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The Georgetown web site has a preview up. Unfortunately, we will have to listen to different announcers. I really liked Monika Moore. On a side note, the ESPNU schedule tomorrow is : 12 noon to 2 - ACC Women's final - Virginia vs. North Carolina 2 to 4 - Big East Men's final - #5 Akron vs. #1 Georgetown 4 to 6 - ACC men's final - #9 North Carolina vs. #2 SMU. I doubt that the women's final is over by 2. I hope that ESPN is set up to show the start of the Akron game on ESPN News or ESPN2. https://guhoyas.com/news/2026/11/14/mens-soccer-georgetown-to-play-akron-in-big-east-championship.aspx Kickoff is slated for 2 p.m. The game will be broadcast live on ESPNU with Tyler Terens and Paddy Foss calling the action. The Hoyas are 2-3-1 all-time against the Zips, and 1-0 in the BIG EAST Championship. The squads have never met in the championship game with the lone postseason matchup coming in the 2024 semifinal where Georgetown won 2-1 in overtime. The Big East web site also has a writeup on the game: https://www.bigeast.com/news/2026/11/14/georgetown-and-akron-set-for-top-five-big-east-mens-soccer-championship-showdown.aspx

Saturday November 14 Cleveland State will be playing in the NCAA tournament after a 3-2 win over Purdue Fort Wayne. Congrations to former Zip soccer all american Sinisa Ubiparipovic St. Louis will also be part of the NCAA tournament after a 2-1 win over Chuckes Guthrie University (sometimes known as Fordham)

All year long, we look at RPI. The up to date RPI page that we look at is maintained by a man named Daniel Curry from Santa Barbara (usually known as Gaucho Dan) When the committee decides on at large selections and seeding of the top 24 teams, they also rely on adjusted RPI. Every year, I struggle to remember some ot the extra things that the committee looks at . One of our board's most knowledgeable posters @fknbuflobo also posts on a board called Big Soccer college Forum. That board has many active posters that follow all college teams (GauchoDan ; Sandin Mibut (sound the name out ...obviously not his real name) Gaucho Dan did an excellent post on the Big Soccer Forum (decision week)...that explains the logic on how the committee will determine the 25 at large teams. That same logic will be used to determine the seeding of the top 8 teams. https://www.bigsoccer.com/threads/decision-week.2140926/ As you can see below, the NCAA committee treats ties differently than the regular RPI formula. When you look at the top 9 teams, 1 tie team Maryland 2 tie teams Georgetown, Clemson and South Carolina 3 tie teams Indiana and SMU 4 tie teams Akron and Pitt 6 tie team North Carolina Adjusted Rating Percentage Index (RPI), which includes: Division I winning percentage with ties calculated as 1/3 of a win (25%).-- Opponents’ strength of schedule (50%). Opponents’ opponents’ strength of schedule (25%). Bonus/penalty system (see Appendix D). I know that the committee also looks at late season performance. Every year, I struggle to remember if it is the last 5 games, 6 games or 8 games. Late-season performance in last eight games (strength and results). We all know that Akron has won their last 5 games and is 6-0-2 in their last 8 games....so that is a very good sign for Akron. A team like Kansas City is likely to be seeded well below their current RPI. Kansas City right now is #10 in RPI. In their last regular sesson game, they lost 4-0 to #62 Omaha. In their conference tournament , they lost on PK's to 5-8-5 St. Thomas (MN). St. Thomas is currently #168 in RPI. https://rpiupdatemenssoccer.blogspot.com/ The committee also likes to look at Quad 1 wins A team like West Virginia (currently 12 in RPI) will be hurt by this measure as they have 0 quad 1 wins. They can change that with a win over South Carolina. If SMU wins on Sunday against North Carolina, they will be the only top team with 0 losses against quad 1 opponents. SMU would be a very serving 1 or 2 seed.

https://www.ncaa.com/news/soccer-men/article/2026-11-09/2026-di-mens-soccer-championship-selection-show-info-bracket-schedule The championship bracket will be revealed during a selection show on Monday, Nov. 16 live streamed here on NCAA.com. Twenty three conferences receive automatic bids, with the remaining teams selected at-large — teams must have an overall DI won-lost-tied record of .500 or better.

