Completed Event: Men's Gymnastics versus Ohio State on April 17, 2026 , Win , 322.825, to, 320.294
Final
Men's Gymnastics
322.825
vs Ohio State
320.294
University of Oklahoma Athletics
Eyeing History: OU Set for NCAA Finals
April 20, 2019 | Men's Gymnastics
No. 1 Oklahoma at NCAA Championship
No. 2 Stanford, No. 3 Michigan, No. 4 Illinois, No. 5 Penn State, No. 7 Nebraska
April 20 | 6 p.m. CT | Champaign, Ill. | State Farm Center
| MATCHUPS AT A GLANCE | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OU | Stanford | Michigan | Illinois | Penn State | Nebraska | |
| Ranking | No. 1 | No. 2 | No. 3 | No. 4 | No. 5 | No. 7 |
| Team NQA | 421.163 | 418.025 | 410.863 | 410.125 | 409.138 | 404.638 |
| 2019 Team High | 425.700 | 419.350 | 413.900 | 415.700 | 410.350 | 408.700 |
NOTES AND NUMBERS
THE MEET
No. 1 Oklahoma (24-0) aims to make history at today's NCAA Championship in Champaign, Ill., at the State Farm Center. The Sooners will compete in the team finals Saturday evening at 6 p.m. CT after qualifying with the top team score in yesterday's preliminaries.
“Prelims went exactly as planned, we were really happy with the results there," said OU head coach Mark Williams. "Tonight's another meet, however. We hope to put Yul (Moldauer) in the all-around, as well as Levi Anderson and Genki Suzuki. All veterans that I know are up to the task. I know it will be a big night, I'm hoping for great results."
OU will face off against No. 2 Stanford, No. 3 Michigan, No. 4 Illinois, No. 5 Penn State and No. 7 Nebraska in the finals, which are set to air live on Big Ten Network. Oklahoma defeated all five of the other teams that qualified for the finals throughout the 2019 regular season, conference championship and Friday's qualifying session.
With an unprecedented fifth consecutive national title tonight, the Sooners would stand atop NCAA men's gymnastics history with a record 13 national titles, breaking the tie with Penn State for the most titles and would become just the second team ever to win five straight, joining Nebraska's run from 1979-1983. With one more national title, OU head coach Mark Williams would also top the coaching charts with a record 10 titles as head coach. Senior Yul Moldauer, with one more individual national championship, would break a tie to move into sole possession of the most individual national titles in NCAA history.
Additionally, with a victory tonight, the 2019 senior class would depart OU having never lost a meet in their tenure at Oklahoma.
“I think they (the seniors) have worked hard throughout their careers and tonight will be a culmination of all that," said Williams. "They've been a very close team and this is something that they are very excited about, the possibility of going undefeated their whole careers. That would be pretty amazing.”
WINNING STREAK APPROACHING RARE AIR
The Sooners have won or finished first in every meet in which they have competed since placing second at the 2014 NCAA Team Finals. In that span, they have racked up 121 victories, the most consecutive wins in program history, including 72 straight at home. The streak is the longest active streak in any Division I NCAA sport and the third-longest winning streak in NCAA history, recently passing the 111 straight victories by the UConn women's basketball team from 2014-17. The top two streaks are 137 by Miami men's tennis (1957-64) and 130 by BYU-Hawaii women's tennis (2002-05).
NISSEN-EMERY AWARD WINNER YUL MOLDAUER
Senior Yul Moldauer has made his mark on the OU record books and will look to cap his historic collegiate career this evening when the Sooners take the floor for the final time in 2019. The reigning NCAA all-around champion was named the 2019 Nissen-Emery Award winner Thursday evening, awarded annually to the top senior male gymnast in the NCAA. Moldauer claimed the top scores on two events in Friday's preliminary, still rings (15.033) and parallel bars (14.733).
The Sooner co-captain is a seven-time individual national champion and became just the third men's gymnast ever to win four individual national titles in one year in 2018. Last season marked Moldauer's second all-around national title after claiming the crown his freshman season in 2016. His seven titles rank first all-time at OU ahead of Steven Legendre (6) and Olympians Jonathan Horton (6) and Jake Dalton (4).
His seven individual titles put him in a tie for the most individual crowns in NCAA history and Moldauer will have a chance to move into sole possession of the most titles tonight.
LAST TIME OUT
Top-ranked OU advanced to Saturday's team finals by defeating No. 4 Illinois, No. 5 Penn State, No. 8 Iowa, No. 9 Ohio State and No. 12 Army in Friday's pre-qualifying session two. The Sooners put up a team score of 419.191 to best the rest of their preliminary field, with second-place Illinois being the closest team to Oklahoma with a tally of 410.324. OU registered the top team scores on four of six events and Sooner gymnasts claimed three high individual scores. Moldauer claimed the still rings and parallel bars top marks, while freshman Vitaliy Guimaraes claimed the top vault score.
TOP RANKS
The Sooners hold the best national qualifying average (421.163) and claim the top spots on still rings (70.925), vault (73.150) and high bar (69.950). The team also ranks in the top three on the other three events, coming in second on floor exercise (70.925) and parallel bars (69.488) and third on pommel horse (67.500).
• Individually, Sooner gymnasts hold three of the top-10 national spots on floor exercise. Sophomore and conference champ on the event Dyer ranks first with an NQA of 14.650, while Moldauer sits fifth (14.413). Guimaraes rounds out the top 10 at 10th with an NQA of 14.350. Moldauer holds fourth on pommel horse with an NQA of 14.325 after claiming the conference title against the Cardinal, Bears and Falcons with a 14.250.
• OU occupies three of the top seven spots in the country on still rings. Moldauer (14.950) moved into first after claiming the conference crown last Saturday with an NCAA-best 15.250. Fellow seniors Peter Daggett and Jake Maloley sit fifth and seventh, respectively, with NQAs of 14.400 and 14.313.
• On the event that the Sooners average an NCAA-best 73.150, vault, OU gymnasts hold four of the top 10 individual spots. Senior Levi Anderson (14.763) ranks third after winning the MPSF title with his NCAA-best 15.250 performance. Dyer (14.700) sits fourth, while junior Tanner Justus (14.663) and Guimaraes (14.575) come in fifth and ninth, respectively.
• Moldauer also tops the charts on parallel bars with an impressive NQA of 14.988. The Nissen-Emery winner won the conference title on the event with a 15.150 routine.
• The Sooners land three in the top five on high bar, led by Anderson (14.500) in the one spot. Dyer (14.363) ranks third, while senior Genki Suzuki comes in fifth with a 14.238 NQA.
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