Tonight: Sooners Strive for NCAA Title

No. 1 Oklahoma at NCAA Super Six

No. 2 LSU, No. 3 UCLA, No. 4 Utah, No. 5 Florida, No. 11 Nebraska
April 21 | 6 p.m. CT | St. Louis, Mo. | Chaifetz Arena

NOTES AND NUMBERS FOR MEET 15

SUPER SIX BOUND
For the sixth straight season and eighth time overall, the No.1 Oklahoma women's gymnastics team will compete in the Super Six. The top-seeded Sooners will compete in the final of the NCAA Championships at 6 p.m. CT on Saturday night against No. 2 LSU, No. 3 UCLA, No. 4 Utah, No. 5 Florida and No. 11 Nebraska. In the Super Six, the Sooners will keep the same rotation from Friday night's semifinal, beginning on beam and rotating through the remaining events (bye, floor, vault, bye, bars).

ON THE AIR
The Super Six will air live on ESPNU and will also be available on WatchESPN and the ESPN app. Online viewers will be able to stream each individual apparatus or a quad-box view called "All-Around," which presents a streaming view of each event live at the same time on one screen. U.S. Olympic Medalists Bart Conner and Kathy Johnson Clarke will call the action, while Laura Rutledge will provide reports from the floor.

#SIP
Coming off a spectacular season in which Oklahoma claimed its third NCAA crown and posted the first perfect season in program history, the 2018 Sooners entered the season refocused and ready to work toward reaching the pinnacle of their sport for a fourth time and third in a row. OU tied with Florida to win its first national championship in 2014, becoming just the sixth school to ever earn a title, before snagging its first outright win in 2016 and adding another in 2017.

POSTSEASON PROWESS
Postseason has become a strength of the Sooners under head coach K.J. Kindler. Since 2010, OU owns eight seasons in which it has captured a conference and regional championship in the same season, accomplishing the feat in 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2012, and 2010. The Sooners have advanced to the NCAA Championships 18 times in program history and every season dating back to 2004, a streak of 15 straight. OU has never missed NCAA competition under Kindler's leadership.

ROTATION ORDER
	VAULT	BYE	BARS	BEAM	BYE	FLOOR
1.	Florida	LSU	Nebraska	OKLAHOMA	UCLA	Utah
2.	Utah	Florida	LSU	Nebraska	OKLAHOMA	UCLA
3.	UCLA	Utah	Florida	LSU	Nebraska	OKLAHOMA
4.	OKLAHOMA	UCLA	Utah	Florida	LSU	Nebraska
5.	Nebraska	OKLAHOMA	UCLA	Utah	Florida	LSU
6.	LSU	Nebraska	OKLAHOMA	UCLA	Utah	FLorida

ALL-AMERICA STATUS
Eight Sooners picked up an incredible 15 All-America honors. Gymnasts placing first through fourth are named to the first team, while those in fifth to eighth are on the second team. Sophomore Maggie Nichols picked up five All-America accolades, including four first-team honors (bars, beam, floor, all-around) and one second-team honor (vault). Junior Brenna Dowell earned two accolades, with a first-team honor on vault and second-team honors on floor. Senior Stefani Catour (second team on bars and beam) and junior Nicole Lehrmann (first team bars and beam) each earned a pair of honors. Senior AJ Jackson (second team on floor), sophomores Jade Degouveia (second team on vault) and Bre Showers (second team on vault), and freshman Anastasia Webb (first team on floor) all earned All-America accolades on one apparatus.

INDIVIDUAL CHAMPS
A pair of Oklahoma Sooners are 2018 NCAA Individual Champions as sophomore Maggie Nichols and junior Brenna Dowell combined for four individual titles. Dowell was named the co-national champion on vault, tying with Utah's Mykayla Skinner and Florida's Alex McMurtry. Nichols was the all-around champion, tying the NCAA Championship record with a 39.8125. Nichols also took home a share of the bars and floor title, tying with Stanford's Elizabeth Price on bars and UCLA's Katelyn Ohashi on floor.

QUEENS OF THE HILL
For the fourth consecutive season, Oklahoma is the nation's No. 1 overall seed heading into NCAA competition. The Sooners hold an NCAA and program-record 198.120 regional qualifying score (RQS). OU began its 2018 campaign as the top team in the preseason rankings and kept that top ranking all season long. This is the seventh straight season the Sooners have finished within the top two of the regular season national rankings based on RQS.

TOP REGIONAL TEAM
The Sooners secured their spot at nationals with their ninth straight regional title, securing a first-place finish at the NCAA Minneapolis Regional. For the second consecutive season, the Sooners posted the highest regional score with a 198.000. Nicole Lehrmann took home top honors on bars (9.950), while Maggie Nichols secured a regional title on beam (10.0), floor (9.975), and the all-around (39.775).

SOONERS AGAINST THE FIELD
Oklahoma has faced seven of the 12 teams in the 2018 NCAA Championships field this season. OU holds a 6-1 record against those teams, defeating Kentucky, UCLA, Alabama, Arkansas, Nebraska and Georgia throughout the season. The lone loss came to Florida in the third meet of the season.

MATCHUPS AT A GLANCE
	OU	LSU	UCLA	Utah	Florida	Nebraska
NCAA Seed	No. 1	No. 2	No. 3	No. 4	No. 5	No. 11
Semifinal	198.050	197.4750	197.5625	197.1375	197.5875	197.0125
RQS	198.120	197.890	197.840	197.540	197.390	196.815
Regional	198.000	197.675	197.650	197.475	197.725	197.525
Average	197.850	197.587	197.555	197.368	197.170	196.356
High	198.375	198.175	198.275	198.150	198.150	197.525

ANOTHER 198?!
The Sooners posted a program-record nine scores of at least 198 in 2018. Twice during the season, the Sooners put up a 198 in three-straight meets, doing so Jan. 26-Feb. 11 and Feb. 23-March 9. from OU has twice as many scores of 198 or better than the next closest team, as LSU posted four such scores.

IN GOOD COMPANY
OU is one of only five teams in the nation to advance to the NCAA Championships every season since 2004, along with Alabama, Florida, LSU and Utah.

A TRIO OF PERFECTION
Oklahoma set a school record for perfect scores in a meet as three Sooners scored a 10.0 on Feb. 4 at UCLA. Brenna Dowell scored her first perfect 10 on vault for Oklahoma's first perfect score of the season. On beam, Maggie Nichols and Anastasia Webb put up back-to-back perfect scores. Webb joined Dowell (bars, 2015) and Nichols (VT, UB, BB, FX, 2017) as only the third true freshman to record a perfect 10 on any event.

QUICK HITS

• Four current Sooners have scored perfect 10.0s in their careers, including Brenna Dowell (UB, 2015; VT, 2018), Nicole Lehrmann (UB, 2017), Maggie Nichols (VT [four times], UB, BB [six times], FX [twice], 2017 and 2018) and Anastasia Webb (BB, 2018). The Sooners have tallied eight perfect scores this season.

• The Sooners posted program records on bars and beam this season. Against UCLA, OU recorded a school record 49.750 on beam, using a pair of perfect scores from Anastasia Webb and Maggie Nichols to accomplish the feat. At the Big 12 Championships, the Sooners set the school record on bars with a 49.725 – counting four scores of 9.95 or higher.