2015 Big Ten Conference men's soccer season

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Big Ten Conference
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Season2015
Champions Maryland
Premiers Ohio State
NCAA tournament Ohio State
Indiana
Maryland
Rutgers
2014
2016
2015 Big Ten Conference men's soccer standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 14 Ohio State + 5 2 114 7 4
No. 19 Indiana + 4 3 113 5 3
No. 12 Maryland3 2 312 5 6
No. 23 Rutgers + 4 4 012 7 2
Northwestern 4 4 07 9 2
Michigan 3 3 28 6 4
Wisconsin 2 3 35 11 3
Penn State 2 4 27 8 3
Michigan St. 2 4 28 9 2
As of December 4, 2015
Rankings from NSCAA

The 2015 Big Ten Conference men's soccer season was the 25th season of men's varsity soccer in the conference. Maryland entered the season as both the regular season champion and the Big Ten tournament champion.

Contents

Preseason

Defending regular season and tournament champions Maryland were selected as the favorite ahead of the 2015 season. [1]

Preseason poll

Projected
Rank
School2014
Finish
1 Maryland 1st
2 Indiana T-6th
3 Penn State T-2nd
4 Michigan State 5th
5 Ohio State T-2nd
6 Northwestern T-2nd
7 Michigan T-6th
8 Rutgers 8th
9 Wisconsin 9th

Teams

Stadia and locations

TeamLocationStadiumCapacity
Indiana Hoosiers Bloomington, Indiana Armstrong Stadium 6,000
Maryland Terrapins College Park, Maryland Ludwig Field 7,500
Michigan Wolverines Ann Arbor, Michigan U-M Soccer Stadium 2,200
Michigan State Spartans East Lansing, Michigan DeMartin Soccer Complex 2,500
Northwestern Wildcats Evanston, Illinois Lakeside Field 2,500
Ohio State Buckeyes Columbus, Ohio Owens Memorial Stadium 10,000
Penn State Nittany Lions State College, Pennsylvania Jeffrey Field 5,000
Rutgers Scarlet Knights Piscataway, New Jersey Yurcak Field 5,000
Wisconsin Badgers Madison, Wisconsin McClimon Stadium 2,000

Personnel

TeamHead CoachShirt supplier
Indiana Flag of the United States.svg Todd Yeagley Flag of Germany.svg Adidas
Maryland Flag of North Macedonia.svg Sasho Cirovski Flag of the United States.svg Under Armour
Michigan Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Chaka Daley Flag of Germany.svg Adidas
Michigan State Flag of the United States.svg Damon Rensing Flag of the United States.svg Nike
Northwestern Flag of the United States.svg Tim Lenahan Flag of the United States.svg Under Armour
Ohio State Flag of the United States.svg John Bluem Flag of the United States.svg Nike
Penn State Flag of the United States.svg Bob Warming Flag of the United States.svg Nike
Rutgers Flag of the United States.svg Dan Donigan Flag of Germany.svg Adidas
Wisconsin Flag of the United States.svg John Trask Flag of Germany.svg Adidas

Regular season

Results

Home \ Away IND UMD MIC MSU NOR OSU PSU RUT WIS
Indiana 1–00–11–41–0
Maryland 0–00–01–20–13–1
Michigan 1–03–01–30–13–3
Michigan State 1–40–02–12–1
Northwestern 0–11–02–12–4
Ohio State 1–01–03–12–11–21–10–12–0
Penn State 1–03–42–01–21–1
Rutgers 1–31–00–20–1
Wisconsin 1–40–02–10–22–2
Source: Team Statistics
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Rankings

Legend
 Increase in ranking
 Decrease in ranking
 Pre [2] Wk
1 [3]
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2 [4]
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3 [5]
Wk
4 [6]
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5 [7]
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6 [8]
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7 [9]
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8 [10]
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9 [11]
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10 [12]
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11 [13]
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12 [14]
Final [15]
IndianaC14181022RVRVRVRVRVRVRV221916
MarylandC1364101113251820RVRVRV127
MichiganC
Michigan StateC922RVRVRVNR
NorthwesternC
Ohio StateCRVRVNRRV182318121414
Penn StateC2325NR1321NR
RutgersC2116182325
WisconsinC

Postseason

Big Ten tournament

Semifinals Final
      
1 Ohio State 4
4 Rutgers 0
1 Ohio State 0
3 Maryland 2
3 Maryland (pen.)  1 (3) 
2 Indiana  1 (2) 

NCAA tournament

SeedRegionSchool1st round2nd round3rd roundQuarterfinals
91 Ohio State BYET, 1–1 W, 4–3 pen. vs. Dayton(Columbus)L, 1–3 vs. Stanford(Stanford)
104 Maryland BYEW 1–0 vs. Charlotte(College Park)W 2–1 vs. Notre Dame(Notre Dame)T, 1–1 L, 1–3 pen. vs. Clemson(Clemson)
161 Indiana BYEW 1–0 vs. Connecticut(Bloomington)L, 0–1 vs. Wake Forest(Winston-Salem)
2 Rutgers T, 1–1 W, 3–2 pen. vs. LIU Brooklyn(Piscataway)L, 1–6 vs. Akron(Akron)

Statistics

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