2024 Big West Conference men's soccer tournament

2024 Big West Conference men's soccer tournament
Classification	Division I
Teams	6
Matches	5
Attendance	6,899
Site	Campus Sites (Higher Seed)
Champions	UC Davis (2nd title)
Winning coach	Dwayne Shaffer (2nd title)
MVP	Cason Goodman [1] (UC Davis)
Broadcast	ESPN+
Big West Conference men's soccer tournament «2023   2025»

2024 Big West Conference men's soccer standings

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Cal Poly	4	–	1	–	4			7	–	4	–	8
UCSB +	4	–	2	–	3			12	–	5	–	5
UC Irvine	4	–	3	–	2			8	–	8	–	3
UC Davis ‡	4	–	3	–	2			10	–	6	–	6
Cal State Bakersfield	4	–	3	–	2			7	–	6	–	4
Cal State Fullerton	3	–	2	–	4			7	–	6	–	7
UC Riverside	3	–	2	–	4			5	–	6	–	5
UC San Diego	3	–	5	–	1			4	–	9	–	5
Sacramento State	3	–	6	–	0			6	–	10	–	2
CSUN	0	–	5	–	4			2	–	8	–	7
‡ – 2024 Big West tournament champion + – At-large invitation to the 2024 NCAA tournament As of December 17, 2024 Rankings from United Soccer Coaches Source: Big West

The 2024 Big West Conference men's soccer tournament was the postseason men's soccer tournament for the Big West Conference held on November 6 through 15, 2024. All rounds of the tournament were hosted at the higher seeds home stadium. The six-team single-elimination tournament consisted of three rounds based on seeding from regular season conference play. The defending champions were the UC Irvine Anteaters. ^{[2] [3]} UC Irvine was unable to defend its crown as the third seed, falling to UC Santa Barbara in the Semifinals, 2–1. Fourth seed UC Davis would go on to win the tournament defeating UC Santa Barbara 2–0 in the Final. ^{[4] [5]} This was the second Big West tournament title for the UC Davis program, and their first since 2019. The title was also the second for head coach Dwayne Shaffer. ^[6] As tournament champions, UC Davis earned the Big West's automatic berth into the 2024 NCAA Division I men's soccer tournament.

Seeding

The top six teams in the regular season earned a spot in the 2024 tournament. Teams were seeded based on regular season conference record and tiebreakers were used to determine seedings of teams that finished with the same record. The first and second seeds earned a bye into the Semifinals, and hosted their Semifinal game. There was a three-way tie for the third, fourth, and fifth seeds in the tournament as Cal State Bakersfield, UC Davis, and UC Irvine all finished with identical 4–3–2 regular season records. UC Irvine defeated both UC Davis and Cal State Bakersfield during the regular season and is therefore the third seed. UC Davis defeated Cal State Bakersfield during the regular season and is therefore the fourth seed, while Cal State Bakersfiled is the fifth seed. Another tiebreaker was required for the sixth and final seed in the tournament as Cal State Fullerton and UC Riverside both finished with 3–2–4 regular season records. The two teams tied their regular season match-up 3–3, so a second tiebreaker was required. Cal State Fullerton earned the sixth seed by virtue of goal difference in league games. Cal State Fullerton finished with a +5 goal difference, while UC Riverside finished with a 0 goal difference. ^[7]

Seed	School	Conference Record	Points
1	Cal Poly	4–1–4	16
2	UC Santa Barbara	4–2–3	15
3	UC Irvine	4–3–2	14
4	UC Davis	4–3–2	14
5	Cal State Bakersfield	4–3–2	14
6	Cal State Fullerton	3–2–4	10

Bracket

Source: ^[8]

	First round Wednesday, Nov. 6					Semifinals Saturday/Sunday, Nov. 9/10					Final Friday, Nov. 15
						1	Cal Poly	1 (4)
	4	UC Davis	2			4	UC Davis (pen.)	1 (5)
	5	Cal State Bakersfield	1								4	UC Davis	2
											2	UC Santa Barbara	0
						2	UC Santa Barbara	2
	3	UC Irvine	1			3	UC Irvine	1
	6	Cal State Fullerton	0

Schedule

First Round

#4 UC Davis v #5 Cal State Bakersfield

November 6, 2024	#4 UC Davis	2–1	#5 Cal State Bakersfield	Davis, CA
1:00 p.m. PST	Carson Hammond  42' Zachary Neuls 70' Team  72' Keegan Walwyn-Bent 84'	Report	39', 72' (pen.) Bryson Hankins  81' Bilal Mihoubi	Stadium: Aggie Soccer Field Attendance: 383

#3 UC Irvine v #6 Cal State Fullerton

November 6, 2024	#3 UC Irvine	1–0	#6 Cal State Fullerton	Irvine, CA
6:00 p.m. PST	Team  65' Misael Gonzalez 80'	Report	19' Julian Borja  90' Erick Serrano	Stadium: Anteater Stadium Attendance: 573 Referee: Trevor Wiserman Assistant referees: Edwar Hernandez Assistant referees: Wale Animashuan Fourth official: Adrian Gonzalez

Semifinals

#2 UC Santa Barbara v #3 UC Irvine

November 9, 2024	#2 UC Santa Barbara	2–1	#3 UC Irvine	Santa Barbara, CA
7:00 p.m. PST	Calle Mollerberg  36' Isaiah Barber  43', 82' Andrew Kamienski 60'	Report	58' Isaiahs Gutierrez	Stadium: Harder Stadium Attendance: 1,523 Referee: Brandon Stevis Assistant referees: Israel Fernandez Assistant referees: John Ashton Fourth official: Joseph Salinas

#1 Cal Poly v #4 UC Davis

November 10, 2024	#1 Cal Poly	1–1 (a.e.t.) (4–5 p)	#4 UC Davis	San Luis Obispo, CA
2:00 p.m. PST	Nico Baltazar 26' Diego Guerra  73' Finn Linas  88' Quinn Mahoney  99'	Report	53' Zachary Neuls  73' Lucas Fernandez-Kim  106' Andrew Dutra	Stadium: Mustang Field Attendance: 1,582 Referee: Michael Gebreslassie Assistant referees: Abdu Razzaq Juma Assistant referees: Abdelhady Abdelkader Fourth official: Victor Mba
	Penalties
	Diego Guerra Ashton Alonge Nathan Colley Parker Owens Nico Baltazar Conner Lisenbee		Carson Goodman Kevin Welch Lucas Fernandez-Kim Luke Goodman Keegan Walwyn-Bent Zack Lillington

Final

#2 UC Santa Barbara v #4 UC Davis

November 15, 2024	#2 UC Santa Barbara	0–2	#4 UC Davis	Santa Barbara, CA
7:00 p.m. PST	Ocean Salari  57' Filip Basili  85'	Report	20', 44' Cason Goodman  62' Lucas Fernandez-Kim	Stadium: Harder Stadium Attendance: 2,838 Referee: Bernhard Hosu Assistant referees: Kristin Patterson Assistant referees: Edwar Hernandez Fourth official: Irving Navarro

Statistics

Goalscorers

There were 11 goals scored in 5 matches, for an average of 2.2 goals per match (as of November 15, 2024).

2 goals

• Cason Goodman – UC Davis
• Zachary Neuls – UC Davis

1 goal

• Nico Baltazar – Cal Poly
• Isaiah Barber – UC Santa Barbara
• Misael Gonzalez – UC Irvine
• Isaiahs Gutierrez – UC Irvine
• Bryson Hankins – Cal State Bakersfield
• Andrew Kamienski – UC Santa Barbara
• Keegan Walwyn-Bent – UC Davis

References

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