After a year's absence, the Kansas State men's golf team received its third postseason bid in four seasons Wednesday as the No. 10 seed in the NCAA Bremerton Regional. It will be the 10th postseason appearance in program history for the Wildcats, who will compete in the 14-team regional May 12-14 at Gold Mountain Golf Club in Bremerton, Washington. The top five teams, plus the top individual from a non-qualifying team, will advance to the NCAA Golf Championship May 23-28 at Omni La Costa Resort in Carlsbad, California. "It's definitely a goal of ours to be a team that is consistently in regionals, and we've gotten to the point now where we have made it three out of four years," K-State coach Grant Robbins said. "We've been in the discussion for six years in a row now, either making a regional or being one of the first two or three teams out. "We have gotten to that point consistently, and now it's time to take that next step." With the men's berth, both of K-State's golf teams have qualified for the postseason. Last week, the Wildcat women were selected as the No. 5 seed in the Lexington Regional, set for May 5-7 in Lexington, Kentucky. The Wildcat men, who are No. 57 in the latest National Collegiate Golf rankings, nearly qualified for the NCAA Championship during their last regional appearance in 2023, when they were sixth in the Bath (Mich.) Regional. Seniors Nicklaus Mason, Kobe Valociek and Cooper Schultz have led this year's K-State team, with Mason's season scoring average of 71.68 ranking eighth in school history. Valociek, a transfer from Virginia Tech, has a 72.32 average and Schultz is close behind at 72.32. K-State is one of five Big 12 teams in the Bremerton Regional, joining No. 1 seed Arizona State , No. 3 Utah, No. 6 Colorado and eighth-seeded Kansas. Arne Green is based in Salina and covers Kansas State University sports for the Gannett network. He can be reached at or on X (formerly Twitter) at @arnegreen.
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