NCAAW regionals: Stanford advances in record fashion; Michigan State, Virginia, Tennessee survive playoffs
Thirty teams and six additional individuals punched their NCAA Championship tickets on Wednesday as six NCAA Division I women's golf regionals wrapped up. Top-ranked Stanford headlined the day as the host Cardinal shot an NCAA regional-record 42 under to win by a record 38 shots. For the second straight year, three No.
3 seeds – Mississippi State, UCF and UCLA – did not finish among the five advancing teams at their respective sites, while No. 9 Oregon State and No. 8 Texas Tech advanced out of Stanford and Ann Arbor, Michigan, respectively.
Two playoffs took place, with Virginia and Michigan State surviving a 3-for-2 playoff in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, at the expense of North Carolina State, and Tennessee taking down Tulsa in extra holes in Waco, Texas. Here is a recap of each of the six sites. Ann Arbor Regional University of Michigan GC, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Par 71 Advancing teams: 1.
USC (+1), 2. Ohio State (+6), 3. Duke (+16), 4.
Northwestern (+17), 5. Texas Tech (+22) Eliminated: 6. UCF (+24), 7.