Men's College Cup (semifinals & final) | |
Country | |
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Teams | 48 |
Defending champions | Virginia Cavaliers |
Champions | Akron Zips |
Runners-up | Louisville Cardinals |
Semi-finalists | |
Matches played | 47 |
Goals scored | 150 (3.19 per match) |
Top goal scorer(s) | Justin Meram (5) |
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The 2010 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship was a tournament of 48 collegiate soccer teams who played for the NCAA Championship in soccer. The semifinals and final were held at Harder Stadium in Santa Barbara, California. All the other games were played at the home field of the higher seeded team (indicated by * for non-seeded teams). The final was held on December 12, 2010. Akron defeated Louisville, 1–0, for the title.
Harder Stadium is a 17,000 seat, outdoor multi-purpose stadium on the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara in Santa Barbara, California. It serves as the on-campus soccer stadium for both the men's and women's programs. It is also currently used occasionally by the university's club rugby and lacrosse teams and previously served as the home for the football team.
Santa Barbara is the county seat of Santa Barbara County in the U.S. state of California. Situated on a south-facing section of coastline, the longest such section on the West Coast of the United States, the city lies between the steeply rising Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. Santa Barbara's climate is often described as Mediterranean, and the city has been promoted as the "American Riviera". As of 2014, the city had an estimated population of 91,196, up from 88,410 in 2010, making it the second most populous city in the county after Santa Maria. The contiguous urban area, which includes the cities of Goleta and Carpinteria, along with the unincorporated regions of Isla Vista, Montecito, Mission Canyon, Hope Ranch, Summerland, and others, has an approximate population of 220,000. The population of the entire county in 2010 was 423,895.
The Akron Zips men's soccer team is an intercollegiate varsity sports team of the University of Akron. The team is a member of the Mid-American Conference of Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Akron is regularly ranked in the Top 10 NSCAA collegiate men's soccer poll. They have been ranked No. 1 previously in 2005, 2009, 2010, and 2016. The Zips have played their home games at FirstEnergy Stadium-Cub Cadet Field, formerly named Lee R. Jackson Soccer Field and Cub Cadet Field, since 1966. They won their first national championship in 2010.
The bracket was announced November 15, 2010. The tournament started on November 18. The second round was played on November 21. The third round was played on November 28. The Regional Finals were played December 3 and 4.
Automatic bidsAll automatic bids are granted for winning a conference championship tournament, except for the automatic bid of the Ivy League, Pacific-10 Conference, and West Coast Conference, each given to the regular season champion. There were 22 automatic bids to the NCAA Tournament. The Ivy League is an American collegiate athletic conference comprising sports teams from eight private universities in the Northeastern United States. The term Ivy League is typically used to refer to those eight schools as a group of elite colleges beyond the sports context. The eight members are Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and Yale University. Ivy League has connotations of academic excellence, selectivity in admissions, and social elitism. The West Coast Conference (WCC) is a collegiate athletic conference affiliated in NCAA Division I consisting of ten member schools across the states of California, Oregon, Utah and Washington.
| At-large bids26 teams received at-large bids to the tournament.
The Boston College Eagles are the athletic teams that represent Boston College. They compete as a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I level, primarily competing in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). The Duke Blue Devils are the athletic teams that represent Duke University, featuring 27 varsity teams in the NCAA Division I. The name comes from the French "les Diables Bleus" or "the Blue Devils," which was the nickname given during World War I to the Chasseurs Alpins, the French Alpine light infantry battalion. The North Carolina Tar Heels are the athletic teams representing the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The name Tar Heel is a nickname used to refer to individuals from the state of North Carolina, the Tar Heel State. The campus at Chapel Hill is referred to as the University of North Carolina for the purposes of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was chartered in 1789, and in 1795 it became the first state-supported university in the United States. Since the school fostered the oldest collegiate team in the Carolinas, the school took on the nickname ""Carolina", especially in athletics. The Tar Heels are also referred to as North Carolina, UNC, or The Heels. The female athletic teams are sometimes referred to as Lady Tar Heels. |
First round | Second round | Regional Semifinals | Regional Finals | |||||||||||||||
ETSU | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
College of Charleston* | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
College of Charleston | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
1 | Louisville | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
1 | Louisville | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
16 | Ohio St. | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
16 | Ohio St. | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
Providence | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
St. Peter's | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
Providence* | 6 | |||||||||||||||||
1 | Louisville | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
8 | UCLA | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
Dartmouth | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
Monmouth* | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
Dartmouth | 2/OT | |||||||||||||||||
9 | Notre Dame | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
Dartmouth | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
8 | UCLA | 2/2OT | ||||||||||||||||
8 | UCLA | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
Sacramento St. | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
Santa Clara | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
Sacramento St.* | 2 |
First round | Second round | Regional Semifinals | Regional Finals | |||||||||||||||
New Mexico | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
Creighton* | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
Creighton | 2(3) | |||||||||||||||||
5 | SMU | 2(5) | ||||||||||||||||
5 | SMU | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
12 | William & Mary | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
12 | William & Mary | 0(4) | ||||||||||||||||
UMBC | 0(3) | |||||||||||||||||
UMBC | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
Princeton* | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
5 | SMU | 1(2) | ||||||||||||||||
4 | North Carolina | 1(4) | ||||||||||||||||
Oakland | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
Michigan St.* | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
Michigan St. | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
13 | Butler | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
Michigan St. | 1(4) | |||||||||||||||||
4 | North Carolina | 1(5) | ||||||||||||||||
4 | North Carolina | 0(5) | ||||||||||||||||
Georgetown | 0(4) | |||||||||||||||||
UNC Greensboro | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
Georgetown* | 3 |
First round | Second round | Regional Semifinals | Regional Finals | |||||||||||||||
Xavier | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
West Virginia* | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
West Virginia | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
3 | Akron | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
3 | Akron | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
14 | Indiana | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
14 | Indiana | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
Tulsa | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
Bradley | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
Tulsa* | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
3 | Akron | 3(3) | ||||||||||||||||
6 | California | 3(2) | ||||||||||||||||
Boston College | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
Brown* | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
Brown | 1(7) | |||||||||||||||||
11 | Connecticut | 1(6) | ||||||||||||||||
Brown | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
6 | California | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
6 | California | 2/OT | ||||||||||||||||
UC Santa Barbara | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
Denver | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
UC Santa Barbara* | 1/2OT |
First round | Second round | Regional Semifinals | Regional Finals | |||||||||||||||
Coastal Carolina | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
Duke* | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
Duke | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
7 | South Carolina | 1/OT | ||||||||||||||||
7 | South Carolina | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
10 | Michigan | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
10 | Michigan | 2/OT | ||||||||||||||||
Central Florida | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
South Florida | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
Central Florida* | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
10 | Michigan | 3/2OT | ||||||||||||||||
2 | Maryland | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
Old Dominion | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
Virginia* | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
Old Dominion | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
15 | Penn St. | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
15 | Penn St. | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
2 | Maryland | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
2 | Maryland | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
Penn | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
Bucknell | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
Penn* | 1/OT |
Harder Stadium, Santa Barbara, California
National Semifinals December 10 | National Championship December 12 | ||||||||
1 | Louisville | 2 | |||||||
4 | North Carolina | 1 | |||||||
1 | Louisville | 0 | |||||||
3 | Akron | 1 | |||||||
3 | Akron | 2 | |||||||
10 | Michigan | 1 | |||||||
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