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NCAA Championship
Scott Patrick qualified for the 2014 NCAA Championships and will represent Davidson in St. Louis. The Ellicott City, Md., native won his second Southern Conference Title at 184 pounds March 7 to earn to earn his second trip.

Watch From Home
For the second consecutive season, ESPN will broadcast all six sessions of the 2015 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships. ESPN will televise the semifinals and finals, while ESPNU televises the first and second sessions, the quarterfinals and medal round. Digitally, ESPN3 will carry individual mat feeds throughout the entire tournament and debut a special — Inside the Mat — during the finals. All six sessions will also be available on WatchESPN. Adam Amin and Shawn Kenney will call the action, with Quint Kessenich as the mat-side reporter. ESPN's coverage will also feature guest analysts Anthony Robles, Jim Gibbons, Tim Johnson and Billy Baldwin.

Follow from Anywhere
For updates throughout the event, fans can follow:
@dc_grapplers, @davidsonwildcat and @NCAAWrestling on Twitter.

Dominant in 2015
Scott Patrick carries a 12-3 overall mark and a 6-0 regular season conference record into the three-day event. Despite missing time early in the year due to injury, Patrick is currently riding an 11-game win streak. The senior has tallied four falls and two major decisions throughout the year.

First Round Foe
Scott Patrick is set to face No. 11 Brett Pfarr of Minnesota. Pfarr, a sophomore, carries a 23-10 mark into the tournament. The winner of the bout will face the winner of No. 6 Hayden Zilmer of North Dakota State and Ohio State's Kenny Courts.

Twice As Nice
Scott Patrick defeated Gardner-Webb's Hunter Gamble, 6-1, to win his second consecutive Southern Conference Championship at 184 pounds. Patrick became just the second person in program history to win multiple conference titles. Henry Westervelt, the only other Davidson wrestler with multiple titles, won the championship in 1957, 1958 and 1959.

Going for Two
Kerry Keith is the only Davidson wrestler to win a match at the NCAA Tournament, doing so in 1968. Wrestling at 177 pounds, Keith pinned Penn State's Phil Liller in 1:43 in the preliminaries, before dropped a 13-3 decision to Army's Jim Harter in the quarterfinals. His pin scored Davidson two points to tie for 52^nd-place out of 102 schools.

Honor Roll
Scott Patrick was selected to the All-Southern Conference team at 184 pounds after posting a 6-0 mark during the regular season. Patrick is just the third Wildcat wrestler to earn all-conference accolades in program history and the first since Ian Kaplan in 2000.

Perfection
Scott Patrick became the first Wildcat to go undefeated in conference matches since Ian Kaplan did so during the 1997-98 season.

Win Streak
The senior enters his first round bout on an 11-match win streak. Patrick has posted two major decisions and four falls on the season. Patrick's last loss came at the Midland Championships, when he fell to Illinois' Nikko Reyes, 4-1.

2014 NCAA Tournament Recap
At his first NCAA Tournament appearance, Patrick suffered a 13-5 setback to No. 8 TJ Dudley of Nebraska in the first round before falling in his consolation match 8-1 to ninth-seed Dominic Abounader of Michigan.

Three In a Row
Patrick's win at 184 pounds marks the third consecutive season the Wildcats have boated a conference champion. In 2014, Patrick grabbed his first individual crown while classmate Anthony Elias came from the seventh seed to win the title at 133 pounds and earn a bid in 2013.

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