Men's College Cup (semifinals & final) | |
Country | USA |
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Teams | 48 |
Defending champions | Akron Zips |
Champions | North Carolina |
Runners-up | Charlotte |
Semi-finalists | |
Matches played | 47 |
Goals scored | 127 (2.7 per match) |
Top goal scorer(s) | Casey Townsend (4) |
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The 2011 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship 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]
A single-elimination, knockout, or sudden death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of each match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final match-up, whose winner becomes the tournament champion. Each match-up may be a single match or several, for example two-legged ties in European football or best-of series in American pro sports. Defeated competitors may play no further part after losing, or may participate in "consolation" or "classification" matches against other losers to determine the lower final rankings; for example, a third place playoff between losing semi-finalists. In a shootout poker tournament, there are more than two players competing at each table, and sometimes more than one progressing to the next round. Some competitions are held with a pure single-elimination tournament system. Others have many phases, with the last being a single-elimination final stage, often called playoffs.
The 2011 NCAA Division I men's soccer season was the 53rd year of organized men's college soccer in the United States.
The North Carolina Tar Heels men's soccer team represents the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in men's NCAA Division I soccer competition. They compete in the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Tar Heels won the NCAA championship in 2001 and 2011.
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]
The 2011 Akron Zips men's soccer team represented the University of Akron during the 2010 NCAA Division I men's soccer season. The Zips finished the season winning the 2010 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship, making it the first time in their history to win the national title.
The Connecticut Huskies men's soccer team is an intercollegiate varsity sports team of the University of Connecticut. The team is a member of the American Athletic Conference of the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
The penalty shootout is a method of determining a winner in sports matches that would have otherwise been drawn or tied. The rules for penalty shootouts vary between sports and even different competitions; however, the usual form is similar to penalty shots in that a single player takes one shot on goal from a specified spot, the only defender being the goalkeeper. Teams take turns, with the one with the largest number of successful goals after a specified number of attempts being the winner. If the result is still tied, the shootout usually continues on a "goal-for-goal" basis, with the teams taking shots alternately, and the one that scores a goal unmatched by the other team is declared the winner. This may continue until every player has taken a shot, after which players may take extra shots, until the tie is broken, and is also known as "sudden death".
With the victory in the national final, the Tar Heels won their second NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship in program history. [3]
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The Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) is a collegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division I whose full-time members are located in East Coast states from Maine to South Carolina. Most of its members are public universities, and the conference is headquartered in Richmond. The CAA was historically a Southern conference until the addition of four schools in the Northeast after the turn of the 21st century, which added balance to the conference.
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.
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Seeded teams | |||||
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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 |
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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 |
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 | ||||||||||||||||
2 | Creighton | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
Northern Illinois | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
Western Illinois | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
Northern Illinois* | 3 |
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) | |||||||
Host team, or higher seed, is listed on the right. Away team or lower seed is listed on the left.
Dartmouth | 0–1 | Providence |
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Report | Raley |
Western Illinois | 0–3 | Northern Illinois |
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Report | Totsch Kannah Mascitti |
Xavier | 1–2 (a.e.t.) | West Virginia |
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DePaol | Report | Williams Schoenle |
Elon | 3–4 | Coastal Carolina |
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Thomas Carroll | Report | Garbanzo East Hendrick Bennett |
Liberty | 0–0 (a.e.t.) | Old Dominion |
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Report | ||
Penalties | ||
Bentick Amoo Aseweh Breitmeyer Bullock | 4–5 | Francoz Harmon LeBlanc Hopkinson Smith |
Stony Brook | 0–0 (a.e.t.) | Monmouth |
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Report | ||
Penalties | ||
Schlesinger Gobeil Crespi Fernandes Belakehal | 4–5 | Allen Luke Schmid Puranen Vázquez |
Wake Forest | 1–1 (a.e.t.) | South Carolina |
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Tomaselli | Report | Root |
Penalties | ||
Wenzel Gimenez Newnam Randolph Konowiecki Mullin | 4–3 | Martinez Baladez Morrissey Troyer Mangotic Rafferty |
Georgia State | 0–1 | Duke |
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Report | Tweed-Kent |
Loyola Chicago | 1–2 | Bradley |
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Raymonds | Report | Graf Balle |
Saint Mary's | 1–0 | CSU Bakersfield |
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Mohoric | Report |
Numbers represent the seed the team earned in the tournament.
