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INDIANAPOLIS – For the fourth straight season, the GLVC Sports Network (GLVCSN) will stream three days of coverage of the 2018 Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) Men's Golf Championship, which begins Sunday at Prairie View Golf Club in Carmel, Indiana.
GLVCSN will stream live and free coverage of the 40th annual event, which will be contested April 22-24 on a course that previously hosted the three-day championship back in 2015. Prairie View Golf Club will be set up at a par of 72 and 7,003 yards.
The GLVC Championship features a 54-hole stroke play event with the top four teams after stroke play competing in medal/match play to determine the Conference champion. A total of 36 holes will be played on Sunday, April 22, followed by 18 holes on Monday, April 23. The semifinals and finals of match play will take place on Tuesday, April 24.
The top-five finishers at the GLVC Men's Golf Championship are named All-GLVC, and the top finishing individual after 54-hole medal play earns medalist honors. The remaining golf awards, including All-Conference positions Nos. 6-10, as well as GLVC Player, Freshman, and Coach of the Year, are named following the spring season.
Threesomes will tee off beginning at 8 a.m. ET both on Sunday and Monday, with GLVCSN streaming the No. 1 and 10 tees as well as coverage of the No. 18 green from 7:45-12 p.m. GLVCSN will be back on the air for a recap of the first round and coverage of the second 18 holes from 3:30-7:45 p.m. On Monday, GLVCSN will be on the air from 7:45-12 p.m. and 1:30-4 p.m., which will include the awards ceremony and annual GLVC Medal/Match Play Selection Show.
Several hours of coverage will also be dedicated to the semifinal and final rounds of medal/match play throughout the day on Tuesday, beginning at 7:45 a.m.
Listed coverage is weather permitting and subject to change.
Providing the coverage this year will be two men known throughout college golf, Asher Wildman and Lance Ringler. The tandem reunites after a five-year stint that began in 2006 where they combined for more than 500 videos and podcasts for
Off Campus with Lance & Asher, which aired on Golfweek.com. The two also joined forces to call the very first live stream of the NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s Golf Championship in 2007.
Wildman spent six years covering junior, collegiate and amateur golf at Golfweek, where he also emceed the Ben Hogan Award ceremony at Colonial Country Club and the Fred Haskins Award at The Greenbrier Classic – two of the most prestigious awards in college golf. Following three years as the sports director for the ABC affiliate (KVIA) in El Paso, Texas, Wildman became the sports director for the CBS Affiliate (WCTV) in Tallahassee, Florida. The 2017 Florida AP Sportscaster of the Year currently resides in Orlando and is a panelist on the nightly Spectrum Sports Show,
Spectrum 360.
Ringler has been Golfweek’s lead college golf expert for 18 years. In addition to adding editorial content to Golfweek.com, Ringler manages Golfweek’s collegiate tournament series and oversees the Golfweek/Sagarin computer rankings at all junior, collegiate and professional levels. He spent a total of three years as an assistant coach with the University of Idaho and Iowa State University programs, and has covered every NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championship since 2001.
The University of Indianapolis returns to the GLVC Championships as the No. 1 seed for stroke play as the Greyhounds currently rank as the top GLVC squad and second overall in the Midwest Region rankings according to Golfstat. The University of Missouri-St. Louis (3rd in the Midwest), and McKendree University (6th) will compete in threesomes with UIndy, while Maryville University (7th), Bellarmine University (9th), and Drury University (10th) will play in the second wave as teams seeded fourth through sixth, respectively. Teeing off third will be No. 7 seed Lewis University (12th), alongside No. 8 University of Illinois Springfield (14th) and No. 9 University of Southern Indiana (17th). Seeds 10-12 will respectively be Rockhurst University (18th), Missouri S&T (25th), which is competing in its inaugural GLVC Championship, and William Jewell College (27th). No. 13 University of Wisconsin-Parkside (32nd), which is not eligible to win the team title due to GLVC sanctions, and No. 14 Quincy University (33rd) round out the field.
Last season, fourth-seeded Bellarmine turned in impressive team performances en route to its first GLVC Championship since 2004. The Knights completed the effort by defeating the two-time defending champions and top-seeded Missouri-St. Louis 3-2 during the Medal/Match Play Semifinals, before advancing to its battle with Drury, where they picked up the league’s first Match Play Finals sweep at 5-0 to claim the trophy.
Bellarmine sophomore James Inman continued his impressive postseason career as he helped secure the Knights' team title with 1-under-play and rounds of 71 and 72 in medal/match play action, after winning GLVC medalist honors at 3-under 213 (74-69-70). Coupled with his runner-up at the 2016 event at 4-under and a 2-over 74 in the 2016 medal/match play semifinal, Inman enters the 2018 event having played nine career GLVC Championship rounds at 6-under.
Inman secured the 2017 title by a shot over Illinois Springfield senior Talon Supak (68-74-72--214). UMSL senior Julien de Poyen (68-74-74--216) was third, while a pair of his teammates -- Markus Lindberg (75-72-71) and Jose Acevedo (74-70-74) -- tied for fourth with UIndy junior and 2016 GLVC Champion Graham McAree (73-71-74) at 2-over 218.
Indianapolis has captured 15 GLVC Championships, followed by Bellarmine, Lewis and former GLVC member Northern Kentucky with six each. Missouri-St. Louis earned both of its GLVC titles over the past three seasons, the first of which came in 2015 when Prairie View Golf Club served as host for the first time. Southern Indiana, UW-Parkside, and former league-member Ashland have all claimed the GLVC Championship once.
Admission to the 2018 GLVC Men's Golf Championship is free to the public.
Live coverage can be seen by logging on to the GLVCSN’s official website,
GLVCSN.com, or on the GLVCSN iOS/Android mobile apps, as well as on the Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV and Android TV OTT platforms. Live scoring will likely occur every three holes and is available through Golfstat.com or on the GLVC Men's Golf Championship page at
GLVCsports.com/2018mgolf. Updates will also be included on the GLVC's official Twitter accounts (@
GLVCsports and @GLVCSN) with the hashtags, #GLVCmgolf, and #GLVCchamps.