2015 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament

2015 NCAA Men's Soccer Tournament

College Cup
Country	United States
Dates	November 19 – December 13, 2015
Teams	48
Champions	Stanford
Runners-up	Clemson
Semi-finalists	Syracuse Akron
Matches played	47
Goals scored	125 (2.66 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)	Jordan Morris Stanford (5 goals)
Best player	Jordan Morris Stanford (Offense MOP) Brandon Vincent Stanford (Defense MOP)
← 2014 2016 → All statistics correct as of December 13, 2015.

The 2015 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament (also known as the 2015 College Cup) was the 57th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA Division I men's collegiate soccer. The first, second, third, and quarterfinal rounds were held at college campus sites across the United States during November and December 2015, with host sites determined by seeding and record. The four-team College Cup finals were played at Children's Mercy Park in Kansas City, Kansas from December 11–13, 2015.^[1]

The defending national champions, the Virginia Cavaliers, were eliminated in the tournament's second round. Stanford won their first-ever national title by defeating Clemson, 4–0 in the final.

Qualification[]

All Division I men's soccer programs except for Grand Canyon, Incarnate Word, UMass Lowell, and Northern Kentucky were eligible to qualify for the tournament. Those four programs were ineligible because they were in transition from Division II to Division I. The tournament field remained fixed at 48 teams.

Of the 23 schools that had previously won the championship, 13 qualified for this year's tournament.

Format[]

As in previous editions of the NCAA Division I Tournament, the tournament featured 48 participants out of a possible field of 202 teams. Of the 48 berths, 24 were allocated to the 21 conference tournament champions and to the regular season winners of the Ivy League, Pac-12 Conference, and West Coast Conference, which do not have tournaments. 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	Wake Forest	Atlantic Coast Conference	15–2–2	At-large	1	1
2	Clemson	Atlantic Coast Conference	15–2–2	At-large	2	2
3	Georgetown	Big East Conference	15–2–2	Tournament Champion	3	5
4	Akron	Mid-American Conference	15–3–2	Tournament Champion	10	6
5	North Carolina	Atlantic Coast Conference	14–1–3	At-large	4	4
6	Syracuse	Atlantic Coast Conference	13–5–3	Tournament Champion	13	3
7	Notre Dame	Atlantic Coast Conference	11–4–5	At-large	9	7
8	Stanford	Pac-12 Conference	14–2–2	Season champion	6	8
9	Ohio State	Big Ten Conference	13–4–2	At-large	12	11
10	Maryland	Big Ten Conference	11–5–4	Tournament champion	Not ranked	13
11	Seattle	Western Athletic Conference	17–3–1	Tournament champion	15	9
12	Creighton	Big East Conference	17–3–0	At-large	5	10
13	Denver	The Summit League	15–0–3	Tournament champion	8	18
14	South Florida	American Athletic Conference	11–5–3	At-large	14	14
15	UC Santa Barbara	Big West Conference	13–6–2	At-large	Not ranked	17
16	Indiana	Big Ten Conference	12–5–2	At-large	22	21

Schedule[]

Round	Date
First round	November 19, 2015
Second round	November 22, 2015
Third round	November 28–29, 2015
Quarterfinals	December 4 − 5, 2015
College Cup: Semifinals	December 11, 2015
College Cup Final	December 13, 2015

Bracket[]

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Regional 1[]

	First round					Second round					Third round					Quarterfinals
						1	Wake Forest	1
							Charlotte	0
		Charlotte	2
		Radford	1
											1	Wake Forest	1
											16	Indiana	0
		Connecticut	3
		Boston U	1
							Connecticut	0
						16	Indiana	1
																1	Wake Forest	1
																8	Stanford OT	2
						9	Ohio State PK	1(4)
							Dayton	1(3)
		Dayton PK	2(4)
		Oakland	2(3)
											9	Ohio State	1
											8	Stanford	3
		Cal State Fullerton	0
		Santa Clara	3
							Santa Clara	1
						8	Stanford	3

Regional 2[]

	First round					Second round					Third round					Quarterfinals
						5	North Carolina	2
							Coastal Carolina	1
		Coastal Carolina	1
		North Florida	0
											5	North Carolina	0
											12	Creighton	1
		Kentucky	1
		Drake	2
							Drake	1
						12	Creighton	5
																12	Creighton	2
																4	Akron AET	3
						13	Denver	0
							SMU AET	1
		SMU	2
		Utah Valley	0
												SMU	1
											4	Akron	2
		Rutgers PK	1(3)
		LIU Brooklyn	1(2)
							Rutgers	1
						4	Akron	6

Regional 3[]

	First round					Second round					Third round					Quarterfinals
						3	Georgetown	3
							Hofstra	0
		Hofstra OT	2
		Lehigh	1
											3	Georgetown	1(4)
												Boston College PK	1(5)
		Boston College	1
		Vermont	0
							Boston College OT	2
						14	South Florida	1
																	Boston College	0
																6	Syracuse	1
						11	Seattle	1
							UCLA	0
		UCLA	2
		Cal Poly	0
											11	Seattle	1
											6	Syracuse	3
		Dartmouth OT	1
		Hartwick	0
							Dartmouth	1
						6	Syracuse	2

Regional 4[]

	First round					Second round					Third round					Quarterfinals
						7	Notre Dame PK	1(3)
							Tulsa	1(0)
		Tulsa OT	3
		FIU	2
											7	Notre Dame	1
											10	Maryland	2
		Virginia	2
		Rider	0
							Virginia	0
						10	Maryland	1
																10	Maryland	1(1)
																2	Clemson PK	1(3)
						15	UC Santa Barbara OT	1
							South Carolina	0
		South Carolina PK	1(2)
		Furman	1(1)
											15	UC Santa Barbara	2
											2	Clemson	3
		Elon	3
		Winthrop	0
							Elon	2
						2	Clemson	5

College Cup[]

	Semifinals December 11 Children's Mercy Park Kansas City, Kansas					Championship December 13 Children's Mercy Park Kansas City, Kansas
	8	Stanford PK	0(8)
	4	Akron	0(7)
						8	Stanford	4
						2	Clemson	0
	6	Syracuse	0(1)
	2	Clemson PK	0(4)

Results[]

Home team through quarterfinals on left

First round[]

Second round[]

Third round[]

Quarterfinals[]

College Cup[]

Semifinals[]

Championship[]

Statistics[]

Goalscorers[]

5 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

Own goals

See also[]

• NCAA Men's Soccer Championships (Division II, Division III)
• NCAA Women's Soccer Championships (Division I, Division II, Division III)

References[]