The fall golf season officially wrapped up earlier this month with another victory for UNT's women, it's third in four tournaments. For the fall, UNT won three events and was fifth at another one. UNT's men finished a few weeks earlier, going 1-2-3 in three events this fall. The spring season doesn't start until February.
That brings us to the latest various college golf rankings. I guess scheduling is everything in college golf, because UNT's women get about as much respect as John Daly these days. Given a 3-1 fall, Golfweek appears to get it somewhat right and has UNT at 29th in Division I in its latest rankings. The computerized Golfstat rankings that take into account a million or so different variables has UNT's women at 50. Don't ask how that's possible when you've won three times, but it is.
Next up is the Golf World/Nike NGCA women's coaches' poll, which must be a good-old-girls club similar to the men's side (GCAA coaches' poll). The NGCA poll has UNT's women exactly...nowhere in sight. Not even a vote. Yeah, right. Someone justify that, please.
Golfweek (29th) and Golfstat (28th) still have UNT's men still sitting just outside those top 25s. The GCAA coaches' poll appears quite determined to keep UNT in the "receiving votes" category until the forseeable future, though that numbers is rising. UNT has gone from one vote received to 23.
Honestly, I don't pretend to understand anything about college golf polls, but I'm not trying to be ignorant either. All I know is UNT plays pretty good golf on both sides of the gender line. It has been a while since that happened, so perhaps that's the reason for such inconsistency in polling recognition.
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