A. Weekend schedule
Friday, January 20 |
Scores | Watch |
7:00 ET/4:00 PT – [23] Arkansas @ [16] Georgia | LINK | SECN |
7:00 ET/4:00 PT – [3] Florida @ North Carolina | FLOG | |
7:00 ET/4:00 PT – [11] Auburn @ [9] Kentucky | SEC+ | |
7:00 ET/4:00 PT – [21] Minnesota @ Michigan State | LINK | BTN+ |
7:00 ET/4:00 PT – Eastern Michigan @ Central Michigan | LINK | ESPN3 |
7:00 ET/4:00 PT – Ball State, William & Mary @ [25] NC State | LINK | ACCN |
7:00 ET/4:00 PT – Western Michigan @ Kent State | FREE | |
7:00 ET/4:00 PT – UW-La Crosse @ UW-Eau Claire | ||
7:00 ET/4:00 PT – Winona State @ UW-Oshkosh | FREE | |
7:30 ET/4:30 PT – Lindenwood @ SEMO | LINK | |
8:30 ET/5:30 PT – TWU @ [2] LSU | LINK | SEC+ |
8:30 ET/5:30 PT – [4] Alabama @ [8] Missouri | LINK | SECN |
9:00 ET/6:00 PT – Stanford @ Southern Utah | FLOG | |
9:00 ET/6:00 PT – Utah State @ BYU | FREE | |
9:00 ET/6:00 PT – [7] Denver, [15] Boise State, UIC @ [5] Utah | P12 | |
11:00 ET/8:00 PT – UW-Stout @ Alaska | FREE | |
Saturday, January 21 |
Scores | Watch |
12:00 ET/9:00 PT – Yale @ Penn | ||
12:00 ET/9:00 PT – Brockport @ Ithaca | FREE | |
2:00 ET/11:00 PT – UW-Whitewater @ Gustavus Adolphus | ||
3:00 ET/12:00 PT – Northern Illinois, Seattle Pacific @ [19] Oregon State | LINK | P12 |
3:30 ET/12:30 PT – Cortland @ Cornell | Ivy $ | |
4:00 ET/1:00 PT – [22] Iowa @ [18] Ohio State | CSL $ | |
4:00 ET/1:00 PT – Maryland @ Penn State | LINK | FREE |
4:00 ET/1:00 PT – Pitt, Southern Connecticut @ New Hampshire | ||
4:30 ET/1:30 PT – Illinois State @ Bowling Green | ||
6:00 ET/3:00 PT – Iowa State @ Arizona | ||
6:00 ET/3:00 PT – UC Davis @ Arizona State | P12 | |
7:00 ET/4:00 PT – [1] Oklahoma @ West Virginia | LINK | WVU |
7:00 ET/4:00 PT – [10] Nebraska, Brown, West Chester @ Rutgers | LINK | |
8:00 ET/5:00 PT – [17] Washington, San Jose State @ [13] Cal | LINK | P12 |
8:00 ET/5:00 PT – [24] Sacramento State @ Air Force | FREE | |
Sunday, January 22 |
Scores | Watch |
1:00 ET/10:00 PT – Ursinus @ Temple | FREE | |
2:00 ET/11:00 PT – [19] Illinois @ [12] Michigan | LINK | FREE |
2:00 ET/11:00 PT – [14] George Washington @ Towson | LINK | FREE |
Monday, January 23 |
Scores | Watch |
11:00 ET/8:00 PT – UW-Stout @ Alaska | FREE |
B. No live blogs this weekend
I’m abandoning you.
I know you’re really broken up about it. If you need to participate in group therapy about the wackadoo scoring or keep me apprised of important things that I should remember or complain about in the future, feel free to use the comments section on this page. Everything will be back to normal next week. Unless we’re all dead by then.
C. Sabrina Schwab
Joining the injury party that sprouted up in the last week, Sabrina Schwab tore her ACL in training and is done for the season (early enough that she can redshirt 2017). Where this hurts Utah most is everywhere, putting more pressure on Missy Reinstadtler to get into scoring form on multiple events. Utah can’t ease her in slowly anymore. I expect Reinstadtler to slide into Schwab’s spot on beam, and in the long run, they’ll likely want Reinstadtler in Schwab’s spot on bars as well, though in the short term they can use Kari Lee.
Floor is often Schwab’s best score, though pre-injury Kari Lee was recording similar numbers, so ideally she’ll be back to floor at some point to maintain the same pace there. Tessen also seemed an encouraging floor option in preseason. Vault presents another problem because Schwab had a 10.0 start. Presumably, Rowe will jump into the lineup, but she does not have the same peak score. For the moment at least, Utah just got a couple tenths weaker.
But, isn’t it so much more helpful when teams reveal this information publicly instead of futilely attempting to keep it secret for unexplained reasons?
D. The meets
Arkansas @ Georgia
Arkansas is in trouble without Wellick, and even though falling apart on bars is what sunk the score last weekend, it’s becoming harder and harder to put together full vault and floor lineups. As for Georgia, let us know if beam is really fixed so we can move on to worrying about the competitiveness of those bars and floor lineups.
