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Basically, it's the soccer version of hockey & lacrosse startup rumors threads. Any rumors of a varsity soccer team being fielded go here, or frustrations about certain schools not having varsity soccer.. .

(11-15-2022 12:47 PM)jimrtex Wrote: [ -> ]Based on field for 2022 DI Men's Soccer Tournament. The tournament field is 48 teams, with 16 national seeds who receive a first round bye. The other teams are paired in the first round played at the home of one of the teams. Getting a home game could be considered the equivalent of a mid-level seed (17-32).

Power 5:

ACC: (8), four seeds: #3 Syracuse, #4 Virginia, #6 Clemson (defending champion), #7 Duke, and four home teams: Louisville, North Carolina, Pitt, and Wake Forest.

AAC: 5, three seeds: #10 Florida International, #11 SMU, #15 Tulsa, one home team: South Florida, one away team: Memphis.

After CUSA collapsed, AAC soccer took three schools moving from CUSA to AAC, Charlotte, Florida Atlantic, and UAB, and CUSA holdover FIU.

Pac-12: (4), three seeds, #2 Washington, #5 Stanford, #8 Oregon State, one home team UCLA.

Pac-12 has six teams, only Cal and affiliate San Diego State failed to make the tournament field.

B1G: (4), one seed, #13 Indiana, one home Maryland, two away: Ohio State, Rutgers

BEast: (3), two home: Creighton, Georgetown; one away: Seton Hall

Mid-Majors:

Sun Belt: (2) one seed #1 Kentucky, one away: Marshall

Kentucky, South Carolina, and West Virginia play as affiliates in Sun Belt because the SEC and BXII don't sponsor soccer.

Ivy: (2) one seed #14 Cornell, one home: Penn

MAC: (2) one seed #16 Akron, one away: Western Michigan

This is the MAC's last season. Three schools are affiliating with the MVC, Akron is moving to an "elite" conference. Chicago State which affiliated with the MAC so that the conference could maintain an AQ is moving to an unknown location.

America East: (2) two home: New Hampshire, Vermont

CAA: (2) one home: Elon, one away: Hofstra

WCC: (2) one home Portland, one San Diego

One-Bid Leagues

ASUN: (1) one seed #9 Lipscomb

SoCon: (1) one seed #12 UNC-Greensboro

A-10: (1) one home St. Louis

Summit: (1) one home Denver

Big South: (1) one away High Point

Big West: (1) one away UC-Riverside

Horizon: (1) one away Cleveland State

MAAC: (1) one away Quinnipiac

MVC: (1) one away Missouri State

NEC: (1) one away Fairleigh Dickinson

Patriot: (1) one away Navy

WAC: (1) Cal Baptist. This is Cal Baptist's first qualification for any DI championship in any sport.

Non-sponsoring conferences.

FBS: BXII, CUSA, MtW, SEC
FCS: Big Sky, MEAC, OVC, Southland, SWAC.

I really wish that the SEC would sponsor men's soccer. Not to replace football at all, but to acknowledge soccer's growing popularity!!

I have really enjoyed following the Montevallo Falcons (my alma mater's team) in soccer this year. It would be nice to add the Georgia Dawgs to that!!!

I would love for Troy to start men's soccer but I doubt it will ever happen.

Maybe Cincinnati could restart their men's program after stopping 2 years ago due to a lack of funds.

Men's soccer would do really well at Florida and Texas. Oh well...

I would love to see FSU add Men's soccer but understand that we'd have to add women's lax and women's bowling at a minimum to make the numbers work

With most of the real talent going pro before entering college, I don’t see many schools investing in soccer programs.

I'm surprised Tennessee has D1 women's soccer but not men's

(11-16-2022 05:00 PM)CaliGlowin Wrote: [ -> ]I'm surprised Tennessee has D1 women's soccer but not men's

Why? Women's soccer is a really good sport to allocate full allowed scholarships to and make a noticeable slice on the Title IX offset for college football. That's why all 14 SEC schools (and both incoming schools) sponsor women's soccer, and only two sponsor men's soccer.