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82 minutes...#3 seed Hoyas lead 2-0 scored on PK at 69 minutes just scored again at 82:04 Hoyas currently lead 17-2 in shots and 10-1 in corners

982 people at last night's game ???? thought that it was interesting to look at the size of the 16 crowds The opening 16 games averaged 1,131 fans, up 27 percent from 2019, the last year tournament teams hosted matches. First Round: Vermont 0 Villanova 1. (Goal: Mackinnon 28. Att.: 1,497.) Providence 2 Marist 0. (Goals: Roman 40, Wilson 67. Att.: 1,404.) St. John's 1 Princeton 0. (Goal: Knapp 43. Att.: 933.) Hofstra 4 Lipscomb 2. (Goals: Infuso 16, Hebbeker 50, Carmichael 52, Vowinkel 54; Wood 14, Bagayoko 26. Att.: 987.) Maryland 0 LIU 1. (Goal: Fall 89. Att.: 1,070.) Virginia Tech 2 Campbell 1. (Goals: McDowell 41, Dover 72; Hernandez 56. Att.: 369.) North Carolina 0 Loyola Maryland 0. (Att.: 1,347.) (North Carolina wins 4-2 on penalties.) Wake Forest 2 Mercer 1. (Goals: Holcomb 18, 66; Gaither 11. Att.: 855.) Charlotte 0 Georgia State 1. (Goal: Proctor 40. Att.: 1,100.) Louisville 0 Bowling Green 1. (Goal: Kale 30. Att.: 672.) Akron 1 Santa Clara 2. (Goals: Ritaccio 26; Kirunda 47, Lopez Perez 102. Att.: 982.) Northern Illinois 2 Oakland 1. (Goals: Maynez 4, 14; Jensen pen. 70. Att.: 308.) Missouri State 0 Creighton 1. (Goal: Gutierrez 78. Att.: 920.) UCLA 2 UC Santa Barbara 1. (Goals: Contell 86, Diaz 103; Martinez 54. Att.: 1,396.) Grand Canyon 0 Denver 1. (Goals: Ohira 24. Att.: 3,124.) Portland 3 Seattle U 2. (Goals: Pereira 27, 30, Frankel 63; Meza 24, Johnson 81. Att.: 1,129.)

Interesting comment from Santa Clara coach......on the tendencies of the zips “We learned how to defend in and around the box, which is where Akron is really good,” Broncos coach Cameron Rast said. “Eleven of their last 13 goals have come from crosses from their wide channel, putting balls in the middle where they punch it in. my comments.....In recruiting this year, the zips need to find a speedy, good passing midfielder (I know, those are hard to find).....who can work the ball up the middle of the field....and make good passes into the box....from the middle of the field.... Toward the end of the year, Malik Henry was working very hard to learn to cut into the middle of the field.....to try to score goals himself.....and to make good passes from the midfield... Malik Henry had an incredible first year for the zips. He has a great burst of speed and made great passes from the wide channel. But, the zips need to be multi dimensional and make progress from the center of the field

“I thought we played well,” Embick said. “I know when you lose sometimes you want to look at something, but you can’t fault anything. The effort was there, the game plan was there. We just didn’t win. We gave up two goals on their only two chances. It hurts, but in terms of the game I thought we really played well tonight.”

Tremendous credit to BG for going on the road to beat highly ranked Louisville Impressive win by Georgia State at Charlotte Akron showed tonight that it is not a top team in the MAC.

do not know.... commentator Chad Welker did not why he was not dressed

Tobias Bak has done a great job stepping in for Malik Henry. Malik has been great all year....but Tobias had a great first half as the right DB

predictions from top drawer soccer....for all 16 games https://www.topdrawersoccer.com/college-soccer-articles/mens-di-tournament-first-round-preview_aid50193

