Ona Loper’s 10.0 Vault

For once there’s no debate.

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Congratulations University of Iowa

The team just missed qualifying to the final 16 โ€”ย but I’d call Iowa 2021 one of the success stories of the season.

Leaders in social justice, too.

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Session 2 teams advancing

Florida, NC State, Michigan, UCLA, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kentucky and LSU advance to tomorrow.

… 196.775 that tied the sixth-best score in NC State history …

The Wolfpack is additionally the first team to advance to a Regional Final after beginning Regionals in the first round of competition, a component of the format that began in 2018-19.

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Session 1 teams advancing

Cal, Minnesota, Alabama, Utah, Arkansas, Denver, Arizona State, and Ohio State advance to tomorrow.

SESSION I FINALS

Athens
Minnesota โ€“ 197.625
Denver โ€“ 196.775

Georgia โ€“ 196.750
Oregon State โ€“ 196.375

Morgantown
Cal โ€“ 197.725
Ohio State โ€“ 196.525

BYU โ€“ 196.350
Towson โ€“ 195.025

Tuscaloosa
Alabama โ€“ 197.525
Arkansas โ€“ 197.250

Iowa โ€“ 197.050
Iowa State โ€“ 196.525

Salt Lake City
Utah โ€“ 197.500
Arizona State โ€“ 196.600

Southern Utah โ€“ 195.975
Boise State โ€“ 195.825

Auburn withdraws from Regionals

The Auburn gymnastics team will not compete at the 2021 NCAA Tuscaloosa Regional Championship this weekend due to positive COVID-19 tests and contact tracing within the program.

The action is consistent with COVID-19 management requirements put forth by the NCAA and the Southeastern Conference.

Auburn Tigers

Spencer weighs in on how that affects everyone else:

The NCAA wonโ€™t redo brackets if the withdrawal happens more than 24 hours after they are made …

Maile O’Keefe – Beam

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predicting NCAA Nationals

With all the upsets happening in American College basketball, we can dream of similar excitement in Gymnastics.

College Gym News ran a computer simulation to see who’s most likely to win NCAAs in 2021.

Florida is the heaviest favorite to make it to the final, followed by LSU, Oklahoma, Michigan and Utah.

Cal and Alabamaโ€™s chances are not insignificant, and the second qualifier out of the Athens regional (likely either Minnesota or Denver) will probably have around the same chance as well.

Finally, the model picked Florida as the champion in the most number of runs (45%), which is a lower total than in the 2020 simulation, but it is enough to consider the Gators the favorites for the title.

LSU is second at 19%, ahead of Oklahoma (13%) and Michigan (12%). …

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#B1GUnited gymnast for equality

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All hail Larissa Libby.

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