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The Oklahoma Sooner Women's Gymnastics remained the #1 Women Gymnastics Team in the country. Here is the updated NQS rankings information. In the rankings, the Sooners boast an NCAA record National Qualifying Score of 198.420, beating their mark of 198.355 set in 2023.

Here is the NQS rankings article written by the Sooners staff writers:

https://soonersports.com/news/2024/3/4/ ... eaking-nqs

In addition to the NQS rankings, senior Ragan Smith was named the Big 12 Co-Gymnast of the Week after an incredible weekend that saw her extend her streak to four-consecutive perfect 10s on balance beam. Smith shared the honor with Denver's Jessica Hutchinson. This is the third career Gymnast of the Week honor for Smith and eighth overall. Here is the Sooner staff writers article about the award for Smith.

https://soonersports.com/news/2024/3/6/ ... f-the-week

Congrats to the Sooner Women for the excellent results so far this season and to Ragan Smith for her award.

Boomer Sooner!

I haven’t followed NQS closely for very long, but I’m astounded we remain nearly 0.500 ahead of 2nd place - that is an amazing gap - I wonder what the largest gap between 1 and 2 has ever been in the NQS? If anyone has followed it more closely over the years and has observations, I’d love to hear them.

There's a website that has a lot of NQS current and historical scores. The down side is that their website isn't exactly intuitive...and I'm a software developer that has issues navigating their site.

https://roadtonationals.com/

To attempt to answer your question, these are Week 9 standings of the last few years. Keep in mind that these scores do NOT go down. They can only stay the same or go up. Also, the lower your score, the easier it is to go up. That means that I expect the field to catch up some.

2023
198.210 Oklahoma
197.950 Michigan

2022
198.080 Oklahoma
197.970 Florida

2021
197.944 Oklahoma
197.944 Florida

2020
198.080 Oklahoma
197.880 Florida

2019
197.940 Oklahoma
197.800 UCLA

2018
197.980 Oklahoma
197.715 LSU

2017
197.990 Oklahoma
197.775 LSU

2016
197.705 Oklahoma
197.440 Florida

Wow! Thanks for posting that. So, the margin the last several years seems to be around 0.100 or so mast years, with the largest differential being about 0.250. Our margin in 2024 is remarkable.