Hong, a three-time NCAA All-American during his freshman season while helping lead Stanford to a national championship, is still looking for his first individual national championship.
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Their history hung directly over their heads, written in the banners dangling from the Maturi Pavilion rafters. Each panel told a piece of the Gophers 118-year-old story: their first Big Ten championship in 1903, John Roethlisberger s brilliant run in the 1990s, Shane Wiskus 2019 NCAA championship on parallel bars.
Gophers gymnast Mike Moran didn t think about those broad strokes Saturday, when the program s timeline ended at the NCAA men s gymnastics championships. He focused tightly on the small moments of the Gophers final meet as a varsity sport, the ones he wanted to remember for the rest of his life. The whole meet, I was trying to actively remember every hug, every cheer, Moran said. Because it was tough, knowing through the whole meet that once you hit that final dismount, you are done.
Oklahoma men finish second at NCAAs
Gage Dyer wins two individual national championships, but Stanford closes strong on the rings to take the team title
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MINNEAPOLIS No. 1-ranked Oklahoma came close again.
But the Sooners came up short of winning their 13th men’s gymnastics national championship on Saturday, finishing runner-up to Stanford.
Gage Dyer
Earlier in the day, the OU women also finished national runner-up to Michigan.
OU had a slim lead entering final rotation, but the Sooners couldn’t hold couldn’t hold on as Stanford overtook them 414.521-411.591 by placing three athletes in the top five in the rings to win its second NCAA national championship in a row (2020 was canceled).