NCAA men’s regionals: Full fields, previews for all six sites – NBC Sports
2025-04-30T23:36:01Z
The NCAA announced Wednesday afternoon the 81-team field for the 2025 NCAA Division I men’s golf regionals.
The NCAA announced Wednesday afternoon the 81-team field for the 2025 NCAA Division I men’s golf regionals. Each of the six regionals will feature 13 to 14 teams and five or 10 individuals not on advancing teams. Among those teams are 28 conference champions and 53 at-large programs.
The regionals will be contested May 12-14 with the top five teams from each regional advancing along with the highest finishing individual not on an advancing team.
Thirty teams will comprise the field for the NCAA Championship, which begins May 23 at Omni La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, California.
Reigning NCAA champion Auburn is the No. 1 overall seed this year. The Tigers are joined by five other top seeds, four of which hail from the SEC – Oklahoma State, Ole Miss, Texas, Arizona State and LSU.
Clemson and Loyola Marymount were in position for an at-large, but both programs fell below the .500 mark, making them ineligible for postseason play. It’s the first time in Clemson history that the Tigers have not qualified for a regional.
Here is a look at the full regional fields:
Auburn
Auburn University Club, Auburn, Alabama (Auburn)
TEAMS
1. Auburn
2. Texas A&M
3. UCLA [Big Ten Conference]
4. SMU
5. Georgia Tech
6. Oregon
7. Purdue
8. Little Rock [Ohio Valley Conference]
9. TCU
10. Charleston
11. New Mexico State
12. Loyola Maryland [Patriot League]
13. USC Upstate [Big South Conference]
The Tigers, after winning stroke play at the SEC Championship handily, climbed back to No. 1 in the country just in time for the postseason. The defending NCAA champions are playing a regional at home for the fourth time having advanced on each of the first three occasions. Sophomore Jackson Koivun is coming off a second straight SEC individual title, the first time that’s been done since 1976. Texas A&M gave Florida everything it could ask for in the SEC final before falling, 3-2. UCLA is also trending nicely following its first Big Ten title at Baltimore Country Club, which is over 2,600 miles from campus. Omar Morales won the individual conference title, his first win of the season and just his second top-10 of the spring. SMU has advance through five of its last seven regionals and hasn’t finished worse than sixth in that span. Two of the last three times Oregon has bowed out in regionals, they were sent to SEC country. Purdue, in its first year under Andrew Sapp, had some success in warm weather this spring, winning Puerto Rico by six over Ole Miss and finishing fourth at the Calusa Cup in Naples, Florida, where it beat both LSU and Virginia by double-digits.
INDIVIDUALS
1. Louis Anceaux, University of Louisiana Monroe
2. Claes Borregaard, Kennesaw State
3. Xing Luo, North Alabama
4. Thomas Schmidt, Arkansas State
5. Parker Claxton, Georgia Southern
6. Camden Braidech, Chattanooga
7. Yixiang Wang, Memphis
8. Jack Maxey, Arkansas State [Sun Belt Conference]
9. Jeep Patrick, Presbyterian [Big South Conference]
10. Jonathan Xoinis, UT Martin [Ohio Valley Conference]
Urbana
Atkins Golf Club, Urbana, Illinois (Illinois)
TEAMS
1. Oklahoma State [Big 12 Conference]
2. North Carolina
3. Illinois
4. Texas Tech
5. Long Beach State [Big West Conference]
6. UNLV
7. Houston
8. Marquette [Big East Conference]
9. Troy
10. Pacific
11. NC State
12. Illinois State [Missouri Valley Conference]
13. Wright State [Horizon League]
INDIVIDUALS
1. Hunter Thomson, Michigan
2. Jack Schoenberger, Kentucky
3. Paul Beauvy, Iowa State
4. Patton Samuels, Austin Peay
5. Anthony Delisanti, Valparaiso
6. Clay Merchent, Indiana
7. Ryan Ford, Cincinnati
8. Ben Cors, Dayton [Atlantic 10 Conference]
9. Titus Boswell, IU Indy [Horizon League]
10. Trey Wall, Murray State [Missouri Valley Conference]
