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League: | NCAA Division I |
Sport: | Soccer |
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Duration: | August 25, 2017 – November 12, 2017 |
No Of Teams: | 8 |
Season: | Regular Season |
Season Champs: | SMU |
Second Place: | UCF |
Top Scorer: | Matias Pyysalo, UCF (7 goals) |
Draft: | 2018 MLS SuperDraft |
Draft Link: | 2018 MLS SuperDraft |
Top Pick: | Michael Nelson, SMU |
Picked By: | Houston Dynamo, 20th overall |
Finals: | Tournament |
Finals Link: | 2017 American Athletic Conference Men's Soccer Tournament |
Finals Champ: | SMU |
Finals Runner-Up: | UCF |
Finals Mvp: | Offensive: Emil Cuello, SMU Defensive: Jordan Cano, SMU |
Seasonslistnames: | AAC men's soccer |
Prevseason Link: | 2016 American Athletic Conference men's soccer season |
Prevseason Year: | 2016 |
Nextseason Link: | 2018 American Athletic Conference men's soccer season |
Nextseason Year: | 2018 |
The 2017 American Athletic Conference men's soccer season was the 5th season of men's varsity soccer in the conference. The season began on August 25 and concluded on November 12, 2017.
Defending regular season champions, SMU, retained their title, and won the 2017 American Athletic Conference Men's Soccer Tournament. The Mustangs were the conference's sole berth in the NCAA Tournament,[1] where they reached the round of 16. There, they lost to North Carolina.[2] [3]
Team | Head coach | Previous job | Years at school | Overall record | Record at school | American record | NCAA Tournaments[4] | NCAA College Cups | NCAA Titles | |
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style= | Cincinnati | Wright State | 18 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||
style= | Connecticut | 21 | 16 | 2 | 1 | |||||
style= | Memphis | Memphis (asst.) | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
style= | SMU | SMU (asst.) | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||
style= | South Florida | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | |||||
style= | Temple | 18 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |||||
style= | Tulsa | Tulsa (asst.) | 21 | 10 | 0 | 0 | ||||
style= | UCF | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Cincinnati | NR | NR |
Connecticut | NR | 17 |
Memphis | NR | NR |
SMU | NR | NR |
South Florida | NR | 31 |
Temple | NR | NR |
Tulsa | NR | NR |
UCF | NR | NR |
Team ranking | First place votes | Raw points | ||
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1. | Connecticut | 4 | 45 | |
2. | Tulsa | 1 | 43 | |
3. | South Florida | 2 | 34 | |
4. | UCF | 0 | 29 | |
5. | SMU | 1 | 27 | |
6. | Temple | 0 | 20 | |
7. | Cincinnati | 0 | 18 | |
8. | Memphis | 0 | 8 |
Honor | Recipient |
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Preseason Offensive Player of the Year | Matias Pyysalo, UCF |
Preseason Defensive Player of the Year | Patrick Nielsen, Cincinnati |
Preseason Goalkeeper of the Year | Michael Nelson, SMU |
See main article: List of NCAA Division I men's soccer teams ranked in the 2017 Top 25 coaches poll.
Increase in ranking | |||
Decrease in ranking | |||
Not ranked previous week | |||
UCS | United Soccer Coaches poll | ||
TDS | Top Drawer Soccer poll |
Pre | Wk 2 | Wk 3 | Wk 4 | Wk 5 | Wk 6 | Wk 7 | Wk 8 | Wk 9 | Wk 10 | Wk 11 | Wk 12 | Wk 13 | Wk 14 | Wk 15 | Wk 16 | Final | ||
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Cincinnati | UCS | |||||||||||||||||
TDS | ||||||||||||||||||
Connecticut | UCS | 24 | RV | RV | ||||||||||||||
TDS | RV | 25 | ||||||||||||||||
Memphis | UCS | |||||||||||||||||
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SMU | UCS | RV | RV | RV | 19 | RV | 25 | 17 | 14 | 12 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 8 | |
TDS | 24 | 14 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 10 | ||||||||
South Florida | UCS | |||||||||||||||||
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Temple | UCS | |||||||||||||||||
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Tulsa | UCS | 20 | ||||||||||||||||
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UCF | UCS | |||||||||||||||||
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Sources: TopDrawer Soccer,[7] United Soccer Coaches[8]
See main article: 2017 American Athletic Conference Men's Soccer Tournament.
See main article: 2017 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament.
