Saturday night at 6 PM, the #1 Oklahoma Sooners Men's Gynmastics Team will host #3 Stanford and #12 Greenville in McCasland Field House in a match starting at 5:45 with the introduction of the athletes @ 5:45 and the competition starting at 6:00 PM. The doors open at 5 PM. The meet will be televised on ESPN+ with OU alumni and national champions Bart Conner, Matt Wenske and Peter Daggett calling the action. Live scoring will be available via OUStats.com.
Oklahoma and Stanford have combined to win the last nine NCAA Championships. The Cardinal has won five in a row since 2019, following a streak of four straight national titles by the Sooners from 2015-18.
Saturday is Cleveland Night, Alumni Night and OU's Educator Appreciation meet. Tickets can be purchased for $7 ($5 for youth and seniors) through the OU Athletics Ticket Office or at the door, and educators can purchase a discounted $3 ticket using code "EDU." Fans can bring their ticket from Friday's women's gymnastics meet vs. Kentucky or Saturday's men's basketball game vs. Tennessee and receive free admission to the men's gymnastics meet.
Here is the pre-triad meet article about the Sooner Men's Gymnastics event tonight at McCasland.
https://soonersports.com/news/2025/2/7/ ... rday-night
Good luck to the Sooner Men tonight in their match.
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#1 Sooners host #3 Stanford & #12 Greenville in Men's Gymnastics
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I may not have made enough of a big deal about this triad meet with #1 Oklahoma, #3 Stanford and #12 Greenville meeting in McCasland Field House on Saturday night. But this was a big event in the world of Gymnastics. And the Oklahoma Sooners delivered under the direction of Head Coach Mark Williams.
The match went down to the last performer on the last event. With OU on the horizontal bar in their last event, redshirt freshman Brandon Zepeda-Orth led off by scoring 13.500. Frentheway hit a 13.550 and Christiansen scored 13.150, setting up Dodanli's meet-clinching routine on the high bar. The Sooners needed at least a 13.650 on the final routine of the night to stay ahead of the Cardinal, which had concluded its vault rotation, and Dodanli hit a 13.850 to seal the team win and claim the individual event title.
Head Coach Mark Williams said, "Emre's high bar routine was spectacular. Those guys stayed focused, and we got four high bar sets that were all very good. It's very hard to go up against vault on high bar. We needed almost all of the lead that we had going in, but we were able to maintain it. It was a great night."
Saturday's crowd broke the program's previous McCasland Field House attendance record of 2,111 that was set on Cleveland Night last season. The Sooners fans in attendance, which included students and families from Norman's Cleveland Elementary School and OU gymnastics alumni, witnessed a thrilling meet and went home happy.
"It was a really exciting day," Oklahoma head coach Mark Williams said. "The crowd was into it and stayed, we had a record attendance, Cleveland Night and the alumni here. We just had a lot of things going for us tonight, and my team stepped up. We went head-to-head against the five-time defending national champions, and we were good tonight. We'll take that as a win. We know we'll have to meet them down the road for conference and the national championship.
In all, Oklahoma registered eight scores of 14.000 or higher, seven routines with 9.0 or better execution and only one sub-13.000 score in the meet. The Sooners set or tied seven individual season highs and five career-best marks. Burgoyne matched or set new career highs on all three of his routines.
The Sooners are now unbeaten against their last 76 regular season opponents, encompassing 64 consecutive regular season meets, inside McCasland Field House, dating back to the 2007 season. OU's only defeat in the field house during that time was in the 2024 MPSF Championship when it finished second to Stanford.
Here is the Sooner staff writers article about the BIG win over Stanford 329.100 to 328.850 s the Sooners won by a margin of 0.250. Please read the article below for all the particluar events and gymnasts.
https://soonersports.com/news/2025/2/8/ ... ield-house
Here is a highlight of each of the six events for OU.
Great job by the Sooners last night in McCasland and thanks to the crowd that showed up for the triad meet.
BOOMER SOONER!
The match went down to the last performer on the last event. With OU on the horizontal bar in their last event, redshirt freshman Brandon Zepeda-Orth led off by scoring 13.500. Frentheway hit a 13.550 and Christiansen scored 13.150, setting up Dodanli's meet-clinching routine on the high bar. The Sooners needed at least a 13.650 on the final routine of the night to stay ahead of the Cardinal, which had concluded its vault rotation, and Dodanli hit a 13.850 to seal the team win and claim the individual event title.
Head Coach Mark Williams said, "Emre's high bar routine was spectacular. Those guys stayed focused, and we got four high bar sets that were all very good. It's very hard to go up against vault on high bar. We needed almost all of the lead that we had going in, but we were able to maintain it. It was a great night."
Saturday's crowd broke the program's previous McCasland Field House attendance record of 2,111 that was set on Cleveland Night last season. The Sooners fans in attendance, which included students and families from Norman's Cleveland Elementary School and OU gymnastics alumni, witnessed a thrilling meet and went home happy.
"It was a really exciting day," Oklahoma head coach Mark Williams said. "The crowd was into it and stayed, we had a record attendance, Cleveland Night and the alumni here. We just had a lot of things going for us tonight, and my team stepped up. We went head-to-head against the five-time defending national champions, and we were good tonight. We'll take that as a win. We know we'll have to meet them down the road for conference and the national championship.
In all, Oklahoma registered eight scores of 14.000 or higher, seven routines with 9.0 or better execution and only one sub-13.000 score in the meet. The Sooners set or tied seven individual season highs and five career-best marks. Burgoyne matched or set new career highs on all three of his routines.
The Sooners are now unbeaten against their last 76 regular season opponents, encompassing 64 consecutive regular season meets, inside McCasland Field House, dating back to the 2007 season. OU's only defeat in the field house during that time was in the 2024 MPSF Championship when it finished second to Stanford.
Here is the Sooner staff writers article about the BIG win over Stanford 329.100 to 328.850 s the Sooners won by a margin of 0.250. Please read the article below for all the particluar events and gymnasts.
https://soonersports.com/news/2025/2/8/ ... ield-house
Here is a highlight of each of the six events for OU.
- Ignacio Yockers notched a season-high 14.650 to win the pommel horse title
- Emre Dodanli anchored with a 14.000 for the highest Sooner score on the floor.
- Francisco Velez Belendez anchored the rings team with a team season-best 14.350.
- Tyler Flores led off on vault with a team-high 14.100.
- Emre Dodanli scored a 13.650 on the parallel bars to lead the Sooners.
- Emre Dodanli hit a 13.850 for the team high score on the horizontal bar.
Great job by the Sooners last night in McCasland and thanks to the crowd that showed up for the triad meet.
BOOMER SOONER!
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