Ohio State Heads to Champaign for 2026 NCAA Championships

Friday, April 17

Champaign, Ill.

2:00 PM

Ohio State

NCAA Qualifiers

Ohio State Heads to Champaign for 2026 NCAA Championships

4/15/2026 10:30:00 AM | Men's Gymnastics

The Buckeyes will compete in the first qualifying session on Friday at 2 p.m. ET and the finals will take place on Saturday at 7 p.m. ET.

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The No. 5 Ohio State men's gymnastics team (10-7, 3-1 B1G) travels to Champaign to compete in the 2026 NCAA Championships on Friday and Saturday.

Friday's qualifying sessions are at 2 p.m. ET and 8 p.m. ET and will be broadcast live on ESPN+. Saturday's finals are scheduled for 7 p.m. ET and will be broadcast live on ESPN2. More information about the NCAA Championships can be found HERE.

The Buckeyes enter the NCAA Championships with a 10-7 overall record and a 3-1 mark in conference meets. Ohio State will compete in the first qualifying session on Friday as the No. 5 seed. Other teams in the session include No. 1 Oklahoma, No. 4 Nebraska, No. 8 California, No. 9 Greenville and No. 12 Springfield.
Ohio State finished second in the Big Ten during the regular season and was fourth at the Big Ten Championships with a team score of 314.800.
Chase Davenport-Mills captured the Big Ten floor title with a score of 13.825 and earned a spot on the All-Big Ten First Team. David Ramirez joined Davenport-Mills on the first team by finishing fourth in the all-around competition (76.400).
Jacob Harmon and Parker Thackston earned their spots on the All-Big Ten Second Team. Harmon was the runner-up on floor (13.750), while Thackston was the runner-up on pommel horse (14.625).
Thackston was named Big Ten Specialist of the Year and Jesse Pakele was named a Big Ten Sportsmanship Award honoree.
Ramirez (vault, parallel bars) and Thackston (pommel horse) earned regular season All-American honors from the College Gymnastics Association for finishing in the top eight nationally in their respective events.
Ohio State gymnasts earned a combined 21 individual event titles during the regular season with nine different gymnasts winning an event.
The Buckeyes had 14 named OSU Scholar Athletes this week – Drake Andrews, Justin Ciccone, Peyton Contini, Noah Copeland, Davenport-Mills, Kristian Grahovski, Harmon, Jace Hashimoto, Ramirez, Lukas Ross, Conlan Simpkins, Zach Snyder, Caden Spencer and Thackston.

Top-25 Individual National Rankings (according to national-qualifying averages on RTN):

Floor: Pakele (seventh, 13.713), Davenport-Mills (11^th, 13.644), Harmon (14^th, 13.563)
Pommel Horse: Thackston (first, 14.794), Grahovski (23^rd, 13.450)
Rings: Pakele (12^th, 13.400), Grahovski (16^th, 13.183)
Vault: Ramirez (14^th, 13.963), Grahovski (16^th, 13.950), Davenport-Mills (22^nd, 13.813)
Parallel Bars: Ramirez (sixth, 13.725), Pakele (10^th, 13.600)
High Bar: Harmon (10^th, 13.575), Andrews (20^th, 13.200), Copeland (25^th, 13.063)