Projected 48-team NCAA Division I men’s field

Posted on November 14th, 2007 by admin

by Paul Kennedy, Wednesday, Nov 14, 2007
Four teams — Brown, Ohio State, Santa Clara and defending national champion UC Santa Barbara — have clinched automatic berths in the NCAA Division I Men’s Tournament, and 44 spots remain up for grabs with one week left in the regular season.Of the remaining 44 spots, 18 will go to conference champions to be crowned this week, and the other 26 will go to at-large teams (Click here for all the conference tournament results and schedules).Wake Forest, ranked No. 1 in the Soccer America Men’s Top 25, is the top-ranked team in the final RPI index the NCAA will release before the 48-team Division I Tournament field is announced next Monday.ACC regular-season champion Boston College is No. 2, Big Ten runner-up Indiana is No. 3, Big Ten champion Ohio State is No. 4, and Brown is No. 5.The RPI — Ratings Percentage Index — is the most important of the criteria it uses to determine the 48-team field for the NCAA Division I Men’s Tournament. The RPI is a mathematical formula designed to objectively compare results and strength of schedule.On Monday, Nov. 19, the day after the end of the regular season, the NCAA will announce the selection of the 26 at-large teams to go along with the 22 automatic qualifiers. (The Atlantic Soccer Conference lost its automatic berth.)

With the RPI index as a guide, here’s a look at the 48 teams that might make the NCAA Tournament.

The ACC and Big East lead all conferences with seven teams in the 48. The Big Ten has six teams in the 48, and its seventh team, Wisconsin, is ranked third among the “bubble” teams.

Perhaps the biggest surprise is two MAAC teams in the 48 — Loyola (Md.) and St. Peter’s — and a third, Fairfield, on the bubble.

Two teams to watch this week are North Carolina (28th in the RPI index) and UCLA (29th). North Carolina has a 6-7-5 record and will be ineligible for consideration unless it finishes the ACC Tournament with an above-.500 record (shootout wins or losses count as ties). UCLA (8-8-2) will be ineligible for consideration if it loses to San Diego State tomorrow.

*=clinched automatic berth.

PROJECTED 48
RANK SCHOOL (CONFERENCE)
1 Wake Forest (ACC 1)
2 Boston College (ACC 2)
3 Indiana (Big Ten 1)
4 *Ohio State (Big Ten 2)
5 *Brown (Ivy 1)
6 Northwestern (Big Ten 3)
7 *UC Santa Barbara (Big West 1)
8 Connecticut (Big East 1)
9 *Santa Clara (WCC 1)
10 Maryland (ACC 3)
11 !Creighton (Missouri Valley 1)
12 !Akron (Mid-American 1)
13 Virginia Tech (ACC 4)
14 Notre Dame (Big East 2)
15 West Virginia (Big East 3)
16 Harvard (Ivy 2)
17 Tulsa (Conference USA 1)
18 Dartmouth (Ivy 3)
19 SMU (Conference USA 2)
20 DePaul (Big East 4)
21 Saint Louis (Atlantic 10 1)
22 South Fla. (Big East 5)
23 Louisville (Big East 6)
24 Washington (Pac-10 1)
25 Virginia (ACC 5)
26 California (Pac-10 2)
27 UC Davis (Big West 2)
28 North Carolina (ACC 6)
29 UCLA (Pac-10 3)
30 Loyola (Md.) (MAAC)
31 Cal Poly (Big West 3)
32 Michigan State (Big Ten 4)
33 !Furman (Southern 1)
34 Duke (ACC 7)
35 !Boston U. (America East 1)
36 Providence (Big East 7)
37 Michigan (Big Ten 5)
38 St. Peter’s (MAAC 2)
39 Penn State (Big Ten 6)
40 St. John’s (Big East 7)
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49 !New Mexico (MPSF 1)
51 !Loyola (Ill.) (Horizon 1)
54 !Holy Cross (Patriot 1)
56 !Old Dominion (CAA 1)
63 !Quinnipiac (Northeast 1)
70 !Winthrop (Big South 1)
87 !Oakland (Summit 1)
96 !Stetson (Atlantic Sun 1)
!=lone conference representative.Bubble teams:
41 Bradley (Missouri Valley)
42 Portland (WCC)
43 Wisconsin (Big Ten)
44 Fairfield (MAAC)
45 Binghamton (America East)
46 Gonzaga (WCC)
47 Col. of Charleston (Southern)
48 New Hampshire (America East)
50 Hartford (America East)
52 Rhode Island (Atlantic 10)

