Super 6 warm-ups have just begun.
Florida is the loudest team. (Ashanee just caught her first Bars release, the one she missed in competition yesterday. And caught her second, convincingly. That thing is HIGH.)
I’d better watch Beam more closely today.
Elzer on College Gymnastics Board:
During both semifinals, the deciding factor between the teams that advanced and those that did not was performance on the balance beam.
With the exception of UCLA, all the six finalists had at least one really bad event. If one ranks all twelve teams by apparatus, Alabama was 10th on floor, Florida was 11th on bars, Oklahoma 11th on vault, Stanford 10th on bars and 11th on floor, and Utah 9th on vault and 8th on floor.
UCLA’s worst events were bars and beam (both 6th). All six, however, did well on balance beam, and because the low scores on the other events were not that low, they advanced.
In contrast, the six teams that did not advance all had terrible beam performances that essentially took them out of the running (Oregon State being the exception, they were tied with UCLA for 6th on beam, …
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