Football tournament season
| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Country |  United States |
| Teams | 16 |
| Final positions | |
| Champions | Cal State Bakersfield (1st title, 1st final) |
| Runner-up | Lynn (1st final) |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 15 |
| Goals scored | 52 (3.47 per match) |
| Attendance | 7,822 (521 per match) |
| Top goal scorer(s) | Jeremy Hamm, Cal State Bakersfield (3) |
| ← 19961998 → All statistics correct as of 11/9/2019. | |
The 1997 NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Championship was the 26th annual tournament held by the NCAA to determine the top men's Division II college soccer program in the United States.
Cal State Bakersfield (20-4) defeated Lynn, 1–0, in the tournament final. This was the first national title for the Roadrunners, who were coached by Simon Tobin.
Bracket
| First Round *Campus sites | Quarterfinals *Campus sites | Semifinals *Campus sites | Final December 7 Boca Raton, FL | ||||||||||||||||
| * | SIU Edwardsville | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Truman State | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| * | Truman State | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| East Stroudsburg | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| East Stroudsburg | 6(OT) | ||||||||||||||||||
| * | W.V. Wesleyan | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
| Truman State | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Cal State Bakersfield | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| * | Cal State Bakersfield | 3(4OT) | |||||||||||||||||
| West Texas A&M | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| * | Cal State Bakersfield | 4(4OT) | |||||||||||||||||
| Seattle Pacific | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Fort Lewis | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| * | Seattle Pacific | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| Cal State Bakersfield | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Lynn | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| * | Lynn | 1(3OT) | |||||||||||||||||
| Tampa | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| * | Lynn | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| USC Spartanburg | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Alabama–Huntsville | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| * | USC Spartanburg | 3(2OT) | |||||||||||||||||
| * | Lynn | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| So. Connecticut | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| * | So. Connecticut | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| Dowling | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| * | So. Connecticut | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| N.H. College | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Franklin Pierce | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| * | N.H. College | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
Final
| Lynn | 0–1 | Cal State Bakersfield |
|---|---|---|
| Report | Ben Mains  51:46' |
See also
- NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship
- NCAA Division III Men's Soccer Championship
- NAIA Men's Soccer Championship
References
- "NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Championship Records Book" (PDF). NCAA. NCAA.org. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
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