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Can't take seeing "UAA Soccer 2022" in 2024 anymore  :P so just starting clean with an all encompassing thread.

[I'll take that as permission to re-post some things I had put on the 2022 thread]

Rochester posted its 2024 Roster (https://uofrathletics.com/sports/mens-soccer/roster)

A few observations:

- 32 on the roster, which is the same as last year

- Rochester has an embarrassment of experience at GK.  GK Santino Lupica-Tondo, who has been a lock-in starter for the last three years, returns for a COVID year as a grad student.  However, Ben Ziegler, who was a regular starter at Hamilton in '21 and '22, but only played 1 game in '23 as team captain (perhaps due to injury?), has also come to Rochester as a grad student.  They also have a third keeper who is a senior, even though he has played very little.  With new coach Ben Cross coming in off stints as a an asst coach for the first team at Columbus Crew and FC Dallas, I wouldn't be surprised if it was an open competition, with some playing time for Salvador Castaneda from Austin, Texas as well to get him ready to take over next year

- In addition to Ziegler, Rochester picked up a couple of other transfers.

  - Kamuleeden Ibrahim is a grad transfer forward from Skidmore, where he was first team all Liberty League and All Region in 2022 when he scored 15 goals.  Only saw action in 3 games in 2023 (injury?)
  - Tomas White is a grad transfer midfielder from DI Presbyterian, where he played 14 games and started 6 last year

- 7 freshman.  With 10 seniors or graduate students on the roster, that gives Cross some ability to shape his team pretty substantially next recruiting class

University of Chicago has posted its 2024 Roster (https://athletics.uchicago.edu/sports/mens-soccer/roster)

A few observations:

- 35 on the roster, compared with 31 last year

- They lose some important players from last year, including starting GK Will Boyes (although he's now an assistant coach in charge of GKs) and leading scorer and assist man Ryan Yetishefsky, plus some experienced defensive depth in Lucas Gen, Nathan Moonesinghe, and Maina Ngobia.

- One big returning player is Robbie Pino, who was second on the team in goals and assists last year as a senior and comes back as a grad student for a Covid year.  Alex Lee is also back after not playing in the 2023 season.

- One very inexperienced position will be GK.  Boyes was a steady, if not spectacular, GK who played just about every available minute his last two years, and the minutes he didn't play went to his fellow '24 grad Nate Drew.  As a result, none of the GK options have played in college.  Presumably, junior Gabriel Diaz (or maybe even senior Dhirpal Shah) will play, but it's possible it could be an open competition with the two incoming freshman, especially since Coach Philip Kroft recruited them and was not around for the recruitment of the two older keepers.

- Speaking of freshman, there are 10 on the roster, including the two GKs

- There are also two DI grad transfers, both of whom might be candidates to help to fill the gap left by Yetishefsky's departure.  Alex Salvino is a 6'3" forward from Notre Dame and Julius Rauch is a 6'2" forward from Syracuse (and before that a member of the U19 and U23 teams at Borussia Dortmund Academy).

- I found it interesting that Kroft has replaced his lead assistant coach, Michael Mauro, who was a hold-over from the previous head coaches, with his own staff.  Jack Curtain has a good amount of experience and Gustav Ericsson has local and int'l connections as well as DIII experience.  Ericsson comes over after serving as a grad assistant last season at his alma mater North Park, where he played in the 2017 national finals, transferred to DI University of San Diego, and then returned to North Park and was a second team USC All-American as a senior in 2021.  He might provide a little bit of a Swedish connection for recruiting should Kroft want to look in that direction.

Case Western Reserve has posted its 2024 Roster (https://athletics.case.edu/sports/mens-soccer/roster)

A few observations:

- 33 on the roster, compared with 29 last season

- 10 freshman on the roster

- Several upperclassmen newcomers as well.  Midfielder Quinn Flaspohler, who played at Depauw for three seasons and was third team All NCAC last year as a senior is using his Covid year as a graduate student at Case. Phil Vlastaris, a defender, transferred after one season at Ohio Northern where he appeared in 15 games.  Defender Eshwar Challa is a grad transfer from DI University of Tulsa where he played 8 games

- One player who is sadly out of eligibility is Matt Vatne

Recent grad and a stalker of the boards for the last couple years... now I feel comfortable putting my opinion on here.

Anyways, I guess I'll throw my two cents in for the three teams mentioned above.

First Rochester, which I am extremely interested to see their play style under a new coach. After being a team that seemed to rely on long throws & set pieces regularly, I find it hard to believe that a coach who has spent time within the top level of US professional soccer to play that brand. But I guess we'll see the brand they play... at least in their away games because paywall at home  :-\

Next Chicago, they'll be fine. I remember seeing a message about them (I think) last year or a couple years ago. They don't rebuild, they reload. They'll be good, but I agree that losing Boyes/Yeti doesn't help.

Finally Case, which I'll be following closely. Non-conference has tough match-ups again (Ott, Denison, Mount, JCU...) so it will be far from easy. Last season was lead by a defense that allowed 7(?) goals in the regular season, and that will be the key to this season if they want to find themselves successful again. For what it's worth, they return their starting keeper, who arguably could challenge for best in the conference after receiving All-UAA honorable mention in his first year in the starting role as a sophomore.

Carnegie Mellon has posted its 2024 Roster (https://athletics.cmu.edu/sports/msoc/2024-25/roster)

A few observations:

- 37 on the roster, compared with 33 last season

- 9 freshman

- Several transfers, including Robert Lloyd, a midfielder from Wheaton (MA) who was first team all Region and NEWMAC Athlete of the Year, Dallan Schoenberger, a defender who was a regular starter at D1 St. Francis, playing 39 games over 3 years before graduating early, and Rohan Dhingra, a F who transferred from D1 Colgate after seeing no action (I think he suffered a knee injury at some point).

- One regular starter returns for a grad year - forward Diederik Schlingemann who was third on the team in goals scored last season

- Most notable departure is 1st team All-UAA forward Josh Baugh, who led the team with 9 goals and 5 assists last season

Quote from: Kuiper on August 09, 2024, 01:54:48 PMUniversity of Chicago has posted its 2024 Roster (https://athletics.uchicago.edu/sports/mens-soccer/roster)

- Speaking of freshman, there are 10 on the roster, including the two GKs

Fun fact: freshman Eddie Wu is the younger brother of Daniel Wu who won a national championship at Georgetown in 2019 contributing both a goal in regulation and a PK in the shootout during the final vs. UVA.  The final was played in Cary, NC where the family resides.  The brothers are not only talented on the field but are highly respected for academic achievements.

Eddie is a fantastic player.  Look for him to do great things for the Maroons.

For anyone interested

Division 1 Eastern Illinois University begins their regular season vs University of Chicago on ESPN+ at 5 pm Central time.

Quote from: 4samuy on August 22, 2024, 04:29:12 PMFor anyone interested

Division 1 Eastern Illinois University begins their regular season vs University of Chicago on ESPN+ at 5 pm Central time.

Thanks for the heads-up!  It's very odd though.  It looks like Eastern Illinois is counting that as an official game, but it obviously can only be a scrimmage for University of Chicago under DIII rules, which opens it's regular season on Friday, Aug. 30, hosting Gustavus Adolphus. 

I've never heard of that and I'm not sure why the NCAA would allow it as a countable game for Eastern (if they indeed are allowing it).  Chicago hasn't even had a week of preseason training and has no incentive, other than pride, to go for a win. The rule allowing DI schools to schedule one game against DIII opponents that will count in its overall record is only a few years old.  Did Eastern discover a loophole to give them even better odds that they can boost their record (they only won 4 games last year)?  I noticed Eastern was scheduled to play Chicago on Aug. 24th last year and the game was cancelled.

I'm also not sure what the incentive is for Chicago to play Eastern under regular season DI rules.  Presumably, for a scrimmage they could play all or most of the roster and they could agree on playing three 30 minute periods or something like that.  If this is under D1 rules, does that mean they there is no re-entry too (which is new in 2024 I think)?

Imho the odd incentive to play lies with the division 1 institution.  I just don't understand the incentive to play a regular season game against a division 3 opponent.

Maybe an attempt to inflate your record as you try to lure recruits in a rebuilding process.

It does happen at times in NCAA basketball.

I don't believe this affects Chicago at all other than taking it as an exhibition game.

Who knows.

Chicago starting Dhirpal Shah at GK, which doesn't mean he is the new starter, but might indicate he is a leading contender to take over

UPDATE:  And I jinxed him because he caught a corner cleanly and a striker knocked it from his hands into the goal.  I think it was called a foul, but that kind of bailed him out because at 6'5", there's no reason a striker should come anywhere near to the ball when it is in the GK's hands. 

0-0 at the half.  It's somewhat telling that Chicago could substitute out its entire team halfway through the first half and still look pretty even with D1 Eastern's starting lineup and probably better in terms of stringing together passes on the ground.  Eastern had a couple of chances that could have gone in (one of which drew calls for a PK), but Chicago had a few dangerous sequences that forced the GK to make saves or could have resulted in goals as well.