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NCAA Women’s Division I Scoring Leaders

Posted on November 7th, 2007 by admin
Wednesday, Nov 7, 2007 8:00 AM ET
TEXAS A&M’S ASHLEE Pistorius has moved to the top of the NCAA Division I women’s scoring charts.

Note: Records through Oct. 21

PLAYER, SCHOOL GOALS
1. Ashlee Pistorius, Texas A&M 23
2.  Lauren Cheney, UCLA 19
2. Mami Yamaguchi, Florida State 19
4. Naira Crimiel, Jackson State 18
5. Adele Letro, Utah 17
5. Shannon Saxton, Boise State 17
5. Cynthia Morote-Ariza, Loyola (Ill.) 17
8. Annie Phillips, Kennesaw State 16
8. Brittney Steinbruch, Miami (Fla.) 16
8. Claire Zimmeck, William & Mary 16
8. Keri Zwikker, Jacksonville 16

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NCAA Men’s Division I Scoring Leaders

Posted on November 7th, 2007 by admin
Wednesday, Nov 7, 2007 8:00 AM ET
WITH TWO WEEKES LEFT IN the regular season, Connecticut’s O’Brian White continues to lead the NCAA Division I men’s scoring charts.

Note: Records through Oct. 21

PLAYER, SCHOOL GOALS
1. O’Brian White, Connecticut 17
2. Anton Axelsson, Jacksonville 15
2. Michael Ferguson, Loyola (Ill.) 15
2. Jacek Przednowek, Robert Morris 15
5. Frank Patano, Butler 14
6. Yannick Reyering, Virginia 13
6. Murphy Wiredu, St. Peter’s 13
8. Andre Akpan, Harvard 12
8. Graciano Brito, Quinnipiac 12
8. Kareem Yearwood, Col. of Charleston 12

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NCAA Division I Men’s Soccer Results

Posted on November 7th, 2007 by admin
Wednesday, Nov 7, 2007 8:00 AM ET
NO. 1 WAKE FOREST SHOWED just how potent its attack is by scoring four goals in eight minutes to break open a close game against Davidson and roll, 5-1. Zack Schilawski and Cody Arnoux each scored twice for the Deacons, who improved to 14-1-2. For all Tuesday’s scores …

Big South
Liberty 4 VMI 1

Non-Conference
#1 Wake Forest 5 (Schilawski 41, 61, Arnoux 62, 63, Leach 68) Davidson 1 (O’Donnell 76).
Lafayette 4  NJIT 0       
Northern Illinois 1 Wisconsin-Milwaukee 0    
Philadelphia 0 Lehigh 3   
Stetson 1 Georgia Southern 0

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UCLA in trouble

Posted on November 7th, 2007 by admin
by Paul Kennedy, Wednesday, Nov 7, 2007 8:00 AM ET
AT 8-8-2, UCLA, THE NO. 1 team in the Soccer America Men’s Preseason Top 25, faces the unthinkable.

If the Bruins lose to San Diego State in their regular-season finale next Wednesday at Drake Stadium, they will finish with their first losing record in 41 years as an NCAA varsity sport.

A loss would also eliminate the Bruins from NCAA Tournament consideration for the first time in a quarter century. (The NCAA won’t consider a team for an at-large berth with a losing record.) With a win, UCLA would probably get in as an at-large team since it should finish with a high RPI ranking.

It’s been a long season for the Bruins, who began 0-2-1 and were 4-5-2 four weeks ago, but after a brutal non-conference schedule — including games against teams currently ranked No. 4, No. 11, No. 12, No. 13 and No. 18! — they seemed to turn the corner with four straight wins in the Pac-10.

