| NCAA Division I men's soccer tournament | |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Other Title: | Men's College Cup (semifinals & final) |
| Country: | United States |
| Num Teams: | 48 |
| Champions: | Virginia |
| Runner-Up: | UCLA |
| Semi-Finalist1: | UMBC |
| Semi-Finalist2: | Providence |
| Matches: | 47 |
| Goals: | 113 |
| Top Goal Scorer: | Andy Craven North Carolina (4 goals) |
| Player: | Mac Steeves Providence (Off. MOP) Calle Brown Virginia (Defense MOP) |
| Prevseason: | 2013 |
| Nextseason: | 2015 |
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.
See main article: 2014 NCAA Division I men's soccer season.
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 |
| 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 |
Andy Craven — North Carolina Rob Lovejoy — North Carolina Tyler Engel — North Carolina Mac Steeves — Providence Sidney Rivera — Old Dominion Dominik Machado — Providence Cameron Iwasa — UC Irvine Chase Gaspar — UCLA Brian Iloski — UCLA Will Walker — Xavier Adam Najem — Akron
Ian Ramos — Cal State Fullerton Stefano Bonomo — California Connor Hallisey — California Bobby Sekine — California Kyle Fisher — Clemson Tommy Gudmundsson — Coastal Carolina Martin Melchor — Coastal Carolina Fernando Castellanos — Creighton Lucas Stauffer — Creighton Alex Adelabu — Dartmouth Robin Alnas — Dartmouth Christopher Bazzini — Fordham Brandon Allen — Georgetown Arun Basuljevic — Georgetown Austin Martz — Georgetown Jared Rist — Georgetown Keegan Rosenberry — Georgetown
Jhevaughn Beckford — Hartwick Grant Lillard — Indiana Andrew Brody — 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 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
Raby George — North Carolina (playing against Charlotte) Garrett Jackson — Washington (playing against Michigan State)