Brandeis has posted its 2024 Roster (https://brandeisjudges.com/sports/mens-soccer/roster)

A few observations:

- 34 on the roster, compared with 25 last season, so a pretty substantial increase

- 12 Freshman

- How do they increase roster size by 9? They have only 3 seniors to replace, and they do so with 12 freshman.  The problem for Brandeis is that all three seniors leaving are important departures - regular starter Nick Dunstan-Maise, 2nd Team All-UAA forward and co-leading scorer Sancho Maroto Tobias and 2nd Team All-UAA forward and co-leading scorer Roee Maor

Emory has posted its 2024 Roster (https://emoryathletics.com/sports/mens-soccer/roster)

A few observations:

- 39 on the roster, compared with 31 last season

- 10 Freshman

- Several transfers to Emory for a graduate Covid year, including two from DI Princeton, defender Whit Gamblin, who played 14 games with 13 starts in 2023 and forward Ryan Winkler, who played 15 games with 6 starts and assists while serving as team captain in 2023, one from DIII Washington & Lee - midfielder Grant McCarty, who was 3rd team All Region in 2023, one from DI Louisville - wing Ryan Nichols, who played in 3 matches in his career, and one from DI Furman - midfielder Kameron Smith, who played 2 games over two years

- One player returning for a Covid year as a grad students - defender Jake Atallah, who was 2nd team All Region last season

- Notable departures include 2nd team All Region GK Peter Wagner, who has transferred to D1 University of South Florida for his Covid year, defender Thomas Toney, and 2nd team All Region forward Colton Myers

Washington University has posted its 2024 Roster (https://washubears.com/sports/mens-soccer/roster)

A few observations for the first roster in almost 30 years where Joe Clarke isn't the head coach:

- 33 on the roster, compared with 31 last season

- 5 freshman, which is a little light for a 30+ player roster, but gives new coach Andrew Bordelon room to shape the roster going forward when he starts to have full control of the pipeline

- Bordelon makes up the roster difference with several impact transfer students doing a grad student Covid year:  6'4" defender Cole Hutson, who transfers from DI Lindenwood, where he played 28 games with 17 starts over 2 years, scoring 6 goals.  He played his first two years at NAIA Central Methodist, where he played 15 games with 3 starts and scored 1 goal.  Forward Jesus Tadeo, who was 1st team all region at Rhodes College, who scored 17 goals and had 16 assists over his 4 years.  Midfielder Gordon Bernlohr, 2nd team All Region and Landmark Conference Offensive Player of the Year at Catholic University, where he played 60 games and started 52 in 3 seasons, scoring 32 goals and having 13 assists.

- 3rd Team All Region midfielder and leading scorer Owen Culver returns for a Covid year

- Notable departures include regular starters D Rabee Hadari and F John Daniels

Quote from: Freddyfud on August 21, 2024, 04:59:02 PM

Quote from: Kuiper on August 09, 2024, 01:54:48 PMUniversity of Chicago has posted its 2024 Roster (https://athletics.uchicago.edu/sports/mens-soccer/roster)

- Speaking of freshman, there are 10 on the roster, including the two GKs

Fun fact: freshman Eddie Wu is the younger brother of Daniel Wu who won a national championship at Georgetown in 2019 contributing both a goal in regulation and a PK in the shootout during the final vs. UVA.  The final was played in Cary, NC where the family resides.  The brothers are not only talented on the field but are highly respected for academic achievements.

Eddie is a fantastic player.  Look for him to do great things for the Maroons.

#7 Men's Soccer Knocks Off Top Ranked St. Olaf (https://athletics.uchicago.edu/news/2024/9/1/-7-mens-soccer-knocks-off-top-ranked-st-olaf.aspx)

Emory is ripping up Oglethorpe 3-0 halfway through the first half.  The second goal was the result of a GK holding the ball too long in possession trying to play it out of the back, but the third goal practically involved Emory just passing the ball around the 6 yard box.  Oglethorpe needs a timeout.

UPDATE:  Oglethorpe gets one back 5 minutes before halftime 3-1 Emory

UPDATE:  Oglethorpe gets a second goal in the 60th minute.  3-2 Emory.  This game is kind of crazy considering it was 3-0 midway through the half.  Major momentum shift.

FINAL:  WOW! Crazy ending.  Oglethorpe ties it up with 53 seconds to go on a scramble in the box.  3-3

Let's see if I can't copy Kuiper...

NYU has posted its 2024 Roster

A few observations:

- 26 on the roster, compared with 28 last season

- 6 freshman and no transfers in 2024

- NYU returns a very experienced side with 10 seniors and 10 regular starters, including 4 year starters:  F Bryce Lexow (5 goals), and defenders Ben Trask and Joss Cohen. Trask was the team MVP in 2023 and Trask & Cohen were Honorable Mention All UAA

- A notable departure is 1st team All-UAA forward Arkan Tahsildaroglu, who led the team with 7 goals and 4 assists last season

Quote from: Freddyfud on August 21, 2024, 04:59:02 PM

Quote from: Kuiper on August 09, 2024, 01:54:48 PMUniversity of Chicago has posted its 2024 Roster (https://athletics.uchicago.edu/sports/mens-soccer/roster)

- Speaking of freshman, there are 10 on the roster, including the two GKs

Fun fact: freshman Eddie Wu is the younger brother of Daniel Wu who won a national championship at Georgetown in 2019 contributing both a goal in regulation and a PK in the shootout during the final vs. UVA.  The final was played in Cary, NC where the family resides.  The brothers are not only talented on the field but are highly respected for academic achievements.

Eddie is a fantastic player.  Look for him to do great things for the Maroons.

Eddie with another goal and an assist today in a 4-2 win over Aurora.  Validated on UC website since I don't trust NCAA.com anymore.

UAA starting to take some shape...

Emory with two strong wins 5-2 over Wash U and 2-0 over Case Western looking the better team in both.

Wash U dominates Brandeis and Brandeis gets 88th minute winner to put Brandeis 2-0 and surprise tied top with Emory.

Chicago and Rochester has a close battle ending 0-0.

Lots of games that look even with shots both ways. Only the Emory games and Wash U/Brandeis seemed imbalanced statstically.

Next week...

Case vs. Rochester is intriguing...Case needs this one more, can't start 0-2-1 and feel good about your chances.

NYU / Wash U also interesting and should be close...both need a win.

Chicago still has to be the favorite over Brandeis.
Emory's early form has them favored over Carnegie Mellon as well.

Big question....will more than one UAA team make the NCAA this year? No one near the top 25 right now and almost guaranteed to beat each other up. Will it be a one bid / no host league in 2024?

Becoming clear that UAA is a 1-bid league this year.

Emory (12 pts) hosts Chicago (9pts) this weekend with a chance to clinch the NCAA bid with a win against the visiting Maroons.

Brandeis (9 pts) and Rochester (7pts) are still alive. A Emory/Chicago tie opens up a 3-way tie possibility with Rochester.

Games left

Emory (12 pts) - home Chicago, home Rochester
Chicago (9 pts) - away Emory, home Wash U
Brandeis (9 pts) - away Case, home NYU
Rochester (7 pts) - home Wash U, away Emory

HTH results in case of 2-way tie

Chicago/Rochester tied; Emory won over Brandeis.
Chicago won over Brandeis; Brandeis won over Rochester

Huh. Wow... Just checked Massey and, yeah, when was the last time the UAA was a one-bid conference??

20 years ago actually...2004 it was just Carnegie Mellon (only 44 bids then). In those 20 years, only three times has it just been 2 bids. Every other year is 3-5 bids.

Two seasons after winning a national championship Chicago finishes sub .500.  Had a difficult schedule but in a soft UAA year, and with a number of players on their roster with rings, the year must be incredibly disappointing.

Quote from: deutschfan on November 10, 2024, 06:28:26 PMTwo seasons after winning a national championship Chicago finishes sub .500.  Had a difficult schedule but in a soft UAA year, and with a number of players on their roster with rings, the year must be incredibly disappointing.

My guess from afar is that the lack of continuity among coaches over the last three years -- especially with Julianne Sitch's late arrival in Spring 2022 (too late to do a lot of her own recruiting) and her departure in Summer 2023 (too late for Philip Kroft to do a lot of his own recruiting) -- hasn't done them any favors.  I don't love coaches who need very specific players for their style of play, but it's hard to build a program, let alone establish or build upon culture, when coaches change so frequently.

Can anyone explain it to me like I'm a 4th grader why NESCAC seems to have benefitted greatly from the parity in the conference and UAA has not?  Does the difference in non-conference winning % account for the variance?  And the overall quality of non-conference competition (where I would think UAA might edge NESCAC)?

Paul,

this year, most all of the UAA did poorly out of conference, this caused the Strength of schedule for UAA to fall across the board and then the in-conference games didn't carry any significance nationally.

the opposite was true for NESCAC, all did well out of conference so then they all are beating each other and getting bonuses for quality wins.

UAA needs to be better in the first part of the season if they hope to go another 20 years with getting multiple bids (last time with one bid was 2004).

I don't think the NESCAC teams played a tough out of conference schedule but they did win the matches they did have

Quote from: kansas hokie on November 10, 2024, 07:24:48 PMPaul,

this year, most all of the UAA did poorly out of conference, this caused the Strength of schedule for UAA to fall across the board and then the in-conference games didn't carry any significance nationally.

the opposite was true for NESCAC, all did well out of conference so then they all are beating each other and getting bonuses for quality wins.

UAA needs to be better in the first part of the season if they hope to go another 20 years with getting multiple bids (last time with one bid was 2004).

I know this isn't the test but I wonder if most folks think Wesleyan and Hamilton are better than or at least equal to every single UAA.  Remember, if not for an AQ, UAA would have had zero.  Rochester, for example, finished just about where they always do...9-4-4 (3-2-2) with their usual well above average non-conference schedule.

NESCAC simply benefits from geography more than the UAA. NESCAC teams can take the pick of the litter when it comes to scheduling good to ok teams in New England which has the highest concentration of division 3 teams.  Way more easier for them to schedule the top GNAC and NAC type teams that will finish the season with a decent win %.  They can more easily rack up the SOS benefit/win % without actually having to play a truly challenging team.  Not that they don't schedule tough matchups, they most assuredly do but they greatly benefit from the aforementioned dynamic more than the UAA does.

