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99 Following the Big Ten Tournament, Schaake and fellow sophomore Raymond Knoll earned All- Big Ten accolades — Schaake earned first-team honors, while Knoll was named to the conference's second team. Iowa's season was brought to an end at the NCAA Yale Regional. Seventh-ranked and eventual NCAA champion Louisiana State University clipped Iowa by one stroke, keeping the Hawkeyes from advancing to the NCAA Championship Finals. Iowa has advanced to the NCAA Finals three times in the last seven years. Senior Brian Bullington joined Knoll and Schaake as Division I PING All-Midwest Regional Team honorees as selected by the Golf Coaches Association of America. Iowa's three selections were the second most in the Big Ten behind Illinois (five). Two of the honorees — Knoll and Schaake — will return next season, headlining a lineup that will boast two seniors in Voramate Aussarassakorn and Nate Yankovich. Freshmen Jack Holmgren and Sam Meuret, who each competed in the UI lineup over the course of the year, will return in 2015-16. "Aer having some time to reflect on all our good performances over the course of the season I believe we are all pretty happy with what we accomplished," said Stith. "I am very proud of all of our guys." T he 2015 campaign for University of Iowa men's golf is in the book and what a year it was for head coach Tyler Stith. During his first season at the helm, Stith crowned a Big Ten Conference individual champion, saw two student-athletes collect All-Big Ten honors, and led the Hawkeyes to their seventh straight NCAA Regionals appearance. "Overall, we are going to look back and be proud of the things we accomplished this year," said Stith. Aer finishing ninth at the Schenkel Invitational in Georgia and tying for fih at the Arizona State underbird Invitational, the Hawkeyes began to gain momentum, and it started in Iowa City at the Hawkeye-Great River Entertainment Invitational. ree Hawkeyes finished inside the top 15, leading Iowa to a third-place finish in what was then its best finish of the year. One week later, sophomore Carson Schaake made history, becoming Iowa's third Big Ten champion and the first since Brad Klapprott in 1992. Schaake, an Omaha, Nebraska, native, recorded the best 18-hole score of his career and the lowest round of the three-day event in the opening round of the tournament with a seven-under-par 65. He followed with rounds of 70, 76, and 73 to lead the Hawkeyes to a second-place finish. "To crown a Big Ten Champion is very special," said Stith. "It validates all the hard work and sacrifice by Carson this season."