But problems resurfaced at home 10 days ago when UCLA dominated Washington but fell, 1-0. It then lost to Stanford, 2-1, and California, 3-1, on its swing through the Bay Area, leaving it at 4-4-1 in the Pac-10 with only the game against SDSU left on the schedule.

In both the Stanford and Cal games, UCLA was flat and had to play catchup.

David Estrada, last year’s Soccer America Freshman of the Year, had a chance to put the Bruins ahead against Stanford in the first half but was stopped on a breakaway. Stanford scored shortly before and after halftime and the Bruins never caught up.

Like against Stanford, Maxwell Griffin scored against Cal with the Bruins trailing, 2-0, but they never could get the equalizer in Berkeley.

Even though star Sal Zizzo signed with German club Hannover 96 on the eve of the season, the Bruins were still loaded with some of the country’s top youth internationals, including goalie Brian Perk and midfielder Tony Beltran, two of Zizzo’s teammates on the U.S. team that reached the quarterfinals of the 2007 U-20 World Cup.

Estrada was sidelined early with a foot injury, and the UCLA attack has struggled (only 23 goals in 18 games). Estrada, who scored 11 goals late in the season to lead the Bruins on their run to the Men’s College Cup final, has scored only three goals in 11 appearances in 2007. Former U.S. U-17 star Kyle Nakazawa has scored one goal in 18 starts. Only Griffin (nine goals) has more than three goals.

Last year’s team had experienced even greater losses — Marvell Wynne left early to sign with MLS, Kamani Hill red-shirted, then moved to Germany’s Bundesliga, and captain Brandon Owens and Griffin were sidelined with injuries — and still came back to come within one game of winning UCLA’s fifth national title.

This year’s team is one of the great enigmas in the recent history of college soccer.

“It’s extremely disappointing, given that we had a lot of guys coming back from last season,” fourth-year Bruin coach Jorge Salcedo told the Daily Bruin on Monday. “We were looking forward to having a very successful season, and obviously at 8-8, it’s bitterly disappointing.”

For the Bruin men, the season is particularly disappointing because the UCLA women are where they hoped to be: No. 1. After losing their opening game to Texas, 2-1, in Houston, Jillian Ellis‘ women are unbeaten in their last 16 games.

Soccer America

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Projecting the NCAA Division I men’s field

Posted on November 2nd, 2007 by admin
From socceramerica.
THE NCAA HAS RELEASED ITS second RPI for NCAA Division I men’s teams.

The RPI — Ratings Percentage Index — is the most important of the criteria it uses to determine the 48-team field for the NCAA Division I Men’s Tournament. The RPI is a mathematical formula designed to objectively compare results and strength of schedule.

On Monday, Nov. 19, the day after the end of the regular season, the NCAA will announce the selection of the 26 at-large teams to go along with the 22 automatic qualifiers, the winners of the 22 conference championships. (The Atlantic Soccer Conference, which has no team ranked higher than 169, lost its automatic berth.)

(Click here for 2007 NCAA Tournament Rules.)

Here’s a look at the 48 teams that would have made the NCAA Tournament as of the NCAA’s mid-season snapshot — based on games through Monday — the top-ranked team from each of the 22 conferences (in bold) and the 26 next highest-ranked teams.

Six conferences have three or more teams in this hypothetical 48: Big East (8), ACC (7), Big Ten (5),  Big West (3), Ivy (3) and Pac-10 (3). The America East, Conference USA and WCC with two apiece were the only other conferences with more than one team in the 48. (Below are conference rankings based on the RPI rankings of each conference’s five highest ranked teams.)

(Click here for last week’s latest women’s RPI.)