The NPI dials also were set so that it doesn't matter at all if you win at home or win away. I know Emory's schedule the best so I'll use it as an example. Flew out west as usual, this time to Colorado College, played (now D2) UT-Dallas and won, then played CC at home in altitude the next day (dominated the match but still lost). The D2 win doesn't go into NPI and the loss is the same as losing at home. Back in the South, Emory had many more away matches than home matches. None of that travel helped the ranking at all. Unless the dials are changed, I am betting you will see teams that are in demand schedule a lot more home games.

Quote from: PaulNewman on November 10, 2024, 07:40:50 PM

Quote from: kansas hokie on November 10, 2024, 07:24:48 PMPaul,

this year, most all of the UAA did poorly out of conference, this caused the Strength of schedule for UAA to fall across the board and then the in-conference games didn't carry any significance nationally.

the opposite was true for NESCAC, all did well out of conference so then they all are beating each other and getting bonuses for quality wins.

UAA needs to be better in the first part of the season if they hope to go another 20 years with getting multiple bids (last time with one bid was 2004).

I know this isn't the test but I wonder if most folks think Wesleyan and Hamilton are better than or at least equal to every single UAA.  Remember, if not for an AQ, UAA would have had zero.  Rochester, for example, finished just about where they always do...9-4-4 (3-2-2) with their usual well above average non-conference schedule.

Will it take the UAA teams a number of years till it becomes a premier conference again?  Can it be fixed by scheduling and winning against top out of conference teams?  For instance, with W&L's scheduling and success, it could be argued that it has dragged ODAC to a two or three team qualifier?

Quote from: SierraFD3soccer on November 11, 2024, 12:41:55 PM

Quote from: PaulNewman on November 10, 2024, 07:40:50 PM

Quote from: kansas hokie on November 10, 2024, 07:24:48 PMPaul,

this year, most all of the UAA did poorly out of conference, this caused the Strength of schedule for UAA to fall across the board and then the in-conference games didn't carry any significance nationally.

the opposite was true for NESCAC, all did well out of conference so then they all are beating each other and getting bonuses for quality wins.

UAA needs to be better in the first part of the season if they hope to go another 20 years with getting multiple bids (last time with one bid was 2004).

I know this isn't the test but I wonder if most folks think Wesleyan and Hamilton are better than or at least equal to every single UAA.  Remember, if not for an AQ, UAA would have had zero.  Rochester, for example, finished just about where they always do...9-4-4 (3-2-2) with their usual well above average non-conference schedule.

Will it take the UAA teams a number of years till it becomes a premier conference again?  Can it be fixed by scheduling and winning against top out of conference teams?  For instance, with W&L's scheduling and success, it could be argued that it has dragged ODAC to a two or three team qualifier?

The UAA's status as a multi-bid conference was artificially boosted by the Regional Ranking system of selection. It was unique among conferences in having teams in several different regions, some of which were fairly weak or lesser populated in men's soccer.  That meant that a lot of UAA teams were regionally ranked pretty regularly by the time they got to conference play and UAA teams had several chances to amass wins against regionally ranked opponents that simply were not available to teams during conference play in conferences where all teams were part of the same region.  Those wins against ranked teams were like the Quality Win Bonuses of today's NPI and few conferences had teams with the travel budgets to compete with the UAA in racking them up.

Under the NPI, UAA is going to have to adjust its scheduling in non-conference games in order to survive as a high-achieving conference.  It no longer has a built-in advantage over other conferences.  Indeed, it now has a built-in disadvantage because the back-loaded conference schedule requires them to find a lot of early non-conference games, which might be harder to do when they don't have something to offer like a regionally ranked win prospect. Now, it's just the risk of a loss against a team that might not be highly ranked for NPI purposes. 

My guess is UAA will pivot from strong early schedules to more of a mix of finding wins in the first half of the season before conference play.  Although the NPI was ostensibly structured by the Men's Soccer Committee to encourage strong scheduling, the reality is that if you are in a conference with strong teams, you may be better off scheduling primarily weaker non-conference opponents, with a few teams playing strong local opponents mixed in that they can beat, like NESCAC does for the most part, knowing that if everyone arrives to conference games with good records, they're going to amass NPI points during conference play.  It's the strong teams in weak conferences that need to find better opponents to guard against missing out completely if they are upset in the conference tournament.

Ignominious end for the UAA with Emory being shut down in first round. Chicago has to be biggest disappointment from national champ in 2022 to sub .500 in two years. After the Emory loss the coaching staff mentioned in their press release the possibility of a NCAA bid. After the Wash U loss the coaching staff declined to even issue a recap of the game. That was total sour grapes.

Quote from: Kuiper on November 11, 2024, 01:08:13 PM

Quote from: SierraFD3soccer on November 11, 2024, 12:41:55 PM

Quote from: PaulNewman on November 10, 2024, 07:40:50 PM

Quote from: kansas hokie on November 10, 2024, 07:24:48 PMPaul,

this year, most all of the UAA did poorly out of conference, this caused the Strength of schedule for UAA to fall across the board and then the in-conference games didn't carry any significance nationally.

the opposite was true for NESCAC, all did well out of conference so then they all are beating each other and getting bonuses for quality wins.

UAA needs to be better in the first part of the season if they hope to go another 20 years with getting multiple bids (last time with one bid was 2004).

I know this isn't the test but I wonder if most folks think Wesleyan and Hamilton are better than or at least equal to every single UAA.  Remember, if not for an AQ, UAA would have had zero.  Rochester, for example, finished just about where they always do...9-4-4 (3-2-2) with their usual well above average non-conference schedule.

Will it take the UAA teams a number of years till it becomes a premier conference again?  Can it be fixed by scheduling and winning against top out of conference teams?  For instance, with W&L's scheduling and success, it could be argued that it has dragged ODAC to a two or three team qualifier?

The UAA's status as a multi-bid conference was artificially boosted by the Regional Ranking system of selection. It was unique among conferences in having teams in several different regions, some of which were fairly weak or lesser populated in men's soccer.  That meant that a lot of UAA teams were regionally ranked pretty regularly by the time they got to conference play and UAA teams had several chances to amass wins against regionally ranked opponents that simply were not available to teams during conference play in conferences where all teams were part of the same region.  Those wins against ranked teams were like the Quality Win Bonuses of today's NPI and few conferences had teams with the travel budgets to compete with the UAA in racking them up.

Under the NPI, UAA is going to have to adjust its scheduling in non-conference games in order to survive as a high-achieving conference.  It no longer has a built-in advantage over other conferences.  Indeed, it now has a built-in disadvantage because the back-loaded conference schedule requires them to find a lot of early non-conference games, which might be harder to do when they don't have something to offer like a regionally ranked win prospect. Now, it's just the risk of a loss against a team that might not be highly ranked for NPI purposes. 

My guess is UAA will pivot from strong early schedules to more of a mix of finding wins in the first half of the season before conference play.  Although the NPI was ostensibly structured by the Men's Soccer Committee to encourage strong scheduling, the reality is that if you are in a conference with strong teams, you may be better off scheduling primarily weaker non-conference opponents, with a few teams playing strong local opponents mixed in that they can beat, like NESCAC does for the most part, knowing that if everyone arrives to conference games with good records, they're going to amass NPI points during conference play.  It's the strong teams in weak conferences that need to find better opponents to guard against missing out completely if they are upset in the conference tournament.

Solid explainer, kuiper.

Cross-posting from the 2025 Schedules thread.  A couple of UAA school schedules have dropped.  At least from these two schools, I'm not seeing the shift to a few more easy non-conference wins that you might expect now that the UAA needs to build their records up before conference play and can't rely upon regional ranking points.  It may be that some of these new opponents were set up before the NPI system or they think that they actually need more solid non-conference opponents because they can't count on the UAA opponents to be strong enough.

Rochester (https://uofrathletics.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule)

Hosts Cortland to open the season and then four straight away games. Only difference in opponents between this season and last is they replace Stevens with York and Oswego State.  The big difference in UAA play is that they had only three games at home last season, where they were 6-0-3, and only one after Oct 12 and they have four at home in 2025, all of which are Oct. 18 or later.  They had the best overall record in the UAA last season, but the late season UAA losses/ties are what prevented them from getting the NCAA bid (their only win in their last four conference games was the only one they played at home).

Brandeis (https://brandeisjudges.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2025)

Drops Vassar, Union, Western New England, and Eastern Connecticut State and picks up Coast Guard, Regis, Wesleyan, John Carroll, and Anna Maria.  Seems fairly similar, depending upon how good Wesleyan and John Carroll are this year.

The shift in Emory's schedule certainly appears to be moving in the direction of more wins. There's four top 60 NPI OOC matches (once Oglethorpe is scheduled) and the rest of OOC opponents are under 150 (more wins, less ties/upsets). Gone are the 60-100 teams that are closer in strength. Overall, the UAA needs to do much better in OOC if there's a chance to go back to multiple at-large bids. Last year was first in 25 years with just one UAA team in NCAA, we'll see what this year brings.

CWRU's schedule is out.

https://athletics.case.edu/sports/mens-soccer/schedule

The out of conference schedule consists mostly of Ohio and Western PA small colleges.  Nothing too strenuous.

Although several of the teams have changed, the Spartans basically used that same scheduling strategy last season as well.

And did better out of conference than in conference.

With the ODAC announcement, I thought it was worth posting the UAA announcement here, just in case anyone missed it.  We're getting to the point where it's probably not if, but when, your conference is going to sign with Flo for the majority of conferences.

FloSports and UAA sign exclusive media rights deal (https://www.flosports.tv/2025/06/20/flosports-and-university-athletic-association-uaa-enter-exclusive-media-rights-agreement-bringing-ncaa-division-iii-conference-to-flocollege/)

QuoteFloSports and the University Athletic Association (UAA) have entered into an exclusive five-year media rights agreement that will begin in the fall of 2025, bringing eight elite universities to the FloCollege platform. Through the agreement, FloSports will provide a global platform to live stream over 650 regular-season and postseason events annually. The partnership further reinforces FloSports commitment to supporting Division III athletics adding a sixth to the FloCollege portfolio and the 15th NCAA conference to the platform.

