NCAA Golf Championship 2016: Bracket, schedule, scores, format and more

Let's go to Oregon and taunt each other about golf.

We're now under 100 days until the college football season, a time when we get at our screaming and most irrational best when it comes to school spirit and hating. That's ... not that far off, but still a summer away. In the instant, however, we can yell at each other about the NCAA golf championships. The women's championships last week delivered and reminded the golf crowd again that match play done right is the most compelling golf format in the world. It reignited the demands for more match play at the pro levels.

This week, it's the men who are playing for multiple titles in Eugene, Ore. There are two championships up for grabs -- an Individual National Championship and then a Team Match Play Championship. Golf Channel will cover both over the next three days. For many, the coverage of this event last year was the first big exposure to Bryson DeChambeau, who would become the most fascinating character of Masters week 10 months later.

Here's some background on the men's championships, which will be played in primetime during days when the pros are off the screen. We'll also keep this updated with tee times, scores, results and the bracket as the week progresses.

Format

The hardest part of following the NCAA Championships is sorting through a format that awards both an individual national title and a team match play title. There were 30 teams and six individuals not from those teams that made it to Oregon for these final championships week. Those six individuals and everyone from all 30 teams plays 54 holes of stroke play. These scores are used in concurrent team and individual competitions. After 54 holes, the top 15 lowest combined team scores advance and nine individuals not on those advancing teams move on to a final round.

That brings us to Monday's final 18 holes in the 72-hole stroke play event. The final round awards an individual national champion. It could be someone from the rosters of those advancing teams, such as 54-hole leader Aaron Wise of Oregon (the full Ducks team is still playing). Or it could be someone like Alabama's Robby Shelton, who is tied for 4th in the individual stroke play event while his team was sent packing after finishing 23rd of 30 in the combined team scores competition. Shelton gets 18 more holes on Monday in the Individual National Championship.

The 18 holes on Monday are also used to cut the team competition in half again. The combined 72-hole scores of the top eight of the remaining 15 teams move on to a single elimination bracket. That's where it gets simpler and easy to follow. After Monday, it's all team-vs-team match play. One school sends out five players and against another school's five players and the team to win three matches moves on in the bracket.

Schedule

The NCAAs have become a significant part of Golf Channel's spring schedule and now they have a west coast venue with primetime coverage. It's a two-week block that provides a unique chance to show live golf on what are normally off-days for the golf-consuming audience: Monday through Wednesday. Golf Channel will put the same schedule in play this week for the men's championships that they used last week for the women's event, which delivered some awesome match play drama in finals last Wednesday night. Here's the Golf Channel lineup:

Monday, May 30
Individual National Championship -- 7-10 p.m.
Tuesday, May 31
Quarterfinals, Team Match Play -- 1:30-3:30 p.m. 
Semifinals, Team Match Play -- 6-10 p.m. 
Wednesday, June 1
Team Match Play National Championship -- 6-10 p.m.

Golf Channel's TV coverage will also be simulcast streamed via their 24/7 online feed. A full viewing guide for this week's men's championships is here.

Results and Scores

We'll update results for the team match play bracket as play progresses throughout the week. The results from Monday's final stroke play round that cut the team competition from 15 to eight and set the bracket (full scores here):

Place	School	Score	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Total
1	Texas	14	289	281	277	287	1134
2	Illinois	15	290	280	289	276	1135
3	LSU	16	286	282	283	285	1136
T4	Southern California	17	283	282	285	287	1137
T4	Vanderbilt	17	283	280	282	292	1137
6	Oregon	19	291	277	284	287	1139
T7	South Carolina	22	287	285	293	277	1142
8	Oklahoma	24	290	288	289	277	1144
DID NOT QUALIFY FOR SINGLE ELIMIATION MATCH PLAY BRACKET
9	Arizona State	28	290	281	286	291	1148
T10	California	30	287	284	287	292	1150
T10	Oklahoma State	30	285	289	285	291	1150
12	Arkansas	33	282	284	289	298	1153
13	Kentucky	37	289	286	288	294	1157
14	Louisville	38	291	282	294	291	1158
15	Florida	43	286	287	293	297	1163

Quarterfinals

The No. 1 seed Texas Longhorns made quick work of their Red River rivals, beating the Sooners 4-1 to advance to the semis. It's the first time the Longhorns have advanced to the semifinals since their 2012 National Championship. They now get USC, who also rolled to a 4-1 win over Vandy. That's a heavyweight fight in the semis.

