2015 Big East Men's Soccer Standings
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
MEN’S SOCCER REPORT • FINAL Contact: Kristin Quinn, Assistant Commissioner O: 646.663.3456 C: 914.819.8751 [email protected] @BIGEASTChamps 2015 BIG EAST MEN’S SOCCER STANDINGS #BIGEASTmsoc BIG EAST OVERALL Rec. Pts. H A Rec. Pct. H A N Streak Next Opponent #%$GEORGETOWN (2/1) 9-0-0 27 5-0-0 4-0-0 16-2-3 .833 11-2-0 5-0-2 0-0-0 T1 - #%CREIGHTON (9/9) 7-2-0 21 3-1-0 4-1-0 19-4-0 .826 13-1-0 6-3-0 0-0-0 L1 - #BUTLER RV 6-3-0 18 3-2-0 3-1-0 10-4-4 .667 4-3-2 5-2-2 0-0-0 T1 - #XAVIER 5-3-1 16 2-2-0 3-1-1 12-6-1 .658 6-3-0 6-3-1 0-0-0 L1 - 2015 NCAA Championship #PROVIDENCE 4-4-1 13 2-3-1 2-2-0 8-7-3 .528 4-3-1 4-4-2 0-0-0 L1 - NOVEMBER #DEPAUL 4-4-1 13 2-3-0 2-1-1 5-13-1 .289 3-6-0 2-6-1 0-1-0 L1 - NCAA Second Round 22 #3 Georgetown 3, Hofstra 0 VILLANOVA 4-5-0 12 2-2-0 2-3-0 9-8-0 .529 5-4-0 4-4-0 0-0-0 W1 - #12 Creighton 5, Drake 1 ST. JOHN’S 2-5-2 8 0-2-2 2-3-0 4-11-3 .306 2-6-3 2-4-0 0-1-0 L1 - MARQUETTE 1-7-1 4 1-3-0 0-4-1 5-10-2 .353 3-4-0 2-6-2 0-0-0 L6 - NCAA Third Round SETON HALL 0-9-0 0 0-5-0 0-4-0 0-15-1 .031 0-7-1 0-8-0 0-0-1 L14 - 28 #12 Creighton 1, #5 UNC 0 29 #3 Georgetown 1, Boston College 1 (2OT) (NSCAA/Soccer America Top 25); RV – receiving votes; # clinched a BIG EAST Championship berth; % clinched a first-round bye; $ regular season champion BC advances on PK’s, 5-4 #BIGEASTMSOC 2015 FINAL NOTES DECEMBER NCAA Quarterfinals 5 t#4 Akron 3, #12 Creighton 2 (2OT) HERBERS RUNNER UP FOR MAC HERMANN TROPHY, BIG EAST BOASTS TWO OF THREE FINALISTS FOR NATIONAL BIG EAST TEAMS IN THE NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP PLAYER OF THE YEAR The BIG EAST and ACC tie historically for having the most Creighton junior midfielder/forward Fabian Herbers and teams into the NCAA Championship in one year. In 2012, the Georgetown senior forward Brandon Allen were recognized as BIG EAST had eight teams into the tournament, which ties with two of the three most elite players in men’s soccer as the pair the ACC in 2005. Since the reconfiguration of the Conference were finalists for the Missouri Athletic Club’s MAC Hermann in the 2013-14 season, the BIG EAST continued to get multiple Award trophy. At the awards ceremony on Jan. 8 in St. Louis, teams into the tournament. In 2013, five teams received bids: 2015 BIG EAST CHAMPIONSHIP Mo., the trophy was presented to NCAA Champion Stanford Creighton, Georgetown, Marquette, Providence and St. John’s. University’s Jordan Morris, while Herbers was runner up. NOVEMBER Georgetown, the BIG EAST’s AQ for 2015, and Creighton have 15 BIG EAST Championship Final #1 Georgetown 2, #2 Creighton 1 The last time the BIG EAST boasted two thirds of the finalists been in the NCAA Championship representing the BIG EAST in for the Hermann Trophy was in 2007 with O’Brian White from all three years of the 10-team league. 