2015 NCAA Division I men's soccer season

The 2015 NCAA Division I men's soccer season was the 57th season of NCAA championship men's college soccer. The regular season began on August 28 and continues into November 2015. The season culminated with the 2015 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship in December 2015. There were 206 teams in men's Division I competition.^[1] The defending champions were Virginia who defeated UCLA 0–0 (4–2 PKs) to win its seventh NCAA soccer title.^[2] The season concluded with Stanford defeating Clemson 4–0 to win its first championship.

2015 NCAA Division I men's soccer season
Number of teams	206
TV partner/s	ESPNU, BTN, P12N, ACCN
Hermann Trophy	Jordan Morris (Stanford)
Top goalscorer	Gordon Wild (USC Upstate) (16 goals)
Statistics
Biggest home win	VMI 0–11 UNC Greensboro (October 27)
Biggest away win	USC Upstate 7–0 Presbyterian (September 5) UNC Greensboro 7–0 VMI (October 10)
Highest scoring	VMI 0–11 UNC Greensboro (October 27)
Longest winning run	15 games Creighton (August 28 – October 28)
Longest unbeaten run	18 games Denver (August 29 – November 22)
Longest winless run	35 games VMI (since 9/12/2014)
Longest losing run	32 games VMI (since 9/23/14)
Highest attendance	Home field–14,919 Cal Poly @ UC Santa Barbara (October 24) Neutral field–9,316 Army vs Navy @ Chester, PA (November 3)
Lowest attendance	Home field–Several reported as 0– Probably incorrect, but official Neutral field–22 Missouri State v. Loyola Marymount @ New Mexico (September 18)
Tournament
Duration	November 19 – December 13, 2015
Most conference bids	ACC–7 bids American Athletic, Big Ten & Conference USA–4 bids
College Cup
Date	December 13, 2015
Site	Children's Mercy Park in Kansas City, Kansas
Champions	Stanford
Runners-up	Clemson
Seasons
← 2014 2016 →

Changes from 2014

Coaching changes

Program	Outgoing coach	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Incoming coach	Date of appointment
Campbell	Steve Armas	Hired as an assistant at Wake Forest	May 7, 2015	Dustin Fonder	June 9, 2015 [3]
Cal Poly	Phil Ruskin	Interim, not retained	Was not announced	Steve Sampson	December 4, 2014[4]
Denver	Bobby Muuss	Head coach at Wake Forest	January 8, 2015	Jamie Franks	January 30, 2015[5]
Drake	Sean Holmes	Fired	August 28, 2015	Gareth Smith (Interim)	August 28, 2015 [6]
Eastern Illinois	Mark Hansen	Not retained	Was not announced	Kiki Lara	March 10, 2015[7]
Evansville	Mike Jacobs	Resigned	November 2014	Marshall Ray	December 8, 2014[8]
Grand Canyon	Petar Draksin	Relieved of duties	December 11, 2014	Schellas Hyndman	January 13, 2015[9]
Green Bay	Dan Popik	Resigned	November 2014	Jeremy Bonomo	March 8, 2015[10]
High Point	Dustin Fonder	Head coach at Campbell	June 9, 2015	EJ O'Keeffe	July 22, 2015 [11]
James Madison	Dr. Tom Martin	Retired	September 22, 2014	Tom Foley	January 8, 2015[12]
UMass	Devin O'Neill	Interim not retained/to Western New England	March 5, 2015	Fran O'Leary	February 11, 2015 [13]
UNC Asheville	Matt Kern	Contract not renewed	November 20, 2014	Mathes Mennell	February 11, 2015[14]
St. Bonaventure	Mel Mahler	Resigned	November 20, 2014	Kwame Oduro	December 18, 2015[15]
SIU Edwardsville	David Korn & Brian Jones	Interim Co-head to Associate head coach Interim Co-head to Assistant, Saint Louis FC	December 5, 2014	Mario Sanchez	January 27, 2015[16]
SMU	Tim McClements	Contract not renewed	January 9, 2015	Kevin Hudson	January 9, 2015 [17]
VMI	Richie Rose	Resigned	November 19, 2015	Jon Freeman	January 7, 2015[18]
Wake Forest	Jay Vidovich	Head coach for the Portland Timbers 2	December 18, 2014	Bobby Muuss	January 8, 2015[19]
Yale	Brian Tompkins	Moved to administration	August 2014	Kylie Stannard	December 29, 2014[20]

New programs

• The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV), created for the 2015–16 school year with the merger of the University of Texas–Pan American (UTPA) and University of Texas at Brownsville (UTB), added the sport to the Division I athletic program it inherited from UTPA. Although UTB had a highly successful NAIA men's soccer team, the UTRGV program was created essentially from scratch, with an entirely new coaching staff and only two UTB players remaining in the UTRGV program. UTRGV also inherited UTPA's membership in the Western Athletic Conference.