On the other side of the bracket, the home team Oregon Ducks beat defending champion LSU and Illinois took four of five matches against South Carolina. As you would expect in the semifinals of the national championship, there are no real weaklings here.

The quarters results:

	Matches		Results
Tee Time	Illinois	South Carolina	Illinois wins, 4-1
10:00 a.m.	Thomas Detry	Keenan Huskey	Detry (Illinois) wins, 2&1
10:10 a.m.	Edoardo Lipparelli	Matthew NeSmith	Lipparelli (Illinois) wins, 1-up
10:20 a.m.	Dylan Meyer	Scott Stevens	Stevens (SC) wins, 4&3
10:30 a.m.	Nick Hardy	Sean Kelly	Hardy (Illinois) wins, 2&1
10:40 a.m.	Charlie Danielson	Will Starke	Danielson (Illinois) wins, 1-up
Tee Time	LSU	Oregon	Oregon wins, 3-1-1
10:00 a.m.	Brandon Pierce	Zach Foushee	Foushee (Oregon) wins, 2-up
10:10 a.m.	Sam Burns	Sulman Raza	Raza (Oregon) wins, 2&1
10:20 a.m.	Zach Wright	Edwin Yi	Wright (LSU) wins, 2&1
10:30 a.m.	Luis Gagne	Thomas Lim	All Square
10:40 a.m.	Eric Ricard	Aaron Wise	Wise (Oregon) wins, 3&2
Tee Time	Texas	Oklahoma	Texas wins, 4-1
10:50 a.m.	Beau Hossler	Blaine Hale	Hossler (Texas) wins, 1-up
11:00 a.m.	Doug Ghim	Max McGreevy	Ghim (Texas) wins, 7&6
11:10 a.m.	Taylor Funk	Grant Hirschman	Funk (Texas) wins, 6&4
11:20 a.m.	Gavin Hall	Brad Dalke	Hall (Texas) wins, 4&3
11:30 a.m.	Scottie Scheffler	Luke Kwon	Kwon (Okla.) wins, 4&3
Tee Time	Southern California	Vanderbilt	Southern Cal wins, 4-1
10:50 a.m.	Sean Crocker	Theo Humphrey	Crocker (USC) wins, 1-up
11:00 a.m.	Rico Hoey	Patrick Martin	Hoey (USC) wins, 2&1
11:10 a.m.	Andrew Levitt	Matthias Schwab	Schwab (Vandy) wins, 2&1
11:20 a.m.	Jonah Texeira	Will Gordon	Texeira (USC) wins, 5&4
11:30 a.m.	Justin Suh	Carson Jacobs	Suh (USC) wins, 6&5

Semifinals

Tuesday night's semifinals finished with a bit of injury drama for the top player left in the championships. Texas' Beau Hossler, a potential Haskins award winner for player of the year, flipped his match from a 2-down deficit to a 2-up advantage on the 17th. But his shoulder flared up and he could barely swing. At the time, his point was critical to the Horns moving on to the finals and he really just needed a bogey to close it out. So after letting a match play through, he took a cut on the 17th that looked heinous:

The ball landed short in a bunker and Hossler opted to putt out of the sand and pop it onto the back of the green. From there, Hossler pulled off a miracle to get up-and-down and put Texas in the national title.

Injured shoulder. Having to putt from the bunker. Then @BeauHossler did this... #Heart #NCAAGolfhttps://t.co/1NcnPo6Rjr

- Golf Channel (@GolfChannel) June 1, 2016

The Longhorns are the heavy favorite to win the title but it sounds like Hossler will probably not play on Wednesday night. That means Texas' No. 1 guy will be out for their title match against Oregon, which upset Illinois in the other semi and will play on their home course in front of their fans in the biggest day in that program's history.