12 BIG EAST Championship Semifinals Connecticut and Joseph Laprika from Notre Dame. White won #1 Georgetown 1, #4 Xavier 0 the award and was the last winner fro the BIG EAST. The BIG In 2015, Georgetown made it to the Third Round and tied #2 Creighton 2, #6 Providence 1 EAST has had four Hermann Trophy winners. Boston College, 1-1, but failed to advance on PK’s. Creighton represented the league for the second-straight year in the 8 BIG EAST Championship First Round Additionally, Creighton’s Timo Pitter was a MAC Hermann Quarterfinals. #6 Providence 2, #3 Butler 2 Trophy Semifinalist. Cory Brown of Xavier and Joshua Yaro of (PC advances on PK’S 4-2) Georgetown were on the original Watch List, released in August. Last season, the BIG EAST received three at-large bids to the #4 Xavier 2, #5 DePaul 1 NCAA Tournament with Creighton, Georgetown and Xavier BIG EAST FINAL RPI ANALYSIS joining the league’s automatic qualifier, Providence, in the BIG EAST Championship As a league, the BIG EAST ranked sixth overall in the national Championships. The BIG EAST had the most teams left standing All-Tournament Team men’s soccer RPI analystics. The confernce had its highest in the NCAA Quarterfinal rounds with the Bluejays, Hoyas and Cory Brown, Xavier, So., D marks in road succes as the the BIG EAST was third with Friars still standing tall. Creighton had defeated Xavier, 2-1, in Todd Pratzner, Xavier, Jr., D with a .4978 percentage behind the ACC and the Big Ten. The the Round of 16. Providence advanced to the College Cup Jeff Kilday, Providence, RS-Sr., M conference was seventh in opponent strength (.5166). Of the 10 Semifinals, but lost to No. 2 seed UCLA 3-2. Providence was Julian Gressel, Providence, Jr., M teams, Georgetown ranked the highest in the RPI ratings as No. a No. 11 seed. Fabian Herbers, Creighton, Jr., M/F Ricardo Perez, Creighton, Jr., M/F 7. Creighton was one spot behind at No. 8. Georgetown finished Connor Sparrow, Creighton, Sr., GK first for the Conference in the NCAA’s toughest schedule report. GEORGETOWN WINS REGULAR SEASON TITLE JT Marcinkowski, Georgetown, Fr., GK The Hoyas ranked 20th. Seton Hall ranked second at No. 26. Georgetown won the BIG EAST regular season title for the fifth Brandon Allen, Georgetown, Sr., F time in program history with the last coming in 2013 and the Joshua Yaro, Georgetown, Jr., D AND THEN THERE WAS ONE - CREIGHTON ADVANCED TO last outright championship coming during the 2010 campaign. Alex Muyl, Georgetown, Jr., F NCAA QUARTERFINALS It is the fourth under Hoya head coach Brian Wiese. The last Twelfth-seeded Creighton was the lone soldier left for the BIG Most Outstanding Defensive Player time a team went a perfect 9-0-0 during the BIG EAST Regular EAST conference in the NCAA Men’s Soccer Championship field Joshua Yaro, Georgetown Season was the University of Louisville in 2009. and advanced to play fourth-seeded Akron in the Quarterfinals. Most Outstanding Offensive Player It was Creighton’s fourth national quarterfinal appearance in CREIGHTON NO. 1 