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Men's Golf Traveling to Texas for NCAA Regional
May 04, 2015 | Men's Golf
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The University of Louisville men's golf team is heading to its second-consecutive NCAA Regional Championship, earning an at-large bid to compete at the Lubbock Regional in Lubbock, Texas.
The three-day, 54-hole tournament runs from May 14-16 and will be held at the par-72, 7,349-yard Rawls Course at Texas Tech. Live results will be available on NCAA.com.
Louisville, which earned the No. 7 seed, reached an NCAA regional for the eighth time in school history and is making its second-straight appearance after finishing in a tie for ninth last year at the Auburn Regional. Louisville has to two NCAA Championships in their history: 2007 in Williamsburg, Va., and 2008 in West Lafayette, Ind.
"I'm excited to be headed to Lubbock for NCAA competition," head coach Mark Crabtree said. "I'm very proud of how the team has improved throughout the year. This will be a good course for us. We will be taking an experienced team that fell just a few shots short last year, and I know each of them will be highly motivated."
In total, the Atlantic Coast Conference sent a league-record 10 schools to regional play, the most from any single conference this year.
Through 11 events, including play in the fall, the Cardinals have tallied three top-five finishes, including a win at the Cardinal Intercollegiate on Sept. 30 and a second-place finish at the Boilermaker during the last spring regular-season event on April 18-19.
The Cardinals received a preview of what regionals would be like during their first appearance in the prominent ACC Tournament on April 24-26, finishing seventh overall.
Junior Robin Sciot-Siegrist, who was a co-champion at the ACC Tournament after shooting 11-under par, is one of the top overall players in the nation, compiling a 70.92 stroke average and recording three top-10 finishes.
The Lubbock Regional will play host to eight teams ranked among the nation's top 50, including, in order of seed, No. 2 Texas, No. 9 Texas Tech, No. 13 Auburn, No. 23 North Florida, No. 26 California, No. 38 Louisville, and No. 48 Duke.
In all, 81 teams and 45 individuals are competing for spots in the NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship, which is being held May 29-June 3 at the Concession Country Club in Bradenton, Fla.
The other five regional sites are being held in in Bremerton, Wash.; Chapel Hill, N.C.; Lubbock, Texas; New Haven, Conn.; Noblesville, Ind.; and San Diego, Calif.
NCAA Division I Men's Golf Lubbock Regional Championship
1. Texas
2. Texas Tech
3. Auburn
4. North Florida
5. California
6. Houston
7. Louisville
8. Duke
9. Southeastern Louisiana
10. Purdue
11. Georgia State
12. UC Irvine
13. Charleston Southern
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