The full field and draw for the NCAA Division I men’s golf postseason was revealed Wednesday, and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga is the No. 7 seed in the Rancho Sante Fe Regional in the San Diego area.
The Mocs, ranked 38th in the country, finished second last week at the Southern Conference tournament. Two other teams from the league are also among the 81 that will compete in the NCAA postseason: East Tennessee State University, which won the SoCon championship as UTC’s rally in the final round came up just short, is seeded fourth in the Chapel Hill Regional in North Carolina, while third-place UNC Greensboro is seeded seventh in the Austin Regional in Texas.
All six NCAA regionals are 54-hole tournaments scheduled for May 13-15, with the top five teams from each of those events advancing to the NCAA finals, along with the highest-finishing individual not on an advancing team from each event.
Experience will be on UTC’s side in the program’s 10th NCAA regional appearance as a team. Although last year was the first time since 2014 the Mocs reached that phase of the postseason, it produced the program’s third trip to the finals — and all five players from that team are back.
Paul Conroy, Samuel Espinosa and Jon Houk are now seniors — and all three made the All-SoCon team announced Tuesday — while Garrett Engle and Braedon Wear are juniors. Those five are joined by another junior, Dalton Chuba.