2014 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship

2014 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship
Men's College Cup (semifinals & final)
Country USA
Teams 48
Champions Virginia
Runners-up UCLA
Semi-finalists
Matches played 47
Goals scored 113 (2.4 per match)
Top goal scorer(s) Andy Craven
North Carolina
(4 goals)
Best player Mac Steeves
Providence (Off. MOP)
Calle Brown
Virginia (Defense MOP)
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The 2014 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship is the 56th annual edition of the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship tournament. The brackets for the tournament were announced on November 17, 2014, with each of the 48 participating teams gaining an invitation through either an automatic or at-large bid determined by the NCAA. The First, Second, Third, and Quarterfinal Rounds were held at college campus sites across the United States determined by seeding and record. The four team College Cup finals tournament were held at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary, North Carolina on December 12 and 14, 2014.[1]

Qualified Teams

A total of 48 teams qualified into the tournament proper, either automatically, or through an at-large bid that is determined by a selection committee. Each conference that field varsity soccer teams is awarded one automatic berth into the tournament. Depending on the conference, that automatic berth was either given the champions of the regular season, or the tournament that culminates the regular season. Twenty-four teams earned automatic bids into the tournament, while 24 entered through an at-large bid.

Of the 23 schools that had previously won the championship, 13 qualified for the 2014 tournament.

Format

Like previous editions of the NCAA Division I Tournament, the tournament featured 48 participants out of a possible field of 200 teams. Of the 48 berths, 24 were allocated to the conference tournament or regular season winners. The remaining 24 berths were supposed to be determined through an at-large process based upon the Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) of teams that did not automatically qualify.

The NCAA Selection Committee also named the top sixteen seeds for the tournament, with those teams receiving an automatic bye into the second round of the tournament. The remaining 32 teams played in a single-elimination match in the first round of the tournament for the right to play a seeded team in the second round.

Seeded teams

Seeded teams
Seed School Conference Record Berth type NSCAA Ranking[2] RPI Ranking[3]
1 Notre Dame ACC 11–5–3 At-large 2 3
2 UCLA Pac-12 10–4–4 At-large 6 1
3 Michigan State Big Ten 11–4–5 At-large 12 5
4 Maryland Big Ten 13–5–3 Automatic A 13 14
5 Indiana Big Ten 12–4–5 At-large 7 8
6 Stanford Pac-12 12–2–3 Automatic B 3 2
7 Clemson ACC 12–6–2 Automatic A 14 11
8 Georgetown Big East 12–4–4 At-large 8 7
9 Syracuse ACC 15–3–1 At-large 1 12
10 Charlotte C-USA 14–3–1 At-large 4 6
11 Providence Big East 13–4–2 Automatic A 23 4
12 Creighton Big East 14–3–2 At-large 5 9
13 Louisville ACC 10–7–3 At-large 19 15
14 Washington Pac-12 12–4–1 At-large 9 10
15 California Pac-12 10–5–1 At-large 15 17
16 Virginia ACC 11–5–2 At-large 20 13
  • Automatic A = Conference tournament winner.
  • Automatic B = Conference regular season champion, conference has no tournament.

Schedule

Round Date
First round November 20, 2014
Second round November 23, 2014
Third round November 30, 2014
Quarterfinals December 5 − 6, 2014
College Cup: Semifinals December 12, 2014
College Cup Final December 14, 2014

Bracket

Regional 1

  First round Second round Third round Quarterfinals
                                     
  Ohio State 1(13)  
  Akron 2OT/PK 1(12)  
    Ohio State 1  
    1 Notre Dame 2  
     
       
  1 Notre Dame 0  
  16 Virginia 1  
       
       
  16 Virginia 3
      UNC Wilmington 1  
  UNC Wilmington 2
  Bucknell 0  
  16 Virginia 2OT/PK 1(5)
  8 Georgetown 1(4)
  Penn State 2  
  Hartwick 1  
    Penn State 1
    9 Syracuse 2  
     
       
  9 Syracuse 1
  8 Georgetown OT 2  
       
       
  8 Georgetown 2OT 2
      Old Dominion 1  
  Old Dominion 3
  St. Francis Brooklyn 0  

Regional 2

  First round Second round Third round Quarterfinals
                                     
  Xavier 2OT 2  
  Monmouth 1  
    Xavier 2  
    5 Indiana 1  
     
       
  Xavier 1  
  12 Creighton 2  
       
       
  12 Creighton 1
      Oregon State 0  
  Oregon State 1
  Denver 0  
  12 Creighton 0(3)
  UMBC 2OT/PK 0(4)
  Saint Louis 2  
  Tulsa 0  
    Saint Louis 1
    13 Louisville 2  
     
       
  13 Louisville 0
  UMBC 1  
       
       
  4 Maryland 0
      UMBC 1  
  Wake Forest 0(2)
  UMBC 2OT/PK 0(3)  

Regional 3

  First round Second round Third round Quarterfinals
                                     
  Kentucky 0  
  Oakland 2  
    Oakland 0  
    3 Michigan State 1  
     
       
  3 Michigan State 2OT/PK 2(4)  
  14 Washington 2(3)  
       
       
  14 Washington 0(6)
      Furman 2OT/PK 0(5)  
  UAB 2OT/PK 1(3)
  Furman 1(4)  
  3 Michigan State 2
  11 Providence 3
  Dartmouth 2  
  Fordham 1  
    Dartmouth 0
    11 Providence 3  
     
       
  11 Providence 1
  UC Irvine 0  
       
       
  6 Stanford 0
      UC Irvine OT 1  
  UC Irvine 3
  UNLV 0  

Regional 4

  First round Second round Third round Quarterfinals
                                     
  Coastal Carolina 1  
  Florida Gulf Coast 0  
    Coastal Carolina 1  
    7 Clemson 2  
     
       
  7 Clemson 1  
    North Carolina 2  
       
       
  10 Charlotte 1
      North Carolina 2  
  North Carolina 6
  James Madison 0  
    North Carolina 3(6)
  2 UCLA 2OT/PK 3(7)
  Northwestern 0  
  SIU Edwardsville 1  
    SIU Edwardsville 0
    15 California 1  
     
       
  15 California 2
  2 UCLA 3  
       
       
  2 UCLA OT 2
      San Diego 1  
  San Diego 2OT 2
  Cal State Fullerton 1  
  • Coastal Carolina at Clemson was rescheduled for Monday the 24th due to inclement weather and unplayable field conditions,

College Cup – WakeMed Soccer Park, Cary, North Carolina

National Semifinals
December 12 		National Championship
December 14
      
16 Virginia 1
UMBC 0
16 Virginia 2OT/PK 0(4)
2 UCLA 0(2)
11 Providence 2
2 UCLA 2OT 3

Results

First round

Second round

Third round

Quarterfinals

College Cup

Semifinals

Championship

Statistics

Goalscorers

4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
Own goals
  • Sweden Raby George — North Carolina (playing against Charlotte)
  • United States Garrett Jackson — Washington (playing against Michigan State)
  • Georgetown (playing against Old Dominion)

References

  1. ↑ https://www.ncaa.com/championships/soccer-men/d1
  2. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-12-26. Retrieved 2014-09-09.
  3. ↑ https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/soccer-men/d1
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