2010 NCAA Division I men's soccer tournament

2010 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship

Men's College Cup (semifinals & final)
Tournament details
Country	United States
Teams	48
Defending champions	Virginia Cavaliers
Final positions
Champions	Akron Zips
Runner-up	Louisville Cardinals
Tournament statistics
Matches played	47
Goals scored	150 (3.19 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)	Justin Meram (5)

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.

The bracket was announced November 15th, 2010. The tournament started on November 18th. The second round was played on November 21st. The third round was played on November 28th The Regional Finals were played December 3rd and 4th.

Qualified Teams

Automatic Bids

All 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.

Team	Conference	Record
UMBC	America East Conference	(11-4-3)
Maryland	Atlantic Coast Conference	(17-2-1)
East Tennessee State	Atlantic Sun Conference	(15-5-0)
Xavier	Atlantic 10 Conference	(10-6-4)
Louisville	Big East Conference	(16-0-3)
Coastal Carolina	Big South Conference	(12-7-2)
Michigan	Big Ten Conference	(14-4-3)
UC Santa Barbara	Big West Conference	(13-4-3)
William & Mary	Colonial Athletic Association	(15-3-2)
South Carolina	Conference USA	(12-6-2)
Butler	Horizon League	(16-0-3)
Princeton	Ivy League	(13-3-1)
St. Peter's	Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference	(13-5-1)
Akron	Mid-American Conference	(18-1-1)
Bradley	Missouri Valley Conference	(11-8-3)
Sacramento State	Mountain Pacific Sports Federation	(10-4-7)
Monmouth	Northeast Conference	(14-1-4)
California	Pacific-10 Conference	(12-2-3)
Bucknell	Patriot League	(10-8-2)
UNC Greensboro	Southern Conference	(12-5-4)
Oakland	The Summit League	(7-10-3)
Santa Clara	West Coast Conference	(10-5-5)

At-Large Bids

26 teams received at-large bids to the tournament.

• ACC - Boston College (10-4-5)
• ACC - Duke (9-5-4)
• ACC - North Carolina (16-3-1)
• ACC - Virginia (11-5-3)
• Big East - Connecticut (12-2-5)
• Big East - Georgetown (11-6-1)
• Big East - Notre Dame (10-5-4)
• Big East - Providence (12-5-3)
• Big East - South Florida (9-5-4)
• Big East - West Virginia (10-7-2)
• Big 10 - Indiana (9-7-2)
• Big 10 - Michigan State (11-7-1)
• Big 10 - Penn State (13-7-1)
• Big 10 - Ohio State (10-5-3)
• CAA - Old Dominion (9-6-2)
• Conference USA - Central Florida (11-4-3)
• Conference USA - SMU (15-2-0)
• Conference USA - Tulsa (11-6-2)
• Ivy League - Brown (11-3-3)
• Ivy League - Dartmouth (10-6-1)
• Ivy League - Penn (12-5-0)
• Missouri Valley - Creighton (12-5-1)
• Mountain Pacific - Denver (9-6-4)
• Mountain Pacific - New Mexico (9-5-5)
• Pacific-10 - UCLA (14-4-1)
• Southern - College of Charleston (10-4-3)

Regional 1

	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

Regional 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

Regional 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

Regional 4

	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

College Cup – 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

Goal scorers

5 goals

• Justin Meram - Michigan

3 goals

• Scott Caldwell - Akron
• Darren Mattocks - Akron
• Ethan Finlay - Creighton
• Colby Meyer - Notre Dame

• Andrew Olsen - Dartmouth
• Charlie Campbell - Louisville
• Colin Rolfe - Louisville
• Corey Hertzog - Penn St.

