Conference championships are here! For NQS, this means that every non-NCGA or independent team has one more opportunity to improve its ranking going into regionals. Most will have a road meet while hosts will typically count this score as a home meet. Let’s get right into it with a regionals projection!
Regionals Projection: Teams
| Norman | Pittsburgh | Denver | Los Angeles |
| 1. Oklahoma | 2. Michigan | 3. Florida | 4. UCLA |
| 8. Kentucky | 7. Cal | 6. LSU | 5. Utah |
| 9. Michigan State | 10. Alabama | 11. Oregon State | 12. Auburn |
| 16. Arkansas | 15. Ohio State | 13. Denver | 14. Arizona State |
| 17. Missouri | 22. Maryland | 18. Georgia | 19. Stanford |
| 23. Nebraska | 29. West Virginia | 20. Minnesota | 21. Southern Utaah |
| 26. Western Michigan | 31. Towson | 25. Iowa | 24. Illinois |
| 28. Arizona | 32. Ball State | 27. Washington | 30. N.C. State |
| 36. North Carolina | 33. Penn State | 35. Boise State | 34. BYU |
The arrangement of the top 16 seeds is not as straightforward this week as UCLA and Denver end up paired in the traditional alignment. Since both are hosts, they cannot be paired together; the simplest solution is to switch Denver with Arizona State. Among the teams ranked between No. 17 and No. 36, six of them are located within 400 miles of Pittsburgh, but only five spots are available at that regional. We once again moved Western Michigan to another regional since…