PROJECTED 48
RANK SCHOOL (CONFERENCE)
1 Wake Forest (ACC 1)
2 Boston College (ACC 2)
3 Northwestern (Big Ten 1)
4 Indiana (Big Ten 2)
5 Brown (Ivy 1)
6 Santa Clara (WCC 1)
7 Ohio St. (Big Ten 3)
8 *Creighton (Missouri Valley 1)
9 Virginia Tech (ACC 3)
10 Connecticut (Big East 1)
11 UC Santa Barbara (Big West 1)
12 *Akron (Mid-American 1)
13 Notre Dame (Big East 2)
14 Maryland (ACC 4)
15 Tulsa (Conference USA 1)
16 Harvard (Ivy 2)
17 Gonzaga (WCC 2)
18 DePaul (Big East 3)
19 SMU (Conference USA 2)
20 Virginia (ACC 5)
21 North Carolina (ACC 6)
22 Dartmouth (Ivy 3)
23 UCLA (Pac-10 1)
24 *Saint Louis (Atlantic-10 1)
25 Duke (ACC 7)
26 Michigan (Big Ten 4)
27 UC Irvine (Big West 2)
28 Washington (Pac-10 2)
29 Michigan St. (Big Ten 5)
30 *Furman (Southern 1)
31 Providence (Big East 4)
32 West Virginia (Big East 5)
33 Louisville (Big East 6)
34 St. John’s (Big East 7)
35 South Fla. (Big East 8)
36 Cal Poly (Big West 3)
37 Boston U. (America East 1)
38 *Loyola, Md. (MAAC 1)
39 *Quinnipiac (Northeast 1)
40 California (Pac-10 3)
41 Binghamton (America East 2)
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43 *New Mexico (MPSF 1)
44 *Old Dominion (CAA 1)
50 *Colgate (Patriot 1)
57 *Loyola (Ill.) (Horizon 1)
85 *Oakland (Summit 1)
95 *Liberty (Big South 1)
102 *Stetson (Atlantic Sun 1)
*Sole conference team in top 48.

Of note …

– SMU, ranked No. 1 in this week’s Soccer America Top 25, is only 19th in the RPI. Four teams — Gonzaga (17th), DePaul (18th), North Carolina (21st) and UCLA (23rd) — in the RPI 25 are not in the Soccer America Top 25.

– The Big East’s top-ranked team, Connecticut, is only 10th in the latest RPI, but eight Big East figure among the top 35 teams in the nation.

– Other strong conferences are the ACC with Wake Forest at No. 1 and Boston College at No. 2 and three other teams in the top 20, and the Big Ten with Northwestern at No. 3, Indiana at No. 4 and Ohio State at No. 7.

– The Pac-10 has no teams ranked among the top 20 teams in the RPI rankings and might have only two or three teams in the 48-team field.

– The big decliner this year is the CAA. Its highest ranked team is Old Dominion at No. 44. Last season, the CAA had four teams ranked in the top 31 of the final RPI.

– The at-large “cut” is at No. 41, though Binghamton risks falling after being upended by Vermont, 2-0, on Wednesday. With three weekends left in the men’s regular season, other candidates for at-large berths, include, in order, Wisconsin, Bradley, Memphis, St. Peter’s and Fairfield.

CONFERENCE RANKINGS

(Based on each conference’s top five teams.)

ACC (46)
1 Wake Forest
2 Boston College
9 Virginia Tech
14 Maryland
20 Virginia

Big Ten (69)
3 Northwestern
4 Indiana
7 Ohio St.
26 Michigan
29 Michigan St.

Big East (104)
10 Connecticut
13 Notre Dame
18 DePaul
31 Providence
32 West Virginia

Conference USA (184)
15 Tulsa
19 SMU
45 Bradley
46 Memphis
59 South Carolina

Big West (189)
11 UC Santa Barbara
27 UC Irvine
36 Cal Poly
51 Cal St. Northridge
64 UC Davis

Pac-10 (216)
23 UCLA
28 Washington
40 California
60 San Diego St.
65 Stanford

WCC (227)
6 Santa Clara
17 Gonzaga
61 Portland
69 San Diego
74 San Francisco

Ivy League (249)
5 Brown
16 Harvard
22 Dartmouth
96 Yale
110 Princeton

America East (271)
37 Boston U.
41 Binghamton
54 Hartford
56 New Hampshire
83 Stony Brook

Atlantic-10 (307)
24 St. Louis
52 Massachusetts
58 Rhode Island
82 Charlotte
91 Dayton

Missouri Valley (332)
8 Creighton
45 Bradley
89 Drake
90 Eastern Ill.
100 Evansville

Southern (340)
30 Furman
49 Col. of Charleston
80 UNC Greensboro
84 Elon
97 Appalachian St.

