{"id":281765,"date":"2026-05-06T20:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T20:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/281765\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T20:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T20:39:11","slug":"bearcats-heading-to-texas-for-ncaa-regional-university-of-cincinnati-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/281765\/","title":{"rendered":"Bearcats Heading to Texas for NCAA Regional &#8211; University of Cincinnati Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CINCINNATI \u2013 The Cincinnati men\u2019s golf team has been selected to participate in an NCAA Regional at The Traditions Club in Bryan, Texas May 18-20. The low five teams and low individual from each region will qualify for a spot in the championship finals. Thirty teams and six individuals in total will compete in the finals May 29-June 3 at Omni La Costa Resort &amp; Spa in Carlsbad, California.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou start every year with a goal of playing in the postseason,\u201d head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/gobearcats.com\/staff\/doug-martin\" title=\"Doug Martin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Doug Martin<\/a> said. \u201cI look back to 20 years ago when we started this thing and all the players who have played for me. This is a day that comes from a lot of hard work from a lot of people. It\u2019s an exciting day for our University, athletic department, administration, donors and everybody who supports us. It\u2019s a day for them to celebrate but, over the next week or so, it\u2019s about us getting in the right mindset to go there and compete.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is the second time the Bearcats will tee it up in NCAA play after finishing eighth in the NCAA Las Vegas Regional in 2023. Two current Bearcats participated as freshmen in that NCAA Regional in 2023. <a href=\"https:\/\/gobearcats.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/player\/ryan-ford\" title=\"Ryan Ford\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Ford<\/a> finished in a tie for 30th at Bear\u2019s Best, while <a href=\"https:\/\/gobearcats.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/player\/rylan-wotherspoon\" title=\"Rylan Wotherspoon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rylan Wotherspoon<\/a> tied for 44th.<\/p>\n<p>The Bearcats, who have five top-five team finishes this season and won the Bearcat Invitational in September, are led by Ford, who has posted a team-best 70.15 scoring average with four top-10 finishes and all 11 inside the top 20. Sophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/gobearcats.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/player\/leo-wessel\" title=\"Leo Wessel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leo Wessel<\/a> and senior <a href=\"https:\/\/gobearcats.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/player\/connor-mcneely\" title=\"Connor McNeely\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Connor McNeely<\/a> also have teed it up in all 11 tournaments, posting a 72.00 and 73.27 scoring average, respectively. Freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/gobearcats.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/player\/brayden-miller\" title=\"Brayden Miller\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brayden Miller<\/a> has played in all but one tournament and ranks third on the team with a 72.06 stroke average.<\/p>\n<p>Bryan Regional<\/p>\n<p>Texas<br \/>\nNorth Carolina<br \/>\nTennessee<br \/>\nNew Mexico<br \/>\nTexas A&amp;M<br \/>\nTCU<br \/>\nUNCW<br \/>\nUNLV<br \/>\nColorado<br \/>\nCincinnati<br \/>\nChattanooga<br \/>\nMiami (Ohio)<br \/>\nUTRGV<br \/>\nArkansas-Pine Bluff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI \u2013 The Cincinnati men\u2019s golf team has been selected to participate in an NCAA Regional at The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-281765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}