In sports, you can’t ever take anything for granted. After the first rotation of today’s NCAA first semifinal meet, UCLA was in third place and the Bruins were second after three rotations.
At multiple times today, it looked like the Bruins might not have the chance to defend their title, especially considering how stingy the judges seemed to be.
How stingy were they? Extremely stingy.
Kyla Ross’ streak of perfect tens came to an end as no competitor earned a score higher than a 9.9500. Of course, leave it to Ross to do that twice — once on the vault and again on the floor.