Carlsbad, Calif. - LSU barely missed the morning serving time Sunday at the NCAA Women's Championship, trailing 36 holes in Florida and UCLA, despite Florida and UCLA being 15th ahead, even though the Gators won the finals (and later won both teams).

This is nothing new to tigers. Last week, they were the top five in the NCAA area and then rallied on the last day.

LSU head coach Garrett Runion said: “We have done such hard things before.

However, Sunday's mission can easily become the most difficult. The afternoon wave hit 11 more hard on Saturday - to fast forward, the difference was nearly nine on Sunday.

"We know it will be tough," Runion added. "We know that most teams that played this morning will perform well, but thankfully there are some teams that help us. But we know that this will be posted and that will be our opposition to us."

Louisiana rally again, shooting two shots in the over 16 game, climbing to 13th in Game 16, leading four goals from 16th Vanderbilt, from the first round leader to the lack of 54 hole cuts. Senior Elsa Svensson led the Tigers for the third consecutive day, fourth in the Under-6 game, with a two-thirds lead at the Under-6, and three behind Arkansas individual leader Maria Jose Marin.

Now, the Tigers have to make eight shots in the game era (Auburn, 11, 2021), which started in 2015, which is only done once in the game era.

UCLA is the only afternoon volatility team to move to Monday as the Bruins started a hit (six holes below 5 times) before posting 5 times. UCLA lost two best players Zoe Campos and Caroline Canales mid-season, as he was over 18 at Mississippi State University (T-14).

The second team dropped out of school is Florida, which is the first time since 2019 to compete in the Nationals, a two-year game that included two years and the Gators missed a shot. Florida recorded just three birdies in the final nine games, hitting 21 with eight shots, a three shot that forced the playoffs to enter Monday's final round.

A final deficit of three strokes may be more likely to be more likely to stomach than two or fewer stomachs on the edge. That's because sophomore Paula Francisco, a Gator's Player of the Year a day ago, recently finished runner-up in the NCAA Charlottesville area, receiving two free throws after she was late for the second round of Tee Tee on Saturday morning. Francisco avoided disqualification because she arrived within five minutes of 9:04 a.m.

The accident happened after Francisco accidentally boarded the shuttle bus on the No. 10 T-shirt, a 10-minute drive from the series. The shuttle route takes players away and enters public roads. Once off, the player must cross the seventh hole to enter the starting tee. After Francisco arrived at the 10th tee, she was crossed by a golf cart to her first T-shirt, a few hundred yards from the series.

Francisco turned into doubles on the opening hole, with Francisco hitting a 77-point shot, part of Florida's second round 13.

Of the current top eight teams, this is not surprising - all ranked 11th or higher. Arizona is the eighth time and is eighth in South Carolina. Of the six teams since 2015, rallied from outside the top eight after 54 holes, only 3 removed more than two shots (Auburn in 2021, plus Texas Tech, 6, 2015, Georgia, Georgia, 4, 4, 2022).

At least on Monday it could ruin some history. Stanford opened with 5 points, scoring 28 times in the past 36 holes, scoring 23 in the championship game, 15 from the Northwest, second-placed. Currently, the NCAA record for 72 holes related to PAR is underrepresented at the UGA Golf Course in Athens, Georgia in 2013.

As one coach said Sunday night at Stanford: “They will break it.”