Wednesday, May 12
University Club / Baton Rouge, La.
University of North Texas
vs
NCAA Regional
Women's Golf Season Ends With Cancellation
5/12/2021 2:00:00 PM | Women's Golf
BATON ROUGE, La. - Just before noon on Wednesday, the final scheduled day of the NCAA's LSU Regional was canceled, capping a three-day run of canceled rounds due to heavy rainfall and course conditions deemed unplayable and ending the North Texas women's golf team's season without hitting a single ball.
The tournament organizers had planned for a 10 a.m., shotgun start on Wednesday with hopes of getting in 18 holes to determine who would advance to the NCAA Championship in Scottsdale, Arizona, on May 21-26. The time was then moved to 11 a.m., and then shortly before noon was again canceled. The cancellation means the top-six ranked teams in the field, according to Golfstat, advance to the national championship: LSU, Ole Miss, Baylor, Oregon, Maryland and Alabama. The Mean Green were the 10th-highest ranked team in the field at No. 38.
The Mean Green were set to play in just their second NCAA Regional in program history after a banner season that saw them win the program's first-ever conference championship and junior Audrey Tan claim the program's first-ever individual conference championship. The disappointment comes a year after the team was poised to get an NCAA bid before the COVID-19 pandemic halted collegiate sports across the country in mid-March 2020. That prompted senior Lauren Cox, who holds numerous program records, to return for a bonus fifth year this year, and now her final collegiate tournament came at the Conference USA Championship win last month. She was the fifth-ranked individual on a non-advancing team but only the top-three automatically advance.
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The tournament organizers had planned for a 10 a.m., shotgun start on Wednesday with hopes of getting in 18 holes to determine who would advance to the NCAA Championship in Scottsdale, Arizona, on May 21-26. The time was then moved to 11 a.m., and then shortly before noon was again canceled. The cancellation means the top-six ranked teams in the field, according to Golfstat, advance to the national championship: LSU, Ole Miss, Baylor, Oregon, Maryland and Alabama. The Mean Green were the 10th-highest ranked team in the field at No. 38.
The Mean Green were set to play in just their second NCAA Regional in program history after a banner season that saw them win the program's first-ever conference championship and junior Audrey Tan claim the program's first-ever individual conference championship. The disappointment comes a year after the team was poised to get an NCAA bid before the COVID-19 pandemic halted collegiate sports across the country in mid-March 2020. That prompted senior Lauren Cox, who holds numerous program records, to return for a bonus fifth year this year, and now her final collegiate tournament came at the Conference USA Championship win last month. She was the fifth-ranked individual on a non-advancing team but only the top-three automatically advance.
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