Conference | Record[9] | |
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1–2–0 | ||
0–5–1 | ||
5–1–1 | ||
3–4–2 | ||
1–0–0 | ||
1–1–1 | ||
1–0–0 | ||
3–1–1 | ||
2–4–0 | ||
4–2–1 | ||
3–1–0 | ||
1–3–0 | ||
1–2–1 | ||
2–1–0 | ||
1–1–0 | ||
1–0–0 | ||
1–0–0 | ||
3–0–0 | ||
3–0–0 | ||
0–0–1 | ||
Total | 37–27–10 |
Week | Offensive | Defensive | Goalkeeper | Rookie | Ref. | |||||||
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Player | Position | Team | Player | Position | Team | Player | Team | Player | Position | Team | ||
August 28 | MF | SMU | Malik Suleman | MF | Cincinnati | Noah Lawrence | Cincinnati | Darryn Commissiong | MF | Cincinnati | ||
September 4 | Garrett McLaughlin | FW | SMU | Nkosi Burgess | DF | Connecticut | Scott Levene | Connecticut | Adrian Billhardt | FW | South Florida | |
September 11 | Rollie Rocha | MF | Tulsa | DF | UCF | Marcel Da Silva | Tulsa | Luke Biasi | MF | Memphis | ||
September 18 | Sean Clarke | MF | Cincinnati | Jordan Cano | DF | SMU | Pearce Skinner | Cincinnati | Sean Clarke | MF | Cincinnati | |
September 25 | Abdou Mbacke Thiam | FW | Connecticut | Gustavo Vargas | DF | Tulsa | Scott Levene | Connecticut | Chris Mikus | MF | Memphis | |
October 2 | Alan Camacho Soto | FW | Temple | Jared Rice | DF | SMU | Scott Levene | Connecticut | Alan Camacho Soto | FW | Temple | |
October 9 | Ricardo Gomez | MF | South Florida | Jake Hauser-Ramsey | DF | Connecticut | Scott Levene | Connecticut | Jackson Brady | DF | Memphis | |
October 16 | Matias Pyysalo | MF | UCF | Jake Hauser-Ramsey | DF | Connecticut | Michael Nelson | SMU | Josh Burnett | MF | Connecticut | |
October 23 | FW | UCF | Jordan Cano | DF | SMU | Michael Nelson | SMU | Alan Camacho Soto | FW | Temple | ||
October 30 | Matias Pyysalo | MF | UCF | Andreas Steinegar | DF | UCF | Christian Knight | South Florida | Brantley Bice | FW | Memphis | |
November 2 | Garrett McLaughlin | FW | SMU | Jordan Cano | DF | SMU | Michael Nelson | SMU | MF | Tulsa | ||
2017 AAC Men's Soccer Individual Awards | |
Award | Recipient(s) |
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Offensive Player of the Year | Matias Pyysalo, UCF |
Defensive Player of the Year | Jordan Cano, SMU |
Goalkeeper of the Year | Michael Nelson, SMU |
Rookie of the Year | Adrian Billhardt, South Florida |
Coach of the Year | Kevin Hudson, SMU |
Academic Excellent Team | Memphis |
Team Fair Play Award | UCF |
2017 AAC Men's Soccer All-Conference Teams | ||||||
First Team | Second Team | Rookie Team | ||||
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Cal Jennings, F, So., UCF Matias Pyysalo, M/F, Sr., UCF Yoni Sorokin, M, Fr., UCF Jacob Hauser-Ramsey, B, Jr., UConn Abdou Mbacke Thiam, F, Jr., UConn Adrian Billhardt, F, Fr., USF Ricardo Gomez, M, Sr., USF Jordan Cano, B, Sr., SMU Mauro Cichero, M, Sr., SMU Garrett McLaughlin, F, So., SMU Michael Nelson, GK, R-Sr., SMU Divin Fula Luzolo, B, Sr., Temple | Hattabiou Barry, M, Fr., UCF Louis Perez, M, Fr., UCF Andreas Steineger, B, Jr., UCF David Sanz, M, So., Cincinnati Dylan Greenberg, B, R-Sr., UConn Scott Levene, GK, R-Sr., UConn Ben Roberts, B, So., Memphis David Zalzman, M, Jr., Memphis Jared Rice, B/M, Sr., SMU Alan Camacho Soto, F, Fr., Temple Thibault Candia, F, So., Temple Rollie Rocha, M, Sr., Tulsa | Hattabiou Barry, M, UCF Louis Perez, M, UCF Yoni Sorokin, M, UCF Josh Burnett, M, UConn Blaise N’Gague, M, UConn Adrian Billhardt, F, USF Josue Monge, M, USF Talen Maples, B, SMU Alan Camacho Soto, F, Temple Darri Sigthorsson, B, Temple Joe Ruiz, M, Tulsa |
Three players in the conference were named All-Americans by CollegeSoccerNews.com.[10]
Three players in the conference were named All-Americans by United Soccer Coaches.[11]
See main article: 2018 MLS SuperDraft.
Two players from the conference were selected in the 2018 MLS SuperDraft. This included Michael Nelson and Mauro Cichero, both of SMU.[12]
Team | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Round 4 | Total | |
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Cincinnati | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Connecticut | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Memphis | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
SMU | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
South Florida | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Temple | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Tulsa | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
UCF | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Round | Pick # | MLS team | Player | Position | College | Other ! | Ref. |
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1 | 20 | [13] | |||||
2 | 29 | [14] | |||||
See main article: Homegrown Player Rule (Major League Soccer).