The Florida Gators gymnastics program’s quest for a fourth national championship begins this Friday night in the NCAA Championships’ Corvallis Regional — and under a new format for postseason competition that could produce some drama.
Don’t expect it to derail the Gators this weekend in Oregon, though. A new multi-day format, a departure from a long-standing one-day competition, will definitely make things more challenging for the bubble teams, but Florida stands as the top seed in its regional for good reason.
In the past, NCAA Regionals were one-day competitions in which the top 36 teams qualified to the postseason competed at six regional sites, with six teams each.