2011_NCAA_Division_I_men's_soccer_tournament

2011 NCAA Division I men's soccer tournament
Men's College Cup (semifinals & final)
Tournament details
Country	United States
Teams	48
Defending champions	Akron Zips
Final positions
Champions	North Carolina
Runner-up	Charlotte
Semifinalists	Creighton; UCLA;
Tournament statistics
Matches played	47
Goals scored	127 (2.7 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)	Casey Townsend (4)
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2011 NCAA Division I men's soccer tournament

Football tournament season

The 2011 NCAA Division I men's soccer tournament was a single-elimination tournament involving 48 teams to determine the champion of the 2011 NCAA Division I men's soccer season. The 53rd edition of the tournament began on November 17, 2011 and culminated with the North Carolina Tar Heels defeating the Charlotte 49ers, 1–0, in the final on December 13 at Regions Park in Hoover, Alabama.^[1]

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While the tournament resulted in few upsets, most national soccer headlines were made behind Charlotte's run to the final. The 49ers entered the tournament through an at-large bid, and were not seeded. Despite that, they were able to defeat defending champions, the Akron Zips, 1–0, in the third round, and then the Connecticut Huskies, 4–2, in a penalty shootout to advance to the College Cup. Joining the Tar Heels and the 49ers in the College Cup were the UCLA Bruins and the Creighton Bluejays.^[2]

With the victory in the national final, the Tar Heels won their second NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship in program history.^[3]

Format

Like previous editions of the NCAA Division I Tournament, the tournament featured 64 participants out of a possible field of 198 teams. Of the 64 berths, 22 were allocated to the conference tournament or regular season winners. The remaining 42 berths were determined through an at-large process based upon teams' Ratings Percentage Index that did not win their conference tournament. The most at-large berths went to schools from the Big East and Atlantic Coast conferences, containing half of the tournament field's at-large berths (six and five berths, respectively). Of the remaining 11 berths, six were from the Colonial Athletic and Conference USA conferences, each earning three berths.

From there, the NCAA Selection Committee selected the top sixteen seeds for the tournament, that earned an automatic bye to the second round of the tournament. The remaining 48 teams played in a single-elimination match in the first round of the tournament, to play a seeded team in the second round.

Similar to the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, each of the tournament rounds were single-elimination. However, matches tied at the end of regulation went to two 10-minute golden goal periods, followed by a penalty shoot-out, if necessary. All matches in the first, second and third rounds, as well as the quarterfinals, were hosted by the higher seed. The College Cup, also known as the semifinals and final for the tournament were held at a neutral venue, this time being at Regions Park in Hoover, Alabama (south of Birmingham.

Statistics

Top goalscorers

4 goals

Casey Townsend – Maryland

3 goals

Darren Mattocks – Akron
Giuseppe Gentile – Charlotte
Mamadou Diouf – Connecticut
Ethan Finlay – Creighton
Ben Speas – North Carolina
Chandler Hoffman – UCLA

2 goals

Dylan Remick – Brown
Sean Rosa – Brown
T. J. Beaulieu – Charlotte
Jennings Rex – Charlotte
Ashton Bennett – Coastal Carolina
Teejay East – Coastal Carolina
Tony Cascio – Connecticut
Chris Thomas – Elon
Nikita Kotlov – Indiana
Nick DeLeon – Louisville
Colin Rolfe – Louisville
Billy Schuler – North Carolina
Tom Mohoric – Saint Mary's
Trevor Newquist – Saint Mary's

