NQS Scores: 2023 NCAA Gymnastics Season

NQS data courtesy of Balance Beam Situation

National Qualifying Score (NQS)

The NQS is each team’s top six scores after it’s been spun in a simple formula.

The NQS Formula:
* Find the team’s top 6 scores
* Make sure at least three of them are road scores
* Drop the highest score
* Average the remaining 5 scores.
* Viola… Your NQS!

Cool cool… what does the NQS do?

Regionals:
The top 36 teams, according to NQS rankings, advance to the postseason and are placed in one of four regionals. The top 16 teams are “seeded” and grouped according to their ranking.

Group 1: 1, 8, 9, 16
Group 2: 2, 7, 10, 15
Group 3: 3, 6, 11, 14
Group 4: 4, 5, 12, 13

Regional locations are predetermined for the quad:

2023
Denver
Oklahoma
Pittsburgh
UCLA
2024
Arkansas
Cal
Florida
Michigan
2025
Alabama
Penn St.
Utah
Washington
2026
Arizona State
Kentucky
LSU
Oregon State

Teams outside the top 16 are placed geographically where possible. In some instances there might be a host conflict based on how a team finishes. In these instances, “the lowest seeded host in the group will be exchanged with a non-host that holds a spot not greater or less than two seeded positions (and preferably one position) when possible,” according to NCAA postseason rules.