No. 2 Men’s Gymnastics Qualifies for National Championships – Ohio State Buckeyes
3/27/2001 12:00:00 AM | General, Men's Gymnastics
March 27, 2001
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The No. 2 Ohio State men’s gymnastics team is one of 12 teams which has qualified for the 2001 NCAA Men’s Gymnastics Championships, the NCAA Men’s Gymnastics Committee today announced. The championships, which include the national qualifiers, the team championships and the individual event finals, will be held April 5-7 in St. John Arena in Columbus, Ohio. The Buckeyes have qualified for the team championships a record 20-consecutive times.
Ohio State (Big Ten), Oklahoma (Mountain Pacific Sports Federation) and Massachusetts (Eastern College Athletic Conference) each earned automatic bids to the championships based on their first-place finishes at their respective conference championships. The other competitors include the top nine teams based on their national qualifications average, the top 12 all-around competitors who are not members of a selected team and the top 12 individuals per event who are not members of a selected team or have not already been selected in the all-around.
Teams and individuals are selected for the national qualifiers based on the national qualifications average formula. The NQA is computed as follows: select the three highest scores, counting no more than one home meet. Replace the highest of these three scores with the conference championship meet score and average these three scores. Individuals who compete in a final at their conference meet may use the finals score in place of a regular-season home or away meet score.
The following are the 12 teams selected to the championships, their rankings and their national qualification averages, separated by the qualifying session they will compete in. All sessions of the championships will be in St. John Arena on the Ohio State campus.
Qualifying Session I Thursday, April 5, 1 p.m. 1. Oklahoma (216.342) 4. Illinois (213.558) 5. California (213.408) 8. Penn State (210.467) 10. Massachusetts (207.083) 11. Temple (205.483)
Qualifying Session II Thursday, April 5, 7 p.m. 2. Ohio State (214.825) 3. Michigan (213.892) 6. Michigan State (213.117) 7. Iowa (210.842) 9. Minnesota (209.383) 12. Stanford (204.708)
Three teams and top three all-around competitors not on one of the qualifying teams, plus the top three individuals on each event not already qualified on a team or as an all-around competitor, will advance from each qualifying session to the championships. The team championships, all-around finals and individual preliminaries will be held at 7 p.m. Friday, April 6.
The top eight individuals in each event at the team championships will advance to the individual finals, with ties resulting in more than eight gymnasts advancing allowed. The NCAA Individual Event Finals will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 7.
Tickets for the NCAA Championships may be purchased by visiting the Ohio State Ticket Office, calling 1-800-GO BUCKS or going online at hangonsloopy.com. All-session passes (four sessions) are $32 for adults and $20 for students/youth. Tickets for Thursday, April 5, are $8 for adults and $5 for students/youth for each session. For the championships Friday (April 6) and Saturday (April 7), ticket prices are $10 for adults and $7 for students/youth for each session.
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