U.S. figure skating rankings going into national championships

A discipline-by-discipline look at U.S. figure skaters’ best season scores with no more top-level events until the U.S. Championships from Jan. 24-27 in Detroit …

Men

1. Nathan Chen — 282.42

2. Chen — 280.57

3. Chen — 271.58

4. Jason Brown — 263.42

5. Brown — 256.33

6. Brown — 234.97

7. Vincent Zhou — 234.25

8. Brown — 233.23

9. Zhou — 225.75

10. Camden Pulkinen — 223.95

Chen is on his way to a third straight national title, while Brown has been a pleasant surprise this fall after changing coaches in the offseason. The Sochi Olympian and 2015 U.S. champion even beat Chen in one program on the Grand Prix Series. Zhou, after placing sixth in PyeongChang, has struggled with under-rotations on jumps but is…