College soccer news...appears to be predicting a Santa Clara win.... as you said it well, zips will have to bring it every game.... weather forecast is looking better..rain supposed to end around 11 am.....zips should be better equipped to handle 38 degrees and 12 mph winds dress warm, zips fans !!! https://collegesoccernews.com/mens-college-soccer-rapid-reactions-to-the-first-round-matchups-in-the-2021-ncaa-tournament/

Kentucky is not 14-4 Kentucky has only lost one game they are 14-1...and have 4 ties....have wins over ACC powers Notre Dame and Louisville and a tie with Marshall and let's worry...about Santa Clara right now Santa Clara beat Portland 3-1....just a few days removed from Portland hammering MAC champ Northern Ilinois 4-0 I like the zips to take care of business at First Energy stadium...but this team needs to focus....on Santa Clara 110% right now

Beacon article....has some new quotes from Jared article does not look like it is subscriber only Hopefully, everyone can access the article https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/sports/college/zips/2021/11/15/akron-zips-mens-soccer-team-host-santa-clara-ncaa-tournament-jared-embick-will-jackson-dyson-clapier/8630504002/

they did vary somewhat....from RPI...when it came to seeding Hofstra was #10 in RPI they were not seeded in the top 16 Penn State was #21 in final RPI the nittanies got a 12 seed Hofstra , if they win first game....has to play 12 seed Penn State so, you could make an argument....that NCAA put Hofstra in as 21st best team Missouri State was #16 in final RPI they played in a horrible, awful league committee did not give them a 16 seed Missouri State has a home game against Creighton Creighton was #26 in final rpi...and has to go on the road Creighton was 8-7-2 and was rated too highly in RPI If Missouri State wins, they have to go play at #6 Tulsa... you can make argument that the committee felt that Missouri State is the 27th best team in the field Missouri State was 17-1-0...their one loss was 3-0 to Tulsa FIU was 18 in final RPI...they got a 13 seed Wake Forest was #34 in final rpi they got a home game and face low RPI Mercer If Wake wins, they face #13 seed FIU you could say that Wake is considered to be the 20th best team in tourney Louisville was #33 in final RPI the NCAA committee gave them a tremendous amount of respect they get to host and play Bowling Green...probably the last at large team in tourney If Louisville wins, they play #15 Indiana.... so, they could be considered the #18 team overall Grand Canyon was #12 in final RPI they did not get a top 16 seed if they win, they have to go to #8 Clemson you could argue....that they were considered #25 in tourney Undefeated St. Louis was #14 in final RPI they got a 10 seed West Virginia was #19 in final RPI they got an 11 seed I think that might be some positive karma....from the MAC and West Virginia absolutely getting hosed last year Charlotte got an at large bid last year...despite West Virginia beating Charlotte 3-0 at Charlotte and WVA also had a win last year over Marshall Personally, I think that Louisville and Wake Forest were treated much too kindly by the committee.... but I think that the committee got things right with Missouri State and Grand Canyon.... I also think that Penn State deserved to be a top 16 seed...despite being 21 in the RPI

BGSU also had a 2-0 win over #13 seed FIU they lost 1-0 to #14 seed Marshall on a goal at 88 minutes BGSU played a tough non league schedule.

Bowling Green - WOW.....they were selected over Michigan and Stanford...!!! the cutoff line for RPI was #37..... NCAA committee did not choose #37 Loyola Marymount they passed on #39 Michigan ; #40 Rhode Island ; #42 Cornell ; #43 and #44 Elon and Northeastern ; #45 Stanford ; #46 VCU ; #48 Central Arkansas.... and they selected #49 Bowling Green as the last at large team in the NCAA

https://www.santaclarabroncos.com/sports/m-soccer/2021-22/schedule Santa Clara.....has record of 11-1-4 one loss was 1-0 at Georgetown they are #54 in Gaucho Dan RPI Last week's united soccer coaches poll had santa clara at #16 today's top drawer soccer poll has santa clara at #23 today's college soccer news poll has Santa Clara at #17