Monmouth | 1–2 | #3 Connecticut |
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Jeffery | Report | Diouf |
Rutgers | 1–1 (a.e.t.) | #4 Boston College |
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Kamara | Report | Chin |
Penalties | ||
Kamara Bourdeau Brown Cuevas Setchell | 4–3 | Mejia Aburmad Fitzpatrick Murphy Rose |
Old Dominion | 0–3 | #16 Indiana |
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Report | Kotlov Wylie |
Coastal Carolina | 2–3 | #1 North Carolina |
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Bennett East | Report | Speas Urso Martínez |
West Virginia | 0–4 | #5 Maryland |
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Report | Townsend Cyrus |
Brown | 1–0 | #9 St. John's |
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Remick | Report |
Wake Forest | 0–2 | #14 James Madison |
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Report | J. Simpson McLaughlin |
UCF | 1–2 (a.e.t.) | #7 South Florida |
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Hunt | Report | Charpie |
Bradley | 2–3 (a.e.t.) | #12 Louisville |
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Davis Gaul | Report | Rolfe Walker DeLeon |
Providence | 2–3 | #15 UC Santa Barbara |
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Adler Baumann | Report | Silva Madueno Sarle |
Saint Mary's | 2–1 (a.e.t.) | #8 UC Irvine |
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Hanley Howard | Report | Ibarra |
Duke | 1–2 (a.e.t.) | #10 New Mexico |
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Palodichuk | Report | Smith Baldinger |
#16 Indiana | 0–1 (a.e.t.) | #1 North Carolina |
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Report | Schuler |
#14 James Madison | 0–3 | #3 Connecticut |
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Report | Alvarez Diouf Cascio |
#12 Louisville | 4–2 | #5 Maryland |
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DeLeon Rolfe Keller Roman | Report | Townsend Oduaran |
Saint Mary's | 3–2 (a.e.t.) | Brown |
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Newquist Mohoric | Report | Remick Rosa |
#10 New Mexico | 0–0 (a.e.t.) | #7 South Florida |
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Report | ||
Penalties | ||
Rozeboom Green Smith Sandoval Venter Gibbons Baldinger | 5–6 | Baldin Perry Dwyer Fairclough Paul Olali Alexis |
Rutgers | 0–3 | #13 UCLA |
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Report | Hoffman Chavez |
Saint Mary's | 0–2 | #1 North Carolina |
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Report | Hedges Speas |
#13 UCLA | 1–0 (a.e.t.) | #12 Louisville |
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Williams | Report |
Charlotte | 1–1 (a.e.t.) | #3 Connecticut |
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Gentile | Report | Cascio |
Penalties | ||
Gibson James Smith Cowles Rodriguez | 4–2 | Diouf Mercado Alvarez Bradley |
#7 South Florida | 0–1 (a.e.t.) | #2 Creighton |
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Report | Finlay |
Charlotte | 0–0 (a.e.t.) | #2 Creighton |
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Report | ||
Penalties | ||
Gibson Caughran Smith Cowles | 4–1 | Castro Clark Finlay |
#1 North Carolina | 2–2 (a.e.t.) | #13 UCLA |
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Lovejoy Schuler | Report | Hollingshead K. Rowe |
Penalties | ||
Urso McKinney Schuler Speas | 3–1 | Rose K. Rowe Muñoz Monge |
Charlotte | 0–1 | #1 North Carolina |
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Report | Speas |
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