All 5 Big Ten Teams Heading to NCAA Men's Gymnastics Championships

ROSEMONT, Ill. – All five Big Ten men’s gymnastics teams will head back to Ann Arbor in a couple of weeks, as each has been selected to participate in the 2025 NCAA Championships. Illinois, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio State, and Penn State are among 12 teams selected to participate in the event, hosted by the University of Michigan.

Big Ten champion Michigan leads the list of conference participants, sporting the second-highest qualifying score this season (326.838). The Big Ten also claims spots four through seven on the qualifying list with Nebraska (324.538), Penn State (322.700), Illinois (321.100), and Ohio State (320.663).

Oklahoma owns the top qualifying score (327.700), while four-time defending champion Stanford’s score of 326.813 is good for third. Air Force (312.863), California (312.800), Navy (312.263), Army (311.519), and William & Mary (309.875) complete the list of 12 team participants.

The field also includes individual event qualifiers from Greenville, Simpson, and Springfield.

The NCAA Championships will begin April 18 (1 and 7 p.m. ET) at the Crisler Center on the campus of the University of Michigan with two pre-qualifying sessions consisting of six teams each. The top three finishing teams in each session will advance to the NCAA finals on April 19 (6:30 p.m. ET).

In addition, the top three all-around competitors not on an advancing team, plus the top three individuals in each event not already advancing as a member of a team or in the all-around competition, will also take part in the April 19 finals.

Friday’s qualifiers will be broadcast on ESPN+, with Saturday’s finals slated to air on ESPN2.

Current Big Ten programs have won 39 NCAA men’s gymnastics national championships since the meet was first held in 1938, with the most recent Big Ten national champion being Michigan in 2014. Three former conference programs also won one NCAA title each as members of the Big Ten — Chicago (1938), Michigan State (1958) and Iowa (1969).

Last year, four conference teams advanced to the NCAA finals, with Michigan finishing in second place for the second consecutive year. Nebraska, Illinois, and Ohio State finished four, fifth, and sixth respectively.

Michigan’s Paul Juda also won the floor exercise title, while Illinois’ Tate Costa claimed the high bar crown.