The UAA is composed of eight prestigious member institutions and is the only DIII conference where all members are elite research institutions, they include: Brandeis University, Carnegie Mellon University, Case Western Reserve University, Emory University, New York University (NYU), University of Chicago, University of Rochester, and Washington University in St. Louis (WashU).

Quote"I speak on behalf of all eight UAA institutions when I say how excited we are to partner with FloSports and bring UAA content to FloCollege," commented Sarah Otey, Commissioner of the UAA. "UAA student-athletes are second to none in their academic and athletic successes – and we are grateful to have a streaming network that will give us an opportunity to appropriately promote them. This agreement will allow our institutions to ensure they can stream UAA competition and promote the UAA brand in a manner that best reflects the exceptional nature of our UAA student-athletes."

I'll post some roster analyses/season previews as they become available and I have time.

Chicago  (https://athletics.uchicago.edu/sports/mens-soccer/roster)

Uncharacteristically weak season for Chicago, finishing 7-8-3 (2-2-3 in the UAA) and missing the NCAA tournament after starting the season 5-1.  They lose a lot of key parts, including the last key contributing links to their NCAA title run in 2022.  They still have significant talent, but the question is whether Philip Kroft can properly take advantage of that talent so they can get back to the consistency of the last decade or so.

Transfers: 

Charlie Wagner is a D3 transfer from Colorado College who had eligibility because he missed his freshman year due to injury.  A 6'2" midfielder/defender and 2-time All-SCAC selection in his two years of action at Colorado College, he played 37 games and started 34 of them over the last two years (although he went out with an injury early in the NCAA game against Pacific Lutheran and missed the second round game against CMS).  Given his high-level experience, including in the NCAA tournament, he could be an impact player for the Maroons if he's healthy.  He certainly shouldn't have trouble adjusting to the UAA travel schedule after playing with Colorado College.

Louis Bock is a D1 transfer from Coastal Carolina who is originally from Luxembourg.  A 6'6" defender who played 33 games, starting 15, during his time there.  He was named Male Scholar Athlete of the Year at Coastal Carolina in 2023-2024, so I'm not surprised he graduated early and decided to spend his last year of eligibility at Chicago getting a Master's in Finance.  You never know how much D1 transfers are going to be focused on soccer when they come to DIII for a grad degree, but he certainly will add a size dimension for the Chicago defense.

Recruits:

D Eli Weene (6'1") - Los Angeles, CA, LA Breakers ECNL
F Giovanni Casselli (6'3") - London, England, City of London HS
D Vaughn DeRath (5'10") - Okemos, MI, Michigan Wolves MLS Next (formerly Columbus Crew Academy)
M William Stewart (5'10") - Atlanta, GA, Southern SA MLS Next
M Drake Wenger (5'6") - Jacksonville, FL, Jacksonville Armada MLS Next (formerly Orlando City Academy)

Key departures:

They lose leading scorer Danny Mendoza, but he only had 7 goals and 4 of them were scored very early in the season in blowouts against Kalamazoo and North Central.  Biggest losses are most of the last contributors to the national championship run, including Lyndon Hu, who was a fixture in the midfield the last 4 years, starting 79 of 84 games in which he played, including during Chicago's national championship run.  He was second in the team in minutes played last year behind GK Dhirpal Shah, who also graduated.  Other key '22'ers departing include Jack Leuker, who was another key fixture on defense and, like Hu, started 79 of 84 games he played over 4 years and was UAA defensive player of the year in 2023 and midfielder Robbie Pino, who departs after finishing a disappointing grad year that was cut short by injury.   

Roster analysis/season preview

Washington University (https://washubears.com/sports/mens-soccer/roster)

Wash U went 8-5-3 in Andrew Bordelon's first season after taking over from Joe Clarke, who retired after 28 years at the school.  The program was adrift a little when Clarke retired, qualifying for the NCAA tournament only once since 2016 - in 2021 - and finishing .500 or below every season during that period except 2019, when they were 8-7-1.  So, from that perspective, the 2024 season was a positive sign in that it was the second best record for the program in the last seven years. The most impressive victory was a 2-0 win over then-#14 Ohio Northern.  They have a schedule built for success as well as a strong set of returning defenders.  They just need to generate offense against the tougher teams and get more than two wins in the UAA.

Key Departures:

The only offensive contributor who departs is grad student Jesus Tadeo, a Rhodes transfer who had 2 goals and 4 assists last season in a role off the bench.  On defense, they lose grad student Cole Hutson, who started 8 games.  Perhaps the most meaningful loss was midfielder Eugene Heger, a two-time All UAA honorable mention player who started 14 of 16 games and had 2 goals and 2 assists. 

Key returners:

The Bears had 4 players on the All UAA teams in 2024 and all four return:  Quentin Gomez (D), who was named the UAA Defensive Player of the Year and 1st team All UAA, Zach Susee (F), who was the leading scorer and assist man in 2024 and was also 1st team All UAA, as well as two honorable mention all UAA players - Nathan Szpak (D) and Carter Sasser (D).

Freshman:

14 freshman, which seems like a pretty massive haul for a program that only had 7 seniors/grad students last season.  It suggests Coach Bordelon is planning on upgrading or at least making the team deeper and more competitive at a bunch of positions.

Third installment of the Roster Analyses/Season Previews:

Rochester (https://uofrathletics.com/sports/mens-soccer/roster)

Rochester had a decent record last season at 9-4-4, but they suffered from the general down year of the UAA, where a winning record at 3-2-2 wasn't going to be good enough to win the auto bid or to qualify under the NPI.  They have some talent returning, but they also have some question marks. 

Key Returners:

First team all UAA and second team all region MF Milos Bisenic is the most critical returner, having scored 5 goals (including 3 game winning ones) and contributed 4 assists last season.  Grad student and Skidmore transfer Kamal Ibrahim, who was the second leading scorer last season and a second team All-UAA player, also returns and plays a big role up top.  They weren't a prolific offense, but with rising sophomore Johnny Makula and rising junior Alessio Cristanetti-Walker, they have continuity and depth up top.

Key Departures: 

While they will have vets on offense, they have some glaring holes on defense.  GK Santino Lupica-Tondo, a four-year starter and All-UAA players, departs and they really never developed a goalkeeper to take over for him.  Last season, he played every single minute.  The only returning goalkeeper with any college experience is Hamilton transfer Ben Ziegler, who played 1 game at Hamilton in 2023 before getting injured and didn't play at all in 2024.  He did have 24 starts in 2021 and 2022 and was decent, so they may be hoping he is healthy and can fill the GK shoes while they develop a homegrown GK.  Making things worse, they lose defender Jeremiah Anandarajah, who started all 17 games last season and was second in minutes to only Lupica-Tondo.  Kol Bassuk may have to pick up the slack on the backline.  They also lose first team All UAA midfielder Nick Swanger.

Transfers/Grad students:

No transfers for the first time in a few years, but they do have Ziegler, Ibrahim, and regular MF starter Tyler Moran returning for grad years.

Freshman:

They have 8 freshman coming in to replace the 7 players who left.  Surprisingly, it doesn't look like any of them are goalkeepers, which will leave only one GK on the roster next year, which suggests they will be bringing in some in the next recruiting class.

Carnegie Mellon (https://athletics.cmu.edu/sports/msoc/2025-26/roster)

CMU was 8-4-5 last season, notching some good wins, such as against Ohio Wesleyan, but really had trouble away from home, finishing 2-2-5, compared with 6-2 at home.  Ties against Wash U, Chicago, and Case Western basically summed up the UAA's problems last season and why only the champion got the auto bid.  I like the team's possession style, but I don't think they have the strikers to make it work when they get to the final third.  How they do this year may depend upon whether they found any new ones for the team.

Key Departures:

Leading scorer and point getter Jake Slackman graduates (10g/2a), as does 2nd team All UAA defender Eli Kampine, who started almost every game on the backline for the team over the last two seasons.  Other regular starters who have departed are defender Dallan Schoenberger and midfielder Robert Lloyd, both of whom were graduate students and brought a lot of experience to the team.

Key Returners:

Midfielder Tristan Gonzalez returns for his sophomore year after being named UAA Rookie of the Year and 2nd team All UAA.  They also return a number of starters on the backline, including Brendan Schonwetter, Henry Hawthorn, and Sandor Preda, who will have to help make up for Kampine's depature, as well as GK Kai Yamamoto, who started 9 of the last 10 games of the season and may have secured the spot coming into 2025.  A wildcard returner is forward Rohan Dhingra, a former player at Colgate (D1), who tore his ACL, had surgery in late January 2024, transferred to Carnegie Mellon, and played 5 games/started 3 and had 2 assists in the beginning of the 2024 season before going out again (probably came back a bit too quickly).  If he can come back fully healthy this time, he might be able to contribute to the offense. 

Transfers:

Zack Moskowitz, a forward who played 45 games, starting 34, in three years at Oberlin, transfers for a grad season at CMU.  He wasn't much of a scorer for the Yeomen, but he does bring experience and some size up top.

Freshman:

8 freshman coming in.

Case Western (https://athletics.case.edu/sports/mens-soccer/roster)

After finishing 10-3-4 and reaching the second round of the NCAA tournament in 2023 before falling to Cortland in PKs, Case's performance took a dip in 2024, when it finished 5-5-6.  It did reasonably out of conference, tying Denison and beating John Carroll. but it fell on its face in UAA play, going winless with 4 ties.  With that many ties, it's hard to count out Case for 2025 as many games turned on small things, but they lose some strong players.  The positive is that they have enough experience returning, plus a strong GK, to make a run if they can generate some offense. 