• Eder Arreola - UCLA
• Chandler Hoffman - UCLA
• Franck Tayou - West Virginia

2 goals

• Perry Kitchen - Akron
• Michael Nanchoff - Akron
• John Fitzpatrick - California
• Nik Robson - Central Florida
• Cole Grossman - Duke
• Andy Adlard - Indiana

• Will Bruin - Indiana
• Nick DeLeon - Louisville
• Austin Berry - Louisville
• Aaron Horton - Louisville
• Domenic Barone - Michigan St.
• Wilder Arboleda - Providence

• Matt Marcin - Providence
• Ernesto Carranza - Sacramento St.
• Arthur Ivo - SMU
• Ashley McInnes - Tulsa
• Victor Chavez - UCLA

1 goal

• Kofi Sarkodie - Akron
• Kyle Bekker - Boston College
• Taylor Gorman - Brown
• Austin Mandel - Brown
• Jon Okafor - Brown
• Anthony Avalos - California
• Servando Carrasco - California
• Davis Paul - California
• Tony Salciccia - California
• Yaron Bacher - Central Florida
• Ben Hunt - Central Florida
• Ross Kelly - Coastal Carolina
• Andy Craven - College of Charleston
• Shawn Ferguson - College of Charleston
• Sean Flatley - College of Charleston
• Francis Twohig - College of Charleston
• Mamadou Diouf - Connecticut
• Sergio Castillo - Creighton
• Jose Gomez - Creighton
• Tyler Polak - Creighton
• Aaron Gaide - Dartmouth
• Bryan Giudicelli - Dartmouth
• Lucky Mkosana - Dartmouth
• Nick Pappas - Dartmouth
• Aaron Schoenfeld - ETSU
• Jaron Westbrook - ETSU
• Ian Christianson - Georgetown

• Chandler Diggs - Georgetown
• Andy Riemer - Georgetown
• Nikita Kotlov - Indiana
• Harrison Petts - Indiana
• Jason Herrick - Maryland
• Matt Kassel - Maryland
• Taylor Kemp - Maryland
• Patrick Mullins - Maryland
• John Stertzer - Maryland
• Casey Townsend - Maryland
• Greg Young - Maryland
• Latif Alashe - Michigan
• Fabio Pereira - Michigan
• Jeff Quijano - Michigan
• Soony Saad - Michigan
• Jeff Ricondo - Michigan St.
• Cyrus Saydee - Michigan St.
• Devon Sandoval - New Mexico
• Enzo Martínez - North Carolina
• Stephen McCarthy - North Carolina
• Kirk Urso - North Carolina
• Dillon Powers - Notre Dame
• Austin McAnena - Ohio State
• Omar Vallejo - Ohio State
• Konrad Warzycha - Ohio State
• Chris Harman - Old Dominion

• Alex Vaughan - Old Dominion
• Christian Barreiro - Penn
• Jordan Tyler - Penn State
• Antoine Hoppenot - Princeton
• Greg Davis - Providence
• Brian Grisell - Providence
• Toussaint McClure - Providence
• Chris Bettencourt - Sacramento St.
• Eric Masch - Santa Clara
• Juan Castillo - SMU
• Josue Soto - SMU
• Sam Arthur - South Carolina
• Bradlee Baladez - South Carolina
• Kevin Olson - St. Peter's
• Lebongang Pila - St. Peter's
• Kyle Cumings - Tulsa
• Kelyn Rowe - UCLA
• Reed Williams - UCLA
• Waid Ibrahim - UC Santa Barbara
• Michael Tetteh - UC Santa Barbara
• Andrew Bulls - UMBC
• Levi Houapeu - UMBC
• Uwen Etuk - West Virginia
• Abel Sebele - West Virginia
• Uzi Tayou - West Virginia
• James Queree - Xavier

Own goals

• Eric Robertson - Brown (playing against California)

• Ray Gaddis - West Virginia (playing against Xavier)

See also

• NCAA Men's Soccer Championship

References

• "2010 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship". Men’s Division I Championship Brackets. National Collegiate Athletic Association. p. 50. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 August 2011. Retrieved 31 August 2011. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)