Discontinued programs

None.

Conference realignment

School	Previous Conference	New Conference
Northern Kentucky	Atlantic Sun Conference	Horizon League

NJIT, previously the only Division I basketball independent, played the 2014 season as a single-sport member of the Sun Belt Conference. Although NJIT replaced Northern Kentucky in the Atlantic Sun Conference (A-Sun) in July 2015, the men's soccer team remained in the Sun Belt for the 2015 season due to contractual commitments to that league. NJIT men's soccer will join the A-Sun in 2016.^[21]

Additionally, the 2015 season was the last for Coastal Carolina in the Big South Conference. The Chanticleers will join the Sun Belt Conference on July 1, 2016, in all sports except football, with that team joining the conference a year later. The arrival of Coastal Carolina will maintain the Sun Belt at six men's soccer members, preserving the league's automatic NCAA tournament berth.^[22]

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 2015.

NSCAA[23] Rank Team 1 UCLA 2 Virginia 3 Georgetown 4 Notre Dame 5 North Carolina 6 Creighton 7 Providence 8 Stanford 9 Michigan State 10 Washington 11 Clemson 12 UMBC 13 Maryland 14 Indiana 15 Syracuse 16 California 17 Charlotte 18 Louisville 19 Xavier 20 UC Irvine 21 Coastal Carolina 22 Saint Louis 23 Penn State 24 Old Dominion 25 Akron

College Soccer News[24] Rank Team 1 UCLA 2 Virginia 3 Georgetown 4 Creighton 5 Stanford 6 Providence 7 Notre Dame 8 Washington 9 Maryland 10 North Carolina 11 Clemson 12 Indiana 13 Michigan State 14 Charlotte 15 Louisville 16 California 17 UC Irvine 18 Xavier 19 Syracuse 20 UMBC 21 Coastal Carolina 22 Old Dominion 23 Saint Louis 24 Akron 25 Penn State

Soccer America[25] Rank Team 1 UCLA 2 Virginia 3 Georgetown 4 Stanford 5 Creighton 6 Maryland 7 Providence 8 Clemson 9 North Carolina 10 Notre Dame 11 Louisville 12 Washington 13 Indiana 14 California 15 Charlotte 16 Syracuse 17 UC Santa Barbara 18 UC Irvine 19 Akron 20 Coastal Carolina 21 UConn 22 Xavier 23 Penn State 24 Delaware 25 Old Dominion

Top Drawer Soccer[26] Rank Team 1 Virginia 2 UCLA 3 Georgetown 4 Stanford 5 Creighton 6 North Carolina 7 Notre Dame 8 Michigan State 9 California 10 Louisville 11 UC Irvine 12 Maryland 13 Clemson 14 Kentucky 15 Penn State 16 Xavier 17 Charlotte 18 Indiana 19 Saint Louis 20 Washington 21 Monmouth 22 Coastal Carolina 23 Syracuse 24 Providence 25 UMBC

Regular season

#1

See also: List of NCAA Division I men's soccer teams ranked in the 2015 Top 25 coaches poll

Weekly NSCAA #1 ranked team[27]
Date	Team		Date	Team		Date	Team		Date	Team
August 3 (preseason)	UCLA		None until after season starts			September 1	UCLA		September 8	Creighton
September 15	Creighton		September 22	Creighton		September 29	Creighton		October 6	Creighton
October 13	Creighton		October 20	Creighton		October 27	Creighton		November 3	Wake Forest
November 10	Wake Forest		November 17	Wake Forest		None until after tournament			December 15	Stanford

