Here are the highs and lows from Auburn’s performance at the SEC Championship meet, with NCAA Regionals next
Auburn showed some bounce-back again, but will have to make its beam rotation the last of its kind if the Tigers are going to make it through NCAA Regionals.
Auburn will have to leave this in Tulsa.
That’s in a more literal sense than it may seem: If Auburn has another rotation like its beam rotation on Saturday at the SEC Championships in Oklahoma, its season will end, since NCAA Regionals are next.
Auburn had to count a fall on beam with another missed connection putting the Tigers an entire point and more of where it would want to be after that rotation — and where it’d need to be against top-32 competition next time out in the NCAA Regional semifinals.
Auburn finished with a season-low score on beam, and also a season-low score on vault. It wasn’t the performance any team would want, given a choice, going into NCAAs.
The good news for the Tigers: They have their chance to flush it, and start the season anew starting with the NCAA Regionals selection announcement Monday. And, the Tigers did show fight in some spots as they closed the meet.
“After a tough start to the meet, we settled down and did a great job on floor,” Auburn head coach Jeff Graba said in a university release. “It was a really good bounce back for the team. All in all, I’m proud of the fight. However, we won’t be able to start slow in the next meet so we need to get back to work.”
Here’s how it went for Auburn in Saturday’s afternoon session at SECs: