No. 15 Stanford’s tournament run came to an end on Tuesday as the No. 8-seeded Cardinal fell to No. 1 Auburn, 3-1, in NCAA Match Play Quarterfinal action. Stanford, which advanced to the quarterfinal out of a four-team playoff on Monday night, ends the 2025-26 campaign with its best season since the national-championship winning 2019 season.
Stanford’s season ends with three stroke play tournament wins - its most since the 2022-23 campaign - while making match play for the first time in the NCAA Championships since the 2019 campaign. The Cardinal also ended the season as the last Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) team remaining in the field in just its second season in the conference.
Claiming the sole point for the Card was Nathan Wang who held firm against the No. 1 player in the Tournament, Jackson Koivun. The match play win was Wang's third of the seaon and first of this calendar year.