Top-Ranked Sooners Host #3 Stanford, #12 Greenville Saturday Night

THE MEET

• No. 1 Oklahoma plays host to No. 3 Stanford and No. 12 Greenville at McCasland Field House on Saturday. The tri-meet is set to begin with introductions at 5:45 p.m. and the first routine at 6 p.m. Doors open at 5:00.

• 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. Greenville is a relative newcomer in its third year as a program. The Panthers competed their first season in 2023.

TICKETS/PROMOTIONS/ENTRY

• 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.

• OU's annual Cleveland Night meet, features students and families from Norman's Cleveland Elementary School. Feb. 7-8 is also OU Gymnastics Alumni Weekend. The Sooners will welcome back gymnastics alumni and will honor the 2015 National Championship squad before the meet at approximately 5:45 p.m.

• Fans can take advantage of $2 beer, soda and popcorn at the concessions stands, take photos with OU's national championship trophies and visit a face painting station. Socks will be tossed for OU dismount sticks, there will be a t-shirt toss and the loudest fans can receive a coupon for free ice cream. The team will sign autographs following the meet.

• The University of Oklahoma enforces a clear-bag policy and walk-through metal detectors at all home athletics events. Review policies and prohibited items at SoonerSports.com/clearbags.

STICKS

• Saturday's meet will feature two Olympians in the lineups, one for each team. Oklahoma's Emre Dodanli competed at the 2024 Paris Olympics with his native Turkey, while Stanford's Asher Hong was part of USA's bronze medal team. Dodanli helped Turkey to a ninth-place finish, just .235 points shy of advancing to team finals in the country's first Olympics with a team qualified for men's gymnastics.

• Oklahoma's only defeat inside McCasland Field House since the 2007 season was in the 2024 MPSF Championship when OU finished second to Stanford. Oklahoma is unbeaten against its last 74 regular season opponents, encompassing 63 consecutive regular season meets, inside McCasland Field House, dating back to the 2007 season. The streak began on March 17, 2007, with a victory over Iowa. OU's last regular-season loss in the field house was March 3, 2007, against Ohio State. Oklahoma and also Stanford tied in a dual meet in McCasland Field House during the 2021 season.

• Oklahoma has registered three of the top six and four of the top 12 team scores nationally this season. Its 330.700 against Illinois on Jan. 25 is the highest collegiate men's team score in the four-up, four-count meet format introduced for the 2025 season. The Sooners are ranked No. 1 for the second straight week and the third time in four weeks this season. OU has been ranked No. 1 at some point in every season since 2001.

• Junior Ignacio Yockers was named the MPSF Gymnast of the Week after notching a 14.300 on pommel horse in OU's road victory at Ohio State on Sunday. He put together a 9.0 execution score on his routine to place second on the event and help the Sooners register a season-high 55.300 team score on pommels. The Tulsa, Okla., product is one of only two gymnasts nationally to score at least a 14.000 on four pommel horse routines this season (all four of his scores have been 14.250 or higher). He ranks fourth nationally in pommel horse average. This was Yockers' second MPSF award this season and his 10th career conference weekly honor of his career, but his first career Gymnast of the Week award. He has been named the Specialist of the Week seven times and was Freshman of the Week twice.

• Five current Sooners have earned qualification to USA Gymnastics Winter Cup, which will be held Feb. 21-23 in Louisville, Ky.: redshirt junior Fuzzy Benas (all-around), junior Kelton Christiansen (high bar), senior Brigham Frentheway (floor exercise), sophomore Tas Hajdu (still rings) and junior Ignacio Yockers (pommel horse). OU signees Sasha Bogonosiuk and Nathan Roman and alumnus Yul Moldauer are also qualified for Winter Cup. Benas and Moldauer will be unable to compete at Winter Cup.

• Mark Williams is in his 26th season as Oklahoma head coach. He has led the Sooners to 594 victories (594-58-1 [.910]), nine national championships and 18 MPSF conference titles since his first season in 2000.

NATIONAL RANKINGS NOTES

• Oklahoma has won 12 national championships (1977, '78, '91, 2002, '03, '05, '06, '08, '15, '16, '17, '18), tied for most in NCAA history (tied with Penn State), including nine national titles since 2000. The Sooners have finished first or second in 19 of the last 23 NCAA Championships, and have reached 24 consecutive NCAA finals, or every championship held since 2000 (does not count the 2020 championship canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic). OU has finished among the top 3 in 22 of the last 23 NCAA Championships held, dating back to the 2001 season.

• Mark Williams has led Oklahoma to nine national titles and 18 MPSF conference titles over the course of his 25 full seasons as head coach of the Sooners. OU won an NCAA championship held in Norman three times: 2002, 2006 and 2015.

• The Sooners last won an NCAA championship in 2018 in Chicago, Ill., capping a run of four consecutive national titles (2015-18), then claimed second place in three straight championships: 2019, '21 and '22.

LAST TIME OUT

• Seniors Matthew Burgoyne, Brigham Frentheway and Emre Dodanli and redshirt freshman Arthur Ballon won individual event titles to lead Oklahoma to a 322.900 to 316.300 road win at No. 5 Ohio State Sunday in Columbus, Ohio. Ballon took home the top score on floor exercise (13.650), Burgoyne won still rings (14.050), Frentheway won vault (14.100) and Dodanli claimed the horizontal bar title (14.050).

• The Sooners finished ahead of the Buckeyes on five events: floor exercise (52.900), pommel horse (55.300), still rings (53.700), vault (55.250) and horizontal bar (54.700), and notched a 51.050 on parallel bars. OU and Ohio State went head-to-head on all six events Sunday. Senior Zach Nunez notched a season-high 14.250 and junior Ignacio Yockers anchored with a 14.300 for the second straight week, as OU notched a season-high team score on pommel horse.

• The Sooners closed the meet with a strong high bar rotation. Redshirt freshman Brandon Zepeda-Orth registered a career-high 13.800, followed by a 13.150 by Frentheway. Junior Kelton Christiansen scored a solid 13.700 and Dodanli finished with his 14.050.

UP NEXT

• Following Saturday's meet, Oklahoma will host Michigan and Simpson in its home finale at 5:45 p.m. (first routine at 6 p.m.) on Saturday, Feb. 15 at McCasland Field House. The Sooners will celebrate their seniors in a ceremony following the meet. Tickets are available for $7 for adults and $5 for youth and seniors.