Mid-American (357)
12 Akron
62 Northern Ill.
67 Buffalo
75 Hartwick
141 Western Mich.

CAA (370)
44 Old Dominion
66 VCU
79 William & Mary
88 Towson
93 Drexel

Patriot League (372)
50 Colgate
63 Holy Cross
68 Bucknell
76 Lafayette
115 Lehigh

MAAC (379)
38 Loyola (Md.)
47 St. Peter’s
48 Fairfield
118 Marist
128 Iona

Northeast (399)
39 Quinnipiac
53 Monmouth
77 Sacred Heart
106 St. Francis (Pa.)
124 Fairleigh Dickinson

Horizon (457)
57 Loyola (Ill.)
72 Green Bay
101 Butler
113 Milwaukee
114 UIC

MPSF (572)
43 New Mexico
73 San Jose St.
136 Denver
156 UNLV
164 Sacramento St.

Atlantic Sun (637)
102 Stetson
105 Jacksonville
116 Campbell
148 Belmont
166 Mercer

Summit (673)
85 Oakland
126 UMKC
134 Oral Roberts
140 Western Ill.
188 IUPUI

Big South (745)
95 Liberty
135 Radford
152 Coastal Caro.
181 Wofford
182 VMI

Atlantic Soccer (940)
169 Fla. Atlantic
191 Howard
192 NJIT
193 Adelphi
195 Longwood

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Why should I pay the recruiting services?

Posted on October 29th, 2007 by admin

WSC will be dedicated to guide you in all procedures, including Visa attainment, advice on exams, paper work, World Connections and so forth.
Cover letter, personalized letter, soccer resume
Personal web site.
Application to take college entrance exams
Advice with regards to these entrance exams
Evaluation of the high school transcripts on the American scale
Creation of the application requested documents for each school
Signing up with NCAA clearinghouse
Scholarship negotiation and signature
Booking of on campus accommodation and meal plan
Permanent phone contacts with school admission officers and coaches
I 20 acceptance letter request
Visa, insurance, plane tickets and last minute formalities and advices
Pick-up airport set-up with the school
Continuous follow-up of the student-athletes throughout the academic year.

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How do i find out which colleges offer athletic scholarships?

Posted on October 29th, 2007 by admin

NCAA Division 1, NCAA Division 2, NAIA , NJCAA Division 1 , and NJCAA Division 2 can offer athletic scholarships. You
should also be aware that individual colleges and conferences have their own athletic scholarship rules and policies.To find out about available scholarships you can ask the coach.

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How concerned should I be about my grades?

Posted on October 29th, 2007 by admin

 Proceed with caution! The higher your grade point average and SAT/ACT scores, the bigger chance you have in getting accepted, scholarships and more. You will need to maintain certain academic requirements throughout college in order to keep playing, so get into the good habit of utilizing your knowledge now.
How can I prepare financially?
Now is the time to start your research on college finances. Learn everything you can about this subject. You certainly want the best deal for yourself and the least amount of debt possible when you graduate. Textbooks alone can cost upwards of $1,000 per year. Many athletic programs will not offer you a full-ride scholarship but rather a partial athletic scholarship which means you will have to come up with the additional funding. Some schools do not offer athletic scholarship funding, {E.G. NCAA Division 111}, but
can have both excellent sport and academic programs. Become familiar with the FAFSA*www.fafsa.ed.gov*, {Free Application for Federal Student Aid Form}, that colleges require to process Federal Aid and in most cases state and other college aid.

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When is the right time for me to begin the recruiting process to play college soccer?

Posted on October 29th, 2007 by admin

TODAY, NOT TOMORROW.

As soon as you think about it you must focus on it. I will say that between your 14 and 16’s you are in the preparation mode, you focus on performing well in school and on the field, play in your high and club team, make yourself notable by your skills and spirit on the pitch. And never forget to have FUN.
Then make contact with coaches and follow your plan seriously.

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