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The 2011 NCAA Division I men's soccer tournament was a single-elimination tournament involving 48 teams to determine the champion of the 2011 NCAA Division I men's soccer season. The 53rd edition of the tournament began on November 17, 2011 and culminated with the North Carolina Tar Heels defeating the Charlotte 49ers, 1–0, in the final on December 13 at Regions Park in Hoover, Alabama.

While the tournament resulted in few upsets, most national soccer headlines were made behind Charlotte's run to the final. The 49ers entered the tournament through an at-large bid, and were not seeded. Despite that, they were able to defeat defending champions, the Akron Zips, 1–0, in the third round, and then the Connecticut Huskies, 4–2, in a penalty shootout to advance to the College Cup. Joining the Tar Heels and the 49ers in the College Cup were the UCLA Bruins and the Creighton Bluejays.

With the victory in the national final, the Tar Heels won their second NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship in program history.

Qualified Teams

A total of 48 teams will qualify into the tournament proper, either automatically, or through an at-large bid that is determined by a selection committee. Each conference that field varsity soccer teams are admitted one automatic berth into the tournament. Depending on the conference, that automatic berth is either given the champions of the regular season, or the tournament that culminates the regular season. Twenty-two teams earn automatic bids into the tournament, while 26 enter through an at-large bid.

Format

Like previous editions of the NCAA Division I Tournament, the tournament featured 64 participants out of a possible field of 198 teams. Of the 64 berths, 22 were allocated to the conference tournament or regular season winners. The remaining 42 berths were determined through an at-large process based upon teams' Ratings Percentage Index that did not win their conference tournament. The most at-large berths went to schools from the Big East and Atlantic Coast conferences, containing half of the tournament field's at-large berths (six and five berths, respectively). Of the remaining 11 berths, six were from the Colonial Athletic and Conference USA conferences, each earning three berths.

From there, the NCAA Selection Committee selected the top sixteen seeds for the tournament, that earned an automatic bye to the second round of the tournament. The remaining 48 teams played in a single-elimination match in the first round of the tournament, to play a seeded team in the second round.

Similar to the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, each of the tournament rounds were single-elimination. However, matches tied at the end of regulation went to two 10-minute golden goal periods, followed by a penalty shoot-out, if necessary. All matches in the first, second and third rounds, as well as the quarterfinals, were hosted by the higher seed. The College Cup, also known as the semifinals and final for the tournament were held at a neutral venue, this time being at Regions Park in Hoover, Alabama (south of Birmingham).

Seeded teams

Schedule

Bracket

Regional 1

Regional 2

Regional 3

Regional 4

College Cup – Regions Park, Hoover, Alabama

Schedule

Host team, or higher seed, is listed on the right. Away team or lower seed is listed on the left.

First round

Dartmouth	0–1	Providence
	Report	Raley 10'

Western Illinois	0–3	Northern Illinois
	Report	Totsch 20' Kannah 43' Mascitti 73'

Xavier	1–2 (a.e.t.)	West Virginia
DePaol 85'	Report	Williams 39' Schoenle 99'

Elon	3–4	Coastal Carolina
Thomas 48', 64' Carroll 81'	Report	Garbanzo 35' East 55' Hendrick 72' Bennett 83'

Liberty	0–0 (a.e.t.)	Old Dominion
	Report
Penalties
Bentick Amoo Aseweh Breitmeyer Bullock	4–5	Francoz Harmon LeBlanc Hopkinson Smith

Fairfield	2–3	Brown
Zuniga 32' Shaw 40'	Report	Rosa 80' Popolizio 81' Leonard 86'

Delaware	1–0 (a.e.t.)	Virginia
Dineen 106'	Report

Colgate	2–4	Rutgers
S. Miller 25' Schuber 90'	Report	Knibbs 23' Bourdeau 64' Correa 82' 85' (o.g.)

Stony Brook	0–0 (a.e.t.)	Monmouth
	Report
Penalties
Schlesinger Gobeil Crespi Fernandes Belakehal	4–5	Allen Luke Schmid Puranen Vázquez

Wake Forest	1–1 (a.e.t.)	South Carolina
Tomaselli 9'	Report	Root 50' (pen.)
Penalties
Wenzel Gimenez Newnam Randolph Konowiecki Mullin	4–3	Martinez Baladez Morrissey Troyer Mangotic Rafferty

Furman	1–3	Charlotte
Ontiveros 19'	Report	Gentile 29' Beaulieu 68' Rex 84'

Florida Gulf Coast	0–1 (a.e.t.)	UCF
	Report	George 107'

Georgia State	0–1	Duke
	Report	Tweed-Kent 53'

Northwestern	1–3	Akron
O'Neill 63'	Report	Caldwell 27' Quinn 55' Mattocks 77'

Loyola Chicago	1–2	Bradley
Raymonds 31'	Report	Graf 51' Balle 86'

Saint Mary's	1–0	CSU Bakersfield
Mohoric 42'	Report

Second round

Numbers represent the seed the team earned in the tournament.

