NATIONAL COLLEGIATE MEN'S

Dates and site: National qualifying will be at Ohio State April 5, and the national championships will follow April 6-7.

Field: A national qualifier will consist of the top nine teams; conference champions from the Eastern College Athletic Conference, the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation and the Big Ten Conference; the top 12 all-around competitors who are not members of a selected team; and 12 individuals per event. The top three teams, all-around competitors not on a team selected and three individual event competitors will advance to the national championships.

Selection date: March 27.

2000 champion: Penn State.

Top team contenders: Oklahoma, Michigan, Ohio State.

Dates and sites: Regional championships will be April 7 at UCLA (West region), Utah (North Central region), Nebraska (South Central region), Alabama (Central region), Michigan (Northeast region) and Florida (Southeast region). The finals will be at Georgia April 19-21.

Field: Six regional competitions consisting of six teams, five all-around competitors and one individual specialist per event are conducted to determine the 12 teams, 12 all-around competitors and event specialists to compete in the national championships. The top two teams and top two all-around competitors (who are not on an advancing team) will receive automatic berths. Any event winner with at least a 9.8 who does not receive an automatic bid will advance.

Selection date: March 26.

2000 team champion: UCLA.

Top team contenders: UCLA, Alabama, Georgia, Utah.

Top individual contenders: Mohini Bhardwaj, UCLA; Kristi Lichey, Georgia; Theresa Kulikowski, Utah; Gina Bruce, Nebraska; Andree Pickens, Alabama.

Four schools have captured each of the 19 National Collegiate women's titles since 1982: Utah (9), Georgia (5), Alabama (3), UCLA (2).