Football tournament season
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.
Schedule
2015 Quarterfinal sites (blue) and College Cup (red)
Bracket
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Regional 1
Regional 2
Regional 3
Regional 4
College Cup
Results
Home team through quarterfinals on left
First round
Second round
Third round
Quarterfinals
College Cup
Semifinals
Championship
Statistics
Goalscorers
- 5 goals
- 3 goals
Stuart Holthusen — Akron
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
Adam Najem — Akron
Sean Sepe — Akron
Gonçalo Soares — Akron
Trevor Davock — Boston College
Isaac Normesinu — Boston College
Felix De Bona — Boston University
Diego Campos — Clemson
Aaron Jones — Clemson
Iman Mafi — Clemson
Brandt Bronico — Charlotte
Luke Waechter — Charlotte
Martin Melchor — Coastal Carolina
Tobenna Uzo — Coastal Carolina
DeAndrae Brown — Connecticut
Fernando Castellanos — Creighton
Evan Waldrep — Creighton
Justin Donawa — Dartmouth
Alexander Marsh — Dartmouth
Kennedy Nwabia — Dayton
Maik Schoonderwoerd — Dayton
Carlos Sendin — Dayton
Alec Bartlett — Drake
Steven Enna — Drake
James Grunert — Drake
Eduardo Alvarez — Elon
James Brace — Elon
Jaiden Fortune — Elon
Luis Betancur — FIU
Brad Fountain — FIU
Lewis Hawke — Furman
Brandon Allen — Georgetown
Arun Basuljevic — Georgetown
Alex Muyl — Georgetown
Keegan Rosenberry — Georgetown
Daniel Massey — Hofstra
Mario Ruiz — Hofstra
Ben Maurey — Indiana
Kevin Barajas — Kentucky
Mark Forrest — Lehigh
Simon Hestnes — LIU Brooklyn
Alex Crognale — Maryland
Ivan Magalhães — Maryland
Tucker Hume — North Carolina
Zach Wright — North Carolina
Patrick Berneski — Notre Dame
Jeffrey Farina — Notre Dame
Austin Ricci — Oakland
Matt Rickard — Oakland
Danny Jensen — Ohio State
Abdi Mohamed — Ohio State
Jamie Summers — Radford
Sugor Al Awwad — Rutgers
Ahmad Faheem — Rutgers
Dylan Autran — Santa Clara
Edson Cardona — Santa Clara
Carlos Delgadillo — Santa Clara
Luis Urias — Santa Clara
Hamza Haddadi — Seattle
David Olsen — Seattle
Idrissa Camara — SMU
Stanton Garcia — SMU
Brenden Lee — SMU
Danny Deakin — South Carolina
Prosper Figbe — South Florida
Corey Baird — Stanford
Foster Langsdorf — Stanford
Eric Verso — Stanford
Louis Cross — Syracuse
Kamal Miller — Syracuse
Noah Rhynhart — Syracuse
Miles Robinson — Syracuse
Geoffrey Dee — Tulsa
Miguel Velasquez — Tulsa
Jordan Vale — UCLA
Kevin Feucht — UC Santa Barbara
Ismaila Jome — UC Santa Barbara
Seo-In Kim — UC Santa Barbara
Jake Rozhansky — Virginia
Marcus Salandy-Defour — Virginia
Jon Bakero — Wake Forest
Ricky Greensfelder — Wake Forest
Ian Harkes — Wake Forest
- Own goals
Brad Ruhaak — Akron (playing against SMU)
Austin Wilcox — Cal Poly (playing against UCLA)
Taylor Curtis — SMU (playing against Akron)
See also
References
- ^ "2014-18 NCAA Championship Sites". Ncaa.com. Retrieved September 1, 2015.
- ^ "NSCAA/Continental Tire Rankings". Archived from the original on December 26, 2014. Retrieved September 9, 2014.
- ^ "Division I Men's College Soccer - Rankings - NCAA.com". NCAA.com.
- ^ "2015 Division I Men's College Soccer - Bracket". ncaa.com. Retrieved November 22, 2015.