| NCAA men's soccer tournament | |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Other Titles: | College Cup |
| Country: | United States |
| Dates: | November 19 – December 13, 2015 |
| Num Teams: | 48 |
| Champions: | Stanford |
| Runner-Up: | Clemson |
| Semi-Finalist1: | Syracuse |
| Semi-Finalist2: | Akron |
| Matches: | 47 |
| Goals: | 125 |
| Top Goal Scorer: | Jordan Morris Stanford (5 goals) |
| Player: | Jordan Morris Stanford (Offense MOP) Brandon Vincent Stanford (Defense MOP) |
| Prevseason: | 2014 |
| Nextseason: | 2016 |
| Updated: | 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.
See main article: 2015 NCAA Division I men's soccer season.
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.
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 | align=center | 1 | align=center | 1 | |
| 2 | Clemson | Atlantic Coast Conference | 15–2–2 | At-large | align=center | 2 | align=center | 2 | |
| 3 | Georgetown | Big East Conference | 15–2–2 | Tournament Champion | align=center | 3 | align=center | 5 | |
| 4 | Akron | Mid-American Conference | 15–3–2 | Tournament Champion | align=center | 10 | align=center | 6 | |
| 5 | North Carolina | Atlantic Coast Conference | 14–1–3 | At-large | align=center | 4 | align=center | 4 | |
| 6 | Syracuse | Atlantic Coast Conference | 13–5–3 | Tournament Champion | align=center | 13 | align=center | 3 | |
| 7 | Notre Dame | Atlantic Coast Conference | 11–4–5 | At-large | align=center | 9 | align=center | 7 | |
| 8 | Stanford | Pac-12 Conference | 14–2–2 | Season champion | align=center | 6 | align=center | 8 | |
| 9 | Ohio State | Big Ten Conference | 13–4–2 | At-large | align=center | 12 | align=center | 11 | |
| 10 | Maryland | Big Ten Conference | 11–5–4 | Tournament champion | align=center | Not ranked | align=center | 13 | |
| 11 | Seattle | Western Athletic Conference | 17–3–1 | Tournament champion | align=center | 15 | align=center | 9 | |
| 12 | Creighton | Big East Conference | 17–3–0 | At-large | align=center | 5 | align=center | 10 | |
| 13 | Denver | The Summit League | 15–0–3 | Tournament champion | align=center | 8 | align=center | 18 | |
| 14 | South Florida | American Athletic Conference | 11–5–3 | At-large | align=center | 14 | align=center | 14 | |
| 15 | UC Santa Barbara | Big West Conference | 13–6–2 | At-large | align=center | Not ranked | align=center | 17 | |
| 16 | Indiana | Big Ten Conference | 12–5–2 | At-large | align=center | 22 | align=center | 21 |
| 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 |
Home team through quarterfinals on left
See main article: 2015 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship Game.
Jordan Morris — Stanford
Stuart Holthusen — Akron
Richie Laryea — Akron
Victor Souto — Akron
Simon Enström — Boston College T. J. Casner — Clemson Thales Moreno — Clemson Kwame Awuah — Connecticut Ricky Lopez-Espin — Creighton
Ricardo Perez — Creighton Cooper Vandermaas-Peeler — Elon Eryk Williamson — Maryland Amir Bashti — Stanford Brandon Vincent — Stanford Juan Sebastián Sánchez — Tulsa Adam Najem — Akron Sean Sepe — Akron Trevor Davock — Boston College
Isaac Normesinu — Boston College Felix De Bona — Boston University
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
Alexander Marsh — Dartmouth Kennedy Nwabia — Dayton
Carlos Sendin — Dayton Alec Bartlett — Drake Steven Enna — Drake James Grunert — Drake Brandon Allen — Georgetown Arun Basuljevic — Georgetown Alex Muyl — Georgetown Keegan Rosenberry — Georgetown 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 Danny Jensen — Ohio State Abdi Mohamed — Ohio State
Sugor Al Awwad — Rutgers Ahmad Faheem — Rutgers Dylan Autran — Santa Clara Edson Cardona — Santa Clara Carlos Delgadillo — Santa Clara Luis Urias — Santa Clara David Olsen — Seattle
Idrissa Camara — SMU Stanton Garcia — SMU Brenden Lee — SMU Prosper Figbe — South Florida Corey Baird — Stanford Foster Langsdorf — Stanford Eric Verso — Stanford Kamal Miller — Syracuse Noah Rhynhart — Syracuse Miles Robinson — Syracuse Geoffrey Dee — Tulsa Jordan Vale — UCLA
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 Brad Ruhaak — Akron (playing against SMU) Austin Wilcox — Cal Poly (playing against UCLA) Taylor Curtis — SMU (playing against Akron)