Minnesota Gymnastics to Compete in First Final Four in Program History

When the University of Minnesota gymnastics team scored a woeful 195. 075 in a loss at Nebraska in January, there wasn’t one person who would think what had happened over the last month would come to fruition. The Gophers continued to claw their way back through the rest of the Big Ten not falling again to a team not named UCLA the rest of the conference slate.

The Gophers would take third place at the Big Ten Championships, decent but not exceptional. They were awarded the #13 seed in the NCAA Championships—again good, but a team that was likely to bow out in the Region Finals and say it was a good season. But, the women on this team thought otherwise.

The Gophers have been on a tear in the NCAA Championships knocking out higher seeded teams left and right. Minnesota eliminated #5 Alabama and #12 Utah in the Corvallis Region Final to get to the NCAA National Semifinal on Thursday night. There they would see #1 Oklahoma, those pesky #4 ranked UCLA Bruins and #9 Arkansas in their way.

Another nice run to the Final 8 right? Not this time. Minnesota finally slayed the Bruins and defeated Arkansas as well to advance to the first Final Four in program history on Saturday afternoon.