1 goal

Scott Caldwell – Akron
Luke Holmes – Akron
Aodhan Quinn – Akron
Patrick Chin – Boston College
Keegan Balle – Bradley
Scott Davis – Bradley
Bryan Gaul – Bradley
Jochen Graf – Bradley
Aidan Leonard – Brown
T. J. Popolizio – Brown
Evan James – Charlotte
Ricky Garbanzo – Coastal Carolina
Cyprian Hedrick – Coastal Carolina
Steven Miller – Colgate
Matt Schuber – Colgate
Carlos Alvarez – Connecticut
Bruno Castro – Creighton
Jose Gomez – Creighton
Andrew Ribeiro – Creighton
John Dineen – Delaware
Nick Palodichuk – Duke
Chris Tweed-Kent – Duke
James Carroll – Elon
Daniel Shaw – Fairfield
Jake Zuniga – Fairfield
Martin Ontiveros – Furman
Tim Wylie – Indiana
Christian McLaughlin – James Madison
Jimmy Simpson – James Madison
Daniel Keller – Louisville
Michael Roman – Louisville
Kenney Walker – Louisville
Andrew Raymonds – Loyola-Chicago
Jordan Cyrus – Maryland
Matt Oduaran – Maryland
Matt Jeffery – Monmouth
Carson Baldinger – New Mexico
Blake Smith – New Mexico
Matt Hedges – North Carolina
Rob Lovejoy – North Carolina
Enzo Martínez – North Carolina
Kirk Urso – North Carolina
Isaac Kannah – Northern Illinois
Mike Mascitti – Northern Illinois
Sean Totsch – Northern Illinois
Peter O'Neill – Northwestern
Brandon Adler – Providence
Anthony Baumann – Providence
John Raley – Providence
Nate Bourdeau – Rutgers
Juan Pablo Correa – Rutgers
Ibrahim Kamara – Rutgers
Bryant Knibbs – Rutgers
Riley Hanley – Saint Mary's
Justin Howard – Saint Mary's
Tyler Engel – SMU
Arthur Ivo – SMU
Chipper Root – South Carolina
Wesley Charpie – South Florida
Chase Wickham – UAB
Miguel Ibarra – UC Irvine
Josue Madueno – UC Santa Barbara
David Opoku – UC Santa Barbara
Dom Sarle – UC Santa Barbara
Luis Silva – UC Santa Barbara
Kevan George – UCF
Ben Hunt – UCF
Víctor Chavez – UCLA
Ryan Hollingshead – UCLA
Kelyn Rowe – UCLA
Reed Williams – UCLA
Ross Tomaselli – Wake Forest
Eric Schoenle – West Virginia
Jay Williams – West Virginia
Gino Depaoli – Xavier

Own goals

Colgate (playing against Rutgers)
UCF (playing against South Florida)

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Seeded teams
Seed	School	Conference	Record	Berth type
1	North Carolina	ACC	16–2–2	Tournament winner
2	Creighton	MVC	17–2–0	Tournament winner
3	Connecticut	Big East	14–2–2	At-large
4	Boston College	ACC	14–5–0	At-large
5	Maryland	ACC	12–3–3	At-large
6	SMU	C-USA	13–5–1	Tournament winner
7	South Florida	Big East	11–3–3	At-large
8	UC Irvine	Big West	16–4–1	At-large
9	St. John's	Big East	14–5–2	Tournament winner
10	New Mexico	MPSF	16–0–3	Tournament winner
11	UAB	C-USA	13–3–3	At-large
12	Louisville	Big East	11–6–2	At-large
13	UCLA	Pac-12	14–4–1	Tournament winner
14	James Madison	CAA	11–4–2	At-large
15	UC Santa Barbara	Big West	13–6–1	At-large
16	Indiana	Big Ten	11–3–5	At-large

Round	Date
First round	November 17, 2011
Second round	November 20, 2011
Third round	November 27, 2011
Quarterfinals	December 3, 2011
College Cup: Semifinals	December 9, 2011
College Cup Final	December 11, 2011

First round			Second round			Third round			Quarterfinals

	Elon	3

	Coastal Carolina*	4
				Coastal Carolina	2

			1	North Carolina	3



						1	North Carolina	1/OT

						16	Indiana	0



			16	Indiana	3

				Old Dominion	0
	Liberty	0(4)

	Old Dominion*	0(5)
									1	North Carolina	2

										Saint Mary's	0
	Fairfield	2

	Brown*	3
				Brown	1

			9	St. John's	0



							Brown	2

							Saint Mary's	3/OT



			8	UC Irvine	1

				Saint Mary's	2/2OT
	Saint Mary's	1

	CSU Baskersfield*	0

First round			Second round			Third round			Quarterfinals

	Xavier	1

	West Virginia*	2/OT
				West Virginia	0

			5	Maryland	4



						5	Maryland	2

						12	Louisville	4



			12	Louisville	3/2OT

				Bradley	2
	Loyola-Chicago	1

	Bradley*	2
									12	Louisville	0

									13	UCLA	1/2OT
	Delaware	1/20T

	Virginia*	0
				Delaware	0

			13	UCLA	1



						13	UCLA	3

							Rutgers	0



			4	Boston College	1(3)

				Rutgers	1(4)
	Colgate	2

	Rutgers*	4

First round			Second round			Third round			Quarterfinals

	Stony Brook	0(4)

