2021 Big Ten women's soccer tournament explained

Year:2021
Conference:Big Ten
Gender:women's
Teams:8
Matches:7
Attendance:12,273
Quartervenue:Higher seeds
Semivenue:Yurcak Field
Semicity:Piscataway, New Jersey
Finalvenue:Yurcak Field
Finalcity:Piscataway, New Jersey
Champions:Michigan
Titlecount:3rd
Coach:Jennifer Klein
Coachcount:1st
Mvp:Raleigh Loughman (offensive)
Alia Martin (defensive)
Mvpteam:Michigan
Broadcast:BTN

The 2021 Big Ten women's soccer tournament was the postseason women's soccer tournament for the Big Ten Conference for the 2021 season held from October 31 to November 7, 2021. The seven-match tournament took place at the home side of the higher seeded team and teams were seeded based on regular season conference play. Michigan won the title by defeating Rutgers 1–0 in the final.[1] As the tournament champion, Michigan earned the Big Ten Conference's automatic berth into the 2021 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament. This was the third overall title for Michigan and first for head coach Jennifer Klein.[2]

Seeding

Eight Big Ten schools participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded by conference record. A tiebreaker was required to determine which school would host a Quarterfinal between Michigan State and Iowa as both teams finished the regular season with 16 points. Michigan State won the tiebreaker by virtue of their 2–1 victory at Iowa on October 23.[3]

SeedSchoolConferencePoints
1Rutgers10–0–030
2Purdue8–2–024
3Michigan6–2–220
4Michigan State5–4–116
5Iowa5–4–116
6Penn State5–5–015
7Ohio State4–4–214
8Wisconsin3–3–413

Schedule

Final

Statistics

Goalscorers

All-Tournament team

Player Team[4]
Riley WhitakerIowa
Hillary BeallMichigan
Raleigh Loughman*
Alia Martin^
Ava CookMichigan State
Bailey KolinskiOhio State
Sam CoffeyPenn State
Sarah GriffithPurdue
Amirah AliRutgers
Gabby Provenzano
Emma JaskaniecWisconsin

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2021 Big Ten Women's Soccer Tournament. https://web.archive.org/web/20211027124712/https://bigten.org/sports/2021/10/22/21wsoctourney.aspx. dead. October 27, 2021. Big Ten Conference. The Big Ten Conference. December 10, 2021.
  2. Web site: 2021 Big Ten Women's Soccer Record Book. https://web.archive.org/web/20210811220432/https://bigten.org/documents/2021/7/27/2021_WSoccer_Record_Book.pdf. dead. August 11, 2021. Big Ten Conference. The Big Ten Conference. December 10, 2021.
  3. Web site: Big Ten Women’s Soccer Tournament Bracket Announced. https://web.archive.org/web/20211025061214/https://bigten.org/news/2021/10/24/general-big-ten-womens-soccer-tournament-bracket-announced.aspx. dead. October 25, 2021. BigTen.org . October 24, 2021 . December 10, 2021.
  4. Web site: Michigan Wins Big Ten Women’s Soccer Tournament Championship. https://web.archive.org/web/20211107222743/https://bigten.org/news/2021/11/7/general-michigan-wins-big-ten-womens-soccer-tournament-championship.aspx. dead. November 7, 2021. Big Ten Conference. The Big Ten Conference. November 7, 2021. December 10, 2021.