The Ball State men's golf team was just about to enter the heart of its spring schedule.
Actually, the Cardinals had played only a third of it. Just one match play event and one stroke play tournament. A heavy month of April awaited.
Trips to Vanderbilt's Mason Rudolph Championship, Purdue's Boilermaker Invitational and Ohio's State's Robert Kepler Intercollegiate were on the horizon. Three top collegiate venues where BSU would have competed against strong national fields with teams the caliber of No. 1 Oklahoma, No. 9 Vanderbilt, No. 11 Louisville and more.
It was a string of tests designed to prepare the Cardinals for their final examination scheduled for the first weekend of May at the MAC Championships in Fort Wayne.