CHICAGO -- The location was Navy Pier within the city of Chicago. The topic of interest was a hungry Northern Illinois team that held a slim .075-point lead over Central Michigan heading into the final rotation.
For the Chippewas, the final event was the vault, one of the more scrutinized areas for the team throughout the season.
What was different about the vault for CMU on Friday night was that coach Jerry Reighard implemented significant lineup changes, and he chose not to tell his vaulters that they were running behind the Huskies and instead his message was to focus on only what they trained in practice leading up to the final quad-meet of the season.