Women's gymnastics fail to make the finals
The beam got 'em. Finished 4th in their group.
This is a very disappointing finish to an otherwise great season.
Can't win 'em all.
but once in a while you do get to sink the moskva. huzzah!
It wasn't really the beam but the bars in the 3rd rotation. Michigan had been in first after 1st rotation and 2nd after the second but they had two falls during the bars and were essentially out of it. Knowing they were already done, the wheels came completely off during the beam.
Tough night but a good season. Go Blue!
Congratulations on a great season!
Exactly - what a great season. Congrats on a Final Four appearance and a historically great program.
Final 8, but point still stands
April 14th, 2022 at 10:31 PM ^
Is it bad, that even in all the success of Michigan athletics this year, I can’t stop thinking about how crushed I’m going to be if we don’t win the Directors Cup?
My first thought when I saw on ESPN2 that we were in last was, “Shit, I hope this doesn’t cost us the Cup”. Someone has to beat Stanford.
Nope, thought the same thing again... after Hockey lost in the semis
(However we will get points for both)
Uh, Texas beat Stanford last year. We were third.
April 15th, 2022 at 10:17 AM ^
Really? I honestly didn’t know that. I guess I got caught up in the whole “Stanford wins every year” bit that I didn’t look at the actual facts.
I still want to win this year though.
You all realize this happened because BiSB wrote the preview right? The curse is real.
This is the first I’ve heard of a preview curse, but I’m all for blaming the loss on BiSB.
April 15th, 2022 at 10:36 AM ^
I think he wrote the basketball preview when they played New Jersey Institute of Technology a long time ago. They lost that game. In his postgame writeup he blamed himself in delightfully humble fashion since he wrote the preview.
I just looked it up, December 6th, 2014: https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/game/_/gameId/400598837
You're welcome for this painful reminder! :D
that game is always barely out of my mind. But, really, did you just post the link??
Is was definitely an off night for the gymnasts. Off nights happen but it is just sad that it happened in a semifinal on national TV.
April 15th, 2022 at 10:00 AM ^
I have to agree here. I am proud of everything Michigan athletics has accomplished this year, as it may be one of the best years in Michigan sports history.
However, the flip side of that coin is that we seemed to have had off nights/choked on the biggest stages possible:
- Women's gymnastics and the falls on the bars
- Men's BB couldn't hit water if they fell out of the boat (missed 19 shots within 5 feet of the rim) against Nova
- Women's BB looked like anyone not named Naz was scared as hell to shoot and had no answer for Louisville press
- Football team looked like they didn't watch an ounce of film on Georgia
Yes, they were all playing elite competition in those events, but still, we seemed to completely forget fundamentals during those times.
So...proud for all we did but frustrated that we didn't accomplish more.
April 15th, 2022 at 11:13 AM ^
I'll give you the first two, have no idea on the third, but all the prep in the world would not have beaten Georgia.
April 15th, 2022 at 12:15 PM ^
Is Georgia a better team, absolutely. How many games if we played 10 does Michigan win, probably 2-3 at the most.
I'm not saying we could have won, but what I saw from Georgia and from talking to hardcore Georgia fans, I felt we were not prepared enough. Granted I have no idea when JJ got hurt but here is what I saw and wish we would have done differently:
- Georgia barely threw to their RB's all season yet in this game they had 11 receptions for over 200 yards and 1 TD
- So this was a "new wrinkle" to the Bulldogs offense and accounted for almost 40% of their offense)
- Michigan's glaring issues all year reared their ugly heads
- Cade NEVER keeps on the arch read so the defender never has to even check him. If he had kept on 3-4 arc reads a game during the season, this is something Georgia would have needed to account for
- We basically never aired it out, outside of the Michigan state game. There was no way in hell we were ever going to beat Georgia the same way we beat everyone in the Big Ten. That should have been the focus for the month off in between games
- We had a bad habit of having someone have a break out game and then barely using them again: Edwards vs Rutgers, Anthony vs MSU.
- We still don't run enough short/quick routes like the quick slant. Anthony took one to the house against MSU, barely saw that play again.
Now, I am not saying that if we did all these things we could have won the game, but probably sure as hell wouldn't have been a national embarrassment. I know its hard to change an offensive philosophy with a month to prepare, but lets be real, how hard is to run out a 3-4 wide with your fastest players to match up with the speed of an SEC team: Wilson, Johnson, Anthony on the outside, All lined up inline (chipping and release valve) and then rotate Edwards/Haskins/Corum. In a game against Georgia where speed is a premium, Edwards, despite being a freshman, was probably the best weapon in the backfield and then splitting out wide when going no backs.
April 15th, 2022 at 10:48 AM ^
They haven't seemed like they were on the last several weeks. When nobody could stick their landing on vault I knew it wasn't their night.
April 15th, 2022 at 11:30 AM ^
Ironic, given they won the national title on the beam last year.
The men's gymnastics may actually finish with a higher NCAA team ranking
» The Wolverines will compete in qualification session II, contested on Friday (April 15) at 7 p.m. CT. If they finish in the top three of six teams, U-M will advance to session III on Saturday (April 16) at 6 p.m. CT.
» U-M will begin the meet on parallel bars, followed by high bar, floor exercise, pommel horse, still rings, and vault.
» The Maize and Blue qualified third for the championships with a score of 410.675, the highest-ranked Big Ten team in the field.
Friday, April 15 -- at NCAA Championships Qualifying: Session II (Norman, Okla.), 7 p.m. CT
TV: Sooner Sports TV
Live Scoring | Live Video
As coach said in the interview on the floor just after it ended, 'we picked a bad night to have a bad night'.
Agree with the post above, after nobody nailed their vault, it seemed inevitable. Although, after a fall in the first bars routine, routines 2-5 did well. They just needed to not fall on the 6th routine and they would have been in FIRST going into the beam. Unfortunately, she fell on the dismount.
Also agree that the beam was a bad place to have to go after already being out of it. Nobody seemed focused for it.
Bad night, excellent season! Be proud of these ladies!!