Big East Conference men's soccer tournament

The Big East Conference men's soccer tournament is the conference championship tournament in soccer for the Big East Conference. The single-elimination tournament has been held every year since the Big East Conference realignment in 2013. In 2023, the tournament expanded from six to eight teams, coinciding with the Big East adding Akron as a single-sport member and increasing its men's soccer lineup to 12 teams.

Big East Conference
men's soccer tournament
SportCollege soccer
ConferenceBig East Conference
Number of teams8
FormatSingle-elimination
Current stadiumMaryland SoccerPlex
Current locationBoyds, Maryland
Played2013–present
Last contest2023
Current championXavier
Most championshipsGeorgetown (5)
TV partner(s)BETV, FS2, FS1
Official websitebigeast.com/msoc

The conference has split into East and Midwest divisions for scheduling purposes, although it will maintain a single league table. Seeding for the tournament is based on regular season conference records. The team with the best overall conference record will earn the top seed; the second seed will be the team from the opposite division with the best conference record.

All remaining seeds will be based on the overall conference table. With the expansion to an eight-team bracket, byes have been eliminated; instead, the top four seeds will host quarterfinal matches, with the survivors advancing to a predetermined site for the semifinals and final.[1] The winner, declared conference champion, receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Division I men's soccer championship.

With five titles, Georgetown has the most Big East tournament titles in the current iteration of the Big East Conference.

Champions

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The following is a list of Big East Conference Tournament winners:

Finals

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Key
  • (1) – Title number
  •   – Match went to extra time
  •   – Match decided by a penalty shootout after extra time
  •   – Winning team reached College Cup
  •   – Winning team won regular season
  •   – Winning team won National Championship
  • D – offensive player
  • O – deffensive player

Sources:[2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

Year Champion Score Runner-up Most Outstanding Players Stadium City Att. Season Champion Teams qualified to
NCAA tournament
2013 Marquette (1) 3–2 Providence Axel Sjoberg (D)
Adam Lysak (O)
(Marquette)
PPL Park Chester, PA 506 Georgetown Creighton, Georgetown, Marquette, Providence, St. John's
2014 Providence (1) 2–1 Xavier Brandon Adler (D)
Markus Naglestad (O)
(Providence)
PPL Park Chester, PA 383 Creighton Creighton, Georgetown,
Providence, Xavier
2015 Georgetown (1) 2–1 Creighton Joshua Yaro (D)
Brandon Allen (O)
(Georgetown)
Shaw Field Washington DC 1,541 Georgetown Georgetown, Creighton
2016 Butler (1) 2–1 Creighton Eric Dick (D)
David Goldsmith (O)
(Butler)
Butler Bowl Indianapolis, IN 1,443 Providence Butler, Providence,
Creighton, Villanova
2017 Georgetown (2) 2–1 Xavier JT Marcinkowski (D) Shaw Field Washington DC Butler Butler, Georgetown
2018 Georgetown (3) 2–0 Marquette Brendan McDonough (D)
Ethan Lochner (O)
(Georgetown)
Shaw Field Washington, DC 1,641 Creighton Georgetown
2019 Georgetown (4) 3–1 Providence Jack Beer (D)
Dylan Nealis (O)
(Georgetown)
Shaw Field Washington DC 1,031 Georgetown Butler, Georgetown,

Providence, St. John's

2020 Seton Hall (1) 2–1 Georgetown Maurice Williams (D)
Mattias Sundell (O)
(Seton Hall)
Shaw Field Washington DC 0 [n 1] Georgetown Georgetown, Marquette, Seton Hall
2021 Georgetown (5) 2–1 (a.e.t.) Providence Stefan Stojanovic (O)
Giannis Nikopolidis (D)
(Georgetown)
Shaw Field Washington DC 1,567 Georgetown Georgetown, Providence, St. John's,
Villanova, Creighton
2022 Creighton (1) 3–0 Georgetown Duncan McGuire (O)
Paul Kruse (D)
/Creighton)
SoccerPlex Boys, MD 3,530 Georgetown Creighton, Georgetown, Seton Hall
2023 Xavier (1) 0–0 (5–4 p) Georgetown Taylor Rhinehart (O)
Johnny Mennell (D)
(Xavier)
SoccerPlex Boyds, MD 4,405 Georgetown Georgetown, Xavier
Notes

By school

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School Titles Title Years App. Last W L T Pct.
Akron 0 1 2023 0 1 0 .000
Butler 1 2016 6 2022 5 2 3 .650
Creighton 1 2022 10 2023 6 8 1 .433
Connecticut 0 29 2023 33 20 3 .616
DePaul 0 8 2016 3 6 3 .375
Georgetown 5 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021 29 2023 22 21 7 .510
Marquette 1 2013 9 2020 4 8 2 .357
Providence 1 2014 22 2023 18 19 6 .488
St. John's 0 29 2023 35 19 4 .638
Seton Hall 1 2020 24 2023 15 16 6 .486
Villanova 0 14 2016 3 13 3 .237
Xavier 1 2023 8 2023 5 6 3 .464
  • Titles listed are only from the 2013 season onward. Team records include all years as noted in the Big East Conference Record Book.[9]

References

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  1. ^ "BIG EAST Releases 2023-24 Olympic Sports Championship and Fall Television Schedule" (Press release). Big East Conference. August 16, 2023. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
  2. ^ "Men's Soccer - Composite Schedule".
  3. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-11-06. Retrieved 2014-11-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-12-01. Retrieved 2014-11-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. ^ 2013 Big East Men's Soccer Tournament
  6. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-04-18. Retrieved 2014-11-18.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. ^ "Georgetown Men's Soccer Wins First-Ever BIG EAST Championship Title".
  8. ^ "Butler Wins BIG EAST Men's Soccer Championship Title".
  9. ^ "2022 Men's Soccer Record Book" (PDF). bigeast.com. Big East Conference. p. 18. Retrieved June 21, 2023.
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