Members of the SIU men's golf team celebrate Thursday seeing their bid announced for the 2016 NCAA tournament at Tedrick Auditorium. It is the first time SIU will be competing in the NCAA tournament. — May 5, 2016, Carbondale, Ill.
SIU will head to Ol' Colony Golf Complex in Tuscaloosa, Ala., as a 13-seed for the program's first-ever NCAA regional championship.
"It's an exciting feeling," coach Justin Fetcho said. "This has been a year of the firsts. Our first team win in quite a few years, we won the first conference tournament championship in school history, going to be the first team to advance the NCAA regionals.