FOR EIGHT WEEKS Brandon Allen, Georgetown five years. The Bluejays and Zips went into the second overtime period before Akron scored the golden goal in the 102nd minute. The Bluejays topped the NSCAA Top 25 poll for a program-best eight consecutive weeks (Sept. 8-Oct. 27), got off to a 15-0-0 Both Akron and Creighton scored two goals in the second period start this season, marking the best start for a Creighton team but were scoreless in the first overtime. since 1993 (19-0-0) and best start by any team since Akron BIG EAST ConFERence 655 ThiRD AVenUE • NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10017 WWW.BIGEAST.com TOURNAMENT INFORmation 2015 NCAA Division I Men's SOCCER CHAMPIONSHIP First Round Second Round Third Round Quarterfinals Semifinals Final Semifinals Quarterfinals Third Round Second Round First Round November 19 November 22 November 28 or 29 December 4 or 5 December 11 December 13 December 11 December 4 or 5 November 28 or 29 November 22 November 19 *Wake Forest (15-2-2) 1 3 *Georgetown (15-2-2) *Wake Forest 1-0 *Georgetown 3-0 *Charlotte (10-5-3) Final *Hofstra (13-7-0) Charlotte 2-1 Sporting Park Hofstra 2-1 (OT) Radford (14-3-2) Kansas City, Kansas Lehigh (13-5-3) *Wake Forest 1-0 2 p.m. Boston College 1-1 (2OT; PK) *UConn (9-5-6) ESPNU/WatchESPN *Boston College (9-7-1) UConn 3-1 Boston College 1-0 Boston U. (12-5-2) Vermont (11-6-3) Indiana 1-0 Boston College 2-1 (OT) *Indiana (12-4-3) 16 14 *South Fla. (11-5-3) Stanford 2-1 (OT) Syracuse 1-0 *Ohio St. (13-6-2) 9 11 *Seattle (17-3-1) Ohio St. 1-1 (2OT; PK) Stanford 0-0 (2OT; PK) Seattle 1-0 *Dayton (13-5-3) *UCLA (10-8-1) Dayton 1-1 (2OT; PK) UCLA 2-0 Oakland (10-8-1) Cal Poly (11-4-5) Stanford 3-1 *Syracuse 3-1 *Cal St. Fullerton (13-7-1) *Dartmouth (11-5-1) Santa Clara 3-0 Dartmouth 1-0 (OT) Santa Clara (10-7-1) Hartwick (11-5-3) *Stanford 3-1 *Syracuse 2-1 *Stanford (14-2-2) 8 6 *Syracuse (13-5-3) Semifinal Semifinal Sporting Park Stanford 4-0 Sporting Park Kansas City, Kansas Kansas City, Kansas *North Carolina (14-1-3) 5 8:30 p.m. NATIONAL 6 p.m. 7 *Notre Dame (11-4-5) ESPNU/WatchESPN CHAMPION ESPNU/WatchESPN *North Carolina 2-1 *Notre Dame 1-1 (2OT; PK) *Coastal Carolina (12-2-4) *Tulsa (7-6-6) Coastal Carolina 1-0 Tulsa 3-2 (OT) North Florida (10-6-1) FIU (12-6-1) Creighton 1-0 Maryland 2-1 *Kentucky (12-4-2) *Virginia (9-4-3) Drake 2-1 Virginia 2-0 Drake (12-4-3) Rider (14-5-1) Creighton 5-1 Clemson 0-0 (2OT; PK) Maryland 1-0 *Creighton (17-3-0) 12 10 *Maryland (10-5-5) Akron 3-2 (2OT) Clemson 1-1 (2OT;PK) *Denver (15-0-3) 13 15 *UC Santa Barbara (13-6-2) SMU 1-0 (OT) UC Santa Barbera 1-0 (OT) *SMU (13-2-4) *South Carolina (11-7-1) SMU 2-0 South Carolina 1-1 (2OT:PK) Utah Valley (14-5-2) Furman (8-5-5) *Akron 2-1 *Clemson 3-2 *Rutgers (12-6-1) *Elon (13-5-1) Rutgers 1-1 (2OT; PK) Elon 3-0 LIU Brooklyn (11-5-4) Winthrop (10-6-2) *Akron 6-1 *Clemson 5-2 *Akron (15-3-2) 4 2 *Clemson (15-2-2) *Host institution for preliminary round games.