JonnyHintz

April 4th, 2015 at 11:17 PM ^

I'm not 100%, but assuming you're referring to location, I'd imagine they run a similar model to basketball. The regional is just in reference to where it is held, not necessarily the teams in it. In the basketball tournament, you have Wisconsin in the West regional. Utah, UCLA, Iowa, Iowa State, North Dakota St, and Gonzaga in the South regional. Wyoming and Oklahoma in the East. Texas and New Mexico State in the Midwest. Arkansas, UNC, Ohio State, VCU, Harvard, Xavier, and Ole Miss in the West. Again, I don't know if gymnastics does a similar model, but that'd be my guess. The only difference being that there isn't a head-to-head matchup in gymnastics.

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Michigasling

April 5th, 2015 at 10:18 AM ^

Michigan was a #1 seed, so got to go close to home.  UCLA was a #2 seed, but they were ranked only one spot below Michigan nationally, and from what I could see last night, they're really, really good.  They must have just missed a #1 seed.  (The two teams haven't competed head to head until last night.)

The live streams were by event, which is nice because you can switch to your own team and see everything, but you don't see the competition to be able to compare and understand the scoring.  I watched UCLA during Michigan's two byes, and besides having very interesting, difficult routines, they were sticking their landings, so the half-point difference at the end could have just meant a little bobble here, an extra step on a landing for Michigan. 

In women's gymnastics (unlike the men in the latter part of the season), 6 gymnasts go up on each event, but only 5 scores are counted.  So you can have a big glitch and get away with it, as long as the other 5 hit.  In Michigan's case, a couple of our top girls had slightly lower-than-usual scores (but on separate events), so perhaps their expected very high score instead of someone else's nicely high score could also have closed the gap.

And congrats to our neighbors!  Central Michigan's team (ranked #21 nationally) lept above #18 Arizona to grab 3rd place.

 

 

 

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Wolverine Devotee

April 4th, 2015 at 11:40 PM ^

Michigan picked up wins against OSU, CMU, Kentucky and Arizona in this regional with their lone loss coming to UCLA by .50

Tough, but they most important thing is that they advanced to the NCAA Championships. Michigan scored a 197.000. They won their regional the last two years without scoring a 197 or higher. 

Goes to show how good UCLA is. Michigan's got a pretty good chance to get to the NCAA Super Six for the first time since 2011. 

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Alton

April 5th, 2015 at 9:43 AM ^

To get to the Super Six, Michigan will have to beat out UCLA in the semifinal round on April 17.  Michigan's semifinal will be #2 Florida, #3 Utah, #6 Michigan, #7 UCLA, #10 Georgia and #11 Stanford.  The top 3 advance to the Super Six.

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