Key Departures:

One big loss is 2nd team All UAA and leading scorer forward Kysen Kroeger, who started every game in 2024.  Rising sophomore and second-leading scorer Amir Awais showed he can help fill Kroger's shoes though.  He scored fewer goals than Kroeger (4 v. 7), but Awais' goals came in some of the toughest games (Denison, Rochester, Wash U, and Carnegie Mellon).  The question is whether he can get adequate service considering Case loses 2nd team All UAA midfielder Lukas Dalakais, who led the team in assists.  Other regular starters or contributors who depart include midfielder Kellen Landenfield and defenders Eshwar Challa and Josh Cook.

Key Returners:

Bradley Winter was a strong presence in goal in 2024 and returns after being named 2nd team All UAA. He also gets back regular starters Cormac Apostolides, Cameron Thyer, and Phillip Washington on the back line. Case will continue to be strong defensively.  They'll need Awais and someone else, however, to step up and move the offense forward, including providing service. 

Freshman.

9 freshman.  Micah Rossen is a promising midfielder from SoCal who played several years with LAFC Academy.  He has good vision and also a crackerjack shot, but he'll probably need some time to adjust to the pace and physicality.

Brandeis (https://brandeisjudges.com/sports/mens-soccer/roster)

While most other teams in the UAA were down last season, Brandeis was up, finishing at 9-5-2, which was their first winning season since before the pandemic and a big turnaround from 2023 when they were 3-8-6.  They also finished 2nd in the UAA with a 5-2 record, just missing out on the auto bid to Emory after losing to them 1-0.  This doesn't look like a one year fluke either.  Most of Brandeis' offensive talent returns.  If they can make up for some losses on defense and at GK, they should be even better this season.

Key Departures:

Biggest positional loss is at goalkeeper where Quinton Wrabley graduates.  He started and played every minute of every game last season and played every minute of all but one game the season before. The player who played that 1 game in 2023 was a junior last season, but doesn't appear on the roster for 2025. Consequently, the only returning goalkeeper is a rising senior who hasn't played a minute in college.  The other regular starters graduating on defense include Christian Godhino and 2nd team All UAA player Andres Gonzalez.  On offense, the team loses 2nd team All UAA forward Eli Mones.  I assume that means he was valuable, but he only played 9 games and started 4 (scoring 3 goals) after missing 2022 and 2023.  Two of his goals were game winners, including one in the 88th minute that truly won the game for them, but he wasn't available very often, so Brandeis is already accustomed to his absence.

Key Returners:

First team All UAA midfielder Nico Beninda, who led the team in goals and assists, returns, as does 2nd team All UAA forward Maddox Yu and honorable mention All UAA players midfielder Ranier Osselman-Chai and forward Elan Romo.

Transfers:

Biggest addition to the team may be Adam Henry, a graduate goalkeeper who was at DI UMKC for two seasons, where he played 2 games in 2022 (starting 1), before transferring to U Mass Lowell, where he started 11 games in 2023, but didn't play in 2024.  Given Brandeis' need at goalkeeper, it seems like they are counting on him to contribute.

Freshman:

With so few seniors graduating, they only have 3 freshman coming on board.

Emory (https://emoryathletics.com/sports/mens-soccer/roster)

Emory had a so-so record in 2024, finishing 8-7-2, but it was 5-1-1 in conference and it secured the auto bid to the NCAA tournament, falling to Lynchburg in the first round.  Given the large number of All-UAA and regular starters who are returning, Emory might be poised to repeat this year if one or more of its large class of grad transfers pays off.

Key Departures:

Biggest departures are leading scorer, first Team All UAA and UAA offensive Player of the Year Ryan Winkler, who had 10 goals and 2 assists, including 3 game winners, in his one year as a grad transfer from Princeton, and second team All UAA defender Jake Attalah, who started 41 of his 61 games at Emory in his 4 years.  Other regular starters/contributors who have left include midfielder Attila Sepkin, wing Sebastian Rincon, and forward Ryan Hayes.

Key Returners:

Emory has 4 All UAA players returning:  1st team forward Lorenzo Avalos (4g/5a), 1st team midfielder Josh Grand (2g/10a), 2nd team defender Julian Hee, and honorable mention defender Michael Constant. Other regular starters returning include defender Owen Clark and goalkeepers Kiernan Skelly and Sharon Dodwani, who split the starts last season.

Transfers (including a name many DIII men's soccer followers will recognize):

Defender Christopher Marchant from Bradley (no appearances)

Forward Will O'Connor from St. Bonaventure (1 goal and 1 assist in 4 games played in 2024)

Midfielder Danny Moya from Temple (played 25 games over 3 years from 2021-2023)

Forward Ignacio Cubeddu from Amherst (Hard to believe he still has eligibility, the former All Region (2nd team in 2023 and 3rd team in 2021) and 1st team All NESCAC player only played 1 game in 2024 before suffering a season-ending injury)

Midfielder Jack Burgess from University of South Carolina (and Boston College before that) (41 games played over three seasons with 18 starts.  Scored 5 goals and 3 assists)

Goalkeeper Geoffrey Halpern from Villanova (on the roster for two years with no action)

Freshman:

6 freshman

Thoughts on first weekend for UAA teams?

Numbers in parentheses are NPI rank at end of last year.

Chicago with quality loss against Gustavus Aldophus (6) and a tie with St. Olaf (23), top competition there.

NYU two losses, Rowan (38) and Vassar (43), but both were top teams last year. Still a result would have been good for the conference.

CMU win against Baldwin Wallace (214) is as exptected, tie to Allegheny (282), ugh.

Brandeis, two wins, good start, Coast Guard (51) and Suffolk (134).

Case, similar, two wins, Fransciscan (71) and Juniata (65), quality wins.

Rochester, terrible weekend, 4-0 and 4-1 losses, Cortland (31) and Nazareth (123), those scorelines are never good.

Wash U - 8-1 over Milliken (115) is quite impressive, 2-1 loss to Westminster (341) is equally shocking

Emory - wins over Washington & lee (42) and Covenant (34), great start against strongest out of conference games they will play.

Overall, don't think UAA did enough this weekend to give hope that it will be more than a one bid conference again this year. Case, Brandies, and Emory starting well; Chicago up there playing top teams; Wash u and CMU confounding; NYU next...then Rochester in the back.

Looking forward this week, there's a bunch of games that UAA teams should be winning, let's go 12-0 this week!

Kansas hokie, your NPI rank numbers are not from the end of last year-- They are from the NPI report of October 27, 2024-- going into conference tournament play for most d3 conferences.   These were not the NPI rankings at the time of the selections on November 10, 2024.   I am posting an update with the NPI rankings at the time of selection-- those are the true final NPI rankings.  I also went to the Brandeis at Suffolk game yesterday and have some thoughts on that game as well, which I will post today.   It will be harder to discuss the UAA this year with casual d3 fans due to the requirement of getting a FloSports subscription to watch most of the games involving UAA teams. 

Here were the NPI rankings of the non-conference opponents that UAA teams played this weekend at the time of selection for the 2024 NCAA DIII Men's Soccer Tournament on November 10, 2024.  If a team is listed as an AQ, it means that the team won their conference's automatic bid to that tournament.

Source: http://status.ncaa.org/selection_rankings/nitty_gritties/40157

UChicago--  Gustavus Adolphus (#11-- at-large pick #5), St. Olaf (#15-- MIAC AQ)
NYU-- Rowan (#29-- NJAC AQ), Vassar (#39-- Liberty League AQ)
Carnegie Melllon-- Baldwin-Wallace (#216), Allegheny (#267)
Brandeis-- US Coast Guard Academy (#91), Suffolk (#110-- CNE AQ)
CWRU-- Franciscan (#60-- Presidents Athletic Conf AQ), Juniata (#78)
Rochester-- Cortland (#22-- SUNYAC AQ), Nazareth (#153)
Wash U-- Millikin (#100), Westminister (MO) (#336)
Emory-- Wash & Lee (#18-- ODAC AQ), Covenant (#37)

Lowest ranked NPI team that got an at-large bid last year was Buffalo St with an NPI ranking at #33. 

Quote from: kansas hokie on August 31, 2025, 10:25:08 PMThoughts on first weekend for UAA teams?

Numbers in parentheses are NPI rank at end of last year.

Chicago with quality loss against Gustavus Aldophus (6) and a tie with St. Olaf (23), top competition there.

NYU two losses, Rowan (38) and Vassar (43), but both were top teams last year. Still a result would have been good for the conference.

CMU win against Baldwin Wallace (214) is as exptected, tie to Allegheny (282), ugh.

Brandeis, two wins, good start, Coast Guard (51) and Suffolk (134).

Case, similar, two wins, Fransciscan (71) and Juniata (65), quality wins.

Rochester, terrible weekend, 4-0 and 4-1 losses, Cortland (31) and Nazareth (123), those scorelines are never good.

Wash U - 8-1 over Milliken (115) is quite impressive, 2-1 loss to Westminster (341) is equally shocking

Emory - wins over Washington & lee (42) and Covenant (34), great start against strongest out of conference games they will play.

Overall, don't think UAA did enough this weekend to give hope that it will be more than a one bid conference again this year. Case, Brandies, and Emory starting well; Chicago up there playing top teams; Wash u and CMU confounding; NYU next...then Rochester in the back.

Looking forward this week, there's a bunch of games that UAA teams should be winning, let's go 12-0 this week!

