MSU Qualifies For NCAA Men's Gymnastics Championships
3/28/2001 12:00:00 AM | Men's Gymnastics
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March 28, 2001
EAST LANSING, Mich. - The Michigan State men's gymnastics team has qualified for the 2001 NCAA Men's Gymnastics Championships, hosted by The Ohio State University April 5-7. This is the fourth consecutive year that the Spartans have qualified for the NCAA Men's Gymnastics Championships.
Ohio State (Big Ten), Oklahoma (Mountain Pacific Sports Federation) and Massachusetts (Eastern College Athletic Conference) each earned automatic bids to the championships based on 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 based on a national qualifications average formula.
Three teams and the top three all-around competitors not on one of the qualifying teams, plus the top three individuals in 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.
Qualifying Session I Qualifying Session IIThursday, April 5, 1 p.m. Thursday, April 5, 7 p.m.1. Oklahoma 216.342 2. Ohio State 214.8254. Illinois 213.558 3. Michigan 213.8925. California 213.408 6. MSU 213.1178. Penn State 210.467 7. Iowa 210.84210. Massachusetts 207.083 9. Minnesota 209.38311. Temple 205.483 12.Stanford 204.708
The Spartans also had two gymnasts named to the 2001 all-Big Ten team on Tuesday, March 27-junior Jonathan Plante (Easton, Pa.) in the all-around and on the pommel horse, where he has been ranked No. 1 in the nation since Feb. 26, and sophomore Brad Golden (Orlando, Fla.) on the floor exercise. The last Spartan to earn all-Big Ten honors was Paul Dackermann in 1990 and 1991.