Florida @ North Carolina
North Carolina is hosting a Nike #BeTrue rainbow-colored meet to celebrate diversity with an emphasis on big ol’ mos and how much we’ve made everything better and how we’re, like, human people or something? That’s verbatim the press release. I can’t think of another gymnastics program that has done this, which is weird because…you’re gymnastics. So just, tweet about it and make it super successful, OK?
Auburn @ Kentucky
Kentucky is the higher ranked. Weird, huh? Let’s see how realistic that ends up being. You want to be a top 10 team, Kentucky? Then beat Auburn. You’re the favorite now.
Alabama @ Missouri
This is also Missouri’s opportunity to test its level against major competition. In this case, Missouri won’t be expected to win and likely won’t come all that close, but where does Missouri fall by comparison? It will be Missouri’s first meet where the upper echelons of the scores are occupied by another team, a good barometer.
Stanford @ Southern Utah
It’s Southern Utah’s season opener (huh? It’s January 20th. That’s like March) against Stanford. I like Southern Utah’s chances this year, so Stanford will have to legitimately start pulling itself together to get a win. If Price is well, it should get better. Except for floor. That still looks like a nightmare.
Denver, Boise State, UIC @ Utah
Three top-15 teams in the same quad meet. Denver is in a similar position to Missouri, scoring well so far this season but for the first time heading into a meet without the luxury of being the best team there. It’s a weekend of significant tests for these new top-10 upstarts. Utah remains a clear favorite, though it just got a little more interesting with the injury to Schwab.
Illinois @ Michigan
Illinois impressed in its most recent home meet, showing the level of bars routines that made this team a peripheral nationals contender in the past, so this may not be a total walk for Michigan. Michigan has yet to put together a hit meet, so that must be the aim.
UCLA, Oklahoma, LSU
UCLA is on a break this week because it’s all just too much, while Oklahoma and LSU should cruise through their meets, simply working against the score of one another as they try to rush the 198s with as much force as possible.
E. GymCastic
This week, we round up the major news from NCAA meets over the weekend, with particular attention paid to the increasingly insane storylines behind floor routines this season. Then we take it to the next level. As we are wont to do. We’re like floor routine whisperers.
F. Beam routine of the week
For this week’s routine, I’m going a little more recent (although can you believe this was five years ago?) with Megan Ferguson’s beam routine, the set that made Oklahoma beam a thing. Do you think she does her layout stepout to one knee in order to propose marriage to gymnastics?
A note on Megan Ferguson: I was coaching in Wichita, Kansas when she was just getting started competing. She’s from the Kansas City area. She was so amazing at 7 years old – everyone’s eyes were on here from that young age on. Clearly her talent was rewarded with a wonderful college career.
No live blogs! The horror!
Spencer are you still recovering from the lackluster livecasts from last week or are you actually venturing out in public?
The quad meet at Utah Friday evening will not be on the PAC-12 Network.
It is on a pac12 livestream it looks like. Utah’s website has the link
It looks like Sling TV subscribers with the Pac 12 add-on don’t have access to it though…
Oh that really sucks! 🙁
@Mary it’s free on the PAC12 website. I just clicked through the link on CollegeGymFans and pressed play. Didn’t need to log into anything.
If anyone wants to follow Michigan/Illinois but can’t watch live, follow @1InsanePerson on twitter because I’ll likely be watching and blogging.
YASSS Megan Ferguson’s beam is the shizz!
“But, isn’t it so much more helpful when teams reveal this information publicly instead of futilely attempting to keep it secret for unexplained reasons?” Sad to see an athlete injured, but this quote was pretty awesome.
Is the actual only way to watch the Florida/UNC meet FloGym?
It looks like it! Ugh, that makes me SO ANGRY! And sad.
Why was Kennedy Baker only limited to UB this week? My fantasy team as a sad.
My guess is just rest. It’s not like UF needed her to get a win at UNC (no offence to the Tar Heels, but come on). 🙂
Live stats for the Utah meet: http://sidearmstats.com/utah/w-gym/
I can’t get the livestream to work for more than a couple of monutes at a time, but at least the stats see to be working.
What happened to Mnnesota on UB? Injuries, or just a rough outing? (2 scores in the low 8s).
Minnesota has struggled on bars all season (I believe they had to count a score in the 8s last week as well).
Minnesota to bars is like UGA to beam or UCLA in attracting elites.
Wait… Minnesota has a lot of difficulties on bars, and Georgia has a lot of difficulties on beam… so based on how analogies work, you’re saying that UCLA has a lot of difficulties in attracting elites?
*scratches head*
Ruby Harrold made the LSU bars and floor lineups this week.
Bars: 9.875
Floor: 9.850
Oh and here’s something:
LSU’s HOME floor score: 49.350
Alabama’s ROAD beam score: 49.600
Is that the highest beam score of the season so far?
FINAL SCORES:
LSU 197.475
Alabama 197.225
Missouri 195.500
TWU 192.625
Spencer we will NEVER take you and your live blogs for granted ever again
I would be lost without this blog
Maggie did a Pak-toe on-Shap half this week, which eliminates that cast she’s been missing but wonkified the Shap a little. Smart choice, I think.
Any videos around of Skinner’s floor routine?
Does anyone know why Brianna Brown (Michigan) has been competing the last couple of weeks? Did I miss something?
TripleTwistGym on twitter said Brown was going to be “out for awhile” but didn’t give any other details. Very mysterious. I feel like something weird is going on…