Year: | 2023 |
Conference: | Big East Conference |
Gender: | men's |
Teams: | 8 |
Matches: | 7 |
Attendance: | 4,405 |
1Stroundvenue: | Top Seed Campus Site |
Semivenue: | Maryland SoccerPlex |
Semicity: | Boyds, Maryland |
Finalvenue: | Maryland SoccerPlex |
Finalcity: | Boyds, Maryland |
Titlecount: | 1st |
Coach: | John Higgins |
Coachcount: | 1st |
Broadcast: | Big East Network (Quarterfinals and Semifinals), Fox Sports 1 (Final) |
Mvp: | Taylor Rhinehart (Offensive) Johnny Mennell (Defensive) |
The 2023 Big East Conference men's soccer tournament was the post-season women's soccer tournament for the Big East Conference held from November 4 to 12, 2023. The eight-match tournament took place at Maryland SoccerPlex in Boyds, Maryland for the semifinals and finals, while the first round was hosted by the higher seeded team. The eight-team single-elimination tournament consisted of three rounds based on seeding from regular season conference play. The defending champions were the Creighton Bluejays.[1] They were unable to defend their title, losing as the sixth seed in the first round to . finished as tournament champions after defeating in a penalty shoot-out in the Final.[2] [3] This was the first Big East title in program history for Xavier, and the first for head coach John Higgins.[4] As tournament champions, Xavier earned the Big East's automatic place in the 2023 NCAA Division I men's soccer tournament.
The top eight teams in the regular season earned a spot in the 2023 tournament. Teams were seeded based on regular season conference record and tiebreakers were used to determine seedings of teams that finished with the same record. A tiebreaker was required to determine the sixth and seventh seeds of the tournament as and both finished with eleven conference regular season points. Creighton earned the sixth seed by virtue of a 3–2 regular season win over Akron on October 18.[5]
Seed | School | Conference record | Points | |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 6–1–1 | 19 | ||
2 | 4–1–3 | 15 | ||
3 | 4–2–2 | 14 | ||
4 | 3–1–4 | 13 | ||
5 | 4–4–0 | 12 | ||
6 | 3–3–2 | 11 | ||
7 | 2–1–5 | 11 | ||
8 | 3–4–1 | 10 |
Source:[6]
Player | Team |
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Kenny Nielsen | |
Kieran Sargeant | |
Marlon Tabora | |
Miguel Candela | |
Brendan McSorley | |
Eli Conway | |
Scott Testori | |
Dylan Kropp | |
Johnny Mennell^ | |
Makel Rasheed | |
Taylor Rhinehart* |
^ Defensive MVP