https://www.topdrawersoccer.com/article/?categoryId=21&articleId=56626&articleTitle=mens-di-conference-final-previews Big East: No. 1 Georgetown vs. No. 3 Akron - 2 PM Eastern, Sunday, November 15 The nationally No. 1-ranked Hoyas are heavy favorites in this match, even if leading striker Mitch Baker is out with an injury. Georgetown won the regular-season clash 3-1, also without Baker in the lineup. However, Akron is a worthy competitor, undefeated in the last nine since that loss and just blitzed Creighton with three goals in the first ten minutes to reach the final.

Games this weekend....that could have an impact on the RPI ranking of the Zips(and obviously seeding for the NCAA tournament) RPI Rankings shown are as of 8:30 am on Friday morning #1 Georgetown vs #5 Akron #2 SMU vs #9 N. Carolina #4 Indiana vs. #22 Washington #7 S. Carolina vs. #12 West Virginia #15 Cornell vs. #41 Penn #51 St. Louis vs. #99 Fordham #122 Cleveland State vs. #114 Purdue Fort Wayne #3 Clemson lost in the ACC quarterfinals to North Carolina #6 Maryland lost in the Big 10 semifinals to Indiana #8 Pitt lost in the round of 16 in the ACC tournament..to Syracuse Personally, I do not feel that 13-3-2 Clemson deserves a top 4 seed...... North Carolina was #23 in RPI before their quarterfinal win over Clemson. If North Carolina upsets SMU on Sunday, where will they end up for NCAA seeding? If Indiana were to lose to Washington on Sunday, would the NCAA committee be OK with the Big Ten not having one of the top 4 seeds? My humble opinion- If the Zips win on Sunday, the zips and Georgetown both deserve to be top 4 seeds.

Thursday Night November 12 Number 17 Cornell advanced to the Ivy league final with a 2-1 win over Harvard. Cornell will play Penn for the Ivy League conference title. Number 2 Georgetown def. Seton Hall 2-0 Number 1 SMU beat Syracuse 3-0. SMU will play North Carolina for the ACC tournament title. Akron opponents.....that are still playing.....(besides Cornell and Georegetwon) Cleveland State will play Purdue Fort Wayne at 1 pm on Saturday. St. Louis will play Fordham at 6 pm on Saturday

Has several quotes from Coach Embick https://gozips.com/news/2026/11/12/mens-soccer-four-goal-shutout-effort-lifts-zips-to-first-big-east-final

She does an outstanding job. I think that she does play by play for most of the women’s sports at Georgetown. Monika is also very intelligent. See her professional background below. Monika Moore (Senior Counsel / Sports Broadcaster): Senior Counsel at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and a freelance on-air talent (play-by-play, color commentator, sideline reporter, and in-studio host) for organizations such as the Colonial Athletic Association, Georgetown University Athletics, Big East Conference, and FOX Sports. She holds a BA in English and Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a JD from Yale Law School

Creighton web site has a 2 minute video.... It focuses on their players at the start of the game they do show 2 of Akron's first 3 goals... and they show Matt Dreas header that was stopped by the GK then they interview Torres being interviewed before half time https://gocreighton.com/news/2026/11/12/-8-mens-soccer-drops-4-0-decision-to-4-akron-in-big-east-semifinals

Outstanding performance this team has improved a great deal over the past 3 to 4 weeks. They are fighting for every ball. They are making quick, well thought out passes. The players and the coaching staff should be very proud of the great strides that they have made. I particularly want to give credit to the midfield players and the wingers. They were tremendous tonight.

