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2012 NCAA Division I men's soccer season
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| competition | NCAA Division I |
| season | 2012 |
| winners | Indiana |
| highest scoring | 12: Tulsa 7–5 Oakland |
| Sept. 16, 2012 | |
| prevseason | 2011 |
| nextseason | 2013 |
Sept. 16, 2012 The 2012 NCAA Division I men's soccer season was the 54th season of NCAA men's college soccer in the United States. The defending champions were the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Tar Heels, who defeated sister school, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte 49ers in the previous College Cup championship.
Indiana defeated Georgetown, 1–0, in championship to win the title.
Changes from 2011
Coaching changes
| College | Outgoing coach | Manner of departure | Incoming coach | Former position | Ref. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | USA Steve Burns | Resigned | CAN Chaka Daley | Providence head coach | title=Daley Tabbed to Lead Wolverine Men's Soccer Program | url=http://www.mgoblue.com/sports/m-soccer/spec-rel/122311aaa.html | work=University of Michigan Athletics | publisher=MGoBlue.com | access-date=February 27, 2012 | date=December 23, 2011}} | |||
| Providence | CAN Chaka Daley | Took Michigan job | ENG Craig Stewart | Franklin Pierce head coach | |||||||||
| Stanford | USA Bret Simon | Resigned | ENG Jeremy Gunn | Charlotte head coach | title=Meet Jeremy Gunn | url=http://www.gostanford.com/sports/m-soccer/spec-rel/012012aac.html | work=Stanford Athletics | publisher=GoStanford.com | access-date=February 27, 2012 | date=January 19, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120820010754/http://www.gostanford.com/sports/m-soccer/spec-rel/012012aac.html | archive-date=August 20, 2012 | url-status=dead}} |
Rule changes
Season overview
Pre-season polls
Regular season
Early season tournaments
Conference standings
Conference regular season and tournament winners
Major upsets
NCAA tournament
College Cup
Statistical leaders
Award winners
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Season overview
Pre-season polls
Several American soccer outlets posted their own preseason top 25 rankings of what were believed to be the strongest men's collegiate soccer teams entering 2012.
| NSCAA | Ranking | Team |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | North Carolina | |
| 2 | UCLA | |
| 3 | Creighton | |
| 4 | Connecticut | |
| 5 | South Florida | |
| 6 | New Mexico | |
| 7 | Louisville | |
| 8 | Charlotte | |
| 9 | Maryland | |
| 10 | Akron | |
| 11 | UC Santa Barbara | |
| 12 | Indiana | |
| 13 | UC Irvine | |
| 14 | Boston College | |
| 15 | St. John's | |
| 16 | SMU | |
| 17 | Coastal Carolina | |
| 18 | Saint Mary's | |
| 19 | James Madison | |
| 20 | Northwestern | |
| 21 | UAB | |
| 22 | Brown | |
| 23 | Old Dominion | |
| 24 | Furman | |
| 25 | Bradley |
|
| Soccer America{{cite web | title=Soccer America Men's Preseason Top 25 | Ranking | Team | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| work=Soccer America | publisher=SoccerAmerica.com | access-date=December 4, 2012}} | ||
| 1 | Connecticut | |||
| 2 | Akron | |||
| 3 | Maryland | |||
| 4 | UC Santa Barbara | |||
| 5 | Charlotte | |||
| 6 | North Carolina | |||
| 7 | New Mexico | |||
| 8 | UCLA | |||
| 9 | Indiana | |||
| 10 | South Florida | |||
| 11 | Boston College | |||
| 12 | Old Dominion | |||
| 13 | St. John's | |||
| 14 | Coastal Carolina | |||
| 15 | Creighton | |||
| 16 | Louisville | |||
| 17 | Northwestern | |||
| 18 | Notre Dame | |||
| 19 | Wake Forest | |||
| 20 | Furman | |||
| 21 | Duke | |||
| 22 | Xavier | |||
| 23 | West Virginia | |||
| 24 | SMU | |||
| 25 | UC Irvine |
|
| Fox Soccer/SBI{{cite web | title=2012 SBI COLLEGE SOCCER SEASON PREVIEW | Ranking | Team | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| work=SoccerByIves | publisher=SoccerByIves.net | access-date=December 4, 2012}} | ||
| 1 | Akron | |||
| 2 | Connecticut | |||
| 3 | North Carolina | |||
| 4 | Maryland | |||
| 5 | UC Santa Barbara | |||
| 6 | Indiana | |||
| 7 | UCLA | |||