Standings

2015 America East Conference men's soccer standings v t e Conf Overall Team W   L   T W   L   T Albany 5 – 2 – 0 10 – 8 – 1 UMBC 3 – 2 – 2 11 – 6 – 3 Vermont ‡ 3 – 2 – 2 11 – 7 – 3 New Hampshire 3 – 3 – 1 10 – 5 – 3 Binghamton 3 – 3 – 1 10 – 8 – 2 Stony Brook 3 – 3 – 1 7 – 8 – 3 UMass Lowell # 2 – 4 – 1 7 – 9 – 1 Hartford 1 – 4 – 2 5 – 7 – 5 ‡ - Tournament champion +- Invited to the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship #-Ineligible (In transition) As of November 20, 2015 Rankings from NSCAA	2015 American Athletic Conference men's soccer standings v t e Conf Overall Team W   L   T W   L   T No. 11 SMU + 7 – 0 – 1 15 – 3 – 4 No. 15 South Florida + 5 – 1 – 2 11 – 6 – 3 Connecticut + 3 – 3 – 2 10 – 6 – 6 Tulsa ‡ 3 – 3 – 2 8 – 6 – 7 UCF 3 – 4 – 1 7 – 8 – 2 Temple 2 – 6 – 0 10 – 7 – 2 Cincinnati 1 – 4 – 3 7 – 9 – 3 Memphis 1 – 4 – 3 3 – 10 – 4 ‡ - Tournament champion +- Invited to the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship As of November 29, 2015 Rankings from NSCAA	2015 Atlantic 10 Conference men's soccer standings v t e Conf Overall Team W   L   T W   L   T George Washington 6 – 2 – 0 11 – 8 – 0 Dayton ‡ 5 – 1 – 2 13 – 5 – 5 Saint Louis 4 – 2 – 2 8 – 7 – 2 Rhode Island 4 – 3 – 1 10 – 8 – 2 Fordham 4 – 3 – 1 7 – 8 – 4 Duquesne 4 – 3 – 1 6 – 11 – 2 UMass 4 – 3 – 1 5 – 13 – 1 VCU 3 – 2 – 3 7 – 10 – 4 George Mason 3 – 3 – 2 7 – 8 – 2 Saint Joseph's 3 – 4 – 1 4 – 12 – 2 LaSalle 2 – 5 – 1 6 – 10 – 2 Davidson 2 – 6 – 0 5 – 10 – 3 St. Bonaventure 1 – 7 – 0 2 – 16 – 1 ‡-Tournament champion +- Invited to the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship As of November 22, 2015 Rankings from NSCAA
2015 ACC men's soccer standings v t e Conf Overall Team W   L   T W   L   T Atlantic No. 1 Wake Forest + 6 – 0 – 2 17 – 3 – 2 No. 3 Clemson + 6 – 1 – 1 16 – 2 – 3 Boston College + 4 – 4 – 0 11 – 8 – 2 No. 6 Syracuse ‡ 3 – 4 – 1 16 – 5 – 3 Louisville 1 – 4 – 3 7 – 9 – 3 NC State 1 – 4 – 3 8 – 6 – 3 Coastal No. 4 North Carolina + 6 – 1 – 1 15 – 2 – 3 No. 8 Notre Dame + 4 – 2 – 2 11 – 5 – 6 No. 18 Virginia + 4 – 2 – 2 10 – 5 – 3 Duke 3 – 4 – 1 10 – 7 – 2 Virginia Tech 0 – 5 – 3 5 – 9 – 3 Pittsburgh 0 – 7 – 1 5 – 9 – 3 ‡ - ACC Tournament champion + - Invited to the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship As of December 5, 2015 Rankings from NSCAA	2015 Atlantic Sun Conference men's soccer standings v t e Conf Overall Team W   L   T W   L   T North Florida ‡ 4 – 0 – 1 10 – 7 – 1 Florida Gulf Coast 4 – 0 – 1 7 – 4 – 3 Lipscomb 3 – 2 – 0 6 – 10 – 1 USC Upstate 2 – 3 – 1 7 – 7 – 1 Jacksonville 1 – 5 – 0 3 – 12 – 1 Stetson 0 – 4 – 1 5 – 9 – 2 ‡-Tournament champion +- Invited to the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship As of November 20, 2015 Rankings from NSCAA	2015 Big East Conference men's soccer standings v t e Conf Overall Team W   L   T W   L   T No. 2 Georgetown ‡ 9 – 0 – 0 16 – 2 – 3 No. 9 Creighton + 7 – 2 – 0 19 – 4 – 0 Butler 6 – 3 – 0 10 – 4 – 4 Xavier 5 – 3 – 1 11 – 6 – 1 Providence 4 – 4 – 1 8 – 7 – 2 DePaul 4 – 4 – 1 5 – 12 – 1 Villanova 4 – 5 – 0 9 – 8 – 0 Saint John's 2 – 5 – 2 4 – 11 – 3 Marquette 1 – 7 – 1 5 – 10 – 2 Seton Hall 0 – 9 – 0 0 – 15 – 1 ‡-Tournament champion +- Invited to the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship As of December 5, 2015 Rankings from NSCAA
2015 Big South Conference men's soccer standings v t e Conf Overall Team W   L   T W   L   T Winthrop ‡ 7 – 1 – 1 11 – 7 – 2 Radford + 7 – 1 – 1 14 – 4 – 2 No. 20 Coastal Carolina + 6 – 1 – 3 13 – 3 – 3 Campbell 5 – 4 – 0 10 – 9 – 0 Longwood 4 – 4 – 1 9 – 9 – 1 High Point 3 – 3 – 3 8 – 6 – 7 Gardner–Webb 3 – 6 – 0 4 – 14 – 0 UNC Asheville 3 – 6 – 0 6 – 12 – 1 Liberty 2 – 6 – 1 6 – 10 – 1 Presbyterian 0 – 8 – 1 0 – 16 – 1 ‡-Tournament champion +- Invited to the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship As of November 22, 2015 Rankings from NSCAA	2015 Big Ten Conference men's soccer standings v t e Conf Overall Team W   L   T W   L   T No. 14 Ohio State + 5 – 2 – 1 14 – 7 – 4 No. 19 Indiana + 4 – 3 – 1 13 – 5 – 3 No. 12 Maryland ‡ 3 – 2 – 3 12 – 5 – 6 No. 23 Rutgers + 4 – 4 – 0 12 – 7 – 2 Northwestern 