Monmouth	1–2	#3 Connecticut
Jeffery 26'	Report	Diouf 39', 50' (pen.)

Rutgers	1–1 (a.e.t.)	#4 Boston College
Kamara 87'	Report	Chin 53'
Penalties
Kamara Bourdeau Brown Cuevas Setchell	4–3	Mejia Aburmad Fitzpatrick Murphy Rose

Northern Illinois	0–3	#2 Creighton
	Report	Gomez 21' Finlay 43', 88'

Old Dominion	0–3	#16 Indiana
	Report	Kotlov 17', 71' Wylie 80'

Coastal Carolina	2–3	#1 North Carolina
Bennett 41' East 52'	Report	Speas 50' Urso 52' Martínez 69'

West Virginia	0–4	#5 Maryland
	Report	Townsend 20', 60', 76' Cyrus 61'

Brown	1–0	#9 St. John's
Remick 48'	Report

Wake Forest	0–2	#14 James Madison
	Report	J. Simpson 14' McLaughlin 32'

UCF	1–2 (a.e.t.)	#7 South Florida
Hunt 72'	Report	70' (o.g.) Charpie 96'

Bradley	2–3 (a.e.t.)	#12 Louisville
Davis 55' Gaul 90'	Report	Rolfe 87' Walker 87' DeLeon 108'

Akron	3–2	#6 SMU
Mattocks 22', 76' Holmes 63'	Report	Engel 83' Ivo 83' (pen.)

Charlotte	3–1	#11 UAB
James 1' Rex 47' Beaulieu 50'	Report	Wickham 51'

Providence	2–3	#15 UC Santa Barbara
Adler 68' Baumann 83' (pen.)	Report	Silva 6' Madueno 41' Sarle 72'

Saint Mary's	2–1 (a.e.t.)	#8 UC Irvine
Hanley 58' Howard 103'	Report	Ibarra 84'

Duke	1–2 (a.e.t.)	#10 New Mexico
Palodichuk 52'	Report	Smith 82' Baldinger 99'

Delaware	0–1	#13 UCLA
	Report	Hoffman 84'

Third round

#16 Indiana	0–1 (a.e.t.)	#1 North Carolina
	Report	Schuler 97'

#14 James Madison	0–3	#3 Connecticut
	Report	Alvarez 19' Diouf 63' Cascio 65'

#15 UC Santa Barbara	1–2	#2 Creighton
Opoku 79'	Report	Castro 8' (pen.) Ribeiro 19'

#12 Louisville	4–2	#5 Maryland
DeLeon 19' Rolfe 52' Keller 79' Roman 84'	Report	Townsend 34' Oduaran 68'

Saint Mary's	3–2 (a.e.t.)	Brown
Newquist 29' 98' Mohoric 64'	Report	Remick 51' Rosa 62'

#10 New Mexico	0–0 (a.e.t.)	#7 South Florida
	Report
Penalties
Rozeboom Green Smith Sandoval Venter Gibbons Baldinger	5–6	Baldin Perry Dwyer Fairclough Paul Olali Alexis

Akron	0–1	Charlotte
	Report	Gentile 25'

Rutgers	0–3	#13 UCLA
	Report	Hoffman 1', 49' Chavez 44'

Quarterfinals

Saint Mary's	0–2	#1 North Carolina
	Report	Hedges 53' Speas 65'

#13 UCLA	1–0 (a.e.t.)	#12 Louisville
Williams 102'	Report

Charlotte	1–1 (a.e.t.)	#3 Connecticut
Gentile 85'	Report	Cascio 82'
Penalties
Gibson James Smith Cowles Rodriguez	4–2	Diouf Mercado Alvarez Bradley

#7 South Florida	0–1 (a.e.t.)	#2 Creighton
	Report	Finlay 97'

College Cup: Semifinals

Charlotte	0–0 (a.e.t.)	#2 Creighton
	Report
Penalties
Gibson Caughran Smith Cowles	4–1	Castro Clark Finlay

#1 North Carolina	2–2 (a.e.t.)	#13 UCLA
Lovejoy 56' Schuler 85'	Report	Hollingshead 17' K. Rowe 74'
Penalties
Urso McKinney Schuler Speas	3–1	Rose K. Rowe Muñoz Monge

College Cup: Final

Charlotte	0–1	#1 North Carolina
	Report	Speas 65'

