LSU advanced to the new eight-team gymnastics national semifinals with a tense but workmanlike victory in the friendly confines of their home gym.
The Tigers didn’t rack up the big scores, some of it due to the usual bout of postseason judging we have all come to know and love, but also partly due to some strong tactics: LSU took the points on the table and didn’t try and go for more, putting the pressure on the other teams to keep pace and not make a mistake.
For the first half of the meet, Utah and Minnesota kept up the pace, but eventually, the pressure of keeping up with LSU’s metronome-like consistency took its toll, and the Gophers finally made enough small errors to fall off of the pace.