get here?! It flies by every year. We missed almost everything last week, aside from the LSU vs Bama meet and Elizabeth Price’s routines at UCLA, thanks to everything going on in the elite world (there were SIX international meets, if you can believe it!) but we’ll be back with the live blog tonight in case you missed us.
After a tough season with week after week of conference play, the SEC is taking it slow this week, with most teams up against lower-ranked teams outside the conference while No. 4 Alabama is off completely. Tonight, No. 2 Florida goes up against No. 57 North Carolina, No. 7 Auburn hosts No. 48 Arizona State, No. 11 Arkansas hosts No. 32 Utah State, No. 15 Missouri travels to No. 45 Western Michigan, and No. 21 Kentucky hosts No. 36 Iowa State.
No. 3 LSU, meanwhile, will travel to No. 59 Texas Woman’s for a quad meet that also features No. 16 Oregon State and No. 30 New Hampshire tomorrow afternoon. The only anomaly is No. 9 Georgia, as the Gym Dogs will be the guests of No. 5 Utah on Saturday, keeping up the pace of high-level competition right up to the end as they hope to raise their RQS ever-so-slightly in order to bypass Auburn to get the fourth seed into the evening session of the SEC Championships next weekend.
Also on Friday? No. 12 Boise State, easily the most consistent team this season, will host No. 27 Southern Utah and No. 46 San Jose State, No. 14 Cal will make an appearance at No. 42 UC Davis alongside No. 41 Sacramento State, No. 20 Arizona will host No. 31 BYU, and No. 25 West Virginia hosts No. 50 Pittsburgh.
The back-to-back Big Ten qualifiers – known as the Big Five meets – will be Saturday’s big draws. In the first at 1 pm, No. 28 Penn State hosts No. 6 Michigan, No. 18 Iowa, No. 19 Minnesota, and No. 40 Rutgers, and then at 4 pm, No. 28 Ohio State hosts No. 16 Nebraska, No. 23 Illinois, No. 34 Michigan State, and No. 39 Maryland. While all ten teams will participate in next weekend’s conference championships, these meets will seed them into two five-team divisions (compare this to the SEC’s method of seeding by rankings).
Saturday night ends with No. 10 Denver at No. 24 Washington alongside No. 58 Seattle Pacific, and then on Sunday we’ll see what should be a fun match with No. 1 Oklahoma at No. 8 UCLA. While the meet should be a relatively easy one for the Sooners, all I’m asking is that McKenzie Wofford finally gets a 10 on bars. PLEASE?! It would totally make up for Ebee’s lack of 10s last weekend.
The full schedule is below. All links will be updated when they become available. All times listed are EST.
| THURSDAY MARCH 10 | |||
| 6:30 pm | Eastern Michigan | Central Michigan, Southeast Missouri | Results |
| 8:00 pm | Illinois State | Bowling Green | Results |
| FRIDAY MARCH 11 | |||
| 7:00 pm | Florida | North Carolina | Results |
| Kentucky | Iowa State | Results | |
| Lindenwood | Centenary | Results | |
| West Virginia | Pittsburgh | Results | |
| Western Michigan | Missouri | Results | |
| 8:00 pm | Arizona | BYU | Results |
| Arkansas | Utah State | Results | |
| Auburn | Arizona State | Results | |
| 9:00 pm | Boise State | San Jose State, Southern Utah | Results |
| 10:00 pm | UC Davis | Cal, Sacramento State | Results |
| 11:00 pm | Alaska | Air Force | Results |
| SATURDAY MARCH 12 | |||
| 1:00 pm | Penn State | Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Rutgers | Results |
| 4:00 pm | Bowling Green | Northern Illinois | Results |
| NC State | Ball State | Results | |
| Ohio State | Illinois, Maryland, Michigan State, Nebraska | Results | |
| 6:00 pm | Brown | SCSU, Temple, URI (club) | Results |
| 7:00 pm | Texas Woman’s | LSU, New Hampshire, Oregon State | Results |
| Utah | Georgia | Results | |
| 9:00 pm | Washington | Denver, Seattle Pacific | Results |
| SUNDAY MARCH 13 | |||
| 2:00 pm | George Washington | Kent State, Yale | Results |
| 3:00 pm | UIC | Utah State | Results |
| 5:00 pm | UCLA | Oklahoma | Results |
| 6:00 pm | Alaska | Air Force | Stats |
For those who wanted a stream to watch Boise State vs San Jose vs S. Utah — it’s here: http://livestream.com/boisestate/events/4807980/videos/115265978
Since they’re such a high-ranked team, on a weekend that doesn’t have some others easily filmed, thought some people might wanna appreciate their greatness 🙂
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