Some quick thoughts on my experience attending yesterday's Brandeis at Suffolk game in person--

(1) How many D3 teams do you know play their home soccer games literally next door to a major international airport?   While the University Athletic Association is sometimes known in D3 circles as the "Airplane" Conference due to UAA teams flying out for away games, the on campus fields at UAA schools are not literally within walking distance of the airport terminals-- they are usually a few miles out.   Suffolk University, on the other hand, has been playing their home soccer games since 2015 in East Boston Memorial Park, which is literally next door to Logan Airport.  Thank goodness the flight patterns do not have the planes travelling over the stadium, but you can see the control tower from the field.   When I got to Boston's South Station yesterday, I took the MBTA's Silver Line Bus 3 to the Blue Line's MBTA Airport Station, and the park entrance is right there at the Airport subway stop in Boston.  From the entrance, it is about a 5 minute walk to the stadium.  The Brandeis team arrived from campus using 5 rental vans to travel all of the players, but the Suffolk players regularly travel on the MBTA from campus to go to practice and to leave the field after the games-- when the game was over and Brandeis won, I saw some of the Suffolk men's soccer players at the Airport station around 3:30 PM when I decided to take the "T" over to Charlestown, MA to go to the 99 Restaurant for my dinner.   Unfortunately, my ride home on the 5:50 PM commuter train from Back Bay Station back to Canton Junction was packed with Red Sox fans coming home from the ball game, so I was barely able to get a seat.

(2) I watched the game next to the father of Brandeis's #9 Elan Romo.  Elan's dad flew in from Florida for the first 2 Brandeis games, and recognized some of the Suffolk players as well, as a few of the Suffolk players were Elan's old high school teammates from Cypress Bay School back in Florida.

(3)  This was the first time that Brandeis soccer (men or women) played a soccer match in East Boston, and the 2nd meeting all-time between Brandeis and Suffolk-- the first meeting last year ended in a 0-0 tie, so yesterday was the first time both teams scored against the other side in a regular season match.  Elan Romo scored Brandeis's first ever goal in the very short Suffolk series so far, while Suffolk's first goal scored against Brandeis came from a low major d1 transfer from Merrimack who did not score any goals in his previous 2 seasons with the Merrimack Warriors.  The match was a hard fought contest, and I was fortunate to see Brandeis beat Suffolk for the first time in program history on the first trip for the Judges to East Boston to play a college match rather than just passing through on the way to the airport gate to take off for another UAA city.

(4) It seems that Brandeis #99 Tyler Correnti is ready to step in as the #1 keeper for the Judges this season based on his performance in playing all of the minutes the first 2 games this season. 

Unfortunately soccer is not one of the sports where an unofficial season long NPI daily ranking is currently being done by a service like D3DataCast, so I will have to wait until October when the official NPI summary reports for soccer start coming out, but it would not be surprising if the UAA ends up as a one bid league on the men's side again.   The UAA on the women's side more than makes up for multiple at-large bids for soccer in that respect.    For the men's side in soccer, it seems like NESCAC is first among leagues when it comes to at-large bids, and then comes everyone else.  We will see if that remains the case this season. 

My apologies for using an old link and reporting incorrect NPI numbers from last year, thank you for correcting them. It's one of the data points that gives context about the results. UAA teams can win every game next weekend and might be favorites in each one of them, hope the results go as expected!

UAA this weekend (last season NPI in parentheses)

Friday

Emory (55) vs. NC Wesleyan (85)
Wash U (67) vs. Elmhurst (231)

Saturday

Rochester (53) @ Alvernia (112)
NYU (171) @ Rutgers-Camden (120)
Case Western (95) vs. PSU-Behrend (212)
CMU (61) vs. Otterbein (52)
Brandeis (54) vs. Regis (295)
Chicago (90) vs. MSOE (84)

Sunday

Emory (55) vs. Wisconsin Lutheran (264)
Wash U (67) vs. Illinois College (173)

What do you think is the overall weekend record for UAA? 10 matches. I'll go with 6-1-3, NYU with the loss, Rochester, Chicago, and CMU with ties, all on Saturday.

The Brandeis v Regis game just went final over the past half hour today.   The game was suspended yesterday due to severe weather with just over 7 minutes in the first half, but Brandeis won 3-0 today.  All 3 Brandeis goals over Regis were scored today.  Regis is a small Catholic college located about 3 miles from Brandeis in the next town over in Weston, MA.   This was the first ever meeting between the two men's soccer programs, but I think it is best if you just read the box score and the written recap that will be written by the Brandeis sports information office later today and move on.   The rain really affected the camera lens on both days, making watching the game difficult.  I did not see the game live, but I went through the on-demand replay feed to see the goals.   The play by play and color commentator are new to Brandeis athletics-- I think that they are student interns who are covering Brandeis athletics for the first season.   Jonah White did not do the Brandeis home games either of the first two weekends-- if he has moved on to do MIT or another endeavor full time, the Judges will miss him on the Brandeis microphone.   Dan Strafford, the backup play by play person last season, covered the Brandeis volleyball and women's soccer home games the first week, but was not doing the Brandeis soccer games this week.  The weather also prevented many people from attending in person-- really heavy rain at times, with severe weather in Waltham suspending the men's soccer contest late in the first half on Saturday.  The same system that affected the Brandeis men's soccer game produced a tornado in the Worcester, MA area.   I do not think Brandeis will be getting any quality win bonus points out of this win-- but it is another win for the Judges. 

UAA went 9-0 this weekend with one postponement, the whole conference should be happy about that! Chicago and CMU's wins likely the most impressive in terms of beating a quality opponent.

this week NYU gets a big test against Stockton Monday, Chicago plays a rising Wheaton (IL) team Wednesday, Then CMU hosts John Carroll (3-1, could be a good test) and Rochester gets tested with undefeated Hobart next Saturday.

All other UAA matches, the UAA team should be decent favorites. 

Let's get some UAA convos going...

Is the UAA going to be a one-bid league again this year? Emory looking good, Case is rolling, but it's all non-conference at this point.

Thoughts?

Chicago has played a TOUGH schedule and done well with it, they will be strong. Wash U also talented, North Park win is a good one for them. Brandeis still in there too with Case.

Emory non-con will be a stellar record it seems so if they don't win UAA then it's at least two bids.

if we used today's Massey ratings in place of NPI and gave out bids today...UAA would have 5.

Last year, at large cut-off was 35, right now those 5 are all top 25 teams in Massey. Remember, United Soccer coaches poll makes no real impact in bids now, it's fun to look at, but means nothing in the end. We'll see what NPI says in a month.

Quote from: kansas hokie on September 18, 2025, 08:46:54 AMChicago has played a TOUGH schedule and done well with it, they will be strong. Wash U also talented, North Park win is a good one for them. Brandeis still in there too with Case.

Emory non-con will be a stellar record it seems so if they don't win UAA then it's at least two bids.

if we used today's Massey ratings in place of NPI and gave out bids today...UAA would have 5.

Last year, at large cut-off was 35, right now those 5 are all top 25 teams in Massey. Remember, United Soccer coaches poll makes no real impact in bids now, it's fun to look at, but means nothing in the end. We'll see what NPI says in a month.

I don't quite agree on UChicago. When you look at this year's schedule versus the previous decade or so, they have subtly shifted to easier non-con opponents than in years past (adding MSOE and Aurora and not playing Calvin, for example). I don't blame them, they need wins. Their previous coaching regimes (Babst/Flinn/Sitch) always scheduled the hardest possible slate because they were testing themselves for the postseason and knew they were good enough to win 80 percent of those games or more.
Unfortunately, UChicago is still in rebuild mode after last year's disaster season. Their defense is quite impressive, but their anemic offense will be their undoing. They're likely a middle of the pack UAA team at this point, and I don't see them making the postseason, which is the minimum standard for a program of their caliber. Trust me, I'd love to see the Maroons return to their former glory, but it could take years to get there.

MSOE is hardly a walk in the park. The Raiders repped the NACC in last season's D3 tourney and gave Gustavus Adolphus a legitimate battle in the first round up in Saint Peter before falling by a score of 2-1. In fact, the Raiders went to the other side of the lake and thumped Calvin at Zuidema Field, 5-1, in this year's season opener. They'll contend for the NACC title again this season, which is not the same thing at all as being a top-half UAA team -- but there's always two or three NACC teams every year that have to be taken seriously by teams from tougher conferences.

Quote from: Gregory Sager on September 18, 2025, 11:26:13 AMMSOE is hardly a walk in the park. The Raiders repped the NACC in last season's D3 tourney and gave Gustavus Adolphus a legitimate battle in the first round up in Saint Peter before falling by a score of 2-1. In fact, the Raiders went to the other side of the lake and thumped Calvin at Zuidema Field, 5-1, in this year's season opener. They'll contend for the NACC title again this season, which is not the same thing at all as being a top-half UAA team -- but there's always two or three NACC teams every year that have to be taken seriously by teams from tougher conferences.

MSOE is definitely progressing, but swapping them in for the likes of Calvin is a purposeful move to have a more winnable game, regardless of MSOE's result with Calvin this season. It is soccer and anyone can be beaten on any given day (look at UC's relatively dismal performances against Carthage over the years, for example). My point is the Maroons used to put together the hardest/top 3 schedule in the nation consistently, and they are shifting away from that for more winnable games. My confidence in the program is at a low ebb, as this feels like a return to the old days of UC being a middle of the pack, average-to-decently good kind of team whose time in the national spotlight is behind them.

Good stuff here, I don't know the midwest teams like you all do, nice read.

I think we are seeing a number of teams in UAA move away from tougher opponents in the NPI era. Emory was scheduled at some point to play Rhodes this weekend and swapped that for University of the Ozarks. Don't know why at all, just that there was a change. Emory never could play an OOC schedule like Chicago, but it seems weaker this year and more pointed to getting away wins that have NPI value. the early Massey ratings seem to support that with 5 UAA teams in top 25 there but hard to argue UAA deserves that many at this point.

