2022 Sun Belt Conference men's soccer tournament

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2022 Sun Belt Conference men's soccer tournament
Classification Division I
Teams8
Matches7
Site Lexington, KY
Huntington, WV
Champions Kentucky (1st title)
Winning coach Johan Cedergren (1st title)
MVP Clay Holstad (Kentucky)
Broadcast ESPN+
Sun Belt Conference men's soccer tournament
«2020 2023»
2022 Sun Belt Conference men's soccer standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 6 Kentucky5 0 315 1 5
No. 12 Marshall+ 4 1 311 4 4
Georgia State 4 2 212 4 3
West Virginia 3 1 47 7 4
Coastal Carolina 2 1 55 5 6
Old Dominion 3 4 16 8 2
James Madison 2 3 38 8 4
South Carolina 1 4 35 8 4
Georgia Southern 0 8 01 14 1
As of December 13, 2022
Rankings from United Soccer Coaches
Source: Sun Belt

The 2022 Sun Belt Conference men's soccer tournament was the 27th edition of the Sun Belt Conference Men's Soccer Tournament. The tournament ran from November 6 to November 13, 2022. Kentucky won the Sun Belt Conference (SBC) tournament and with it the SBC's automatic bid to the NCAA Division I National Tournament.

Contents

The conference announced the top two seeds would host the quarterfinals and semifinal rounds, and then the highest remaining seed in the finals would host the finals. #1 seed Kentucky and #2 seed Marshall earned the right to host the first two rounds of the tournament.

Background

The Sun Belt shuttered its men's soccer league after all of its members moved the sport to other conferences by the end of the 2020–21 school year. The conference had lost one men's soccer team before the season when full conference member Appalachian State dropped men's soccer in May 2020, citing financial impacts from COVID-19. [1] That July saw associate member Howard announce that it would become an associate member of the Northeast Conference in six sports, with men's soccer being one of four sports moving in July 2021. [2] In January 2021 the ASUN Conference announced three schools as incoming full members, including Sun Belt men's soccer associate Central Arkansas. [3] The following month saw full Sun Belt member Coastal Carolina announce that it would become a single-sport member of Conference USA, joining another in-state associate member in South Carolina. [4] This left Georgia Southern and Georgia State, both full Sun Belt members, as the conference's only remaining men's soccer programs, and those two schools announced they would move that sport to the Mid-American Conference in late May 2021. [5]

However, following a major conference realignment that brought three new men's soccer schools (James Madison, Marshall, and Old Dominion) to the conference, SBC commissioner Keith Gill announced on November 1, 2021 that men's soccer would be reinstated no later than 2023. [6] With all three schools joining in 2022 instead of the originally intended 2023 timeline, the SBC announced on April 6, 2022 that men's soccer would instead return in 2022 with Kentucky, South Carolina, and West Virginia as affiliate members. [7]

Seeds

SeedSchoolConferencePoints
1Kentucky5-0-318
2Marshall4-1-315
3Georgia State4-2-214
4West Virginia3-1-413
5Coastal Carolina2-1-511
6Old Dominion3-4-110
7James Madison2-3-39
8South Carolina1-4-36

Bracket

Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
         
1 Kentucky 2
8 South Carolina 1
Kentucky 3
West Virginia 0
4 Coastal Carolina 0
5 West Virginia 1
Kentucky 2
James Madison 0
2 Marshall 0
7 James Madison 1
Georgia State 0
James Madison 5
3 Georgia State 3
6 Old Dominion 1

Schedule

Quarterfinals

#4 West Virginia Mountaineers10#5 Coastal Carolina Chanticleers

#2 Marshall Thundering Herd01#7 James Madison Dukes

#1 Kentucky Wildcats21#8 South Carolina Gamecocks

#3 Georgia State Panthers31#6 Old Dominion Monarchs

Semifinals

#1 Kentucky30#4 West Virginia

#7 James Madison50#3 Georgia State

Final

#1 Kentucky20#7 James Madison

Statistics

Goalscorers

TBD

Honors

All Tournament Team

TBA

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