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Saturday Live Blog – Utah @ Cal; Arizona State @ UCLA

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Saturday, February 27

3:00 ET/12:00 PT – Southern Utah @ BYU – SCORES – Stream

4:00 ET/1:00 PT – Utah @ Cal – SCORES – Pac-12

4:00 ET/1:00 PT – Arizona State @ UCLA – SCORES – Pac-12 (Arizona/LA)
4:00 ET/1:00 PT – Eastern Michigan, Pittsburgh @ Ohio State – SCORES – Stream($)
5:00 ET/2:00 PT – Winona State, Gustavus Adolphus, Hamline @ Minnesota – SCORES – BTN($)
5:00 ET/2:00 PT – UW-La Crosse @ UW-Whitewater – Stream
6:00 ET/3:00 PT – Washington @ Arizona – SCORES – Stream
7:00 ET/4:00 PT – Sacramento State, Bridgeport, Northern Illinois @ Nebraska – SCORES
7:00 ET/4:00 PT – Centenary @ Texas Woman’s – SCORES – Stream
8:00 ET/5:00 PT – Iowa, SEMO, Illinois-Chicago @ Denver – SCORES
Pac-12 day! Scoring should be interesting. SEC scoring went on a bender last night, particularly in the Florida meet, highlighted by that time one judge gave McMurtry a 9.950 for a Yfull that she didn’t stick.
Handy reference guide:
Now, SEC scoring has the biggest reputation, but it’s not like scoring at these Pac-12 venues has been the epitome of temperance and modesty, this season or historically, so keep an eye on what happens comparatively. We all recall the flood of 9.950s UCLA has received on home floor this year.

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Saturday Live Blog – Oklahoma @ Georgia; Utah @ Stanford

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Saturday, February 20

4:00 ET/1:00 PT – Oklahoma @ Georgia – SCORES – SECN
4:00 ET/1:00 PT – Alabama, Denver, Cornell @ Penn State – SCORES – Stream(free)
5:00 ET/2:00 PT – Utah @ Stanford – SCORES – Pac-12
5:00 ET/2:00 PT – Cal @ Oregon State – SCORES – Pac-12 Oregon
5:00 ET/2:00 PT – Towson @ Iowa – SCORES – Stream($)
6:00 ET/3:00 PT – Pennsylvania, Temple, Ursinus @ Rutgers – SCORES
10:15 ET/7:15 PT – Winter Cuppity Cup Cup Cup – SCORES/STREAM
Joyful times to be had by all! Until we get to Georgia on beam. Then…we’ll see. The main focus of the day will be everything, but mostly Oklahoma and Georgia because I’m fascinated to see those two up against each other. I don’t think it’s going to be the cakewalk for Oklahoma it might seem based on most previous scores, so that’s obviously the kiss of death. Enjoy reading that sentence after Oklahoma wins by three points.

First eye goes on that meet. Second eye on Utah and Stanford because that’s now an urgent scoring assignment for Stanford. Remaining eyes on Iowa’s scores and the “who’s fourth-best in this conference” showdown between OSU and Cal. Oh, and Alabama! Too much!

Also, why you should be a fan of Kaytianna McMillan.


“That was a good sentence. We have like maybe two.”

And then tonight, the elite boys get their Winter Cup on, which is always a treat. It’s like gymnastics, but where everyone falls on everything. It’s really fun. You’ll like it a lot.

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Saturday Live Blog – [5] LSU @ [11] Georgia; Washington @ [6] Utah; [16] Oregon State @ [7] UCLA

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A big day! I’ll keep this blog going throughout, sort of like mini-regionals, so just keep scrolling through the mass of ramblings as the day progresses.

Saturday, February 13
4:00 ET/1:00 PT – [5] LSU @ [11] Georgia – SCORES – SECN
4:00 ET/1:00 PT – Penn State @ [23] Ohio State – SCORES – Stream($)
5:00 ET/2:00 PT – Iowa @ [20] Illinois – SCORES
7:00 ET/4:00 PT – Southern Connecticut @ [22] New Hampshire – SCORES
9:00 ET/6:00 PT – Washington @ [6] Utah – SCORES – Pac-12
9:00 ET/6:00 PT – [13] Stanford @ Arizona – SCORES – Pac-12 (Arizona/Bay Area)

11:00 ET/8:00 PT – [16] Oregon State @ [7] UCLA – SCORES – Pac-12

In the rankings fight, LSU will find it challenging to move up at all based on today’s performance, needing a 197.900 to ahead ahead of Alabama. In RQS, there’s still plenty of time to get scores and LSU has four road meets remaining including this one, but with only one vaguely usable road score on the resume so far, a big number today would do a lot to solidify that ranking.

Similarly, Georgia would need a 197.450 to move ahead of Arkansas (currently in 10th), which I still maintain is doable for this team especially at home but would require a season-best performance by a long way. Georgia has a lot of scores that need dropping for RQS, but the good news for the Gymdogs is that they have 158 meets this season and won’t necessarily have to rely on any of these bad scores if they pull it together starting about now. But it needs to start now.
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Saturday Live Blog – Utah @ UCLA

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SCORES
Pac-12 Net
4:00 ET/1:00 PT

Ah, Utah and UCLA. One of my favorites. The unfortunate aspect of this rivalry over the last three seasons has been the road team throwing up an utter catastrophe on bars in the first rotation, deciding the meet and dulling any kind of competitive excitement after about three minutes of gymnastics before anyone has time to get interested. This is supposed be a close, back-and-forth affair (it’s Utah and UCLA), but we haven’t had that for a while, so…here’s hoping. No one is allowed to have a catastrophe until at least beam.

Today’s pre-meet discussion topic is Angi Cipra’s floor routine, which now that we’ve seen it four or five times, is taking on a new identity where the theme is the continued emotional bullying of Angi Cipra. Why do people keep hanging up on her so much? Prank calls are just mean, you guys. Does she have no friends? Do we have a clique problem at this school? She keeps being like, “Who’s calling me?????” and every time the whole team is like, “I don’t know…” Dicks. Don’t worry, Angi. It gets better.

Bars has been a good event for Utah so far this year, unless the curse of away bars continues, while vault has been lackluster for UCLA, so Utah will hope to have a multi-tenth lead after the first rotation. If UCLA is in any position better than a two-tenth deficit at that point, that bodes well for the Bruins, who should be better suited for success in the second half of the meet.
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