4 – 4 – 0 7 – 9 – 2 Michigan 3 – 3 – 2 8 – 6 – 4 Wisconsin 2 – 3 – 3 5 – 11 – 3 Penn State 2 – 4 – 2 7 – 8 – 3 Michigan St. 2 – 4 – 2 8 – 9 – 2 ‡-Tournament champion +- Invited to the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship As of December 4, 2015 Rankings from NSCAA	2015 Big West Conference men's soccer standings v t e Conf Overall Team W   L   T W   L   T North No. 22UC Santa Barbara+ 7 – 2 – 1 14 – 7 – 2 Cal Poly + 5 – 1 – 4 11 – 5 – 5 UC Davis 3 – 4 – 3 8 – 10 – 3 Sacramento State 3 – 6 – 1 6 – 10 – 2 South No. 24Cal St. Fullerton‡ 6 – 3 – 1 13 – 8 – 1 CSU Northridge 4 – 4 – 2 8 – 8 – 3 UC Irvine 3 – 5 – 2 5 – 11 – 4 UC Riverside 2 – 8 – 0 6 – 12 – 1 ‡-Tournament champion +- Invited to the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship As of November 29, 2015 Rankings from NSCAA
2015 Colonial Athletic Association men's soccer standings v t e Conf Overall Team W   L   T W   L   T Hofstra ‡ 6 – 2 – 0 14 – 8 – 0 Elon + 6 – 2 – 0 14 – 6 – 1 Delaware 5 – 2 – 1 10 – 7 – 4 Charleston 4 – 3 – 1 7 – 8 – 2 UNC Wilmington 3 – 3 – 2 8 – 8 – 3 James Madison 3 – 3 – 2 5 – 10 – 4 William & Mary 2 – 6 – 0 7 – 8 – 2 Northeastern 2 – 6 – 0 3 – 12 – 2 Drexel 2 – 6 – 0 3 – 15 – 1 ‡-Tournament champion +- Invited to the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship As of November 22, 2015 Rankings from NSCAA	2015 Conference USA men's soccer standings v t e Conf Overall Team W   L   T W   L   T No. 17 Kentucky + 7 – 0 – 1 12 – 5 – 2 Charlotte + 6 – 1 – 1 10 – 6 – 2 No. 21 South Carolina + 6 – 2 – 0 11 – 8 – 2 Old Dominion 3 – 3 – 2 8 – 5 – 3 No. 16 Fla. International ‡ 3 – 4 – 1 12 – 7 – 1 New Mexico 2 – 4 – 2 8 – 6 – 4 Marshall 2 – 5 – 1 8 – 9 – 1 UAB 2 – 6 – 0 5 – 11 – 0 Florida Atlantic 1 – 7 – 0 2 – 12 – 2 ‡-Tournament champion +- Invited to the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship As of November 22, 2015 Rankings from NSCAA	2015 Horizon League men's soccer standings v t e Conf Overall Team W   L   T W   L   T UIC 6 – 1 – 2 9 – 6 – 3 Oakland ‡ 5 – 3 – 1 10 – 8 – 2 Northern Kentucky # 4 – 2 – 3 8 – 7 – 4 Cleveland State 4 – 3 – 2 9 – 8 – 2 Detroit 3 – 1 – 5 7 – 5 – 8 Wright State 4 – 4 – 1 12 – 8 – 1 Valparaiso 3 – 3 – 3 7 – 6 – 5 Green Bay 2 – 5 – 2 5 – 10 – 3 Milwaukee 2 – 5 – 2 5 – 10 – 3 Belmont 1 – 7 – 1 4 – 13 – 2 ‡-Tournament champion +-Invited to the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship # – Ineligible (In transition) As of November 20, 2015 Rankings from NSCAA
2015 Ivy League men's soccer standings v t e Conf Overall Team W   L   T W   L   T Dartmouth ‡ 6 – 1 – 0 12 – 6 – 1 Harvard 5 – 2 – 0 9 – 6 – 2 Brown 4 – 1 – 2 10 – 5 – 2 Columbia 4 – 3 – 0 10 – 5 – 1 Princeton 3 – 3 – 1 10 – 5 – 2 Cornell 2 – 5 – 0 4 – 13 – 0 Penn 1 – 5 – 1 3 – 11 – 2 Yale 0 – 5 – 2 1 – 14 – 2 ‡-Conference champion As of November 22, 2015 Rankings from NSCAA	2015 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference men's soccer standings v t e Conf Overall Team W   L   T W   L   T Monmouth 7 – 0 – 3 13 – 4 – 4 Rider ‡ 6 – 3 – 1 14 – 6 – 1 Iona 5 – 3 – 2 10 – 7 – 3 Marist 5 – 3 – 2 7 – 9 – 2 Fairfield 5 – 3 – 2 6 – 6 – 6 Siena 5 – 4 – 1 8 – 10 – 3 Canisius 5 – 5 – 0 8 – 9 – 1 Saint Peter's 4 – 5 – 1 7 – 9 – 2 Manhattan 3 – 6 – 1 4 – 11 – 2 Quinnipiac 1 – 5 – 4 2 – 11 – 6 Niagara 0 – 9 – 1 1 – 16 – 3 ‡-2015 MAAC Tournament Champion +- Invited to the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship As of November 20, 2015 Rankings from NSCAA	2015 Mid-American Conference men's soccer standings v t e Conf Overall Team W   L   T W   L   T No. 5 Akron ‡ 4 – 0 – 1 18 – 3 – 2 Western Michigan 3 – 1 – 1 10 – 4 – 4 Buffalo 2 – 2 – 1 8 – 7 – 4 West Virginia 2 – 3 – 0 6 – 12 – 0 Northern Illinois 1 – 3 – 1 7 – 6 – 1 Bowling Green 1 – 4 – 0 9 – 9 – 1 ‡-Tournament Champion +-Invited to the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship As of December 5, 2015 Rankings from NSCAA
