During the NCAA offseason, there’s a lot we miss about college gymnastics, from the sparkly leotards to the fierce rivalries. But the thing we miss most is every NCAA gymnastics fan’s favorite hobby: arguing about scoring. In fact, we were so sad about it that we decided to get our discourse fix in the form of this article series. What are we going to argue about? Every gymnastics fan’s pet peeve: ties where the routines are not equally good.
In each edition of The Tie Break, we’ll choose a tie from NCAA gymnastics history and debate until we decided how the routines truly should have been ordered. This week, we’ll tackle the floor title at the 2023 Big 12 championship, in which four gymnasts tied with a 9.950.
Our weekly contributors, editor-in-chief Elizabeth Grimsley and GEC editor Rebecca Scally, will be joined by Big 12/MRGC editor Savanna Whitten and data editor Emma Hammerstrom.
The Contenders
The Debate
Rebecca: Welcome back to the Tie Break for 2023, everyone! We had approximately one million ties this postseason, so while I’m sure we’ll also get to review some older material as this offseason goes on, I’m excited to sort out some of the recent nonsense. We’re starting with the Big 12 floor title, which was a tie…
