Ryan Gronlund, who was so instrumental in Oregon's charge just to make the match play field, forged a two-up lead over Grant Hirschman with a huge drive and a pitch on the fourteenth.

But before that match could be decided, it would all come down to the final match of the day, between two match play stalwarts.

Sulman Raza entered the day with a perfect 5-0 NCAA Championsip match play record for Oregon, and had the memory of holing the championship-winning putt for the Ducks last year. Oklahoma's Brad Dalke won every match but one in last year's U.S. Amateur, which earned him a trip to the Masters earlier this spring.

Dalke jumped to an early lead with wins on the first two holes, but Raza came back to square the match after ten. Raza's game began to fade on the back nine, however, and Dalke stepped up and methodically grinded out the match, winning twelve, fourteen and fifteen and ultimately holding off Raza 2&1.

For Dalke, the key was embracing the pressure. "I love it," he told the Golf Channel. "If you have pressure on you, it means that something good can happen, a chance to do something special... I love pressure. Bring it on."

Head coach Ryan Hybl made note that Dalke's position in the lineup was no accident. "I put him there for a reason," said the 8th year coach after his second national championship. "He came up big against Baylor, and he came through again today."

Dalke is just the latest in a long line of Oklahoma Sooners in his family. His grandfather, Ken Pryor, was a three-sport athlete at OU in the 1940s and led the Sooners to the national championship game in basketball. His mother was a member of the first women's golf team at OU and was the first female athlete in school history to be offered a scholarship.

And like his father Bill, he now has a national championship. Bill Dalke played linebacker on the 1975 OU national champion football team.