2015 Missouri Valley Conference men's soccer standings v t e Conf Overall Team W   L   T W   L   T SIUE 5 – 1 – 0 12 – 4 – 2 Bradley 4 – 1 – 1 7 – 10 – 1 Drake ‡ 3 – 1 – 2 13 – 5 – 3 Missouri State 3 – 2 – 1 6 – 6 – 5 Loyola Chicago 2 – 2 – 2 10 – 4 – 5 Central Arkansas 1 – 5 – 0 2 – 15 – 1 Evansville 0 – 6 – 0 3 – 13 – 0 ‡-MVC Tournament Champion +-Invited to the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship As of November 22, 2015 Rankings from NSCAA	2015 Northeast Conference men's soccer standings v t e Conf Overall Team W   L   T W   L   T LIU Brooklyn ‡ 7 – 0 – 0 11 – 5 – 5 Saint Francis (PA) 5 – 2 – 0 11 – 5 – 4 Robert Morris 4 – 2 – 1 10 – 8 – 1 St. Francis Brooklyn 3 – 2 – 2 10 – 3 – 5 Central Connecticut 3 – 4 – 0 6 – 9 – 2 Bryant 1 – 3 – 3 3 – 8 – 5 Sacred Heart 1 – 6 – 0 2 – 12 – 1 Fairleigh Dickinson 0 – 5 – 2 2 – 12 – 3 ‡-Tournament champion + - Invited to the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship As of November 20, 2015 Rankings from NSCAA	2015 Pac-12 Conference men's soccer standings v t e Conf Overall Team W   L   T W   L   T No. 7 Stanford ‡ 7 – 1 – 2 17 – 2 – 2 No. 25 UCLA + 5 – 4 – 1 11 – 9 – 1 Washington 4 – 3 – 3 8 – 5 – 6 California 4 – 4 – 2 9 – 6 – 2 Oregon State 3 – 6 – 1 8 – 9 – 1 San Diego State 2 – 7 – 1 8 – 8 – 3 ‡-Conference champion + - Invited to the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship As of December 5, 2015 Rankings from NSCAA
2015 Patriot League men's soccer standings v t e Conf Overall Team W   L   T W   L   T Colgate 7 – 2 – 0 10 – 7 – 2 Boston U. + 6 – 1 – 2 12 – 6 – 2 American 5 – 2 – 2 14 – 5 – 3 Lehigh ‡ 4 – 3 – 2 13 – 6 – 3 Bucknell 3 – 3 – 3 7 – 7 – 5 Army 3 – 3 – 3 5 – 8 – 5 Navy 4 – 5 – 0 8 – 9 – 1 Holy Cross 3 – 4 – 2 6 – 8 – 4 Lafayette 2 – 6 – 1 5 – 8 – 5 Loyola (MD) 0 – 8 – 1 2 – 13 – 2 ‡-Tournament Champion +-Invited to the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship As of November 20, 2015 Rankings from NSCAA	2015 Southern Conference men's soccer standings v t e Conf Overall Team W   L   T W   L   T UNC Greensboro 6 – 1 – 3 11 – 5 – 5 Furman ‡ 6 – 2 – 2 8 – 5 – 6 Mercer 5 – 3 – 2 11 – 6 – 3 East Tenn. State 4 – 4 – 2 8 – 7 – 4 Wofford 4 – 5 – 1 9 – 7 – 2 VMI 0 – 10 – 0 0 – 19 – 0 ‡-Tournament Champion +-Invited to the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship As of November 20, 2015 Rankings from NSCAA	2015 Summit League men's soccer standings v t e Conf Overall Team W   L   T W   L   T No. 10 Denver ‡ 5 – 0 – 1 15 – 1 – 3 Omaha 3 – 2 – 1 9 – 6 – 3 Oral Roberts 3 – 2 – 1 7 – 7 – 4 Western Illinois 3 – 3 – 0 6 – 12 – 1 IUPUI 1 – 2 – 3 1 – 9 – 7 Fort Wayne 2 – 4 – 0 5 – 12 – 0 Eastern Illinois 1 – 5 – 0 3 – 14 – 0 ‡-Tournament Champion +-Invited to the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship As of November 22, 2015 Rankings from NSCAA
2015 Sun Belt Conference men's soccer standings v t e Conf Overall Team W   L   T W   L   T Hartwick ‡ 5 – 0 – 0 11 – 6 – 3 Georgia State 4 – 1 – 0 9 – 8 – 1 Georgia Southern 3 – 2 – 0 6 – 8 – 2 Appalachian State 2 – 3 – 0 8 – 10 – 0 NJIT 1 – 4 – 0 5 – 10 – 4 Howard 0 – 5 – 0 0 – 17 – 2 ‡-Tournament Champion +-Invited to the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship As of November 20, 2015 Rankings from NSCAA	2015 West Coast Conference men's soccer standings v t e Conf Overall Team W   L   T W   L   T Santa Clara ‡ 5 – 1 – 1 11 – 8 – 1 San Diego 5 – 1 – 1 10 – 5 – 3 Saint Mary's 5 – 2 – 0 8 – 9 – 1 San Francisco 4 – 2 – 1 6 – 11 – 1 Loyola Marymount 4 – 3 – 0 9 – 9 – 0 Gonzaga 2 – 5 – 0 7 – 10 – 1 Portland 1 – 6 – 0 3 – 12 – 3 Pacific 0 – 6 – 1 1 – 15 – 1 ‡-Conference champion + - Invited to the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship As of November 22, 2015 Rankings from NSCAA	2015 Western Athletic Conference men's soccer standings v t e Conf Overall Team W   L   T W   L   T No. 13 Seattle ‡ 9 – 1 – 0 18 – 4 – 1 Utah Valley + 6 – 3 – 1 14 – 6 – 2 UNLV 5 – 4 – 1 12 – 7 – 1 Houston Baptist 5 – 4 – 1 9 – 8 – 2 Cal St. Bakersfield 4 – 3 – 3 7 – 6 – 6 San Jose State 4 – 4 – 2 6 – 11 – 1 Air Force 4 – 5 – 1 7 – 9 – 1 UMKC 4 – 5 – 1 6 – 9 – 2 Incarnate Word # 4 – 6 – 0 8 – 8 – 0 Grand Canyon # 3 – 7 – 0 7 – 10 – 0 UTRGV 2 – 8 – 0 5 – 12 – 1 ‡-Tournament Champion + - Invited to the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship #-Ineligible (In transition) As of November 29, 2015 Rankings from NSCAA

