Apr 16, 2021
INDIANAPOLIS With a second-place finish in the first session of the NCAA Qualifying meet, No. 1-ranked Oklahoma advanced to the NCAA Men s Gymnastics Finals on Friday.
The Sooners finished with a score of 406.190 in competition with No. 4 Nebraska (408.623), No. 5 Ohio State (394.956), No. 8 Illinois (400.721), No. 9 Navy (390.990) and No. 12 William & Mary (371.256).
The Sooners won three events as a team and placed in the top five on four events.
“I think we were just a little bit slow out of the gate in terms of energy, anxiety and nervousness,” said OU head coach
Mark Williams. “But as the meet went on, we made a little more mistakes than we normally have. The object is to be one of the three teams to qualify and we did that, so we re fine and will come back and go at it again tomorrow.”
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