NCAA Men's Gymnastics

NCAA men’s gymnastics also participates in an NCAA National Competition. It will take place this weekend as well, on April 15th and 16th at Ohio State. Last year, Michigan won the title, scoring a 360.500, Stanford came in second and Oklahoma took third place. All three teams are participating in the National Competition this year.
Men’s competition is a little bit different than women’s. Women’s collegiate gymnastics still bases their scoring on a 10.0 scale. Men have converted to international scoring; in this case, judges create two scores and then add them together. One score is based on execution, which is still out of ten points and the other score is based on difficulty. Every skill that a gymnast does has a point value, and the more skills he does, the more points he gets. Adding those two scores together gives the gymnast his score. This creates situation where there can be no top score in men’s collegiate gymnastics; there is always the possibility of a higher score if more skills or more difficult skills are competed. Women can only receive a maximum team score of 200.00 based on four events; in the old system, men could have received a top score of 300.00. Now they are receiving scores close to 360 due to the combination of the execution and difficult scores.
This year’s 2011 qualifying teams include Oklahoma, Stanford, California, Illinois, Penn State, Michigan, Ohio State, Minnesota, the Air Force Academy, Nebraska, Iowa and Illinois-Chicago. Oklahoma’s regional qualifying score is 359.683 and is the top qualifier; Illinois-Chicago’s score is a 340.800 and marks the lowest score that was entered into the competition.