As a result of the win, Akron moved from 6 to 5 in RPI Maryland drops to 6

Very unselfish play by the Zips. some great passes by Tommy, Jack Sullivan , Jack Roman and Matt Dreas Cole Perez and Nolan McGuire were standouts on defense

Matt Dreas and Tommy O’Rourke are selected to the Big east first team https://www.bigeast.com/news/2026/11/11/big-east-announces-2026-mens-soccer-regular-season-awards.aspx

Tuesday November November 10th St. Louis advanced to the A10 final with a 1-0 win over Davidson St. Louis will play Fordham in the final Chuckles Guthrie U (aka Fordham) def. league regular season winner Duquesne 5-2 in the other semi. St. Louis #49 this morning in RPI. Chuckles U is #102

Last year, the Big East conference semifinals Started on Thursday November 13th. Last year, the all conference teams were announced on Wednesday November 12th at 10 am on the dot. If they follow the same pattern, tomorrow morning will see the announcement of the teams. They will also announce 6 major awards -1) offensive player of the year ; 2) Defensive player of the year ; 3) GK of the year ; 4) Midfielder of the year ; 5) Coaching staff of the year and 6) Freshman of the year I expect that Mitchell Baker and Matthew Van Horne of Georgetown...will win the offense and Midfielder awards. I really think that Matthew Paiva should win the Defensive player of the year award. Tate Lampman of Georgetown is also very good. They will also announce 33 players....for first team, 2nd team and 3rd team. Announced alongside the regular season awards will be All-Conference teams. The All-BIG EAST First and Second Teams are positional with three forwards, three midfielders, three defenders, a goalkeeper and an at-large vote. The All-BIG EAST Third Team is made up of at least 11 at-large bids. Which Zips ...do you expect to be honored when they announce the teams.? Go, Zips !!! I wish that they did an all freshman team...rather than doing a 3rd team. Cole Perez, Sam Bunch and Londen Sears would all be selected for an All Freshman team.

Akron improved from number 5 up to number 4 in the united soccer coaches rankings Creighton is number 8 (was 10 last week) Georgetown dropped to number 2 https://unitedsoccercoaches.org/rankings/college-rankings/ncaa-di-men/

Congratulations to Sam Bunch https://www.bigeast.com/news/2026/11/9/three-teams-split-final-mens-soccer-weekly-honors.aspx

Akron moves up one spot to #3 in Top Drawer soccer weekly poll https://www.topdrawersoccer.com/college-soccer-national-rankings/men

I am old.....have no clue .....how to attach pictures....like @MDZip and @Zip_ME87 did..... if you go to gaucho dan rpi, There was major movement today in RPI Before today, North Carolina was #23 in RPI North Carolina played #2 in RPI - Clemson today in the ACC conference quarterfinals North Carolina won 3-2 on a golden goal about 5 minutes into the 2nd overtime As a result of defeating #2 RPI, North Carolina jumped all the way from #23 to #11 in RPI North Carolina is now 9-2-4. One of their regular season losses was to Clemson. They have ties against Georgetown and SMU. If North Carolina wins the ACC, they will probably be a top 5 or 6 seed. N. Carolina will face NC State (who upset Wake Forest (15 in coaches poll) in ACC semis NC State improved from #35 to #26 in RPI...with today's win at Wake Forest The Big Ten only has their top 6 teams play in the conference tournament. Amazingly, both quarterfinal games today (3 seed vs. 6 seed and 4 seed vs 5 seed) featured teams that were ranked in the top 16 in RPI #5 Maryland vs. #12 Michigan State #14 UCLA vs #16 Rutgers Rutgers defeated UCLA 2-0 With that win, Rutgers jumped from #16 in RPI all the way up to #9 In the semis, Rutgers will play 2 seed Washington Washington is currently #18 in RPI If Rutgers were to defeat Washington and then win the Big Ten by beating the Indiana vs Maryland winner, Rutgers could end up with a 4 or 5 seed in the NCAA tournament. Maryland defeated Michigan State 2-1 in the other conference quarterfinal In the semis, Maryland will play top seed Indiana as a result of the Maryland win, Maryland moved to #4 in RPI. Indiana dropped to #5. On Friday night, Michigan State was #9 in RPI. Michigan State was #12 before today's loss. Michigan State dropped to #15 after today's loss. Other changes resulting from Sunday's games SMU moved from #3 to #2..as a result of Clemson loss Clemson only dropped to #3 Akron, KC and Pitt all stayed at 6,7 and 8 #9 Louisville dropped to #10 Creighton was #10 this morning.....they are #12 now South Carolina dropped from #11...down to #14 (see note at very bottom) Stanford was #13 this morning...after their well deserved loss to Syracuse, Stanford dropped to #19 Stanford will be playing a road match in the round of 32...that makes me SMILE !!! UCLA was #14 this morning...Losing at home to Rutgers dropped them to #22 West Virginia was #15 this morning... Marshall and West Virginia both won conference tournament games today West Vriginia up to #13 in RPI and Marshall is now #17 in RPI Cornell was not in the top 16 this morning Cornell is currently #16 in RPI I mentioned in Syracuse in another topic. Syracuse was 7-7-2 coming into the ACC tournament. The Orangmen were #45 in RPI Syracuse is now 8-7-3 after a PK win and tonight's great triumph over Stanford. Tonight's win moved Syracuse from #43 to #35 in RPI. Wins over #8 RPI PItt and #19 RPI Stanford in conference tourney...I am rooting for Stanford to make the NCAA tourney. Just don't put them in Akron's bracket !!! I just saw that South Carolina defeated Central Florida 2-1 in their conference quarters...so they moved from #14 to #10 while I was typing this..........whoever wins that conference tournament (W. VA, Marshall, South Carolina, ???)......will probably move up in RPI with wins in semis and finals ....Conference USA is a strong league for Men's soccer Angel Lopez (who was at Akron soccer for Spring 2026) had 1 goal and 1 assist tonight for South Carolina. https://rpiupdatemenssoccer.blogspot.com/