Since Alan Bratton became the head coach at Oklahoma State in 2013-14, the Cowboys have been a No. 1 regional seed eight times, the most in the country during that span and one better than Vanderbilt. Oklahoma State is also now the only program that has qualified for all 35 regional rounds following Clemson’s under-.500 season. The Cowboys are tied with Texas for the most wins this season (five) and boast three players in the top 25, including two-time Big 12 individual champion Preston Stout. This was supposed to be a rebuilding year of sorts for North Carolina, but David Ford has shrugged off some nagging injuries to win five times and become the top-ranked player in the nation. Freshmen Grant Roscich and Sihan Sandu have worked their way into the lineup with Sandu recently finishing third at ACCs. If Maxwell Ford can bounce back quickly from a rough spring, which included two tournament finishes in the 90s, the Tar Heels are in the NCAA title conversation. Illinois dropped a second straight Big Ten Championship last week, to conference newbie UCLA, marking the first time that’s happened since 2008. Texas Tech lost Matthew Comegys to wrist surgery before the season and senior Calum Scott doesn’t have a top-10 all season, yet freshman Connor Graham has helped keep the Red Raiders among the top 25 teams in the country. Long Beach State dropped five spots in the ranking after winning the Big West in comeback fashion, yet at No. 26, it is still the top-ranked mid-major in the country. Marquette won four times, including the Big East title, though the Golden Eagles have never gotten through a regional.
Tallahassee
Seminole Legacy Golf Club, Tallahassee, Florida (Florida State)
TEAMS
1. Ole Miss
2. Florida State
3. San Diego State [Mountain West Conference]
4. Georgia
5. Louisville
6. Northwestern
7. Notre Dame
8. New Mexico
9. USC
10. Michigan State
11. Furman
12. Augusta [Southland Conference]
13. Davidson [Atlantic 10 Conference]
14. Florida A&M [Southwestern Athletic Conference]
INDIVIDUALS
1. Malan Potgieter, Louisiana
2. NaShawn Tyson, Florida Atlantic
3. Hugo Thyr, South Alabama
4. Niilo Maki-Petaja, Louisiana Tech
5. Gaspar Glaudas, Stetson [ASUN Conference]
Ole Miss spent the most weeks at No. 1 this season, though the Rebels faltered at the SEC Championship, finishing 10th. Ole Miss has had some unfortunate postseason luck, too; in nine seasons under Chris Malloy, the Rebels have advanced to nationals just twice and have finished sixth at regionals three times since 2018. Luke Clanton sits at seven career wins, one shy of the Florida State record, entering regionals at home, where Florida State won by 17 shots in 2021. San Diego State will play its sixth straight regional at least two time zones east; the Aztecs have only made it through once during that span. Michigan State was ranked 85th in the country and 20 wins below .500 when top-20 player Ashton McCulloch broke a bone in his left hand, ending his season. With just one junior in Caleb Bond and the rest sophomores or freshmen, the Spartans rallied this spring, placing third at Big Tens and comfortably earning an at-large bid into their ninth regional in 10 years.
Reno
Montreux Golf and Country Club, Reno, Nevada (Nevada)
TEAMS
1. Texas
2. Virginia [Atlantic Coast Conference]
3. Alabama
4. Duke
5. Mississippi State
6. Brigham Young
7. San Diego
8. Santa Clara
9. California
10. Grand Canyon
11. Sam Houston [Conference USA]
12. East Tennessee State [Southern Conference]
13. Central Arkansas [ASUN Conference]
14. Fairfield [Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference]
INDIVIDUALS
1. Dane Huddleston, Utah Valley [Western Athletic Conference]
2. Baron Szeto, Cal Poly
3. Max Schliesing, UTEP
4. Tegan Andrews, Cal State Fullerton
5. Dylan Teeter, UTEP
Texas is coming off easily its worst finish of the season, a seventh-place showing and quarterfinal exit at the SEC Championship. But the Longhorns, especially on a PGA Tour layout, should have little trouble advancing to what would be an 18th straight NCAA Championship, which would extend their NCAA-record active streak; Oklahoma is second with 13 straight trips. Virginia is coming off winning its first ACC title since the conference’s inception in 1954. Alabama, Duke and Mississippi State head west looking to avenge regional exits from a year ago. The rest of the region is West-heavy, including Cal under first-year head coach Michael Wilson. Central Arkansas had its coach, Jay Rees, retire after the fall; in stepped graduate assistant and alumnus Josh Turnock, who led the team to its first conference title since 1972 and first NCAA regional.
