AUBURN, Ala. – The Auburn gymnastics team remains at No. 22 this week per RoadtoNationals.com. The weekly rankings are based on the average score over the season.
Auburn will face No. 2 LSU Friday, Feb. 5, at 6 p.m. CT in Auburn Arena. The two Tiger teams were scheduled to compete last Friday, but the meet was postponed because of COVID protocols and contact tracing within the LSU program.
"We got a bye last week a little earlier than we were expecting, but we definitely took advantage of it," head coach Jeff Graba said. "We rested up and did some intrasquads to try and get better for this week. We're still looking forward to facing off with LSU at home this Friday."
The nation's top squads start with Florida still in the No. 1 spot and LSU holding on to No. 2. Utah is just .008 behind LSU at No. 3 and Arkansas jumped up to the fourth spot. Oklahoma moved down two spots and rank fifth.
The rest of the Southeastern Conference ranks in the Top 30 this week as more teams across the country have started their seasons. Alabama moved up to sixth nationally with Georgia and Kentucky at Nos. 13 and 14, respectively. Missouri stands at No. 27.
Junior Derrian Gobourne and sophomore Cassie Stevens rank tied for 23rd in the all-around with a 39.225 average. Gobourne is in the Top 25 on vault at 9.858.