Big 12 conference gymnastics5/4/2023 The Big Fives meet is now only used to determine the second half of the regular season rankings and to determine the regular season conference champion. In 2022 that changed again, and the conference now uses in-conference win-loss record to seed the championship. However, in 2020 it switched to seeding by national ranking, such as all other conferences, with the top four teams qualifying to compete in the night session of the conference championship and the bottom six teams competing in the afternoon. The Big Ten previously used its “Big Fives” meet to seed for the Big Ten Championship. In gymnastics, all teams in a conference qualify to compete at their conference championship meet with seeding typically determined by national ranking using NQS. While some conferences like the SEC and Pac-12 use win-loss records to determine the champion-with head-to-head matchup results determining ties-other conferences use NQS. The concept of a regular season champion is relatively new to the sport of gymnastics and the way it is determined varies conference to conference. The remaining conferences contain only DI squads. The MIC is the only conference that has teams from all three divisions while the WIAC and NCGA-East are comprised solely of DIII teams and GEC is comprised of teams from Divisions I and II. ![]() The Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC are considered the “Big 4” conferences, similar to Power 5 conferences in football. There are 13 conferences in collegiate gymnastics across the three divisions. USAG uses NQS for its rankings, with the top eight ranked teams qualifying to the USA Gymnastics Collegiate National Championships. While all teams are ranked nationally by average and then NQS, NCGA rankings for the purpose of qualifying to nationals are determined differently, using SAS score, which takes the top four scores with at least one home and one away and no more than one from a DI/DII non-conference meet. This method allows teams to get rid of bad early season meets as well as accounts for “home scoring” discrepancies. NQS is determined by taking a team’s top six scores-where at least three must be from away meets-dropping the highest score and averaging the remaining five. After, rankings are determined by National Qualifying Score (NQS), formerly known as Regional Qualifying Score (RQS). ![]() To start the season, rankings are based on team score average until approximately the eighth week of the 15-week season. Scroll through the page or click the section below to which you wish to jump. There are three levels of postseason for collegiate gymnastics: NCAA, which is open to all varsity teams, USAG, which is open to schools with less than seven and a half full scholarships, and NCGA, which is open to all DIII teams with the exception of Centenary. ![]() However, there is information about conference championships below as well. Officially, the NCAA postseason begins the day after the conference championships and includes regional and national competitions.
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