Quote from: blue_jays on September 18, 2025, 12:13:12 PM

Quote from: Gregory Sager on September 18, 2025, 11:26:13 AMMSOE is hardly a walk in the park. The Raiders repped the NACC in last season's D3 tourney and gave Gustavus Adolphus a legitimate battle in the first round up in Saint Peter before falling by a score of 2-1. In fact, the Raiders went to the other side of the lake and thumped Calvin at Zuidema Field, 5-1, in this year's season opener. They'll contend for the NACC title again this season, which is not the same thing at all as being a top-half UAA team -- but there's always two or three NACC teams every year that have to be taken seriously by teams from tougher conferences.

MSOE is definitely progressing, but swapping them in for the likes of Calvin is a purposeful move to have a more winnable game, regardless of MSOE's result with Calvin this season. It is soccer and anyone can be beaten on any given day (look at UC's relatively dismal performances against Carthage over the years, for example). My point is the Maroons used to put together the hardest/top 3 schedule in the nation consistently, and they are shifting away from that for more winnable games. My confidence in the program is at a low ebb, as this feels like a return to the old days of UC being a middle of the pack, average-to-decently good kind of team whose time in the national spotlight is behind them.

A 5-1 score indicates something more than an "anyone can be beaten on any given day" outcome, as per this season, although it appears that Calvin has at least somewhat found its footing since then. But otherwise I agree with you that Calvin is a more formidable opponent than MSOE over the long haul and thus a better bet to provide stiff competition for Chicago in a given season.

Some good matchups this weekend...

Brandeis at Babson
Case Western Reserve at Kenyon
WashU hosts Wheaton (IL)
Rochester hosts Clarkson
Chicago hosts UW-Eau Claire

I'm going all UAA in those with the exception of CWRU/Kenyon, not totally sold on Case yet and Kenyon is usually pretty good. Others as well, but those were the ones that jumped out to me.

Quote from: VASoccerDad on September 19, 2025, 12:46:45 PMSome good matchups this weekend...

Brandeis at Babson
Case Western Reserve at Kenyon
WashU hosts Wheaton (IL)
Rochester hosts Clarkson
Chicago hosts UW-Eau Claire

I'm going all UAA in those with the exception of CWRU/Kenyon, not totally sold on Case yet and Kenyon is usually pretty good. Others as well, but those were the ones that jumped out to me.

Good Saturday for the UAA...all teams above won except for Case, who drew against a tough Kenyon team.

CMU and Emory also with wins and an NYU draw.

yes, great weekend for UAA, with only one more week of non-conference matchups, it looks like UAA has done better this year and is in position for multiple NCAA bids when conference season is over. We won't have a real sense of it until NPI comes out (they should publish it sooner in my opinion), but so far, it looks positive. lots of helpful wins this weekend across UAA.

5 out of the 8 UAA teams are ranked in this weeks top 25. As a comparison, the NESCAC only have 4 ranked. Obviously still early, but hopefully they can keep it going.

And the tiger in the cage is now poked.

Congrats to the UAA.

Quote from: Freddyfud on September 23, 2025, 10:17:41 PMAnd the tiger in the cage is now poked.

Congrats to the UAA.

Haha, cross conference trash talk, love it!

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Rochester flying under the radar w/ another win. After losing first two games, playing in a new system and a lot of 1st-yr minutes, last seven 5-0-2. A win over Clarkson, and Hobart tied late on a controversial penalty.
A test away at York PA, then UAA play-
UAA Travel.. Away v. Case, NYU, CMU. Home v. Brandeis, WashU, Chicago, Emory.
Going to get interesting     

Case struggling to get anything going vs crosstown rival John Carroll, tied 0-0 with 14 to go. JCU in control most of game.

Ok, not great, midweek results for the UAA...

Rochester, Chicago, #2 Emory, #24 CMU all win going away
#18 Brandeis and #17 CWRU both tie
NYU lost to #14 Montclair St.
#12 WashU's game at Principia was cancelled

4-1-2

Last big weekend of games before conference play begins...a couple of upcoming mid-week games, but for the most part, this is it before league games start.

All games on Saturday:
#24 CMU hosts Salisbury
Rochester at York (PA)
#18 Brandeis hosts John Carroll
UChicago hosts Kalamazoo
NYU hosts Stevens
#2 Emory hosts Sewanee
#17 CWRU at Otterbein
#12 WashU at Webster

CMU, WashU and UChicago have Tuesday games as well.

Salisbury is taking CMU behind the woodshed in the game today

Salisbury 4 - Carnegie Mellon 1 (66th mninute)

CMU is playing down a man now after its starting GK got a straight red for DOGSO in the 61st minute, but Salisbury was already up 3-1 at that point and CMU conceded a 4th goal on the ensuing PK (incidentally, that's a tough spot for the sub GK to come in cold for the PK caused by the guy he has to replace).  I doubt CMU will be ranked next week after this debacle.  Salisbury has played pretty well against a difficult schedule, but, at 4-3-2 coming into the game, voters aren't going to cut CMU much slack.

Hard loss for CMU, nice wins by Rochester (@ York) and Brandeis (Vs. John Carroll) balances it out overall for UAA.

Rochester 3 - York(PA) 2

York goes up 2-0 in the 54th minute.

Bisenic from Rochester scores 3 times in 7:18, 55th, 60th, and 63rd minute to cap off an incredible performance, and comeback by UR.

Ignacio Cubeddu scored a hat trick in the first half for Emory against Sewanee today.  Currently, Emory is up 5-0 vs Sewanee in the 70th minute.

Cubeddu is a grad transfer from the defending national champion Amherst College, where he played full seasons in 2019, 2021, and 2023.  Apparently, NESCAC rules do not allow players to play for their original NESCAC teams after they get their undergrad degrees-- similar to how the Ivy League operates for their teams. 

There was no season in 2020 due to Covid, and Cubeddu did not play for Amherst in 2022.

Wash U up 1-0 at Webster early in the second half, and CWRU is up 1-0 at Otterbein early in the second half as well.

Last year, Cubeddu started in the first game for Amherst, but only played the first 21 minutes of the Amherst opener vs Suffolk and attempted 1 shot before apparently sustaining a season ending injury. 

Update on Emory's 5th goal today-- Cubeddu also scored that one-- so Cubeddu now has scored 4 of Emory's 5 goals today.

Both Otterbein and Webster has now scored equalizing goals to tie their respective games vs CWRU and Wash U at 1-1 each.

For CWRU, Ohta Kamiya scored the goal in the first half for the Spartans, while Otterbein's equalizer was just scored by Eli Traber in the 58th minute with an assist by Drew Boettcher.

For Wash U, Ethan Wirtschafer scored the goal in the 37th minute at Webster for the Bears, while the Webster Gorloks have just tied the game in the 56th minute on a goal from Alberto Duque Gonzalez with the assist from Hayden Hatley.

CWRU tied at Otterbein 1-1 in the 60th minute.   Wash U tied at Webster 1-1 in the 61st minute.  Emory up 5-0 over Sewanee in the 83rd minute.

8:37 PM ET update-- Emory vs Sewanee now a final.   Emory won, 5-0, to remain undefeated with no losses and no ties.  Emory opens up UAA play next Sunday at Carnegie Mellon.    The Carnegie Mellon Tartans have a non-conference home football game vs McDaniel next Saturday, so the Carnegie Mellon UAA home soccer opener gets postponed one day.   

Otterbein now up 2-1 over CWRU.   Lincoln Wallace scored the go-ahead goal for Otterbein in the 85th minute on an assist from Drew Boettcher.

Wash U and Webster now a final.   Wash U won, 2-1, at Webster to take a 30 wins, 1 loss and 2 draw series advantage over the Gorloks.   Wash U's winning goal was scored by Daniel Kochen in the 88th minute.

Otterbein has just defeated CWRU by a score of 2-1.   Game has just gone final. 

CWRU Spartans take their first loss of the season.   CWRU will open up UAA play next Saturday at home vs Rochester, with the Spartans taking a 6-1-3 record going into the match.   

3 non-conference matchups mid-week as final tune-ups before we start the first round of conference matchups:

Rochester @ CWRU - Case has to be the favorite here.
Brandeis @ Wash U - great early matchup with two teams playing well.
NYU @ Chicago - Chicago favorite
Emory @ CMU - Emory is flying, but it's never easy to win away, fun matchup.

UAA did much better in non-conference this fall vs. last year, time to start shaking out the standings. Should be some high-level matches the rest of the way.

Quote from: kansas hokie on September 28, 2025, 12:27:31 PM3 non-conference matchups mid-week as final tune-ups before we start the first round of conference matchups:

Rochester @ CWRU - Case has to be the favorite here.
Brandeis @ Wash U - great early matchup with two teams playing well.
NYU @ Chicago - Chicago favorite
Emory @ CMU - Emory is flying, but it's never easy to win away, fun matchup.

UAA did much better in non-conference this fall vs. last year, time to start shaking out the standings. Should be some high-level matches the rest of the way.

Agree with most of your comments, but not sure about Case/Rochester. CWRU has not played well the last couple of games vs John Carroll and Otterbein, while Rochester seems to have turned around from an early season struggle. As a newly minted Case fan, I hope I am wrong, but I feel like Rochester may take this one.

Case has a stout defense and GK, but offensively they are struggling.

The NCAA DIII Men's Soccer Committee has released the first NPI Summary report of the season.

