1972 NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Championship

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1972 NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Championship
Men's Division II College Cup (semifinals & final)
CountryUSA
Teams24
ChampionsSIU Edwardsville (1st title)
Runners-upSUNY Oneonta (1st title game)
Matches played23
Goals scored88 (3.83 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)N/A
Best playerJohn Stremlau[1] (offense)
Farrukh Quraishi (defense)
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The 1972 NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Championship (then named the NCAA College Division Men's Soccer Championship) was the inaugural Division II men's college soccer tournament held by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Since 1959, all schools had competed in a single division. The SIU Edwardsville Cougars won their first NCAA title in any sport by defeating the Oneonta Red Dragons in the championship game, 1-0. The final match was played on December 9, 1972, in Edwardsville, Illinois, at SIUE's Cougar Field, which also hosted the Division I College Cup in 1970 and 1975.[2][3]

Early rounds[]

First round Second round Third round Semifinals
            
Bridgeport 1
New Haven 0
Bridgeport 0
Springfield 1
Springfield 2(2OT)
Hartford 1
Springfield 1
Oneonta 2
Hartwick 2(2OT)
Brockport 1
Hartwick 0
Oneonta 3
Adelphi 0
Oneonta 6
Oneonta 6
Chico State 0
Cal State Fullerton 6
San Francisco State 1
Cal State Fullerton 0
Chico State 1
Chico State 3
Seattle Pacific 2
First round Second round Third round Semifinals
            
East Stroudsburg 2(2OT)
Montclair State 1
East Stroudsburg 2(2OT)
Muhlenberg 1
Muhlenberg 5
Philadelphia 4
East Stroudsburg 0
Baltimore 3
South Florida 1(OT)
Madison 0
South Florida 0
Baltimore 1
Baltimore 7
Loyola (MD) 1
Baltimore 1
SIU Edwardsville 4
Missouri St. Louis 2
Akron 6
Akron 2
SIU Edwardsville 3
Eastern Illinois 0
SIU Edwardsville 3

Final[]

SIU Edwardsville1–0Oneonta
Chris Carenza Goal 52' (Driscoll) Report
Attendance: 3,000 (est.)

Division change[]

1972 was the only year that this tournament was known as the "College Division Men's Soccer Championship." In 1973, the NCAA renamed the University Division as Division I and the College Division as Division II.

Several of the teams in the new Division II that placed a high emphasis on their soccer programs, including both SIUE and Oneonta, moved to Division I after only one season, taking advantage of a then-current NCAA rule that allowed a Division II school to play one sport in Division I and a Division I school to play one sport in Division II. As a result, seven of the twenty-four teams in the 1972 College Division tournament were among the twenty-four teams in the 1973 Division I tournament.[4][5]

NCAA Men's Soccer Teams that were in 1972 College Division Tournament & 1973 Division I Tournament
School School's current name Current Division
University of Bridgeport Same II
Hartwick College Same III
Madison College James Madison University I
Oneonta State University College of Education State University of New York at Oneonta III
Philadelphia College of Textiles & Science Thomas Jefferson University II
Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville Southern Illinois University Edwardsville I
University of South Florida Same I

Although four of the seven teams have since stepped down to a lower division, five other schools in the 1972 tournament have since moved up to Division I. These are: Akron, Cal State Fullerton, Eastern Illinois, Hartford, and Loyola Maryland.[6]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Flashbart, Harold (December 10, 1972). "Cougars Take U.S. Crown". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. p. 1-E. Retrieved September 18, 2018 – via newspapers.com.
  2. ^ http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/m_soccer_RB/2012/D2Brackets.pdf
  3. ^ http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/m_soccer_champs_records/2012/D2/champs.pdf
  4. ^ http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/m_soccer_RB/2016/D1Brackets.pdf
  5. ^ http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/m_soccer_RB/2016/D2Brackets.pdf
  6. ^ "NCAA Sports Sponsorship: Division I Men's Soccer". NCAA.otg. National Collegiate Athletic Association. Archived from the original on 2010-12-30. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
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