Dude.

It has been like that all afternoon

I just called the clubhouse. Minnesota won.

It was just posted. Congrats on a great season Aggies. Sorry it had to end this way!

That's disgusting. In both the Men's and Women's Regionals we were the highest ranked team that didn't qualify. Neither group played up to their ranking. This is just very disappointing. Finish 2nd in the Big 12 and can't get out of Regionals. :-(

Thanks for the good wishes OSUMom, but it is NOT a good season when you finish in the tank. It's a bad season.

Kudo's to Minnesota. I just realized that 3 of their top 4 golfers birdies their final hole to even make the playoff. Now that's sucking it up when its all on the line.

Have to admit that when we flame out, it's spectacular.

The Aggies did not have a bad season. They had a very good season, ranking in the top 10-15 all season and finishing second in the Big 12, which is one of the toughest golf conferences in the country.

By your estimation, the men's basketball team also had a bad season.

our hoops team went out in the round of 16, so it stands to reasont that we should have been ranked somewhere from 9 to 16, which is where we hovered all year and finished. For golf, we went out essentially in the round of 81, with the top 30 moving on. Seeing as how we were ranked in the top 15 most of the season, not even getting into the top 30 is, in fact, a failure.

Women's golf, Men's golf, Women's Softball???

Epic collapse by the spring sports teams....

Jeff makes a compelling argument. Both of the golf teams flopped on the national stage.

Jeff makes a very uninformed argument. The golf regionals are the equivalent of the first couple of rounds of the NCAA basketball tournament, regardless of the number of teams involved (which has little to do with it at all). Upsets happen. Get over it. Move one. Quit whining. On the men's side, we return each and every player, so let's look foreard to next year.

30 teams remain and we're not one of them. that pretty much speaks for itself. we couldn't even beat 2 teams we beat in the Big XII tourney by 20+ strokes. that's a choke job.

very disappointing. There will be about 15 teams in the finals that I believe we're better than but bottom line, we didn't get it done

I'm as disappointed as anyone, but to be fair, both mens and womens teams had made the NCAAs three straight years before this. And I don't think a poor performance take away from the women winning their second straight conference championship.

Why is it always choking when you lose? Athletes happen to be human. As a result, sometimes they perform poorly. Sometimes it happens at inopportune times. In golf, sometimes the putts just don't go in. That does not mean someone choked.

Failing to perform to one's capabilities under pressure is the uniform definition of "choked." I don't see any way around that definition being applicable here.

I sense you are offended by the pejorative connotation of the term "choke." Use a synonym if it makes you feel better.

Both the men's and women's teams fell woefully short of meeting expectations in the NCAA tourney. Unfortunately, the players have to live with the negative karma of their tourney underachievement. That is the downside of accepting the risk of playing on the national stage and failing.

Cooter00,

Care to take back your comment about girl's softball??

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Why is it always choking when you lose? Athletes happen to be human. As a result, sometimes they perform poorly. Sometimes it happens at inopportune times.

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Isn't that pretty much the definition of choking?

Oh, sorry sharp dressed. I didn't see that.