Bremerton
Gold Mountain Golf Club, Bremerton, Washington (Washington)
TEAMS
1. Arizona State
2. Florida [Southeastern Conference]
3. Utah
4. South Carolina
5. South Florida
6. Colorado
7. Charlotte [American Athletic Conference]
8. Kansas
9. Colorado State
10. Kansas State
11. Elon [Coastal Athletic Association]
12. Coastal Carolina [Sun Belt Conference]
13. Oral Roberts [The Summit League]
14. Seattle U [Western Athletic Conference]
INDIVIDUALS
1. Sam Renner, Washington State
2. Lukas Boandl, Rice
3. Mason Snyder, Loyola Marymount
4. Cade Anderson, Loyola Marymount
5. Daniel Zou, Rice
Arizona State was shocked last year as the No. 1 seed in Rancho Santa Fe, so you can bet the Sun Devils are paying especially close attention this spring. No team has more than four players ranked in the top 100 in WAGR, except ASU, which has six. Head coach Matt Thurmond also is familiar with Gold Mountain, having previously coached at Washington, where for a few years, current Utah coach Garrett Clegg was his assistant. The Utes have gotten through each of its past two regionals, in 2021 and last year. The last time Florida played a regional in Washington, Ricky Castillo orchestrated some back-nine heroics as the Gators finished fifth in 2021 in Cle Elum. The Gators are coming off their 17th SEC title in program history. Former walk-on Matthew Kress, the only player leftover from the 2023 NCAA Championship team, had three top-10s this spring after no top-40s last fall. South Carolina, under new coach Rob Bradley, is looking to qualify for its first NCAA Championship since 2019. Charlotte snapped a run of three straight regional appearances last year but will now start a new streak after winning its first AAC title and third conference crown in four years. USF heads to regionals for the 11th time in the last 12 seasons.
Amherst
Poplar Grove Golf Club, Amherst, Virginia (Liberty)
TEAMS
1. LSU
2. Oklahoma
3. Vanderbilt
4. Pepperdine [West Coast Conference]
5. Tennessee
6. Arizona
7. Stanford
8. Wake Forest
9. Arkansas
10. Florida Gulf Coast
11. Kent State [Mid-American Conference]
12. Princeton [The Ivy League]
13. Howard [Northeast Conference]
INDIVIDUALS
1. Andrew Swanson, Clemson
2. Kaleb Wilson, West Virginia
3. Ike Joy, Liberty
4. Emil Riegger, Maryland
5. Peicheng Chen, St. John’s (New York)
6. Sakke Siltala, Texas State
7. Henric Bjelke, Campbell [Coastal Athletic Association]
8. Colin Dutton, UNCG [Southern Conference]
9. Alex Heard, UConn [Big East Conference]
10. Nolan Schuermann, Holy Cross [Patriot League]
In Jake Amos’ first year leading LSU, the Tigers won four times and earned their first No. 1 regional seed since 2018; that year, however, the Tigers finishes sixth in Stockton, California. Amos, though, is four for four in leading teams to nationals as a head coach, having done so while at ETSU. Oklahoma also won four times this season and boasts three players ranked in the top 50 nationally, including No. 11 Jase Summy. Starting with Vanderbilt, there are several teams in this region who struggled at conference. The Commodores, Tennessee, Arizona, Stanford and Arkansas all finished 11th or worse at their conference championships. Arizona lost its best player, Tiger Christensen, midseason to the pros, while Vanderbilt’s top player has lost his game; senior Gordon Sargent has plummeted from No. 1 to No. 20 in WAGR, is currently ranked outside the top 500 in college golf and hasn’t cracked the top 50 in five spring starts. FGCU is among the worse seeds that could take advantage. The Eagles have been both the first team out and the last team in at regionals in recent years, and Andrew Danna’s team this year is comprised of all sophomores and freshmen – all recruited by Danna, too; no transfers.
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