Wolverines Fall to No. 1 Oklahoma in Season Opener

Saturday, January 27

Ann Arbor, Mich.

1:00 PM

Michigan

403.650

411.650

Oklahoma

Cameron Bock

1/27/2018 4:42:00 PM | Men's Gymnastics

By: Scott Kemps

» Michigan earned team event titles on floor exercise and pommel horse. U-M swept the top-three spots on floor, with redshirt junior Alec Krystek taking home his first floor event title of his Wolverine career with a 14.50.
» The Wolverines led the meet through four rotations before the No. 1 and three-time defending NCAA Champion Sooners pulled away en route to earning their 82nd-straight victory dating back to the start of the 2015 season.
» A group of four freshmen made its NCAA debut in Nick Guy, Jacob Moore, Cameron Bock, and Jonathan Liu.
» The meet featured three of last year's seven NCAA Champions in Michigan's Anthony McCallum (vault), and Yul Moldauer (floor exercise, still rings) and two teams that have combined to win the last four NCAA team titles.

Site: Ann Arbor, Mich. (Cliff Keen Arena)
Score: No. 1 Oklahoma 411.650, No. 9 Michigan 403.650
Attendance: 1,112
Records: Michigan 0-1, Oklahoma 1-0
Next U-M Meet: Saturday, Feb. 3 -- vs. No. 4 Ohio State (Cliff Keen Arena), 1 p.m.

• Complete Results (PDF)

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The No. 9 University of Michigan men's gymnastics team scored a 403.650 in its season-opening matchup against the No. 1 Oklahoma Sooners, but fell in the meet due to an NCAA-leading score of 411.650 by the Sooners on Saturday (Jan. 27) inside Cliff Keen Arena.

Redshirt junior Alec Krystek led the Wolverines on the afternoon to earn the first floor title of his career with a 14.50, earning the Newt Loken Award for most outstanding performance of the meet.

The Maize and Blue led through the first four rotations, but the No. 1-ranked Sooners pulled ahead through the final two rotations.

U-M swept the top-three spots on the floor as Krystek earned the event title with a 14.50 on his Kasamatsu Full, the second-highest score in the NCAA this season on the event. Freshman Jacob Moore took second place with a score of 14.05 followed by sophomore Parker Chiapuzio in third (13.90).

The Wolverines also saw success on the pommel horse with freshman Cameron Bock taking second place with a mark of 13.55, followed by sophomore Mack Lasker in third with a 13.45.

Redshirt junior Marty Strech finished third on vault with a 14.35, and placed second on still rings with a 14.10. Junior Ryan Dunning tied for third-place on rings with a mark of 14.00.

A group of four freshmen made their NCAA debuts in Nick Guy, Jonathan Liu, Moore, and Bock. Guy had the fourth-best score of the afternoon on vault with a 14.30. Moore finished fourth on pommel horse with a 13.35. In Liu';s career debut, he finished ninth on pommel horse (12.50) and 10th on horizontal bars (12.70).

Tweet of the Meet

Huge stuck double double by Alec Krystek on this extremely clean floor set. pic.twitter.com/U9t74fjvnJ
— Michigan Gymnastics (@UMichGym) January 27, 2018