Bubble Watch: March 1 – College Gym News

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Happy March! Did you realize there were only three weeks left of the regular season, including conference championships? That’s right, and it’s time to start thinking about regionals qualification. As a reminder, postseason qualification is based on NQS, which is calculated by taking a team’s top six scores of the season, at least three of which must be on the road, dropping the highest score overall, and averaging the remaining five.

Each year in this series we take a look at each “bubble” team’s highest possible NQS after this coming weekend and discuss what they’ll need to do to finish in the top 36 and make regionals. This week we’ll stick only to team discussion, adding in potential individual qualifiers next week.

Let’s start with a regionals projection based on current standings, attempting to take geography into account.

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1. Oklahoma 2. Michigan 3. Florida 4. Utah
8. Alabama 7. California 6. LSU 5. UCLA
9. Auburn 10. Denver 11. Oregon State 12. Kentucky
16. Ohio State 15. Arizona State 14. Missouri 13. Michigan State
17. Arkansas 18. Georgia 25. Maryland 19. Southern Utah
20. Iowa 22. Minnesota 27. Towson 21. Stanford
24. Illinois 26. N.C. State 31. Ball State 23. Washington
30. North Carolina 29. Nebraska 33. Penn State 28. Arizona
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