| 8 | Duke | |||
| 9 | West Virginia | |||
| 10 | Boston College | |||
| 11 | South Florida | |||
| 12 | St. John's | |||
| 13 | Louisville | |||
| 14 | Virginia | |||
| 15 | Xavier | |||
| 16 | New Mexico | |||
| 17 | Coastal Carolina | |||
| 18 | Creighton | |||
| 19 | SMU | |||
| 20 | Charlotte | |||
| 21 | CSU Bakersfield | |||
| 22 | Wake Forest | |||
| 23 | UC Irvine | |||
| 24 | Notre Dame | |||
| 25 | Georgetown |
|
| College Soccer News | Ranking | Team |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | North Carolina | |
| 2 | New Mexico | |
| 3 | Charlotte | |
| 4 | Connecticut | |
| 5 | Maryland | |
| 6 | Akron | |
| 7 | UCLA | |
| 8 | South Florida | |
| 9 | UC Santa Barbara | |
| 10 | Coastal Carolina | |
| 11 | Indiana | |
| 12 | Boston College | |
| 13 | Old Dominion | |
| 14 | Creighton | |
| 15 | UC Irvine | |
| 16 | Northwestern | |
| 17 | St. John's | |
| 18 | Louisville | |
| 19 | Wake Forest | |
| 20 | UAB | |
| 21 | SMU | |
| 22 | Brown | |
| 23 | Furman | |
| 24 | Saint Mary's | |
| 25 | Xavier |
|}
Regular season
Standings
Conference regular season and tournament winners
| Conference | Regular | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season Winner | Conference | |||
| Tournament | Tournament | |||
| Venue (City) | Tournament | |||
| Winner | ||||
| America East | Vermont | 2012 America East Men's Soccer Tournament | Nickerson Field | |
| (Boston, Massachusetts) | UMBC | |||
| Atlantic Coast | Maryland | 2012 ACC Men's Soccer Tournament | Maryland SoccerPlex | |
| (Boyds, MD) | Maryland | |||
| Atlantic 10 | Charlotte | 2012 Atlantic 10 Men's Soccer Tournament | Transamerica Field | |
| (Charlotte, NC) | Saint Louis | |||
| Atlantic Sun | FGCU | 2012 Atlantic Sun Men's Soccer Tournament | Summers-Taylor Stadium | |
| (Johnson City, Tennessee) | FGCU | |||
| Big East | Red: Louisville | |||
| Blue: Connecticut | 2012 Big East Men's Soccer Tournament | Red Bull Arena | ||
| (Harrison, NJ) | Notre Dame | |||
| Big South | Coastal Carolina | 2012 Big South Conference Men's Soccer Tournament | Bryan Park | |
| (Greensboro, NC) | Winthrop | |||
| Big Ten | Penn State | 2012 Big Ten Conference Men's Soccer Tournament | Lakeside Field | |
| (Evanston, IL) | Michigan State | |||
| Big West | North: UC Davis | |||
| South: Cal State Northridge | 2012 Big West Conference Men's Soccer Tournament | Aggies Soccer Field | ||
| Davis, CA | Cal State Northridge | |||
| Colonial | Drexel | 2012 CAA Men's Soccer Tournament | Vidas Athletic Center | |
| (Philadelphia, PA) | Northeastern | |||
| Conference USA | SMU | 2012 Conference USA Men's Soccer Tournament | West Campus Field | |
| (Birmingham, AL) | Tulsa | |||
| Horizon | Detroit | 2012 Horizon League Men's Soccer Tournament | Titan Field | |
| (Detroit, MI | Cleveland State | |||
| Ivy | Cornell | No tournament | ||
| Metro Atlantic | Loyola Maryland | 2012 MAAC Men's Soccer Tournament | Tenney Stadium | |
| (Poughkeepsie, NY) | Niagara | |||
| Mid-American | Akron | 2012 MAC Men's Soccer Tournament | FirstEnergy Stadium | |
| (Akron, Ohio) | Akron | |||
| Missouri Valley | Creighton | Missouri Valley Conference men's soccer tournament | Shea Stadium | |
| (Peoria, Illinois) | Creighton | |||
| Mountain Pacific | New Mexico | 2012 MPSF Men's Soccer Tournament | CIBER Field | |
| (Denver, Colorado) | Air Force | |||
| Northeast | Quinnipiac | 2012 Northeast Conference Men's Soccer Tournament | The Great Lawn | |
| (West Long Branch, New Jersey) | Fairleigh Dickinson | |||
| Pac-12 | UCLA | No tournament | ||
| Patriot | American | 2012 Patriot League Men's Soccer Tournament | Riggs Field | |
| (Washington, D.C.) | Lafayette | |||
| Southern | Elon | 2012 Southern Conference Men's Soccer Tournament | WakeMed Soccer Park | |
| (Cary, NC) | Elon | |||
| Summit | Oakland | 2012 The Summit League Men's Soccer Tournament | John MacKenzie Alumni Field | |
| (Macomb, IL) | Western Illinois | |||
| West Coast | San Diego | No tournament |
Statistics
:Regular season statistics only. See 2012 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship#Statistical leaders for the tournament statistics.
