When you’re opening up Pac-12 competition against the No. 6 team in the nation, there may not be expectations that you will win. The Arizona GymCats did not earn the upset, but they looked like a team that expected to be in it before falling to California in the final rotation by a final score of 196.400 to 196.100.
It didn’t start out promising on vault. Arizona left its opening rotation with a score of 48.650 while Cal was opening up a huge lead with a 49.250 on bars. Being down by 0.600 is a big deficit in NCAA gymnastics, but there was plenty of time left.