Of the eight Big Ten teams, the No. 8-seed Spartans placed dead last in the event with an overall team score of 194.675. Nebraska took home the conference championship behind the strength of a 197.100 score.

Sophomore Sarena Bumbarger placed the highest of the Spartans in any event, tying for seventh place on balance beam with a score of 9.800. Sophomore Dani Levy’s score of 9.850 placed her at eighth on the floor routine, while senior Jackie Berg tied for 11th on the uneven parallel bars in her final appearance in the Big Ten Championships.

The Spartans will now wait to determine where they’ll qualify for NCAA Regionals on April 7. Head coach Kathie Klages was confident that MSU’s regional qualifying score, or RQS, is high enough at No. 31 to warrant an entry into the tournament — where the top 36 teams are invited — but nothing will be official until the final RQS rankings are released.