2014 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament

The 2014 NCAA Division I men's soccer tournament 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.

The Virginia Cavaliers won their seventh NCAA Championship title, defeating UCLA and avenging their loss to the Bruins in the championship game of the 1997 College Cup.

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

* Automatic ^A = Conference tournament winner.
* Automatic ^B = Conference regular season champion, conference has no tournament.

Schedule

Bracket

Regional 1

Regional 2

Regional 3

Regional 4

* 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

Results

First round

Second round

Third round

Quarterfinals

College Cup

Semifinals

Championship

Statistics

Goalscorers

;4 goals
* Andy Craven — North Carolina

;3 goals

* Rob Lovejoy — North Carolina
* Tyler Engel — North Carolina
* Mac Steeves — Providence

;2 goals

* Sidney Rivera — Old Dominion
* Dominik Machado — Providence
* Cameron Iwasa — UC Irvine
* Chase Gaspar — UCLA
* Brian Iloski — UCLA
* Larry Ndjock — UCLA
* Leo Stolz — UCLA
* Will Walker — Xavier

;1 goal

* Adam Najem — Akron
* Ian Ramos — Cal State Fullerton
* Stefano Bonomo — California
* Connor Hallisey — California
* Bobby Sekine — California
* Diego Campos — Clemson
* Paul Clowes — Clemson
* Kyle Fisher — Clemson
* Tommy Gudmundsson — Coastal Carolina
* Martin Melchor — Coastal Carolina
* Fernando Castellanos — Creighton
* Fabian Herbers — Creighton
* Lucas Stauffer — Creighton
* Alex Adelabu — Dartmouth
* Robin Alnas — Dartmouth
* Christopher Bazzini — Fordham
* Lewis Hawke — Furman
* Brandon Allen — Georgetown
* Arun Basuljevic — Georgetown
* Austin Martz — Georgetown
* Jared Rist — Georgetown
* Keegan Rosenberry — Georgetown
* Jhevaughn Beckford — Hartwick
* Grant Lillard — Indiana
* Andrew Brody — Louisville
* Tim Kübel — Louisville
* Zach Carroll — Michigan State
* Jay Chapman — Michigan State
* Tim Kreutz — Michigan State
* Adam Montague — Michigan State
* Emmanuel Agyemang — Monmouth
* Omar Holness — North Carolina
* Glen Long — North Carolina
* Alan Winn — North Carolina
* Brandon Aubrey — Notre Dame
* Jon Gallagher — Notre Dame
* Cody Archibald — Oakland
* Gavin Hoy — Oakland
* Kyle Culbertson — Ohio State
* Danny Jensen — Ohio State
* Ryan Condotta — Old Dominion
* Jordan Jones — Oregon State
* Brett Gravatt — Penn State
* Connor Maloney — Penn State
* Mikey Minutillo — Penn State
* Fabio Machado — Providence
* Markus Naglestad — Providence
* Daniel Neustädter — Providence
* Kingsley Bryce — Saint Louis
* Robert Kristo — Saint Louis
* Francisco Vizcaino — Saint Louis
* Dave Musambi — San Diego
* Parker Price — San Diego
* Keegan Smith — San Diego
* Paul Scheipeter — SIU Edwardsville
* Øyvind Alseth — Syracuse
* Emil Ekblom — Syracuse
* Alex Halis — Syracuse
* Ian Svantesson — UAB
* Dennis Martinez — UC Irvine
* Michael Sperber — UC Irvine
* Christian Chavez — UCLA
* Abu Danladi — UCLA
* Jordan Vale — UCLA
* Malcolm Harris — UMBC
* Mamadou Kansaye — UMBC
* Daniel Escobar — UNC Wilmington
* Kalvin Kromer — UNC Wilmington
* David Sizemore — UNC Wilmington
* Nicko Corriveau — Virginia
* Sam Heyward — Virginia
* Darius Madison — Virginia
* Kyle McCord — Virginia
* Jake Rozhansky — Virginia
* Todd Wharton — Virginia
* James Moberg — Washington
* Steven Wright — Washington
* Cory Brown — Xavier
* Alex Ridsdale — Xavier
* Matt Vasquenza — Xavier

;Own goals

* Raby George — North Carolina (playing against Charlotte)
* Garrett Jackson — Washington (playing against Michigan State)
*Georgetown (playing against Old Dominion)

References

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