NCAA Men's soccer selection show - Monday November 16th -1 pm

[TennZip]

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.

[TennZip]

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.

[csims0917]

Does a Big East title win give us a chance at #1? Curious what our ceiling is 

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1 hour ago, csims0917 said:

Does a Big East title win give us a chance at #1? Curious what our ceiling is 

 

Absolutely. 

[MDZip]

3 hours ago, csims0917 said:

Does a Big East title win give us a chance at #1? Curious what our ceiling is 

Georgetown, SMU, Clemson and Indiana are ranked ahead of us. Clemson is done but if we beat Georgetown and SMU and Indiana both lose their championship games then maybe?