Colorado Christian men’s golf team remains unbeaten in NCAA Div. II ranks this season as defending national champs prevail at West/South Central Regional
By Gary Baines – 5/10/2025
Unbeaten. Untied. Still.
At least in NCAA Division II golf.
The Colorado Christian University men’s team will go into the NCAA Division II national championships undefeated against all their DII opponents during the 2024-25 season.
The Cougars, the defending DII national champs, claimed the team title on Saturday at the DII West/South Central Regional in Riverside, Calif. That gives them 10 victories in their 11 tournaments so far this season, with their lone non-win coming in an NCAA Division I tournament in February in which they finished a “lowly” second place behind DI North Carolina-Charlotte.
By coming out atop at the 20-team field at regionals, CCU is now 130-0 against fellow DII programs this season. You can’t get better than that — this season or in the history of DII golf.
All that’s left between the Cougars and a perfect season as well as a second consecutive national title is a victory in the DII nationals, set for May 19-23 in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., where the team champion ultimately will be determined via three rounds of head-to-head medal-match play.
At the regional tournament, the Cougars started very slowly, sitting very near the bottom of the field after the first nine holes. But they were their usual selves since then, leading after the end of the first, second and final rounds. By the time things wrapped up on Saturday evening, CCU prevailed by 14strokes as a team, with a 46-under-par total for three days.
As usual, Colorado Christian’s depth of talent won out. The Cougars didn’t claim the individual title, but placed three players in the top three and ties out of a field of 105 golfers who completed all three rounds. With CCU coming into the event with the top-3-ranked players in DII — and four of the top six — its top individual finishers at regionals were grad student Sangha Park (second place at 14 under par for three rounds), senior Adam Duncan (third at 12 under) and senior Xavier Bighaus (also third at 12 under).
Going back to the end of last season, head coach Mark Hull’s Cougars have claimed team titles in 14 of their last 17 tournaments. When they won the national championship last year, if marked the first NCAA national team golf title for a Colorado-based team — regardless of gender or division level.
Three other Colorado-based schools competed in the West/South Central Regional, but all fell short of joining CCU in advancing teams to the national championships. Colorado State Pueblo tied for eighth place, while Colorado School of Mines was 10th, and Colorado Mesa placed 18th. The top six teams finishers earned national berths.
But CSU Pueblo junior Agustin Pizzorno, from Uruguay, earned an individual spot in nationals by tying for eighth placeindividually on Saturday (68-68-71).
For all the scores from the DII West/South Central Regional, CLICK HERE.
About the Writer: Gary Baines has covered golf in Colorado continuously since 1983. He was a sports writer at the Daily Camera newspaper in Boulder, then the sports editor there, and has written regularly for ColoradoGolf.org since 2009. The University of Colorado Evans Scholar alum was inducted into the Colorado Golf Hall of Fame in 2022. He owns and operates ColoradoGolfJournal.com