Major upsets

In this list, a "major upset" is defined as a game won by a team ranked 10 or more spots lower or an unranked team that defeats a team ranked #15 or higher.

Date	Winner	Score	Loser
August 28	@ UC Santa Barbara	1–0	#8 Stanford
August 30	@ Oregon State	1–0	#9 Michigan State
August 31	@ South Florida	2–0	#3 Georgetown
September 3	@ Lipscomb	2–1	#10 Xavier
September 4	Akron	1–0	@ #12 Georgetown
September 4	@ Omaha	1–0	# 13 UC Irvine
September 6	Virginia Tech	3–1	@ #10 Xavier
September 7	Akron	3–2	@ #6 Maryland
September 13	UC Riverside	2–1	@ #8 UCLA
September 13	@ Penn State	1–0	#10 Indiana
September 15	Xavier	1–0	@ #2 Notre Dame
September 15	#20 Elon	1–0	@ #7 Wake Forest
September 17	@ Portland	1–0	#8 Oregon State
September 22	@ South Carolina	3–1	#8 Elon
September 22	@ Gonzaga	2–1	#13 Oregon State
September 23	@ #25 Georgetown	2–1	#11 Maryland
September 24	@ Seattle	2–1	#10 Washington
September 25	@ South Carolina	2–1	#7 New Mexico
September 25	Seattle	2–1	@ #13 Oregon State
September 30	@ William & Mary	4–1	#10 Elon
October 4	UCLA	3–2	@ #15 Washington
October 9	@ Boston College	2–1	#10 Virginia
October 11	@ UNC Asheville	3–2	#4 Coastal Carolina
October 14	@ Sacramento State	5–2	#14 UC Santa Barbara
October 17	@ FIU	2–1	#9 Old Dominion
October 17	@ Cal Poly	3–2 (2ot)	#14 UC Santa Barbara
October 20	@ Duke	2–1 (ot)	#10 Elon
October 28	Xavier	2–1	@ #1 Creighton
October 30	@ Boston College	2–1	#12 Syracuse
October 31	@ UConn	2–1 (ot)	#11 South Florida
October 31	@ South Carolina	3–1	#13 Old Dominion
November 1	#25 UCLA	4–2	@ #6 Akron
October 2	@ Washington	2–1	#4 Stanford

