[COLLEGE MEN] The NCAA men's soccer committee will deliberate to select the 26 at-large teams that will accompany the 22 conference champions to the NCAA Division I Men's Tournament. Here are the 48 teams Soccer America projects will earn bids.
With nine automatic qualifiers ranked higher than No. 60 and four over 100 in last week's RPI, the NCAA Division I Men's Tournament will have its share of longshots. The weekend results of conference tournament play also left several teams on the bubble, sweating out the deliberations of the NCAA men's soccer committee.
Two teams of note are ineligible for the NCAA Tournament.
Wake Forest's 1-0 loss to Virginia left the Demon Deacons with an 8-9-1 record and therefore ineligible for selection. They had made the Men's College Cup the last four years.
Florida Gulf Coast, winner of the Atlantic Sun regular-season title and ranked by Soccer America for much of the season, is in its NCAA reclassifying period.
On the bubble are South Florida, Loyola Marymount and High Point, among others.
PROJECTED 48:
Big East (6)
Louisville
Notre Dame
Georgetown
Connecticut
Providence
West Virginia
Big Ten (5)
Michigan
Indiana
Michigan State
Penn State
Ohio State
ACC (5)
Maryland
North Carolina
Duke
Virginia
Boston College
Conference USA (4)
South Carolina
SMU
Tulsa
UCF
Ivy (4)
Princeton
Penn
Brown
Dartmouth
Pac-10 (3)
California
UCLA
Washington
Horizon (2)
Butler
Wisconsin-Green Bay
CAA (2)
William & Mary
Old Dominion
Missouri Valley (2)
Bradley
Creighton
America East (2)
UMBC
Boston U.
Southern (2)
UNC Greensboro
Col. of Charleston
Mid-American (1)
Akron
WCC (1)
Santa Clara
Atlantic 10 (1)
Xavier
MAAC (1)
St. Peter's
Atlantic Sun (1)
East Tennessee State
Northeast (1)
Monmouth
Big West (1)
UC Santa Barbara
MPSF (1)
Sacramento State
Patriot (1)
Bucknell
Big South (1)
Coastal Carolina
Summit (1)
Oakland



JAMES SIEDLISKI


