The Wildcats and the Nittany Lions.

What happens when the two women's gymnastics teams meet? Who knows.

The matchup is set for 7 p.m. tomorrow at Rec Hall when No. 16 Penn State takes on No. 23 New Hampshire for the 20th time in the schools' histories. Penn State's record against New Hampshire is 14-5, including a loss last year in the team's opening meet of the season with a score of 194.700-193.800.

"We went into the meet (last season) as our first meet," Penn State sophomore Katie McAvoy said. "Our whole team was a lot of freshmen. We had no idea what it was like.

"This year, our first meet was the Super Six Challenge which was like competing at Nationals. I think we will do a lot better this year with them (New Hampshire)."

The Lions finished first in all four events and the all-around last year against the Wildcats. However, the problem was that they also had gymnasts finishing last in all the events leading to the Penn State downfall.

To prepare for this weekend's matchup, Penn State has beenconcentrating its efforts on improving its scores on the balance beam and the uneven bars.

Currently, the Lions are ranked 16th in the country on bars and 26th on beam. After scoring only a 9.250 on bars at the Super Six Challenge to open the Lions season, senior Gemma Cuff has especially been focusing on improving her bar routine.

"I've had issues with bars," Cuff said. "I wasn't in the lineup last weekend (on bars) and I'm used to being in the all-around, so I was upset about that.

"I haven't been doing my job on bars and the coach needs someone to be consistent."

According to Cuff, the team has also shifted from focusing on the quantity of elements to the quality of the elements in the routines.

"We're working on getting high scores now," Cuff said. "Getting the benefit of the doubt from the judges." But the Wildcats are coming into State College with their claws drawn and ready to improve their record to 2-0 in dual meets.

New Hampshire won its first dual meet of the season against Rutgers and won a four-team competition last weekend against Arizona, North Carolina State and James Madison.In individual events, Penn State is nationally ranked above New Hampshire on two events — the vault and beam. So when it comes down to it tomorrow night, both teams will have to be on the money to pull off the win.

"You can't control what the other team does," New Hampshire women's gymnastics coach Gail Goodspeed said. "Every person just needs to focus on perfection. The team energy needs to be there supporting each other.

"We are both good teams, it will just come down to who hits the most sets."