Statistics

Individuals

GOALS[28]
Rank	Scorer	School	Games	Goals
1	David Olsen	Seattle	23	16
	Gordon Wild	USC Upstate	15	16
3	Nick DePuy	UC Santa Barbara	23	15
	Bradley Farias	Campbell	19	15
	Fabian Herbers	Creighton	23	15
6	Danny Musovski	UNLV	20	14
7	Amass Amankona	Dayton	23	13
	Neco Brett	Robert Morris	18	13
	Sivert Daehlie	Radford	19	13
	Jorge Gomez Sanchez	Temple	18	13
	Max Hasenstab	Winthrop	18	13
	Willy Miezan	Longwood	19	13
	Jordan Morris	Stanford	18	13
	Colin Phillips	Duquesne	18	13
	Thomas Sanner	Princeton	17	13
	Mac Steeves	Providence	18	13
	Jason Wright	Rutgers	21	13

Last update on December 14, 2015.

GOALS AGAINST AVERAGE[29]
Rank	Keeper	School	Games	Minutes	GA	GAA
1	Drew Shepherd	Western Michigan	13	1101	4	.327
2	Tim Dobrowolski	Loyola Chicago	19	1806	8	.399
3	Dan Jackson	Denver	19	1794	8	.401
4	Jack Binks	St. Francis Brooklyn	18	1769	8	.407
5	Kyle Dal Santo	SIUE	18	1652	9	.490
6	Logan Keys	LIU Brooklyn	14	1357	8	.530
7	Stefan Cleveland	Dartmouth	15	1297	9	.625
8	Dallas Jaye	Xavier	14	1289	9	.628
9	Ryan Herman	Washington	18	1711	12	.631
10	Andrew Epstein	Stanford	23	2138	15	.631

Last update on December 14, 2015.

ASSISTS[30]
Rank	Player	School	Games	Assists
1	Fabian Herbers	Creighton	23	17
2	Corey Baird	Stanford	23	13
2	Joey Piatczyc	West Virginia	19	13
	Eric Verso	Stanford	23	13
5	Kwame Awuah	UConn	22	12
	Mael Corboz	Maryland	23	12
	Aaron Meyer	Utah Valley	19	12
8	Julian Büscher	Syracuse	25	11
	Julian Gressel	Providence	18	11
	Jack Harrison	Wake Forest	19	11
	Alex Muyl	Georgetown	21	11
	Adam Najem	Akron	24	11
	Liam Robley	American	20	11

Last update on December 14, 2015

SAVE PERCENTAGE[31]
Rank	Keeper	School	Games	Saves	GA	Save %
1	Dominik Reining	Marshall	11	59	7	.894
2	Drew Shepherd	Western Michigan	13	29	4	.879
3	Ryan Herman	Washington	18	85	12	.876
4	Logan Keys	LIU Brooklyn	14	55	8	.873
5	Stefan Cleveland	Dartmouth	15	58	9	.866
6	Jack Binks	St. Francis Brooklyn	18	47	8	.855
7	Joseph Kuta	Buffalo	11	58	10	.853
8	Alec Ferrell	Wake Forest	18	66	12	.846
9	James Pyle	North Carolina	15	47	9	.839
10	Dan Jackson	Denver	19	40	8	.833
	Kyle Dal Santo	SIUE	18	45	9	.833

