Lady Gymnasts advance to the NCAA Championships for the 26th time in the last 31 years.
The defending national champions, Michigan Ladies Gymnastics, will have the opportunity to repeat as national champions in Fort Worth, Texas.
Congratulations ladies, have fun and get yourselves another title.
GO BLUE!!!
I find the stat that as a coach Bev Plocki has won more B1G championships than any other coach in any sport ever stunningly impressive. Well done ladies and GO BLUE!
Lets go win that Natty ladies!!!!
They'll tumble for U!
You had to go there. 😑
not a highlight of ‘80s music…
Not sure if that's how I wanted to start my Monday but perhaps I needed something to tumble me out of my normal.
Thank god I can't watch Youtube at work, or anything with a tiny url. But I made the mistake of looking up 'Tumble'. Culture Club should not have been a thing...
I think you are being a little harsh; they had a great sound. 'Do you really want to hurt me' is a classic, and 'Time', and 'Miss me Blind' were good hits. They had other hits too. Culture Club belongs in the fabric of 80s music.
The 2:45 mark, Rob.
NSFW the whole song
26 times to the national championship in 31 years is amazing.
Congratulations to Coach Plocki and the women gymnasts.
This dominance is incredible! Congrats Ladies and good luck going for the repeat.
The article says that the top 2 teams from each regional make the tournament. How many regionals are there? Is this like making the NCAA basketball tournament field of 64 or is it like making the CFP field of 4?
Good stuff either way. Just looking (lazily) for more context.
Looks like there are 4 regionals: https://www.ncaa.com/news/gymnastics-women/article/2022-04-04/2022-ncaa-womens-gymnastics-championships-dates-schedule-locations
So Elite 8 type performance.
Still, not shabby.
There are 4 regionals and the top 2 from each makes it to the national championships, which is further broken down into the National Semifinals and then the National Finals.
As the name implies, National Semifinals is basically an Elite 8 that has 2 sessions with 4 teams each. The top 2 from each of the semifinals makes it to the finals which, again, features 4 teams to fight it out for the national championship title.
Michigan's semifinal also features Florida (one of the favorites to win it all), Auburn (featuring Suni Lee, all-around Gold medal and uneven bars bronze medal winner at the Olympics), and UCLA (which actually scored higher than Michigan in the regional finals).
It will be a tough group, as they all are at this point, but Michigan actually didn't perform THAT well at the regional finals and still made it through. If they compete to their ability, they should advance along with Florida.
the other side of the bracket has Utah, Oklahoma, Alabama, and Minnesota.
Last year's final four was Michigan, Utah, Oklahoma, and Florida. Minnesota and Alabama also made the semis last year.
Michigan edged out Oklahoma for the win, followed by Utah and Florida.
Thanks for this info! I thought Missouri edged UCLA in the Raleigh regional to advance along with Michigan?
They did, you're correct. UCLA is out.
Only reason why UCLA scored higher than Michigan is Michigan had a lineup snafu for the bars rotation on the final spot so they didn't count this score and had to stand with the 9.025 score which hurts their overall score. Michigan struggled in this meet where they had 2 falls (one each on rotations 2 and 3) so they had to nail the rest of the routines to keep it respectable. Michigan still scored 197.4 in the 2nd round despite all of it.
Michigan hasn't been in form in the last few meets yet they're so good that it almost didn't matter. They have been in a funk relative to their talent level since their loss to Oklahoma in the dual meet where Oklahoma was incredible in that meet.
The NCAA website is saying Missouri got in, not UCLA.
So you're saying they've been to the NCAA Championships 25 times and have only won one title? Fire Plocki! /s/s/s/s/s (The ultimate sarcasm post)
The consistent greatness that Michigan's coach has created is astounding. Go win another title! Go Blue!
I know it's all in good fun and just being facetious, but not unlike softball, Michigan was the first midwest team to ever win a national championship. The others to win?
- Georgia (10 - last won in 2009)
- Utah (9 - last won in 1995)
- UCLA (7 - last won in 2018)
- Alabama (6 - last won in 2012)
- Oklahoma (4 - last won in 2019, all 4 since 2014)
- Florida (3 - last won in 2015)
- Michigan (1)
They're flippin' outstanding
I'll show myself out
I don't know how they refer to themselves as a team, but on MgoBlue and other AD-related press releases they are called the Women's gymnastics team. And unless you refer to the men's team as the Gentlemen's Gymnastics team or are in your 70s, it would be cool to use the same official title as the university and NCAA uses. And a bit less sexist.
Calling them the ladies’ teams instead of women’s teams is one of my internet pet peeves. I could accept it if we also called the men’s team guy’s gymnastics.
this is interesting to me, thank you. as a female, I never minded lady vs. woman, but it annoys the crap out of me when they are referred to as "girls". however, do not call them "lady wolverines" please - they are wolverines.
#GoBlue
Please don't let there be an East German judge.
Please don't let there be an East German judge.
Please don't let there be an East German judge.
Bev and the consistency is outstanding
Back to back Championships!!