2012 NCAA Division I men's soccer tournament

Tournament statisticsMatches played47Goals scored123 (2.62 per match)Top goal scorer(s)Nikita Kotlov (5)Best playerSteve Neumann, Georgetown (Offensive)
Luis Soffner, Indiana (Defensive)

The 2012 NCAA Division I men's soccer tournament is a single-elimination tournament involving 48 teams to determine the champion of the 2012 NCAA Division I men's soccer season. It was the 54th edition of the tournament. Indiana defeated Georgetown, 1–0, to win its 8th national title.

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 will feature 48 participants out of a possible field of 198 teams. Of the 48 berths, 22 are allocated to the conference tournament or regular season winners. The remaining 26 berths are determined through an at-large process based upon teams' Ratings Percentage Index that did not win their conference tournament.

From there, the NCAA Selection Committee selects the top sixteen seeds for the tournament, that earn an automatic bye to the second round of the tournament. The remaining 32 teams play in a single-elimination match in the first round of the tournament, to play a seeded team in the second round.

Seeded teams

Seeded teams
Seed	School	Conference	Record	Berth type
1	Notre Dame	Big East	16–3–1	Automatic A
2	Maryland	ACC	17–1–2	Automatic A
3	Georgetown	Big East	17–3–1	At-large
4	Connecticut	Big East	15–3–1	At-large
5	Akron	MAC	17–1–2	Automatic A
6	UCLA	Pac-12	13–2–3	Automatic B
7	Marquette	Big East	16–3–1	At-large
8	Saint Louis	A-10	16–4–0	Automatic A
9	North Carolina	ACC	15–3–2	At-large
10	Louisville	Big East	12–5–1	At-large
11	Tulsa	C-USA	13–5–1	At-large
12	Creighton	MVC	15–3–2	Automatic A
13	New Mexico	MPSF	16–3–1	At-large
14	VCU	A-10	12–3–5	At-large
15	Wake Forest	ACC	11–3–5	At-large
16	Indiana	Big Ten	11–5–3	At-large

• Automatic ^A = Conference tournament winner.
• Automatic ^B = Conference regular season champion, conference has no tournament.

Schedule

Round	Date
First round	November 15, 2012
Second round	November 18, 2012
Third round	November 25, 2012
Quarterfinals	November 30-December 2, 2012
College Cup: Semifinals	December 7, 2012
College Cup Final	December 9, 2012

Bracket

Regional 1

	First round					Second round					Third round					Quarterfinals
		Cleveland State	1
		Michigan State	2
							Michigan State	0
						1	Notre Dame	3
											1	Notre Dame	1
											16	Indiana	2/2OT
						16	Indiana	4
							Xavier	1
		Xavier	1
		Kentucky	0
																16	Indiana	1
																9	North Carolina	0
		Md.-Baltimore Co.	0(4)
		Old Dominion	0(2)
							Md.-Baltimore Co.	0(2)
						9	North Carolina	0(4)
											9	North Carolina	1
												Fairleigh Dickinson	0/OT
						8	Saint Louis	1
							Fairleigh Dickinson	2/2OT
		Fairleigh Dickinson	1
		St. John's	0

Regional 2

	First round					Second round					Third round					Quarterfinals
		Niagara	1
		Michigan	3
							Michigan	1
						5	Akron	2
											5	Akron	1(4)
											12	Creighton	1(5)
						12	Creighton	4
							Washington	2
		Air Force	0
		Washington	1
																12	Creighton	1
																4	Connecticut	0
		Lafayette	0
		Virginia	1
							Virginia	1
						13	New Mexico	3
											13	New Mexico	1
											4	Connecticut	2/2OT
						4	Connecticut	1
							Northeastern	0
		Boston College	0
		Northeastern	1

Regional 3

	First round					Second round					Third round					Quarterfinals
		UAB	2
		Charlotte	3
							Charlotte	0
						3	Georgetown	1
											3	Georgetown	1(4)
												Syracuse	1(2)
						14	VCU	2
							Syracuse	3/2OT
		Syracuse	1
		Cornell	0
																3	Georgetown	3
																	San Diego	1
		Florida Gulf Coast	0(3)
		South Florida	0(5)
							South Florida	0
						11	Tulsa	1/OT
											11	Tulsa	1
												San Diego	2
						6	UCLA	2
							San Diego	5
		San Diego	2/2OT
		Cal State Northridge	1

Regional 4

	First round					Second round					Third round					Quarterfinals
		Western Illinois	0
		Northwestern	1
							Northwestern	1
						7	Marquette	0
												Northwestern	1
											10	Louisville	2
						10	Louisville	5
							Winthrop	0
		Winthrop	1(3)
		Southern Methodist	1(1)
																10	Louisville	1
																2	Maryland	3
		Elon	0
		Coastal Carolina	3
							Coastal Carolina	2/OT
						15	Wake Forest	1
												Coastal Carolina	1
											2	Maryland	5
						2	Maryland	2
							Brown	1
		Brown	2
		Drexel	0

College Cup – Regions Park, Hoover, Alabama

	National Semifinals December 7					National Championship December 9
	16	Indiana	1
	12	Creighton	0
						16	Indiana	1
						3	Georgetown	0
	3	Georgetown	4(4)
	2	Maryland	4(3)

Results

First round

Second round

Third round

Quarterfinals

College Cup

Semifinals

Championship

Statistics

Goalscorers

A total of 123 goals were scored over 47 matches, for an average of 2.62 goals per match.

5 goals

• Nikita Kotlov – Indiana

4 goals

• Patrick Mullins – Maryland

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

Own goals

• Grant Wilson – Northwestern (playing against Louisville)
• San Diego (playing against Georgetown)

See also

• NCAA Men's Soccer Championship
• 2012 NCAA Division I men's soccer season

Footnotes

References