I will go out on a limb...and probably show that I am awful at predictions.... Akron gets in...and gets a home game Michigan will get in and play at Akron Winner of that game will have to play at Notre Dame go, zips 2nd guess....Akron gets in....but NCAA treats them poorly Akron gets sent to play at Louisville in first round Winner has to go play at Kentucky

http://rpiupdatemenssoccer.blogspot.com/search/label/Tournament Projection I agree very much with you .....that it would take an absolute royal screw job by the NCAA for the zips not to get in. If you look at Gaucho Dan's tournament projections (strictly by RPI), the zips are the 17th ranked at large team out of 25. For the Zips not to get in, the NCAA committee would have to embarrass themselves by taking at least 9 teams with a lower RPI than AKRON. As SBZipfan points out, the zips have some impressive results....win over regular season ACC champ Pitt, win over Big Ten regular season and tournament champ Penn State and ties against two top 25 teams...West Virginia and Indiana last 4 teams in..according to Gaucho Dan...34. Wake Forest ; 35. Charlotte ; 36. Georgia State and 37. Loyola Marymount we all know that the NCAA loves their big conferences....I will be shocked if #38 Michigan does not get in....the Big Ten will go nuts if they only get 3 in the tourney let's look at the conference breakdown of the 25 at large teams...projected by Gaucho Dan ACC - 7 Duke, Clemson, Pitt, North Carolina, VA Tech, Louisville and Wake Forest Big East - 4 Providence, Creighton, Villanova and St. Johns Conference USA - 3 Marshall, FIU and Charlotte Mid American Conference - 3 West Virginia, Akron and Georgia State Big Ten - 2 Indiana, Maryland PAC 12 -2 Washington, UCLA West Coast Conference - 2 Portland, Loyola Marymount American East - 1 #11 New Hampshire WAC - 1 #12 Grand Canyon I am sure that the PAC 12 guys on the committee will want their league to have more teams than the MAC....or conference USA I would not be shocked to see Michigan and Stanford make the field...with GA State, Loyola Marymount or Charlotte...most likely to just miss

Missouri State wins 3-0 to make the NVC a one team league first upset of the day....as Vermont (#50 at start of the day) upsets New Hampshire (#10 at start of the day) 1-0 to get American East automatic bid congrats to the catamounts...gaucho dan shows Vermont jumping to 30...and UNH only droppong to 11 New Hampshire drops to 16-1-2 New Hampshire has non league wins over Providence 2-1 and Michigan 1-0....New Hampshire is a quality team Vermont had tied them 1-1 in regular season Grand Canyon leads Seattle 1-0 at half time... if the day ends with only 1 upset ......in the 7 leagues that I high lighted, that is a good day

Vermont goes up 1-0 at 67 Grand Canyon 0-0 at 22

NIU was the dominant team led 22-6 in shots 9-2 in shots on goal 4-0 in corners Congratulations to the regular season and tournament champs.... they are very tough on their home field......rooting for them to represent the MAC well...and to get a first round NCAA win on their home field

I love it.....Great news for the zips Nick Markanich is a beast......... 4 league upsets avoided in the 7 leagues to watch.... and Missouri State is looking great let's go, New Hampshire and Grand Canyon if those happen, I am going to join SBZipfan....on the lock band wagon nerve wracking day......

a few upsets avoided Hofstra beats Elon 3-2 ....so the Colonial should be a one team league Tulsa beats UCF 2-1 to make the AAC a one team league St. Lois defeats Duquesne 2-1.... let's go, Kentucky !!! in games at halftime Missouri State is in good shape as they lead 4-13-2 Evansville 2-0 at half time New Hampshire and Vermont 0-0 at half

Kentucky scores on a PK to tie FAU at 59 However, UCF scores to tie Tulsa....32 minutes left.....

Hofstra looking much better.... 2 goals in first 12 minutes of 2nd half... they lead Elon 2-1 with 33 minutes left Georgetown will be a top 4 seed ....they get golden goal at 94 to beat a very good Providence team