2013 NCAA Gymnastics - 'Cause it's Always a Good Time!

[mikemba]

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Current Rankings:

1. Michigan
2. Oklahoma
3. Florida
4. UCLA
5. Alabama
6. Nebraska
7. LSU
8. Utah
9. Georgia
10. Stanford
11. Denver
12. Minnesota
13. Arizona
14. Maryland
15. Kentucky
16. Oregon State
17. Boise State
18. Auburn
19. Ohio State
20. Central Michigan
21. California
22. Pittsburgh
23. Kent State
24. NC State
25. Eastern Michigan
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26t. Arkansas
26t. Illinois
29. Washington
30. Penn State
34. Iowa
38. Missouri
45. Iowa State
48. Michigan State
64. Lindenwood

Top-36 at the end of the season advance to regional competition.

[Theatregirl1122]

Glad to oblige -- I like the NCAA men even more than the women! I just hope that the men get some good TV coverage here in the Eastern U.S. Last year was pretty good so I am optimistic that we'll get several meets televised here again. I lurve Michigan, and a few of the Penn State rings guys had amazing routines with really world-class strength moves. Last season was very exciting.

I love Michigan, too, of course! I'm hoping I'll actually get to see them at some point this year since silly U of M doesn't livestream from Cliff Keene. Right now the Michigan website says that the Ohio State/Michigan meet will be on the BTN in february. They had a great start to their season! 1st at the Windy City invitational over Illinois and Ohio State and that is with Sam Mikulak missing the meet for National Team training. There's definitely room for improvement on the scores. Hopefully we can stop counting 13s on pommel and PBars and 12s and 13s on high bar (they fall off a lot). Sam's return should help with Pommel right away and HBar and PBars sooner or later (depending on how his injury recovery is going) not to mention a big vault score. I'm sure they are still playing with the lineup as well.

Anyone follow any other big men's meets this weekend?

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MEETS THIS WEEKEND

FRIDAY, JANUARY 25
#18 Auburn @ #3 Florida
#4 UCLA @ Arizona State
#15 Kentucky @ #5 Alabama
#6 Nebraska @ #19 Ohio State
#11 Denver @ Arkansas
#8 Utah @ #13 Arizona
Western Michigan, George Washington @ #23 Kent State
West Virginia @ #24 NC State
Southern Utah, Hamline @ Utah State
Northern Illinois @ Ball State
Seattle Pacific @ Alaska
Sac State @ San Jose State
Centenary @ Southeast Missouri
Gustavus Adolphus, Winona State @ Wisconsin-Stout

SATURDAY, JANUARY 26
#1 Michigan, #20 Central Michigan, Iowa State @ #12 Minnesota
#2 Oklahoma, #7 LSU, #9 Georgia, #16 Oregon State, Washington @ Metroplex Challenge (Dallas, TX)
#10 Stanford @ #21 California
North Carolina @ #14 Maryland
#17 Boise State @ Brigham Young
Bowling Green @ #25 Eastern Michigan
#22 Pittsburgh, Iowa, Rutgers @ Penn State
Michigan State @ Illinois
Brown, Temple @ New Hampshire
Missouri, Texas Woman's, UC Davis @ Air Force
Seattle Pacific @ Alaska
Pennsylvania @ Yale
Bridgeport, Lindenwood, Ursinus College @ Towson
Cortland State @ Cornell
Southern Connecticut @ Rhode Island
Brockport @ West Chester
Wisconsin-Oshkosh @ Wisconsin-Whitewater

SUNDAY, JANUARY 27
UIC @ Illinois State
Ithaca @ Springfield College

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UPSET ALERT:

Minnesota has defeated #1 Michigan by 0.025, 196.800 to 196.775!

[BigB08822]

Not sure of final results but LSU scores 197.100 in Dallas. Scores were really high considering LSU scored a 48.750 on beam. No falls counted on beam but just some lowish scores.

[chipso1]

UPSET ALERT:

Minnesota has defeated #1 Michigan by 0.025, 196.800 to 196.775!

I just saw this after being so engrossed with nationals all week. HUGE win for Minnesota!

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Updated Rankings:

1. Florida (up 2)
2. Oklahoma (neutral)
3. Michigan (down 2)
4. UCLA (neutral)
5. Alabama (neutral)
6. LSU (up 1)
7. Nebraska (down 1)
8. Georgia (up 1)
9. Utah (down 1)
10. Minnesota (up 2)
11. Stanford (down 1)
12. Arizona (up 1)
13. Denver (down 2)
14. Oregon State (up 2)
15. Maryland (down 1)
16. Kentucky (down 1)
17. Auburn (up 1)
18. Ohio State (up 1)
19. Illinois (up 7)
20. California (up 1)
21. Boise State (down 4)
22. Arkansas (up 4)
23. Central Michigan (down 3)
24. NC State (neutral)
25. Kent State (down 2)

Dropped from top-25:
Pittsburgh (31)
Eastern Michigan (33)

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MEETS THIS WEEKEND:

Friday, February 1
#1 Florida @ #22 Arkansas
#2 Oklahoma, Western Michigan, William & Mary @ West Virginia
#6 LSU @ #16 Kentucky
#19 Illinois @ #7 Nebraska
Arizona State @ #9 Utah
#10 Minnesota @ Michigan State
#12 Arizona @ Washington
#17 Auburn @ Missouri
Brigham Young @ #21 Boise State
Utah State @ Southern Utah
Centenary, Pennsylvania @ Ball State
Seattle Pacific @ UC Davis
Winona State, Gustavus Adolphus, Wisconsin-Oshkosh @ Wisconsin-La Crosse

