2018 Big Ten men's soccer tournament explained

Year:2018
Conference:Big Ten
Gender:men's
Teams:9
Matches:8
1Stroundvenue:Top Seed Campus Site
Quartervenue:Higher seeds
Semivenue:Grand Park
Semicity:Westfield, Indiana
Finalvenue:Grand Park
Finalcity:Westfield, Indiana
Champions:Indiana
Titlecount:13th
Coach:Todd Yeagley
Coachcount:2nd
Mvp:Cory Thomas and Andrew Gutman
Mvpteam:Indiana
Broadcast:BTN

The 2018 Big Ten Conference men's soccer tournament is the 28th edition of the tournament. It determined the Big Ten Conference's automatic berth into the 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship. Wisconsin enters the tournament as the defending champions. The Number 1 Seeded Indiana beat the number 3 seeded Michigan in the Big Ten Tournament Championship Game 3 to 0. Indiana won its 13th Big Ten Tournament title.[1] [2] [3]

Seeds

All nine Big Ten schools participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records. The top 10 teams received a first round bye and the top four teams received a double bye. Tiebreaking procedures remained unchanged from the 2016 Tournament.

SeedSchoolConference record
Pld.WLTGFGAGDPts.
1Indiana8800133+1024
2Wisconsin8620128+418
3Michigan8422116+514
4Michigan State842285+314
5Maryland84401511+412
6Penn State833298+111
7Rutgers8260816align=center-86
8Northwestern8053410align=center-63
9Ohio State8071518align=center-131

Bracket

[4]

Schedule

Final

Top goalscorers

2 goals
1 goal

All-Tournament team

[5]

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2018 Big Ten Men's Soccer Tournament. https://web.archive.org/web/20181019205648/https://bigten.org/sports/2018/10/2/2018MSOCTournament.aspx. dead. October 19, 2018. Big Ten Conference. Big Ten Conference. January 29, 2019.
  2. Web site: Wisconsin Wins Big Ten Men's Soccer Tournament Title. https://web.archive.org/web/20190129235938/https://bigten.org/news/2017/11/12/Wisconsin_Wins_Big_Ten_Men_amp_8217_s_Soccer_Tournament_Title.aspx?path=msoc. dead. January 29, 2019. Big Ten Conference. Big Ten Conference. November 12, 2017. January 29, 2019.
  3. Web site: Big Ten Men's Soccer Record Book. https://web.archive.org/web/20180905212331/https://bigten.org/documents/2018/8/23/Men_s_Soccer.pdf. dead. September 5, 2018. Big Ten Conference. Big Ten Conference. January 29, 2019.
  4. Web site: Big Ten Men's Soccer Tournament . Bigten.org . Big Ten Conference . 6 November 2018.
  5. Web site: Indiana Wins Big Ten Men’s Soccer Tournament Championship . https://web.archive.org/web/20210814161434/https://bigten.org/news/2018/11/11/indiana-wins-big-ten-mens-soccer-tournament-championship.aspx . dead . August 14, 2021 . Bigten.org . Big Ten Conference . 12 November 2018.