	Monmouth*	0(5)
				Monmouth	1

			3	Connecticut	2



						3	Connecticut	3

						14	James Madison	0



			14	James Madison	2

				Wake Forest	0
	Wake Forest	1(4)

	South Carolina*	1(3)
									3	Connecticut	1(2)

										Charlotte	1(4)
	Furman	1

	Charlotte*	3
				Charlotte	3

			11	UAB	1



							Charlotte*	1

							Akron	0



			6	SMU	2

				Akron	3
	Northwestern	1

	Akron*	3

2011_NCAA_Division_I_men's_soccer_tournament

2011 NCAA Division I men's soccer tournament

Qualified Teams

Automatic bids

At-Large Bids

Format

Seeded teams

Schedule

Bracket

Regional 1

Regional 2

Regional 3

Regional 4

College Cup – Regions Park, Hoover, Alabama

Schedule

First round

Second round

Third round

Quarterfinals

College Cup: Semifinals

College Cup: Final

Statistics

Top goalscorers

See also

References

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National Semifinals December 9			National Championship December 11

1	North Carolina	2(3)

13	UCLA	2(1)
			1	North Carolina	1

				Charlotte	0
	Charlotte	0(4)

2	Creighton	0(1)

Liberty	0–0 (a.e.t.)	Old Dominion
	Report
Penalties
Bentick Amoo Aseweh Breitmeyer Bullock	4–5	Francoz Harmon LeBlanc Hopkinson Smith

Stony Brook	0–0 (a.e.t.)	Monmouth
	Report
Penalties
Schlesinger Gobeil Crespi Fernandes Belakehal	4–5	Allen Luke Schmid Puranen Vázquez

Wake Forest	1–1 (a.e.t.)	South Carolina
Tomaselli 9'	Report	Root 50' (pen.)
Penalties
Wenzel Gimenez Newnam Randolph Konowiecki Mullin	4–3	Martinez Baladez Morrissey Troyer Mangotic Rafferty

Rutgers	1–1 (a.e.t.)	#4 Boston College
Kamara 87'	Report	Chin 53'
Penalties
Kamara Bourdeau Brown Cuevas Setchell	4–3	Mejia Aburmad Fitzpatrick Murphy Rose

#10 New Mexico	0–0 (a.e.t.)	#7 South Florida
	Report
Penalties
Rozeboom Green Smith Sandoval Venter Gibbons Baldinger	5–6	Baldin Perry Dwyer Fairclough Paul Olali Alexis

Charlotte	1–1 (a.e.t.)	#3 Connecticut
Gentile 85'	Report	Cascio 82'
Penalties
Gibson James Smith Cowles Rodriguez	4–2	Diouf Mercado Alvarez Bradley

Charlotte	0–0 (a.e.t.)	#2 Creighton
	Report
Penalties
Gibson Caughran Smith Cowles	4–1	Castro Clark Finlay

#1 North Carolina	2–2 (a.e.t.)	#13 UCLA
Lovejoy 56' Schuler 85'	Report	Hollingshead 17' K. Rowe 74'
Penalties
Urso McKinney Schuler Speas	3–1	Rose K. Rowe Muñoz Monge

First round			Second round			Third round			Quarterfinals

	Florida Gulf Coast	0

	UCF*	1/2OT
				UCF	1

			7	South Florida	2/OT



						7	South Florida	0(6)

						10	New Mexico	0(5)



			10	New Mexico	2/OT

				Duke	1
	Georgia State	0

	Duke*	1
									7	South Florida	0

									2	Creighton	1/OT
	Dartmouth	0

	Providence*	1
				Providence	2

			15	UC Santa Barbara	3



						15	UC Santa Barbara	1

						2	Creighton	2