Last update on December 14, 2015

TOTAL POINTS[32]
Rank	Player	School	Games	Goals	Assists	Points
1	Fabian Herbers	Creighton	23	15	17	47
2	Bradley Farias	Campbell	19	15	5	35
3	Gordon Wild	USC Upstate	15	16	2	34
4	David Olsen	Seattle	23	16	1	33
	Danny Musovski	UNLV	20	14	5	33
6	Russell Cicerone	Buffalo	18	12	8	32
7	Nick DePuy	UC Santa Barbara	23	15	1	31
	Amass Amankona	Dayton	23	13	5	31
	Neco Brett	Robert Morris	18	13	5	31
	Jorge Gomez Sanchez	Temple	18	13	5	31
	Colin Phillips	Duquesne	18	13	5	31
	Thomas Sanner	Princeton	17	13	5	31
	Jason Wright	Rutgers	21	13	5	31
	Brandon Allen	Georgetown	21	11	7	31
	Adam Najem	Akron	24	10	11	31

Last update on December 14, 2015

TOTAL SAVES[33]
Rank	Keeper	School	Games	Saves
1	Alex Guerra	VMI	19	127
2	Brenden Alfery	Robert Morris	19	112
3	Jake Fenlason	Akron	24	105
4	Patric Pray	Hofstra	22	98
5	Zack Davis	UNC Asheville	17	96
6	Eduardo Cortes	IUPUI	17	95
7	Harrison Veith	Central Arkansas	18	91
8	Michael Nelson	SMU	22	90
9	Bobby Diaz	St. Bonaventure	14	89
	Kody Palmer	High Point	21	89

Last update on December 14, 2015

Teams

SCORING OFFENSE[34]
Rank	School	Games	Goals	Goals/Game
1	Dayton	23	58	2.522
2	Akron	24	56	2.333
3	Creighton	23	53	2.304
4	Georgia State	18	41	2.278
5	UCLA	21	47	2.338
6	Radford	20	44	2.200
7	UNC Greensboro	21	46	2.190
8	Wake Forest	22	48	2.182
9	Clemson	24	52	2.167
10	Seattle	23	49	2.130

Last update on December 14, 2015

SCORING DEFENSE (Team Goals Against Average)[35]
Rank	School	Games	Minutes	GA	Team GAA
1	Loyola Chicago	19	1833	8	.393
2	Denver	19	1794	8	.401
3	St. Francis Brooklyn	18	1785	8	.403
4	Western Michigan	19	1798	10	.501
5	Wake Forest	22	2029	13	.577
6	Stanford	23	2164	15	.624
7	Washington	19	1846	13	.634
8	SIUE	18	1697	12	.636
9	Kentucky	19	1783	13	.656
10	Coastal Carolina	20	1905	14	.661

Last update on December 14, 2015

SHUTOUT PERCENTAGE[36]
Rank	School	Games	Shutouts	Shutout %
1	St. Francis Brooklyn	18	12	.667
2	Denver	19	12	.632
	Loyola Chicago	19	12	.632
	Western Michigan	19	12	.632
5	Dartmouth	19	11	.579
	Washington	19	11	.579
7	SIUE	18	10	.556
8	American	22	12	.545
	Cal State Fullerton	22	12	.545
	Wake Forest	22	12	.545

Last update on December 14, 2015

• All statistics are through the games of December 13, 2015

WON-LOST-TIED PERCENTAGE[37]
Rank	School	Wins	Loses	Ties	W-L-T %
1	Denver	15	1	3	.868
2	Stanford	18	2	3	.848
3	Georgetown	16	2	3	.833
4	Creighton	19	4	0	.826
5	North Carolina	15	2	3	.825
6	Wake Forest	17	3	2	.818
7	Akron	18	3	3	.813
8	Seattle	18	4	1	.804
9	Clemson	17	3	4	.792
10	SMU	15	3	4	.773

Last update on December 14, 2015

Attendances

Team	Home average
UC Santa Barbara	3,844
UConn	3,504
Creighton	3,297
Maryland	3,203
Wake Forest	2,720
Louisville	2,663
Clemson	2,648
Cal Poly	2,488
South Carolina	2,245
Akron	2,186
Indiana	1,994
Saint Louis	1,915
UCLA	1,858
Virginia	1,810
New Mexico	1,691
Utah Valley	1,590
Portland	1,548
Penn St.	1,546
UMBC	1,543
Kentucky	1,489
Syracuse	1,316
North Carolina	1,174
Stanford	1,174
SIUE	1,157
Elon	1,155
Notre Dame	1,092
Virginia Tech	1,040
Grand Canyon	1,038
Boston U.	1,032
UNCG	1,030
Ohio St.	1,027
Georgetown	958
Michigan	951
Michigan St.	942
Air Force	941
Butler	932
Charlotte	924
Milwaukee	918
Binghamton	915
UNCW	901
Dartmouth	894
Furman	876
South Florida	871
Yale	862
UAB	856
Washington	816
St. John's (NY)	811
North Carolina St.	802
CSU Bakersfield	800
Cincinnati	793

Source:^[38]

See also

• College soccer
• List of NCAA Division I men's soccer programs
• 2015 in American soccer
• 2015 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship

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