Year: | 2023 |
Conference: | WAC |
Gender: | men's |
Teams: | 6 |
Matches: | 5 |
Attendance: | 2,031 |
Venue: | Peter Johann Memorial Field |
City: | Las Vegas, Nevada |
Titlecount: | 2nd |
Coach: | Coe Michaelson |
Coachcount: | 2nd |
Broadcast: | ESPN+ |
Mvp: | Luis Mueller |
Mvpteam: | California Baptist |
The 2023 Western Athletic Conference men's soccer tournament was the postseason men's soccer tournament for the Western Athletic Conference held from November 5 to November 11, 2023. The five-match tournament took place at Peter Johann Memorial Field in Las Vegas, Nevada on the campus of UNLV. The six-team single-elimination tournament consisted of three rounds based on seeding from regular-season divisional conference play. The defending champions were the .[1] California Baptist was able to successfully defend their title as the second overall seed in the tournament.[2] [3] This was California Baptist's second WAC Tournament victory in program history, both of which have come under head coach Coe Michaelson.[4] As tournament champions, California Baptist earned the WAC's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
Six of the nine Western Athletic Conference men's soccer programs qualified for the 2023 Tournament. Teams were seeded based on their regular season records. Tiebreakers were used to determine the seedings of teams who finished with identical conference records. A tiebreaker was required to determine the fifth and sixth seeds of the tournament as and both finished with ten conference regular season points. The two teams tied their regular season match up 1–1. Utah Valley was the fifth seed and San Jose State was the sixth seed.[5]
Seed | School | Conference Record | Points | |
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1 | 7–0–1 | 22 | ||
2 | 5–1–2 | 17 | ||
3 | 4–4–0 | 12 | ||
4 | 3–3–2 | 11 | ||
5 | 2–2–4 | 10 | ||
6 | 3–4–1 | 10 |
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Player | Team | |
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Thomas Beecham | ||
Leo Mendez | ||
Luis Mueller | ||
Nolan Premack | ||
Brophy Howard | ||
Nico Lopez | ||
Hermann Ragnarsson | ||
Gabe Sanchez | ||
Austin Wallace | ||
Tom Dobek-Pietrowski | ||
Mo Mohamed |