The 2015 NCAA Division I men's soccer tournament (also known as the 2015 College Cup) was the 57th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA Division I men's collegiate soccer. The first, second, third, and quarterfinal rounds were held at college campus sites across the United States during November and December 2015, with host sites determined by seeding and record. The four-team College Cup finals were played at Children's Mercy Park in Kansas City, Kansas from December 11–13, 2015.
The defending national champions, the Virginia Cavaliers, were eliminated in the tournament's second round. Stanford won their first-ever national title by defeating Clemson, 4–0 in the final.
Qualification
All Division I men's soccer programs except for Grand Canyon, Incarnate Word, UMass Lowell, and Northern Kentucky were eligible to qualify for the tournament. Those four programs were ineligible because they were in transition from Division II to Division I. The tournament field remained fixed at 48 teams.
Of the 23 schools that had previously won the championship, 13 qualified for this year's tournament.
Format As in previous editions of the NCAA Division I Tournament, the tournament featured 48 participants out of a possible field of 202 teams. Of the 48 berths, 24 were allocated to the 21 conference tournament champions and to the regular season winners of the Ivy League, Pac-12 Conference, and West Coast Conference, which do not have tournaments. The remaining 24 berths were supposed to be determined through an at-large process based upon the Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) of teams that did not automatically qualify.
The NCAA Selection Committee also named the top sixteen seeds for the tournament, with those teams receiving an automatic bye into the second round of the tournament. The remaining 32 teams played in a single-elimination match in the first round of the tournament for the right to play a seeded team in the second round.
Seeded teamsSeedSchoolConference RecordBerth typeNSCAA RankingRPI Ranking 1 Wake Forest Atlantic Coast Conference 15–2–2 At-large 1 1 2 Clemson Atlantic Coast Conference 15–2–2 At-large 2 2 3 Georgetown Big East Conference 15–2–2 Tournament Champion 3 5 4 Akron Mid-American Conference 15–3–2 Tournament Champion 10 6 5 North Carolina Atlantic Coast Conference 14–1–3 At-large 4 4 6 Syracuse Atlantic Coast Conference 13–5–3 Tournament Champion 13 3 7 Notre Dame Atlantic Coast Conference 11–4–5 At-large 9 7 8 Stanford Pac-12 Conference 14–2–2 Season champion 6 8 9 Ohio State Big Ten Conference 13–4–2 At-large 12 11 10 Maryland Big Ten Conference 11–5–4 Tournament champion Not ranked 13 11 Seattle Western Athletic Conference 17–3–1 Tournament champion 15 9 12 Creighton Big East Conference 17–3–0 At-large 5 10 13 Denver The Summit League 15–0–3 Tournament champion 8 18 14 South Florida American Athletic Conference 11–5–3 At-large 14 14 15 UC Santa Barbara Big West Conference 13–6–2 At-large Not ranked 17 16 Indiana Big Ten Conference 12–5–2 At-large 22 21
Schedule
RoundDateFirst roundNovember 19, 2015Second roundNovember 22, 2015Third roundNovember 28–29, 2015QuarterfinalsDecember 4 − 5, 2015College Cup: SemifinalsDecember 11, 2015College Cup FinalDecember 13, 2015
Bracket
Regional 1
Regional 2
Regional 3
Regional 4
College Cup
Results Home team through quarterfinals on left
First round
Second round
Third round
Quarterfinals
College Cup
Semifinals
Championship
Statistics
Goalscorers
5 goals
Jordan Morris — Stanford
3 goals
Stuart Holthusen — Akron
2 goals
Richie Laryea — Akron Victor Souto — Akron Simon Enström — Boston College T. J. Casner — Clemson Saul Chinchilla — Clemson Thales Moreno — Clemson Kwame Awuah — Connecticut Ricky Lopez-Espin — Creighton Ricardo Perez — Creighton Timo Pitter — Creighton Cooper Vandermaas-Peeler — Elon Eryk Williamson — Maryland Amir Bashti — Stanford Brandon Vincent — Stanford Ben Polk — Syracuse Juan Sebastián Sánchez — Tulsa
1 goal
Adam Najem — Akron Sean Sepe — Akron Gonçalo Soares — Akron Trevor Davock — Boston College Isaac Normesinu — Boston College Felix De Bona — Boston University Diego Campos — Clemson Aaron Jones — Clemson Iman Mafi — Clemson Brandt Bronico — Charlotte Luke Waechter — Charlotte Martin Melchor — Coastal Carolina Tobenna Uzo — Coastal Carolina DeAndrae Brown — Connecticut Fernando Castellanos — Creighton Evan Waldrep — Creighton Justin Donawa — Dartmouth Alexander Marsh — Dartmouth Kennedy Nwabia — Dayton Maik Schoonderwoerd — Dayton Carlos Sendin — Dayton Alec Bartlett — Drake Steven Enna — Drake James Grunert — Drake Eduardo Alvarez — Elon James Brace — Elon Jaiden Fortune — Elon Luis Betancur — FIU Brad Fountain — FIU Lewis Hawke — Furman Brandon Allen — Georgetown Arun Basuljevic — Georgetown Alex Muyl — Georgetown Keegan Rosenberry — Georgetown Daniel Massey — Hofstra Mario Ruiz — Hofstra Ben Maurey — Indiana Kevin Barajas — Kentucky Mark Forrest — Lehigh Simon Hestnes — LIU Brooklyn Alex Crognale — Maryland Ivan Magalhães — Maryland Tucker Hume — North Carolina Zach Wright — North Carolina Patrick Berneski — Notre Dame Jeffrey Farina — Notre Dame Austin Ricci — Oakland Matt Rickard — Oakland Danny Jensen — Ohio State Abdi Mohamed — Ohio State Jamie Summers — Radford Sugor Al Awwad — Rutgers Ahmad Faheem — Rutgers Dylan Autran — Santa Clara Edson Cardona — Santa Clara Carlos Delgadillo — Santa Clara Luis Urias — Santa Clara Hamza Haddadi — Seattle David Olsen — Seattle Idrissa Camara — SMU Stanton Garcia — SMU Brenden Lee — SMU Danny Deakin — South Carolina Prosper Figbe — South Florida Corey Baird — Stanford Foster Langsdorf — Stanford Eric Verso — Stanford Louis Cross — Syracuse Kamal Miller — Syracuse Noah Rhynhart — Syracuse Miles Robinson — Syracuse Geoffrey Dee — Tulsa Miguel Velasquez — Tulsa Jordan Vale — UCLA Kevin Feucht — UC Santa Barbara Ismaila Jome — UC Santa Barbara Seo-In Kim — UC Santa Barbara Jake Rozhansky — Virginia Marcus Salandy-Defour — Virginia Jon Bakero — Wake Forest Ricky Greensfelder — Wake Forest Ian Harkes — Wake Forest
Own goals
Brad Ruhaak — Akron (playing against SMU) Austin Wilcox — Cal Poly (playing against UCLA) Taylor Curtis — SMU (playing against Akron)
See also NCAA Men's Soccer Championships (Division II, Division III) NCAA Women's Soccer Championships (Division I, Division II, Division III)
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