Michigan’s historic season continued this weekend when the men’s gymnastics team captured the Big Ten title on center stage Friday and Saturday night.

Friday night was the team and all-around competition, in which the third-ranked Wolverines captured the Big Ten title. Michigan (7-1 Big Ten, 17-2 overall) edged out No. 1 Penn State, 438.900-434.050 in the team competition, while Minnesota grabbed third.

In the individual competition on Saturday, the Wolverines qualified for 18 of the 60 individual spots, the most of any team and claimed three individual titles.

“The team competition on Friday went really well,” said sophomore Stacey Ervin. “We started off on pommel horse and went 5-for-5, so we got a lot of our momentum (there), and that really stayed with us for the rest of the competition.

“On Saturday, we just had that momentum from Friday that translated into our strong individual performances, and after coming off such a good feeling (on Friday) we just wanted to keep it going.”

Senior Syque Caesar captured his second career Big Ten parallel bar title with a score of 15.025. Ervin won his first Big Ten title on floor with a score of 15.800. Junior Sam Mikulak won his third straight high bar title with a score of 15.700. All three gymnasts, along with sophomore Adrian de Los Angeles, were named to the first team All-Big Ten squad.

In addition, Mikulak was crowned Big Ten Gymnast of the Year, and Michigan coach Kurt Golder was awarded Big Ten Coach of the Year. Mikulak’s award was the second of his career — he earned his first after his freshman year. Golder’s award was the third of his career.

“I think Friday was a huge energy high,” Mikulak said. “The team (was) pumping everyone up to go out there and perform. That led to everyone just hitting sets. It just felt easy out there.”

Mikulak won Friday’s all-around competition with a score of 89.850. De Los Angeles came in second with 87.350 points for the Wolverines. Going into the contest, De Los Angeles was first in the nation in the all-around competition with a four-event average of 88.683.

In addition to its all-around success, Michigan hit a season-best team score of 75.65 on vault where four Wolverines advanced on Saturday. The highlight of Friday night, however, was Mikulak’s NCAA record-setting 15.95 on the parallel bars.

“We had a great Big Tens, and we came home with a lot of hardware and of course that Big Ten Championship trophy,” Mikulak said. “Everyone had that same comfortable feeling all weekend, and it really showed.”

Michigan competes next at the NCAA Championships on April 19 at Penn State. After this weekend’s performance, the Wolverines will likely go into it as the early favorites.

“We had three falls this weekend, and if we can get rid of those, I feel like we could be unstoppable,” Mikulak said. “We just have to keep healthy, make sure no one gets hurt and that we continue being confident in our routines.”