Iowa hosts the 2012 Big Ten Men’s Gymnastics Championships Friday and Saturday with Friday’s session featuring the team and all-around competitions and Saturday featuring the individual event finals. Both sessions start at 8 p.m. ET and will air live on BTN. Track the event online at the championship central page at Hawkeyesports.com and watch it live on BTN2Go.com.

All eight Big Ten women’s gymnastics teams have been chosen among the 36-team field to compete at NCAA Regionals on April 7, the selection committee announced on Monday. The Big Ten will be represented at five of the six regional sites.

In its first attempt, Nebraska won the Big Ten Women’s Gymnastics Championships title on Saturday night. The Huskers tallied a team score of 197.100, while Ohio State followed in second place (196.225) and Minnesota finished third (195.950). Michigan took fourth place (195.875), followed by Illinois in fifth (195.850), Penn State in sixth (195.700), Iowa in seventh (195.425) and Michigan State in eighth (194.675).

BTN will air both sessions of the Women’s Big Ten Gymnastics Championships live, at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. ET on Saturday from Iowa City, Iowa.  Lead by No. 6 Nebraska, the Big Ten has six teams ranked in the nation’s top 25. Also included in the rankings are Penn State and Ohio State at No. 12 and No. 13 respectively, Minnesota at No. 16, last year’s B1G Champion Michigan at No. 21 and No. 23 Illinois.

The Big Ten Conference announced its women’s gymnastics All-Big Ten teams and Big Ten Championships seeds on Monday. The All-Conference teams feature top-six performers in the all-around and the top six in each of the four events, based on the student-athletes’ regional qualifying average.