OU Heads to Iowa for Tri-Meet

vs. No. 9 Iowa and No. 6 Ohio State
Feb. 1 | Iowa City, Iowa | Carver Hawkeye Arena

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The Sooners are set to cap off their three season-opening road trips with a jaunt to Iowa City, Iowa this weekend to face two Big Ten programs in the No. 9 Iowa Hawkeyes and No. 6 Ohio State Buckeyes. The tri-meet will be OU's first Sunday competition of the season and will start at noon on February 1.

Five Things to Know

• The Sooners are a deep unit in 2015 and has top-level talent at every event, however, the Crimson and Cream's ring specialists have stood out thus far. At No. 2 Stanford last weekend, Oklahoma set a program record for it's team score on the apparatus with a mark of 76.250. OU has an average score of 75.850 through two meets, which leads the nation for the event. Oklahoma is led by two-time defending NCAA rings champion Mike Squires, who has posted marks of 16.300 and 16.100 already this season.

• OU heads into its third weekend of competition with a two-week average team score of 441.050, good for the best mark in the country. The Sooners followed up its opening score of 441.550 at the Rocky Mountain Open with a mark of 440.550 in Palo Alto, Calif. Oklahoma is the only program to register a 440 or higher in each meet in 2015. This trend bodes well for OU, as neither Iowa nor Ohio State have registered a score above 432 yet this season.

• Oklahoma has posted the highest event individual score in 10 of 12 events thus far in 2015, with eight Sooners combining to claim the 10 top scores. After sweeping the first-place finishes at the season-opening Rocky Mountain Open the Crimson and Cream posted the top scores in floor exercise, still rings, vault and high bar. Allan Bower and Mike Squires have each won two event titles through two weeks of competition.

• After the first two competitions of the season, the Sooners have already faced all three Mountain Pacific Sports Federation foes this season. Oklahoma defeated Air Force at the Rocky Mountain Open to start the year and then claimed victories over Stanford and California a week later at a quad-meet in Palo Alto. The Crimson and Cream have one more meeting with California in Berkley, California on Sunday, March 8, before facing all three teams at the MPSF Conference Championships in Colorado Springs, Colorado on Saturday, March 28.

• Kanji Oyama was OU's gymnast of the meet following the first-place finish on the west coast last weekend. Oyama had a career day, setting personal-best marks on the floor exercise (15.650), still rings (15.250) and parallel bars (14.900). The junior totaled a score of 88.250 for the all-around to secure second place.

On The Web

Fans can find live results of Sunday's meet via meetscoreonline.com and live video at http://m.ustream.tv/channel/iowamensgymnastics. Live updates and photos from Iowa will be available at on Twitter at @OU_MGymnastics and at Facebook.com/SoonerGymnasts, the official Facebook page of OU Men's Gymnastics.

Next Up

Oklahoma will have a weekend off for the first time in the 2015 season, as they prepare for the showdown against defending national champion Michigan on Saturday, Feb. 14 for the Crimson and Cream's home opener at 5:30 p.m.