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Ring the bell. The third round is coming up.

Utah's fifth-ranked gymnastics team, which lost only to UCLA this year, most recently at the Pac-12 Championships, will get a third shot at the eighth-ranked Bruins on April 2 in the NCAA Regional Championships hosted by the Utes.

The Bruins are coming to Salt Lake City, along with No. 17 Washington, No. 23 Southern Utah, Illinois and Utah State. The teams are seeded based on national rankings and regional locations, so the Utes had a feeling they'd be seeing the Bruins again.

"We do have a little bit of a chip on our shoulder," said Utah senior Kassandra Lopez. "We are after them, but after every team too. The goal remains the same — control what we can and be one of the top two teams."

The top two teams from each of the six regionals advance to the NCAA Championships April 15-16 in Fort Worth, Texas.

Utah is the only team to qualify for every NCAA Championship. Last year the Utes finished second to Florida by just 0.05.

Back when the season began the Utes weren't sure what kind of realistic expectations to have for 2016, but now they believe they can be another legitimate threat — even if they didn't win the Pac-12 title.

UCLA scored a 197.25 while the Utes finished with a 196.925, tying Oregon State for second. The Utes were satisfied with that finish, particularly after the meet started with two falls on the balance beam.

"We know they are a tough team and it's always good to go up against tough teams," senior Kailah Delaney said. "I was proud of everybody for the way they fought after beam, they gave it their all. Now we need to move on from that."

Rather than focus on the mistakes on beam, where the Utes were without Maddy Stover thanks to an injured shoulder, coach Megan Marsden stressed the need to move forward.

"I wish we had handled starting on beam better, but I do understand the structure of that meet — going one at a time with a slow beginning — and having to replace people in lineups changed a lot," Marsden said. "It probably weighed a lot of the team. But we still competed like we had a chance and I like that in this group. The way they finished everything, it held true that even counting a fall Utah can still be a dangerous team to go up against."

While the Utes will have to wait and see if Stover can compete at regionals, they won't wait to get the team prepared in other areas, specifically the format.

Thanks to a random drawing before the season, the Utes know they will start on a bye then go to bars as the top seed at regionals. So Utah will use the next several days to prepare for that rotation order.

"I think it will be a good rotation for us," Marsden said. "We're a great bar team so we should do well there, then having a bye with two events to go and finishing the meet competing rather than on a bye is good, so we will have all those things to work on."

Since the Utes are familiar with most of the teams in the regional, Marsden cautioned against any complacency.

"They need to be prepared to be aggressive," she said.

With UCLA in the field, such reminders probably won't be necessary. —

NCAA Regional Fields

Salt Lake City • No. 5 Utah, No. 8 UCLA, No. 17 Washington, No. 23 SUU, Illinois, Utah State

Ann Arbor • No. 6 Auburn, No. 7 Michigan, No. 18, Stanford, No. 24 Eastern Michigan, No. 25 Penn State, New Hampshire

Minneapolis • No. 2 Florida, No. 11 Denver, No. 16 Minnesota, No. 20 Missouri, Ohio State, BYU

Athens • No. 3 LSU, No. 9 Georgia, No. 13 Oregon State, No. 22 Arizona, George Washington, Michigan State

Iowa City • No. 1 Oklahoma, No. 12 Nebraska, No. 13 Arkansas, Iowa, Kent State, Central Michigan

Tuscaloosa • No. 4 Alabama, No. 10 California, No. 15 Boise State, No. 21 Kentucky, West Virginia, Bowling Green