Statistics

Top goalscorers

4 goals

• Casey Townsend – Maryland

3 goals

• Darren Mattocks – Akron
• Giuseppe Gentile – Charlotte
• Mamadou Diouf – Connecticut
• Ethan Finlay – Creighton
• Ben Speas – North Carolina
• Chandler Hoffman – UCLA

2 goals

• Dylan Remick – Brown
• Sean Rosa – Brown
• T. J. Beaulieu – Charlotte
• Jennings Rex – Charlotte
• Ashton Bennett – Coastal Carolina
• Teejay East – Coastal Carolina
• Tony Cascio – Connecticut
• Chris Thomas – Elon
• Nikita Kotlov – Indiana
• Nick DeLeon – Louisville
• Colin Rolfe – Louisville
• Billy Schuler – North Carolina
• Tom Mohoric – Saint Mary's
• Trevor Newquist – Saint Mary's

1 goal

• Scott Caldwell – Akron
• Luke Holmes – Akron
• Aodhan Quinn – Akron
• Patrick Chin – Boston College
• Keegan Balle – Bradley
• Scott Davis – Bradley
• Bryan Gaul – Bradley
• Jochen Graf – Bradley
• Aidan Leonard – Brown
• T. J. Popolizio – Brown
• Evan James – Charlotte
• Ricky Garbanzo – Coastal Carolina
• Cyprian Hedrick – Coastal Carolina
• Steven Miller – Colgate
• Matt Schuber – Colgate
• Carlos Alvarez – Connecticut
• Bruno Castro – Creighton
• Jose Gomez – Creighton
• Andrew Ribeiro – Creighton
• John Dineen – Delaware
• Nick Palodichuk – Duke
• Chris Tweed-Kent – Duke
• James Carroll – Elon
• Daniel Shaw – Fairfield
• Jake Zuniga – Fairfield
• Martin Ontiveros – Furman
• Tim Wylie – Indiana
• Christian McLaughlin – James Madison
• Jimmy Simpson – James Madison
• Daniel Keller – Louisville
• Michael Roman – Louisville
• Kenney Walker – Louisville
• Andrew Raymonds – Loyola-Chicago
• Jordan Cyrus – Maryland
• Matt Oduaran – Maryland
• Matt Jeffery – Monmouth
• Carson Baldinger – New Mexico
• Blake Smith – New Mexico
• Matt Hedges – North Carolina
• Rob Lovejoy – North Carolina
• Enzo Martínez – North Carolina
• Kirk Urso – North Carolina
• Isaac Kannah – Northern Illinois
• Mike Mascitti – Northern Illinois
• Sean Totsch – Northern Illinois
• Peter O'Neill – Northwestern
• Brandon Adler – Providence
• Anthony Baumann – Providence
• John Raley – Providence
• Nate Bourdeau – Rutgers
• Juan Pablo Correa – Rutgers
• Ibrahim Kamara – Rutgers
• Bryant Knibbs – Rutgers
• Riley Hanley – Saint Mary's
• Justin Howard – Saint Mary's
• Tyler Engel – SMU
• Arthur Ivo – SMU
• Chipper Root – South Carolina
• Wesley Charpie – South Florida
• Chase Wickham – UAB
• Miguel Ibarra – UC Irvine
• Josue Madueno – UC Santa Barbara
• David Opoku – UC Santa Barbara
• Dom Sarle – UC Santa Barbara
• Luis Silva – UC Santa Barbara
• Kevan George – UCF
• Ben Hunt – UCF
• Víctor Chavez – UCLA
• Ryan Hollingshead – UCLA
• Kelyn Rowe – UCLA
• Reed Williams – UCLA
• Ross Tomaselli – Wake Forest
• Eric Schoenle – West Virginia
• Jay Williams – West Virginia
• Gino Depaoli – Xavier

Own goals

• Colgate (playing against Rutgers)
• UCF (playing against South Florida)

See also

• NCAA Men's Soccer Championship
• 2011 NCAA Division I men's soccer season

References

1. Campbell, Leah (December 11, 2011). "Top-seeded North Carolina wins second College Cup". The Daily Tar Heel. DailyTarHeel.com. Retrieved January 22, 2012.
2. Scott, David (December 11, 2011). "UNC wins NCAA soccer crown, defeating Charlotte 1–0". The News & Observer Publishing Company. NewsObserver.com. Retrieved January 23, 2012.
3. Aschoff, Edward (December 11, 2011). "Moment of magic wins it for UNC". ESPN. ESPN. Retrieved January 22, 2012.
4. "Men's Division I Championship Brackets" (PDF). NCAA. Retrieved September 17, 2011.

• "2011 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association. Retrieved November 14, 2011.

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