2014 NCAA Division I men's soccer tournament

2014 NCAA Division I men's soccer tournament

Men's College Cup (semifinals & final)
Tournament details
Country	United States
Teams	48
Final positions
Champions	Virginia
Runner-up	UCLA
Semifinalists	UMBC Providence
Tournament statistics
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 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.^[1]

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.

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.

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
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.

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

	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

	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)

	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

	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,

	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

4 goals

• Andy Craven — North Carolina

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

Own goals