Overall
;Top scorers
| Rank | Scorer | College | title=Total Goals | url=https://www.ncaa.com/stats/soccer-men/d1/current/individual/573 | work=National Collegiate Athletic Association | publisher=NCAA.com | access-date=November 13, 2011}} | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| USA Chris Thomas | Elon | 23 | |||||||||||
| USA Ryan Finley | Notre Dame | 20 | |||||||||||
| CAN Daniel Haber | Cornell | 18 | |||||||||||
| USA Eriq Zavaleta | Indiana | 16 | |||||||||||
| JAM Ashton Bennett | Coastal Carolina | 15 | |||||||||||
| USA Erik Hurtado | UC Santa Barbara | 15 | |||||||||||
| USA Gyasi Zardes | CSU Bakersfield | 15 | |||||||||||
| USA Don Anding | Northeastern | 14 | |||||||||||
| USA Pete Caringi | UMBC | 14 | |||||||||||
| USA Billy Schuler | North Carolina | 14 | |||||||||||
| USA Steven Evans | Portland | 14 | |||||||||||
| ISR Sagi Lev-Ari | CSU Northridge | 14 | |||||||||||
| USA Devon Sandoval | New Mexico | 14 |
Last updated on November 13, 2012. Source: NCAA.com – Total Goals
;Most assists
| Rank | Scorer | College | title=Total Assists | url=https://www.ncaa.com/stats/soccer-men/d1/current/individual/568 | work=National Collegiate Athletic Association | publisher=NCAA.com | access-date=November 13, 2012}} | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| USA Mitchell Cardenas | Campbell | 14 | |||||||||
| USA Kyle Bethel | Oakland | 13 | |||||||||
| CAN Milo Kapor | UMBC | 13 | |||||||||
| USA Blake Smith | New Mexico | 13 | |||||||||
| USA Chris Griebsch | Hofstra | 11 | |||||||||
| USA Steve Neumann | Georgetown | 11 | |||||||||
| MEX Carlos Benavides | CSU Northridge | 10 | |||||||||
| USA Zach Bolden | Denver | 10 | |||||||||
| USA Scott Caldwell | Akron | 10 | |||||||||
| USA Jared Martinelli | Temple | 10 | |||||||||
| USA Alex Martinez | N.C. State | 10 | |||||||||
| BRA Pedro Ribeiro | Coastal Carolina | 10 | |||||||||
| BRA Shawn Sloan | High Point | 10 | |||||||||
| USA Vaughn Spurrier | Temple | 10 |
Last updated on November 13, 2012. Source: NCAA.com – Total Assists
NCAA tournament
Main article: 2012 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship
College Cup – [[Regions Park]], [[Hoover, Alabama]]
December 9 | RD1-seed1=16 | RD1-team1=Indiana | RD1-score1=1 | RD1-seed2=12 | RD1-team2= Creighton | RD1-score2=0 | RD1-seed3=3 | RD1-team3=Georgetown | RD1-score3=4(4) | RD1-seed4=2 | RD1-team4=Maryland | RD1-score4=4(3) | RD2-seed1=16 | RD2-team1=Indiana | RD2-score1=1 | RD2-seed2=3 | RD2-team2=Georgetown | RD2-score2=0
References
References
- "Second Half Outburst Leads No. 23 Tulsa Past Oakland, 7-5".
- (December 23, 2011). "Daley Tabbed to Lead Wolverine Men's Soccer Program". MGoBlue.com.
- "Player Bio: Craig Stewart - Providence College Official Athletics Site".
- (January 19, 2012). "Meet Jeremy Gunn". GoStanford.com.
- "NSCAA/Continental Tire NCAA Division I Men's – National – Preseason Ranking". NSCAA.
- "2012 Pre-Season Top 30 Poll". CollegeSoccerNews.com.
- "Total Goals". NCAA.com.
- "Total Assists". NCAA.com.
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