For full scores and results for every meet, check out Week 11 Results.
Is it postseason yet? Week 11 was the perfect storm of teams starting to peak for the postseason, senior night bonuses, and scoring that is rapidly losing any remaining credibility. To paraphrase Bart Conner, “The quality of gymnastics has superseded the quality of the judging.”
Score Every Meet Like It’s Senior Week
Parity in college gymnastics is higher than ever, so it stands to reason that we’d see an influx of new program records simply because there are more teams and gymnasts across all conferences and divisions capable of putting up higher scores with a hit performance. What’s less plausible is how consistently program and NCAA records are being broken week-to-week, and that’s not even considering score clustering. Case in point: There have been a whopping 35 scores of 198 or better posted this season, seven of which came in Week 11. This weekend also saw 10 all-around scores of 39.700 or higher, 10 perfect 10s, and 36 scores of 9.975. The current scoring system is broken—fans know it, gymnasts and coaches know it, commentators know it. What we don’t know is what the NAWGJ is going to do to fix what’s broken.
Arkansas Joins the 198 Club
The Razorbacks have formally shaken off…
