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Sunday Live Blog – February 23, 2020

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Sunday, February 23
 Scores Stream
11:00am ET/8:00am PT – Yale, Brown, Penn @ Cornell   ESPN+
1:00pm ET/10:00am PT – North Carolina @ New Hampshire LINK ESPN+
1:00pm ET/10:00am PT – Western Michigan, Bowling Green, Towson @ West Virginia LINK FREE
1:00pm ET/10:00am PT – NC State, Northern Illinois, Temple @ George Washington LINK FREE
1:00pm ET/10:00am PT – Kent State @ Ball State LINK ESPN3
1:00pm ET/10:00am PT – West Chester @ William & Mary LINK FREE
1:00pm ET/10:00am PT – Rhode Island @ Springfield    
2:00pm ET/11:00am PT – [25] Stanford @ [22] Arizona LINK P12N
2:00pm ET/11:00am PT – UW-Stout @ Lindenwood LINK FREE
2:00pm ET/11:00am PT – Brockport, Ursinus @ Ithaca    
3:00pm ET/12:00pm PT – Air Force @ TWU LINK FREE
4:00pm ET/1:00pm PT – [13] Washington @ Arizona State LINK P12N
6:00pm ET/3:00pm PT – [3] Utah @ [3] UCLA LINK ESPN2

In the earlier Pac-12 action, Arizona broke 196 while Stanford had a 2nd-meet-of-the-weekend nightmare on vault to end up with a fairly unhelpful 195.225, which will not be enough to stay in the top 25 on Monday.

In the second meet, we had a close one with no working live scores (FUN!) in which a 9.900 from Leonard-Baker in the final spot for Arizona State on floor clinched a tie with Washington, both teams on 196.875.

Now on to the big one.

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Saturday Live Blog – February 22, 2020

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Saturday, February 22
 Scores Stream
3:00pm ET/12:00pm PT – UW-Whitewater, Hamline @ Winona State   FREE
4:00pm ET/1:00pm PT – [21] Oregon State @ [10] Cal LINK P12N
7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT – Big Five Day 2
[7] Minnesota, [9] Michigan, [24] Maryland, Penn State, Michigan State		 LINK FLO
8:00pm ET/5:00pm PT – [15] BYU @ [5] Denver LINK  

A small-but-hearty day of competition, with a surprisingly low number of meets, but lots to pay attention to.

Starting with Oregon State and Cal, and now that qualifying score is in play, we can do Score Watch. Basically my favorite part of the season. The goal score for Cal today is 197.075, which would put Cal back ahead of Alabama and Georgia after those teams’ large scores yesterday. Oregon State is hoping for a 196.800 here, which would be enough to get to the top 16 (for the time being, with many meets to come this weekend and many more scores to come in and shift things).

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Friday Live Blog – February 21, 2020

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Friday, February 21
 Scores Stream
6:00pm ET/3:00pm PT – [8] Alabama @ [2] Florida LINK SECN
6:00pm ET/3:00pm PT – Central Michigan @ Bowling Green LINK  
6:00pm ET/3:00pm PT – Illinois State, West Chester, Southern Connecticut, Ursinus @ Temple LINK  
7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT – Big Five Day 1
[16] Nebraska, [23] Illinois, Ohio State, Iowa, Rutgers		 LINK FLO
7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT – [11] Georgia @ [12] Kentucky LINK SEC+
7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT – West Virginia @ Pittsburgh LINK ACCNX
7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT – William & Mary, Centenary @ NC State LINK ACCNX
7:30pm ET/4:30pm PT – [20] Auburn @ [14] Arkansas LINK SECN
7:30pm ET/4:30pm PT – UW-Oshkosh @ UW-Eau Claire    
7:30pm ET/4:30pm PT – Gustavus Adolphus @ UW-La Crosse   FREE
8:00pm ET/5:00pm PT – [1] Oklahoma v. [25] Stanford @ Oklahoma City, OK LINK OU($)
9:00pm ET/6:00pm PT – [6] LSU @ [18] Missouri LINK SECN
9:00pm ET/6:00pm PT – [17] Iowa State @ [19] Southern Utah LINK FREE
9:00pm ET/6:00pm PT – Utah State, UC Davis, Sacramento State @ Boise State LINK FREE
10:00pm ET/7:00pm PT – San Jose State @ Seattle Pacific LINK FREE

It’s one of those three-SEC-Network-meet days, but we also have Georgia/Kentucky only on streaming, which may end up being the most interesting of all the SEC meets.

Plus, there’s the first of the two Big Five meets to keep track of. This is the less deep of the two Big Fives, but still a critical competition for Nebraska to get the win with a high 196.

And there’s Oklahoma 10 Watch. So lots to keep track of. Then when it’s all done, you get a couple-hour break, and then it’s the first day of finals from Melbourne. And people always have looks when I say watching gymnastics is a full-time job…

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2020 Olympics

Melbourne Pre-Finals Update

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Here’s a rundown on who qualified to each final in Melbourne and a quick note on how things are shaping up on each event. Finals begin at 6:00pm Saturday local time, which is 2:00am ET/11:00pm PT in US time, and are indeed streaming at the Olympic Channel.

Men’s Floor

  1. Kirill Prokopev – 15.000
  2. Ryu Sunghyun – 14.500
  3. Milad Karimi – 14.433
  4. Rayderley Zapata – 14.066
  5. Ethan Dick – 13.966
  6. Jorge Vega Lopez – 13.933
  7. Yahor Sharamkou – 13.900
  8. Bram Verhofstad – 13.633

Rayderley Zapata achieved his first goal, which was making the final. Qualifying in 4th may be a bit of a concern for him, though he is currently in a position of control and can therefore afford not to win this event and still be the frontrunner to get the Olympic spot. For now. The door remains open for someone like Prokopev, and if Prokopev were to win the title here, he’s in this race. Still, he has left it quite late and would need to be very good at everything remaining.

(Prokopev’s quest to challenge Zapata would also be helped if the FIG does not end up redistributing points from those who qualified to the Olympics as individuals. The original rules discuss redistributing points from those who qualified as part of teams, but makes no mention of individuals. Which is insane, but also…FIG. Part of Zapata’s frontrunner status is based on his gaining points redistributed from Yulo, Dolgopyat, and Shatilov.)

Tomas Gonzalez did not advance to the final, and I don’t want to talk about it.

Women’s Vault

  1. Jade Carey – 15.049
  2. Shoko Miyata – 14.166
  3. Coline Devillard – 14.050
  4. Ahtziri Sandoval – 13.916
  5. Maria Paseka – 13.883
  6. Angelina Radivilova – 13.883
  7. Teja Belak – 13.849
  8. Tkasa Kysselef – 13.733

Carey did what she had to do in qualification, scoring nearly a point better than anyone else and moving ever closer to the almost-basically-assured-but-not-quite-mathematically-guaranteed Olympic spot status she can reach with a victory here. Maria Paseka did not go for anything near full difficulty in qualification, but I’m sure we can count on her to chuck some insanity in the final. It also looks like Devillard fell on her DTY, but she would be the other closest challenger to Carey if she hits in the final.

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