BIG TEN Men's Gymnastics Championships

The University of Illinois–Champaign, the University of Michigan and the University of Illinois–Chicago earned automatic berths in the men’s National Qualifier on April 16 by winning their respective conference championships on April 3-4. Illinois – Champaign and Michigan tied for the team title at the Big Ten Championships, held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich., and Illinois - Chicago earned the team crown at the Eastern College Athletic Conference
Championships, held at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y. The remaining teams and athletes for the NCAA Qualifier will be determined on Tuesday, April 7.

A total of 12 teams will compete in the National Qualifier on April 16. The Big Ten Conference and Eastern College Athletic Conference champions receive automatic berths, and the remaining teams are chosen according to the National Qualifying Average (NQA). The top six all-around competitors who are not members of a qualified team, and the top six individuals on each event not selected as part of a team or for the all-around will also compete in the National Qualifier. No more than 12 competitors may represent any one institution.

The NQA is based on a team’s, an all-around competitor’s and an individual event specialist’s four best regular-season meet scores, two of which must be contested at an away meet. The high score is eliminated and replaced with the conference meet score, which is included twice. These five scores are averaged to obtain the NQA.

The last time the Big 10 has a tie for the team championship title was in 1983 when the University of Illinois tied with Ohio State University with identical scores of 276.650.

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Source: usa-gymnastics.org