Your final results from Tuesday night's semis:

	Matches		Results
Tee Times	Illinois	Oregon	Oregon wins, 3-2
4:30 p.m.	Thomas Detry	Thomas Lim	Detry (Illinois) wins, 5&3
4:40 p.m.	Edoardo Lipparelli	Edwin Yi	Yi (Oregon) wins, 5&4
4:50 p.m.	Nick Hardy	Zach Foushee	Foushee (Oregon) wins, 5&3
5:00 p.m.	Charlie Danielson	Sulman Raza	Raza (Oregon) wins, 1-up
5:10 p.m.	Dylan Meyer	Aaron Wise	Meyer (Illinois) wins, 1-up
Tee Times	Texas	Southern California	Texas wins, 4-1
5:20 p.m.	Beau Hossler	Andrew Levitt	Hossler (Texas) wins, 2&1
5:30 p.m.	Scottie Scheffler	Sean Crocker	Scheffler (Texas) wins, 1-up
5:40 p.m.	Taylor Funk	Rico Hoey	Hoey (USC) wins, 6&5
5:50 p.m.	Doug Ghim	Justin Suh	Ghim (Texas) wins, 4&3
6:00 p.m.	Gavin Hall	Jonah Texeira	Hall (Texas) wins, 4&3

Bracket

The bracket for the Team Match Play Championship is now set and it's not the Pac-12 heavy bracket that we saw last week on the women's side. It's been a mix of SEC, Big 12, and Pac 12 teams with Texas as the favorite and the No. 1 seed. The Longhorns have been the best team in the country all season but a No. 1 seed has never won the team title in the history of both the men's and women's championships. Here's your bracket:

Tee Times

Here's the tee sheet for Wednesday night's final (all times ET). There can be no substitutes once the championships have started so the Texas coach, John Fields, had to put Hossler on the match board. He may never hit a shot and the Longhorns will essential play 4-on-5 and give away a point right from the start.

Tee Time	Texas	Oregon
5:10 p.m.	Gavin Hall	Edwin Yi
5:20 p.m.	Scottie Scheffler	Aaron Wise
5:30 p.m.	Beau Hossler	Zach Foushee
5:40 p.m.	Taylor Funk	Sulman Raza
5:50 p.m.	Doug Ghim	Thomas Lim

Individual National Champion

A bit of history was made in the Individual National Championship on Monday night. For the first time since 1979, a player from the host school took the individual title. Aaron Wise of Oregon cruised to a two-shot win to take the solo title, winning for the Ducks at Eugene Country Club. Wise was a pre-tourney favorite but this was the first individual title for Oregon in the history of both the men's and women's golf program.

The title for Wise was largely achieved on the back of his Sunday round of 64. This is a home course and he's won on it many times, but that 6-under 64 was an astonishing round that gave him cushion on Monday. He fired a 1-over 71 in the final 18 but it did not matter much and the sophomore had himself a title in his final round for the Ducks before turning pro. Wise finished 5-under after 72 holes, good enough for the two-shot individual title.

Here are the top 10 results on the individual side in Eugene:

Place	Player	Score	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Total
1	Wise, Aaron (Oregon)	-5	70	70	64	71	275
2	Hoey, Rico (USC)	-3	70	69	69	69	277
T3	Rahm, Jon (Arizona State)	-1	71	68	69	71	279
T3	Schwab, Matthias (Vanderbilt)	-1	71	68	67	73	279
5	Hossler, Beau (Texas)	E	70	70	67	73	280
T6	McCoy, Lee (Georgia)	1	69	70	70	72	281
T6	Shelton, Robby (Alabama)	1	70	66	72	73	281
T8	Danielson, Charlie (Illinois)	2	72	69	70	71	282
T8	Rozner, Antoine (UMKC)	2	70	72	70	70	282
T10	Detry, Thomas (Illinois)	3	73	70	73	67	283
T10	Morikawa, Collin (Cal)	3	73	69	70	71	283
T10	Suh, Justin (USC)	3	68	67	75	73	283

Course

The 2016 NCAA Championships have posted up at Eugene Country Club in Oregon for two weeks. The host Ducks made the final eight on the women's team side. The men's team made the championship week, started as the No. 20 seed (out of 30), made the final 15 cutdown, and is in good position to make the top eight single elimination bracket. They also have a player in position to win the individual title.

This is the second straight year that one course will host both the women and men's championships in consecutive weeks. Eugene Country Club is a Robert Trent Jones, Sr. design that played as a par-72 between 6,300 and 6,400 yards for the women. It has been a par-70 7,000-yard layout for the men and the scores reflect that it's not been some simple pitch-and-putt for the men's draw.