Saturday, February 2
Iowa @ #3 Michigan
#4 UCLA @ #11 Stanford
#5 Alabama @ #8 Georgia
#24 NC State, Air Force, San Jose State @ #13 Denver
#15 Maryland @ North Carolina
#18 Ohio State @ Penn State
#23 Central Michigan, Eastern Michigan, Illinois State @ UIC
#25 Kent State @ Bowling Green
Southeast Missouri @ Northern Illinois
Towson @ Cornell
Pittsburgh, Brown, Southern Connecticut @ Rutgers
Lindenwood @ Texas Woman's
Cortland Stae, Springfield College @ Ithaca College
Bridgeport, Ursinus College, West Chester @ Temple
Brockport, Rhode Island College @ Wilson College
Wisconsin-Eau Claire @ Wisconsin-Whitewater

Sunday, February 3
#14 Oregon State @ #20 California
George Washington, Yale @ New Hampshire

Anyone going to any meets this week?

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Minnesota-Michigan State just finished up. Terrible meet for both teams. Minnesota, after their big win last week, scored a 194.325, Michigan State with a 192.600.

I am so frustrated with MSU's team. They had so many falls tonight. 1 on vault, 2 on bars, 3 on beam, 1 on floor (and one routine with two OOB that scored a 9.3). I know this is a seriously crazy young team, but they are WAY too talented to be constantly scoring this low. I know they're trying their best, but.. they're not even going to make regionals this year.

[BigB08822]

LSU had a so-so meet scoring 195.875. I don't have score breakdowns but I know they had a sub 49 on bars. Not sure if they had to count a fall or if they just weren't hitting.

[Karpenko]

Thrilled to see Zamarippa with a 10 on vault this week. A beautiful Yurchenko full.

At this point I think it will be Florida's NCAA title to lose, they haven't even come close to peaking yet and are the team with the most difficulty and star power. I think this will finally be their year, UCLA and Alabama don't have as strong of teams as last year, and they also don't have the difficulty that Florida will have across all 4 by NCAA's. Would be nice to see them finally get it, I'm especially impressed with Kytra Hunter and Bridget so far this year. Mackenzie Caquatto has scored 10 on bars, then they have Ashanee Dickerson and soo many others in every lineup. UCLA lost Sam Pezsek for this season, Mattie Larson is barely doing even 1 event now, Danusia is off to a so-so start score wise, and Alabama doesn't seem to be in the shape they will need to be to win it. (although to be honest I was shocked they pulled it off last year with a much stronger team)

[BigB08822]

Florida's only area of vulnerability is on floor. However, they have already started adding others into the line up (Sloan) so it should continue to improve. Even with that one area, they should still easily walk away with wins so long as they hit. That floor issue could hurt them though if they need to try and absorb a fall, as it did to them at LSU.

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Florida is ridiculous. In a perfect world, their coaches would let Hunter, Sloan, King, Dickerson, and Johnson all do the AA in the nationals prelims so they can all battle it out for the AA title, but that will probably never happen. At most they've had 3 AA'ers in a meet.

Sloan's FX is one of my favorites this year. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...9icKAs#t=4964s (That youtube channel also has many full meets if anyone wants to check them out!)

[OnyxRose81]

If Florida doesn't win the title this year, I will be flabbergasted. All that talent and they wouldn't have the big title in their grasp.

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Updated Rankings:

1. Florida
2. Oklahoma
3. Michigan
4. UCLA
5. Alabama
6. Georgia (up 2)
7. Utah (up 2)
8. LSU (down 2)
9. Nebraska (down 2)
10. Stanford (up 1)
11. Denver (up 2)
12. Oregon State (up 2)
13t. Minnesota (down 3)
13t. Arizona (down 1)
15. Auburn (up 2)
16. Boise State (up 5)
17. Maryland (down 2)
18. Kentucky (down 2)
19. Arkansas (up 3)
20. Ohio State (down 2)
21. Central Michigan (down 2)
22. Illinois (down 3)
23. California (down 3)
24. Kent State (up 1)
25. Washington (up 3)

Dropped from top-25:
NC State (27)

[BigB08822]

LSU posts a season high 197.275 and Lomincia Hall finally gets that 10 on floor! Great meet, Geaux Tigers!

Florida scored a 198.100

[Allen]

Of course, the one night that I'm not able to watch the Florida meet online, they score a 198.1 against Florida! It looks like everyone except Kytra Hunter was on fire for Florida. Glad to see Bridget Sloan do so well last night as she's struggled on at least one event in all of the meets I've seen.

There has been a person posting entire meets from SEC teams on YouTube, so I'm hoping I get to see the Florida/Alabama meet and Hall's 10 on Floor.

I watched the Stanford/UCLA meet last weekend and I thought UCLA looked pretty good, but not as good as what I was expecting. One of the commentators was a male gymnast from Stanford and he was incredibly nitpicky and critical of the gymnasts (from both teams, but more UCLA), so I don't know if that put a damper on my enjoyment of the meet or what it was.

[Lara]

There has been a person posting entire meets from SEC teams on YouTube, so I'm hoping I get to see the Florida/Alabama meet and Hall's 10 on Floor.

Link? Thanks!

[Karpenko]

Bridget Sloan is taking names, I love this Florida team. Great on every event, the only thing missing is UCLA choreography but I ain't mad at their gator chomp this year.

Does anybody else feel like the top teams are all in relatively weaker years than normal (and to be honest, out of shape)? UCLA, Alabama, Georgia, Utah, Stanford, etc have solid teams, but not even close to the strongest teams they have had (esp in recent years). Florida has the best team they have ever had IMO.