Wolverines Secure Big Ten Team Championship; Juda Takes All-Around Glory

Friday, April 1

State College, Pa.

7:00 PM

Michigan

Big Ten Team and All-Around Finals

(Big Ten Conference)

Wolverines Secure Big Ten Team Championship; Juda Takes All-Around Glory

4/1/2022 10:05:00 PM | Men's Gymnastics

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By: Scott Kemps

» Michigan won the team championship with a score of 413.350 -- its highest team score of the season.
» The team title is the 19th in program history; Michigan also finished the regular season as Big Ten co-champion.
» Paul Juda won the all-around title with a cumulative score of 85.350, while teammate Jacob Moore took third (80.650).

Site: State College, Pa. (Rec Hall)
Event: Big Ten Championships (Team/All-Around Finals)
Score: 1st Place of 5 teams (413.350)
Next U-M Event: Saturday, April 2 -- at Big Ten Event Finals (State College, Pa.), 7 p.m., BTN

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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Led by Big Ten all-around champion Paul Juda, the No. 2-ranked University of Michigan men's gymnastics team secured the 19th Big Ten championship in program history as the Wolverines scored a season-high 413.350 team score on Friday (April 1) at Penn State's Rec Hall.

Juda, a junior, won his first Big Ten all-around title with an 85.350, which marked the 18th all-around title in program history and the third straight for the Wolverines. Senior Jacob Moore took third place with a mark of 80.650.

The Wolverines (16-1) began in Olympic order, starting the meet on floor exercise with a 68.150. U-M sat in third after the rotation, trailing by 3.6 points.

The second rotation saw U-M score a 67.050 on pommel horse, the team's second-best score of the season. Junior Markus Shears led the squad with a career-best score of 14.350. With its weakest event behind it, U-M was 4.50 points out of first place heading into the third rotation.

The Wolverines moved into second place with a 68.150 on still rings in the third, trailing Ohio State by a 1.95-point margin, and leaped into first in the fourth rotation on vault. On the table, the Wolverines registered a 71.900 to lead by 4.85 points with two rotations to go.

The Maize and Blue put the meet away in the fifth, scoring a 67.950 on parallel bars, and held an insurmountable 4.70-point lead going into the final rotation on high bar. On high bar, the squad scored a season-best 68.950 to close out the team victory.

U-M hit 93.3 percent as a team under interim head coach Yuan Xiao, going 28-of-30, and stuck seven routines.

The Wolverines qualified 17 routines for individual finals, with 11 gymnasts in total earning spots by placing in the top 10 of an event Friday. Individual accolades will be contested Saturday (April 2) at 7 p.m. on Big Ten Network.

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