This week’s Team Rankings are based on NQS ...
(Take all meet scores, drop high & low, average the remaining meet scores …
maximum of 5 home meets, used lowest 5 home scores, except no requirement to have the min 5 away scores until Final NQS on 3/23)
OSU, with the second highest score of the season, a 196.925, now has an NQS of 196.106, and remains Officially** 25th.
OSU had a season high on Floor (49.425) and second highest event scores of season on Vault (49.150) and Bars (49.275)!
(**RTN rankings are Official only when they post Monday’s 3/16 Week-11 Rankings, which they did Sunday night 3/15!

I was confused this weekend with some of the NQSs shown for "Daily Results" (before 3/16 Rankings were posted) ... I learned from RTN that they implemented the rule this week that teams can't count more than 5 home meets, if they have more than 5 home meets, they can only count the lowest 5 scores! A handful (to several?) teams are affected by this rule (including SUU & Utah State). Apparently they received a lot of requests for exceptions to this rule, none were accepted ... then they were asked that they hold off on the implementation of this rule ... they decided to go ahead and implement it this week!
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OSU will still be ranked #25 on Monday 3/23 ... as the teams ranked above OSU can’t lower their NQSs as low as OSU’s, even with a season low. The teams below, all with only one meet remaining, can’t reach OSU’s NQS ... even with a season high.
(Note: #26 SUU’s last meet is a sixth home meet so they can’t increase their NQS ... & even if they had a waiver to the rule of max 5 (lowest) home scores ... they still couldn’t match OSU’s NQS.) They are still using “pods” to distribute unseeded teams to Regionals ... so one of each “pod” to each Regional, #17-#20, #21-#24, #25-#28 (with possibly some adjustments for geography), OSU is likely to be the 7th ranked team at the Regional ... only ahead of the two “play-in” teams.

(National Rankings)
There have been thirty-two 10.0s this season …
eleven on Vault (8 gymnasts), three on Bars (by Neff/Utah, Chiles/UCLA, & Ra-Akbar/Bama),
eight on Beam (5 by Chio/LSU, 2 by Harris-Miranda/UF , 1 by Blakely/UF),
and ten on Floor (4 by Jordan Chiles … in a row!, 2 by Chio/LSU, & 1 each by Smith/UGA, Coleman/OhSt, Smith/MichSt, & Roberts/Stanford).
Vlt – has seen twenty-seven 9.975s; Brs has seen twenty-six 9.975s;
Bm – has seen twenty-two 9.975s; Flr – has seen thirty-three 9.975s.
The AA high is still 39.875, and held by Jordan Chiles (1/25 & 1/30) & Kailin Chio (2/13), and Anna Roberts (2/27) of Stanford.

OSU Team event rankings/NQS average (bold-underlined-UP, Italic-DOWN):
Vlt 29th (was 33rd; 48.925), Brs 24th (was 25th; 49.028), Bm 20th (was 19th; 49.047), & Flr 25th (was 27th; 49.167)

OSU Individual (~Top-20%**) Rankings:
(**of those with an average >= 9.5 or AA >=38)
Individual Rankings are now based on the “legacy” NQS
(= Top 6 scores that include 3 away scores, drop high score, average the remaining 5 scores).
Vlt (of 438, was 417):
Olivia Buckner T-58th (was T-52nd), Sophia Esposito T-68th (was T-76th).
(Kyanna Crabb T-193rd 9.795 NQS)
Brs (of 410, was 388):
Ellie Weaver T-52nd (was T-47th), Sophia Esposito T-96th (was T-86th)
(Camryn Richardson T-109th 9.850 NQS, was T-109th; Francesca Caso T-166th 9.815 NQS, was T-146th)
Bm (of 416, was 402):
Lauren Letzsch T-73rd (was T-65th)
(Kaylee Cheek T-111th 9.845 NQS, T-124th; Sophia Esposito T-128th 9.835 NQS, was T-124th; Mia Heather T-157th 9.815 NQS, was T-137th;
Olivia Buckner & Ellie Weaver T-178th 9.805 NQS, were T-160th & T-169th respectively)
Flr (of 469, was 451):
Sophia Esposito 31st (was T-26th), Savannah Miller T-100th (was T-91st)
(Reina Marchal T-124th 9.850 NQS, was T-119th), Olivia Buckner T-193rd 9.830 NQS, was T-349th)
AA (of 63, was 59):
(Sophia Esposito 21st 39.380 NQS, was T-18th,
Sophia is currently tied for 9th by Season High … two above her do not have an NQS!).

Here are the “Rankings”/(last score, next meet) of next season’s Pac-12 teams:
1st - #25 OSU -196.003 NQS (196.925, Bye-week)
2nd - #26 SUU – 195.955 NQS (195.850, 3/21 hosting MPSF Championships)
3rd - #28 Utah State – 195.855 NQS (196.300, 3/21 @MW Championships)
4th - #39 Boise State – 195.256 NQS (196.275 & 195.400, 3/21 @MW Championships)