With the Big Ten Championships four weeks away, the Penn State women's gymnastics team gets a chance to gauge where it may be when it counts.

The Nittany Lions take on Ohio State at 7 p.m. tomorrow night and will be back "home" in Rec Hall after spending last weekend in the Bryce Jordan Center. The meet will again be a double dual with the men.

"This coed meet rivalry between Ohio State and Penn State is one of the great traditions in college gymnastics," Ohio State coach Carey Fagan said in a press release.

At this point in the season the Lions are aren't making any major adjustments, they are only looking to clean up some little mistakes that are happening, such as landings on floor and vault, and handstands on bars. Against George Washington a couple of gymnasts stepped out of bounds on floor exercise and took some little steps on vault landings.

"We are looking to hit 24-for-24 and not making the little mistakes we have been," sophomore Genavieve Shingle said.

During practice Tuesday, Penn State coach Steve Shephard had an intense bars practice. He had eight gymnasts compete on bars, with six of the scores counting, similar to a meet situation. The combined score had to be a 58.8, which equals a 9.8 average for each gymnast.

Penn State, ranked No. 14 in the latest GymInfo poll, comes into the meet seven-tenths ahead of the unranked Buckeyes in the Big Ten standings, as of Feb. 16. The two teams faced each other twice last year, once in the regular season and once at the Big Ten Championships. The Lions came out on top in both instances.

Both teams have a common Big Ten opponent this season in Michigan, who has won the Big Ten title the last six years in a row. The Buckeyes and Lions both lost to Michigan.

Fagan is a former Penn State gymnast and served as team captain her senior year in 1998. This is her first year as the head coach at Ohio State. Buckeyes assistant coach Bill Lorenzen spent the last two seasons at Penn State as an assistant.

"It is going to be an interesting meet with [Fagan and Lorenzen] coaching at Ohio State," Shephard said. "Obviously we want to beat them."