2016 NCAA Division I men's soccer tournament explained

NCAA men's soccer tournament
Year:2016
Other Titles:College Cup
Country:United States
Dates:November 17 – December 11, 2016
Num Teams:48
Champions:Stanford Cardinal
Runner-Up:Wake Forest Demon Deacons
Semi-Finalist1:Denver Pioneers
Semi-Finalist2:North Carolina Tar Heels
Matches:47
Goals:121
Top Goal Scorer:Julian Gressel (4)
Player:Offensive: Ian Harkes
Defensive: Andrew Epstein
Prevseason:2015
Nextseason:2017
Updated:December 3, 2016

The 2016 NCAA Division I men's soccer tournament (also known as the 2016 College Cup) was the 58th 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 2016, with host sites determined by seeding and record. The four-team College Cup finals was played at BBVA Compass Stadium in Houston, Texas on December 9 and 11, 2016.[1]

The Stanford Cardinal successfully defended their 2015 title. Stanford played the North Carolina Tar Heels to a scoreless draw in the semifinals before winning a penalty shootout, 10–9, to advance to the Championship game.[2] The Cardinal then also tied the Wake Forest Demon Deacons, 0–0, in the final before claiming the back-to-back title with another penalty shootout victory, 5–4.[3]

Stanford tied the NCAA record for the Lowest Goals-Against Average in the Tournament (Minimum 3 Games) of 0.00 by becoming the fourth team to not allow their opponents to score a goal in the tournament. The other three co-record-holders are the 1976 San Francisco Dons, the 1995 Wisconsin Badgers, and the 2009 Akron Zips.[4]

Qualification

See main article: 2016 NCAA Division I men's soccer season.

All Division I men's soccer programs except for Grand Canyon, Incarnate Word, and UMass Lowell will be eligible to qualify for the tournament. Those three programs are ineligible because they are in transition from Division II to Division I. The tournament field remains fixed at 48 teams.

Of the 24 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 features 48 participants out of a possible field of 203 teams. Of the 48 berths, 24 are 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 are 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 names 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 play 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
SeedSchoolConferenceRecordBerth typeNSCAA Ranking[5] RPI Ranking[6]
1MarylandBig Ten18–0–2Tournament Championalign=center 1align=center 1
2Wake ForestACC15–2–3Tournament Championalign=center 2align=center 3
3ClemsonACC13–3–4At Largealign=center 3align=center 2
4LouisvilleACC12–5–2At Largealign=center 9align=center 6
5StanfordPAC-1211–3–4Conference Championalign=center 8align=center 5
6DenverSummit17–0–3Tournament Championalign=center 4align=center 7
7IndianaBig Ten11–1–7At Largealign=center 7align=center 15
8SyracuseACC11–4–3At Largealign=center 6align=center 9
9North CarolinaACC11–3–3At Largealign=center 10align=center 10
10CharlotteC-USA12–3–2At Largealign=center 5align=center 14
11WashingtonPac-1213–6–0At Largealign=center 14align=center 8
12VirginiaACC10–3–5At Largealign=center 17align=center 20
13Notre DameACC11–7–2At Largealign=center 20align=center 13
14AlbanyAmerica East12–5–2Tournament Championalign=center RValign=center 12
15ButlerBig East13–5–1Tournament Championalign=center 15align=center 11
16KentuckyC-USA11–4–3At Largealign=center 19align=center 18

Schedule

RoundDate
First roundNovember 17, 2016
Second roundNovember 20, 2016
Third roundNovember 26–27, 2016
QuarterfinalsDecember 2 − 4, 2016
College Cup: SemifinalsDecember 9, 2016
College Cup FinalDecember 11, 2016

Bracket

2016 College Cup

Results

College Cup

national championship

See main article: 2016 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship Game.

Statistics

Goalscorers

4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
Own goals

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2014-18 NCAA Championship Sites . NCAA & Turner Sports Interactive, Inc. . 22 October 2016.
  2. Web site: Stanford wins soccer semi on penalty kicks . NCAA & Turner Sports Interactive, Inc. . December 9, 2016 . December 13, 2016 .
  3. Web site: NCAA soccer: Stanford wins College Cup championship in penalty kicks . NCAA & Turner Sports Interactive, Inc. . December 11, 2016 . December 13, 2016 .
  4. Web site: Division I Men's Soccer Championships Record Book . National Collegiate Athletic Association . December 13, 2016 .
  5. Web site: NSCAA/Continental Tire Rankings . 2014-09-09 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141226035130/http://www.nscaatv.com/rankings/college . 2014-12-26 .
  6. Web site: Division I Men's College Soccer - Rankings - NCAA.com. NCAA.com.

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