No. 1 vs. No. 2 Showdown Set for Tri-Meet Saturday Night

THE MEET

No. 2 Oklahoma looks to extend its unbeaten streak at McCasland Field House Saturday night when it plays host to No. 1 Stanford and No. 11 William & Mary. The Sooners have not lost inside McCasland Field House since 2007. The showdown will begin with team introductions at 5:45 p.m. Doors open at 5 p.m.

TICKETS & PROMOTIONS

Tickets for Saturday's meet can be purchased for $5 or $7. Fans holding a ticket to the OU men's basketball game against Kansas on Saturday afternoon can purchase a $3 to the men's gym meet with the basketball ticket.

Saturday is OU's annual Cleveland Night, featuring students and parents of Norman's Cleveland Elementary school. Stations for coloring, face painting and balloon art will be set up in the field house. The team will sign autographs following the meet.

OU students in attendance can enter a raffle to win an electric scooter or Beats headphones.

FOLLOW ALONG

The meet will be televised via SoonerVision on ESPN+ with Chad McKee, Tim Daggett and Peter Daggett calling the action. Live scoring will be available via OUStats.com.

STICKS

•   Oklahoma is unbeaten inside McCasland Field House since the 2007 season, streak of 58 meets and 73 opponents that dates to OU's final home meet in 2007. The Sooners were victorious in all but one of those meets. The lone exception was a tie with Stanford during the 2021 season.

•   Oklahoma leads the nation in team season average on floor (69.600) and pommel horse (67.433). The Sooners rank second in high bar average (66.650), third on vault (71.450), fourth on parallel bars (66.867) and seventh on still rings (66.300).

•   Freshman Ignacio Yockers has posted two of the top three pommel horse scores nationally this season: 14.800 vs. Illinois/Air Force and 14.600 vs. Simpson College. Junior Zach Nunez ranks second nationally in pommel horse average (14.250).

•   Senior Jack Freeman ranks second nationally (and first in MPSF) in floor average (14.050) while sophomore Emre Dodanli ranks third nationally on floor (14.033).

•   Junior Dan Simmons' 15.050 vault last week was the second-highest in the nation this season. Fifth-year senior Vitaliy Guimaraes ranks second nationally in vault average (14.683).

•   Nunez ranks sixth in the nation in parallel bar average (13.717) and has the eighth-highest bars score this season (14.150).

•   Freeman's 14.400 score on high bar last week is the second-highest nationally this season. Freshman Kelton Christiansen's 13.633 high bar average ranks sixth in the nation.

•   Nunez was recognized as the CGA national Co-Gymnast of the Week and MPSF Gymnast of the week after registering an 83.400 in the all-around last week. Simmons was named CGA national Co-Specialist of the Week, MPSF Specialist of the Week and Inside Gymnastics Magazine's Gymnast of the Week after his 15.050 vault score. Yockers was honored as CGA national Co-Rookie of the Week and, for the second straight week, as the MPSF Freshman of the Week after posting a 14.600 on pommel horse.

LAST TIME OUT

Junior Zach Nunez registered an 83.400 in the all-around and junior Dan Simmons notched a 15.050 on vault to lead Oklahoma to a 407.650 to 352.550 win over Simpson College last Saturday night at McCasland Field House.

The Sooners posted season-high scores on floor (69.800), still rings (67.300) and vault (72.150) and finished with the top five scorers on four of the six events. Simmons won vault, Nunez won parallel bars (14.150), senior Jack Freeman claimed the high bar (14.400), freshman Ignacio Yockers won pommel horse (14.600), fifth-year senior Morgan Seyler topped rings scoring (14.000) and sophomore Emre Dodanli won floor (14.450). Simmons, Nunez, Freeman and Seyler all notched OU season-high scores on their respective events.

UPCOMING SCHEDULE

This weekend marks the final of three straight home meets for Oklahoma in the friendly confines of McCasland Field House.

Following this weekend's meet, OU returns to the road Feb. 17 for a dual meet at Nebraska before the Winter Cup break. Winter Cup will be held Feb. 24-26 in Louisville, Ky.

The Sooners return home for a matchup against Michigan on March 4 at 6 p.m., travel to Columbus, Ohio, on March 11 to face Ohio State and Penn State before closing the regular season at California on March 18.

The MPSF Championship will be held April 1 in Colorado Springs, Colo. The NCAA qualifier and Championships will be held April 14-15 in University Park, Pa.