Year: | 2018 |
Conference: | ACC |
Gender: | men's |
Teams: | 12 |
Matches: | 11 |
Venue: | Sahlen's Stadium (Final) |
City: | Cary, North Carolina (Final) |
Champions: | Louisville |
Titlecount: | 1st |
Coach: | Ken Lolla |
Coachcount: | 1st |
Mvp: | ![]() |
Mvpteam: | Louisville |
Broadcast: | ESPNU (Final), ACC Network Extra (all other rounds) [1] |
The 2018 Atlantic Coast Conference men's soccer tournament was the 32nd edition of the ACC Men's Soccer Tournament. The tournament decided the Atlantic Coast Conference champion and guaranteed representative into the 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship. The final was played at Sahlen's Stadium in Cary, NC.[2]
The Louisville Cardinals won the tournament over the North Carolina Tar Heels 1–0 in the final.[3]
See main article: article and 2018 Atlantic Coast Conference men's soccer season.
All twelve teams in the Atlantic Coast Conference earned a berth into the ACC Tournament. The top 4 seeds receive first round byes and will host the winner of a first-round game. All rounds, with the exception of the final are held at the higher seed's home field. Seeding is determined by regular season conference record. Ties are broken by overall winning percentage. Ten of the twelve teams have been ranked this year and eight currently hold spots in the top 11 of the NCAA RPI.[4]
Seed | School | Conference Record | Points | |
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1 | Wake Forest | 7–1–0 | 21 | |
2 | North Carolina | 6–1–0 | 18 | |
3 | Duke | 5–3–0 | 15 | |
4 | Louisville | 4–2–2 | 14 | |
5 | Notre Dame | 4–3–1 | 13 | |
6 | Virginia | 3–4–1 | 10 | |
7 | Virginia Tech | 3–4–1 | 10 | |
8 | NC State | 2–4–2 | 8 | |
9 | Boston College | 2–5–1 | 7 | |
10 | Syracuse | 1–4–3 | 6 | |
11 | Pittsburgh | 2–6–0 | 6 | |
12 | Clemson | 2–6–0 | 6 |
ACC Men's Soccer All-Tournament team[5] | ||||||
Will Pulisic, Duke Brandon Williamson, Duke Lamine Conte, Louisville Cherif Dieye, Louisville Ziyad Fekri, Louisville Jake Gelnovatch, Louisville Tate Schmitt, Louisville Nils Bruening, North Carolina Alex Comsia, North Carolina John Nelson, North Carolina Machop Chol, Wake Forest Sam Raben, Wake Forest | ||||||
MVP in Bold |