In a five minute span the Gymnastics national championship was stolen from LSU

At the end of the third rotation LSU was in thel ead and riding the wave of momentum and confidence after an incredible bars rotation. Kylie Coen continued the momentum with a fire starting lead on beam while Oklahoma began floor with a pedestrian 9.875.Then the grand frick over occurred.

As Lexie Zeiss was standing at the beam having mentally prepared for her routine the judges suddenly and inexplicably stopped action and met over some yet unexplained scoring issue for Coen. There was a 4 minutes and 8 seconds gap between Coen's landing and the signal to Zeiss to begin. Coen was scored 9.9125 which seemingly widened the Tiger lead. However, in reverse of what usally occurs on the final rotation the Oklahoma floor team was almost finished its third spot before Zeiss was even signaled. With her rhythm and mental preparation now in shambles Zeiss had a rare fall. This placed enormous pressure on the remaining four spots and while Drayton, Licoln, Konnor and Chio performed admirably under the pressure following the delay and fall it likely resulted in small decutions which added up.

None of this was the most egregious part of the five minute shite pot the judges handed the Tigers. Lily Peterson, the second floor preformer for OU was scored 9.9375 with the usual bread and butter dull Oklahoma routine. Amazingly the judges found this routine to be the equal of the spectactular high flying aggressively tumbling floor routines by Drayton and Lincoln who both received the same 9.9375 score. Both should have been 9.95 or better. What happened the rest of the final routines for both teams was essentially a wash but in that five minutes a national championship was stolen from the best team on Saturday. Ironically, Jay Clark preaches to the team to only worry about the five minutes in front of your face that you can control. frick those bitches at the judges table who took a big shite on the LSU program with no recourse. Jay should have gone scorched earth on them but couldn't afford to do so in a sport reliant on subjective scoring.