We all saw the big east scores from Friday night one other score from friday night St. Louis 1 Dayton 0 I believe that was an Atlantic 10 conference quarterfinal game St. Louis was the #2 seed in tournament with a 6-2-1 record. Duquesne won the league regular season with a 7-2 record St. Louis will play #3 seed Davidson Tuesday night in the conference semis Saturday November 7th #21 Cornell 4 Columbia 1 Cornell won the Ivy league regular season title with a 6-0-1 record Cornell will host 4 seed Harvard Thursday night in the conference semis Sunday November 8th ACC conference quarterfinals NC State defeated #15 Wake Forest 1-0 in OT Syracuse continued to try to make a mighty run to the NCAA tournament. Syracuse was 13 seed (out of 15) in ACC tournament. Syracuse had already taken down Pitt (6 in RPI at the time) in first round Tonight. Syracuse went out to Stanford (15 in RPI while game was going on) Syracuse battled biased referees and beat Stanford 2-1 on a glorious golden goal at 102:12 Syracuse will play ACC top seed SMU on Thursday in the quarters. SMU demolished Virginia today 6-0. Horizon League quarterfinal Cleveland State 2 Robert Morris 1 (Cle. State was 4-3-3 in league play, Bob Morris was 4-1-5 in league play) Cleveland State will play at top seed Milwaukee on Wednesday night

Akron clearly deserves to be ahead of Pitt (9-4-4 record) in RPI Pitt lost yesterday in the ACC round of 16 tournament to Syracuse...so Pitt is done for the year Louisville also is done for the year after losing in the round of 16 to Stanford. Michigan State could really climb in the RPI if they have a strong Big Ten tournament. Michigan State plays Maryland in the quarters. The winner of that game has to play Indiana in the semis https://uclabruins.com/documents/8ebe828d-0860-44f0-8964-ebf2bab56db3.pdf

Zips will be in the early game on Thursday 2026 BIG EAST Championship Schedule Semifinal – Nov. 12 – Maryland SportsPlex No. 2 seed vs. No. 3 seed -- 5 p.m. (ESPN+) No. 1 seed Georgetown vs. No. 4 seed - 7:30 p.m. (ESPN+) Championship – Nov. 16 – Maryland SoccerPlex Semifinal Winner 1 vs. Semifinal Winner 2 - 2 p.m. (ESPNU)

Neutral site boyds, Md for both semis and final

Creighton wins the midwest with a 2-1 win...they scored winning goal at 75:30 Creighton will play Akron in one semi UConn scored on a PK to tie Georgetown at 87:20 alas, the game ended 2-2 so UConn finishes with 13 points Seton Hall stomped Villanova to finish with 14 points Georgetown vs. Seton Hall in 2nd semi.... Happy that the zips are in...and that they avoid Georgetown in the semits.