In Reply to: Honestly, I'll be happy with 3rd. Any higher will be a surprise posted by BruinPatti on April 19, 2025 at 19:48:15
Utah beat us again - three times this this year - dual competition (at Utah), regionals for the NCAAs (also at Utah) and in the national Semi-Finals Thursday. But when you look at those results from Thursday, Utah was the top scoring team, UCLA was just behind them. Both finished higher than Oklahoma (a surprise) and ahead of the season's #1 ranked team, LSU. And the difference between us and Utah this most recent time was - iirc - 0.025 points.
We can improve on vault especially and also a bit on floor where we are the top ranked team in the country.
BTW I was wrong about our rotation - we start on our best event: Floor Ex and finish up on Balance Beam just as we did in Thursday's semi-finals.
We were only 5th ranked team so it would be an upset but if any of those highest ranked three were to win it - Oklahoma, Utah, UCLA - it wouldn't be very much of a shock, either.
Go Bruins!