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.

Seed	School	Conference record
Seed	School	Pld.	W	L	T	GF	GA	GD	Pts.
1	Indiana	8	8	0	0	13	3	+10	24
2	Wisconsin	8	6	2	0	12	8	+4	18
3	Michigan	8	4	2	2	11	6	+5	14
4	Michigan State	8	4	2	2	8	5	+3	14
5	Maryland	8	4	4	0	15	11	+4	12
6	Penn State	8	3	3	2	9	8	+1	11
7	Rutgers	8	2	6	0	8	16	align=center	-8	6
8	Northwestern	8	0	5	3	4	10	align=center	-6	3
9	Ohio State	8	0	7	1	5	18	align=center	-13	1

Bracket

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Schedule

Final

Top goalscorers

2 goals

Spencer Glass - Indiana
Noah Melick - Wisconsin
Matt Moderwell - Northwestern
Umar Farouk Osman - Michigan

1 goal

Alex Alfaro - Wisconsin
Rece Buckmaster - Indiana
Camden Buescher - Northwestern
Ben Di Rosa - Maryland
Ryan Gallagher - Penn State
Brandon Golden - Rutgers
Jeremaih Gutjahr - Indiana
Andrew Gutman - Indiana
Miles Hackett - Rutgers
Jordan Hall - Rutgers
Jack Hallahan - Michigan
Noah Leibold - Wisconsin
Sean Lynch - Northwestern
Eric Matzelevich - Maryland
Jake Scheper - Ohio State
Isaac Schlenker - Wisconsin
Cory Thomas - Indiana
Marc Ybarra - Michigan
Patrick Yim - Wisconsin

All-Tournament team

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Andrew Gutman, Indiana - Defensive Player of the Tournament
Francesco Moore, Indiana
Cory Thomas, Indiana - Offensive Player of the Tournament
Amar Sejdic, Maryland
Robbie Mertz, Michigan
Jackson Ragen, Michigan
Connor Corrigan, Michigan State
Matt Moderwell, Northwestern
Ryan Gallagher, Penn State
Jordan Hall, Rutgers
Isaac Schlenker, Wisconsin

External links

https://web.archive.org/web/20181019205648/https://bigten.org/sports/2018/10/2/2018MSOCTournament.aspx

Notes and References

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.
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.
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.
Web site: Big Ten Men's Soccer Tournament . Bigten.org . Big Ten Conference . 6 November 2018.
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.