It is through games of Sunday, September 28, 2025

The report is available at http://stats.ncaa.org/selection_rankings/nitty_gritties/45791

How the UAA teams are ranked nationally in the NPI rankings this morning--

1.)  Brandeis-- #3 in the official NPI national rankings-- 58.479
2.)  Emory-- #7 in the official NPI national rankings-- 57.582
3.)  WashU--#19 in the official NPI national rankings-- 56.302
4.)  UChicago-- #28 in the official NPI national rankings-- 55.543
5.)  CWRU-- #51 in the official NPI national rankings-- 54.161

Beating any one of the top 5 UAA teams in the NPI national rankings will carry a quality win bonus at this time, as the current NPIs of those teams are above 54 right now.

6.)  Carnegie Mellon-- #58 in the official NPI national rankings-- 53.846
7.)  Rochester-- #65 in the official NPI national rankings-- 53.668
8.)  NYU-- #221 in the official NPI national rankings-- 48.781

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but is NPI a more valuable tool for tournament projections than the United Soccer Coaches rankings? Or are both used together?

VASoccerDad,

Last year, the NCAA moved entirely to using NPI so it's the only tool to use for NCAA projections. Much mor e transparent and less subjective. It has made the regional rankings and national rankings simply that, rankings from coaches. No weight at all on the NCAA bids.

What becomes subjective is when the NCAA makes the pods up, but who makes the field? entirely NPI.

4:11 PM ET update-- The aforementioned NPI Summary Report which had been published earlier today has now been taken off the NCAA Statistics website.   It is unclear whether this report will be republished this week, or whether or not we will have to wait until after Sunday, October 5, 2025 for a new report.  Sorry about that.

Quote from: deiscanton on September 29, 2025, 01:07:17 PMThe NCAA DIII Men's Soccer Committee has released the first NPI Summary report of the season.

It is through games of Sunday, September 28, 2025

The report is available at http://stats.ncaa.org/selection_rankings/nitty_gritties/45791

How the UAA teams are ranked nationally in the NPI rankings this morning--

1.)  Brandeis-- #3 in the official NPI national rankings-- 58.479
2.)  Emory-- #7 in the official NPI national rankings-- 57.582
3.)  WashU--#19 in the official NPI national rankings-- 56.302
4.)  UChicago-- #28 in the official NPI national rankings-- 55.543
5.)  CWRU-- #51 in the official NPI national rankings-- 54.161

Beating any one of the top 5 UAA teams in the NPI national rankings will carry a quality win bonus at this time, as the current NPIs of those teams are above 54 right now.

6.)  Carnegie Mellon-- #58 in the official NPI national rankings-- 53.846
7.)  Rochester-- #65 in the official NPI national rankings-- 53.668
8.)  NYU-- #221 in the official NPI national rankings-- 48.781

Quote from: kansas hokie on September 29, 2025, 02:32:45 PMVASoccerDad,

Last year, the NCAA moved entirely to using NPI so it's the only tool to use for NCAA projections. Much mor e transparent and less subjective. It has made the regional rankings and national rankings simply that, rankings from coaches. No weight at all on the NCAA bids.

What becomes subjective is when the NCAA makes the pods up, but who makes the field? entirely NPI.

Great, thanks so much!

Well that didn't take long...

Latest rankings, Case was a one and done  as they  are out, not even receiving any votes.

Emory #2
Washu #11
Brandeis #12

CMU also drops out...5 teams down to 3.

UAA handling mid-week business 3-1 win for CMU; 3-0 leads right now for Wash U and Chicago. Time for conference season!

@Kansas Hokie and VA soccer dad - nice to spruce up the threads with some more UAA fans! Brandeis alum and UAA supporter here. Who are your team(s)?

Quote from: NEsoccerfan on October 01, 2025, 12:06:38 PM@Kansas Hokie and VA soccer dad - nice to spruce up the threads with some more UAA fans! Brandeis alum and UAA supporter here. Who are your team(s)?

Yeah, I recently joined because my son will be playing at a UAA school next fall (2026). Would rather not say exactly where since he hasn't officially been admitted yet. He applied ED so hopefully we'll find out for sure in early December.

I will say there were several schools looking at him for soccer, and a couple of offers. Schools he was considering were Carnegie Mellon, Case Western, Chicago, Rochester and WashU. We visited a few, but not all, of them. I was pulling for a couple but he decided elsewhere, which I am totally fine with. We did make a trip up to Boston over spring break (I love that area and was hoping he would go somewhere up there), but didn't hit Brandeis. He was talking to Tufts and some other NESCAC's at the time, so we went there, Harvard, MIT, etc. Tufts was the only one that offered what he wanted to study so the NESCAC's were out for the most part.

Saw the UAA board was not the most heavily trafficked so thought I would help try to get it going some more. I don't have the most extensive UAA (or D3) soccer knowledge so I am relatively new to the conference and level. I work at UVA so we see a lot of good soccer, but was unfamiliar for the most part with D3. Good to see others on here...

OK clearly VASoccerDad and I won't get along after I read all of his post....Go Hokies!  :)

Emory is my team. This may be a lightly used forum, but I can confirm that many eyes scan it. Fun to carry on the conversation. I am thinking about making the trip next weekend for the Emory @ Brandeis match, should be a great one.

Quote from: kansas hokie on October 02, 2025, 09:10:47 AMOK clearly VASoccerDad and I won't get along after I read all of his post....Go Hokies!  :)

Emory is my team. This may be a lightly used forum, but I can confirm that many eyes scan it. Fun to carry on the conversation. I am thinking about making the trip next weekend for the Emory @ Brandeis match, should be a great one.

An imperious #2 ranked Emory side taking on the best Brandeis team since 2017 (probably?)...what a match-up!

Quote from: kansas hokie on October 02, 2025, 09:10:47 AMOK clearly VASoccerDad and I won't get along after I read all of his post....Go Hokies!  :)

Emory is my team. This may be a lightly used forum, but I can confirm that many eyes scan it. Fun to carry on the conversation. I am thinking about making the trip next weekend for the Emory @ Brandeis match, should be a great one.

My sister-in-law is an Emory alum, but she doesn't follow sports that strongly.  My eldest niece is currently a sophomore at WashU, and she may be attending this Saturday's soccer matches on the WashU campus, but I have not e-mailed her about this. And, of course, I graduated from Brandeis in 1991.   I have been thinking about going back to Brandeis to attend the Homecoming matches vs Emory in person on Saturday, October 11 myself, as unfortunately, I have not been impressed with the quality of the play by play commentary for Brandeis this season.  Brandeis alum Jonah White is no longer doing the play by play for either the Judges, or for MIT, and it shows on the quality of the Brandeis broadcast.   I got sick and tired last week at the Brandeis play by play commentator last week referring to the John Carroll U Blue Streaks as "John Collins University".   Or was it "Joan Collins University"?  I am not really sure.  Anyway, it sounded like a student intern out of the Brandeis sports info department who never did play by play prior to this season.  Dan Strafford out of Waltham, MA,  has done play by play for some home Brandeis soccer games as well, and he is more professional, but still not of the same level as Jonah White.   The tricky part for me is I would either have to use public transportation out of Canton, MA to get to the Brandeis campus by the 11 AM ET kickoff time, or face the possibility of having to pay $35 for an Uber or a Lyft to the Brandeis campus.   (Uber did have a promotion today where the fare from my house to the Brandeis campus would be $25 after the promotion and before tip, but with my fixed income, that is expensive for me.)

Update-- I just found out through LinkedIn that Jonah White is currently a grad student at Northwestern University in Chicago.  That is why he is not currently doing play by play for either Brandeis or MIT home games. 

I am looking forward to watching Jay Murry call the Brandeis at WashU games this Saturday from WashU.   He rivals JC DeLass of Rochester as one of the best play by play commentators in the UAA. 

Can't help but look ahead to Emory at Brandeis! Two highly ranked NPI teams, unbeaten, and in top form. Can Brandeis stop Cubeddu? Can Emory handle Brandeis' exceptional ability on the ball and high work rate?

So glad the UAA is bouncing back after last year.

Quote from: laker4141 on October 03, 2025, 02:34:08 PMCan't help but look ahead to Emory at Brandeis! Two highly ranked NPI teams, unbeaten, and in top form. Can Brandeis stop Cubeddu? Can Emory handle Brandeis' exceptional ability on the ball and high work rate?

So glad the UAA is bouncing back after last year.

The WashU men's soccer team is carrying a 7 game win streak heading into the match vs Brandeis this Saturday, and this year's WashU team beat CCIW teams North Park and Wheaton (IL) in the same season for the first time in program history.

Right now, the UAA, IMO, is the second best men's D3 soccer league in the country-- second only to NESCAC, but like the Avis rent-a-car company, I like to say that the UAA "tries harder."  On the women's soccer side, the UAA is the best d3 soccer league, and has been for the past few years.  Hard to argue when not only did 7 out of the 8 UAA women's soccer teams make the NCAA d3 tournament each season for 2 straight seasons running, but also the UAA women's soccer champion went on to win the NCAA d3 tournament last season as well. 

Quote from: kansas hokie on October 02, 2025, 09:10:47 AMOK clearly VASoccerDad and I won't get along after I read all of his post....Go Hokies!  :)

Emory is my team. This may be a lightly used forum, but I can confirm that many eyes scan it. Fun to carry on the conversation. I am thinking about making the trip next weekend for the Emory @ Brandeis match, should be a great one.

It's taken me a while to respond to this...I'm having a really hard time getting past your screen name! This year's football game should be a good one (hopefully anyway, for once). VT looked better last week, but the Hoos won the game of the week.

We are up in Cleveland right now to watch CWRU vs Rochester. Big weekend for the UAA!

I will be at Emory/CMU on Sunday, looking forward to it, still thinking about a long drive to Brandeis / Emory game but it's likely that I do it. deiscanton, if you get there, let me know. Fun weekend of great games ahead. I'm going with...Case win by one, Brandeis/Wash tie, Chicago by two, and Emory by two.

UAA men's soccer season started at 11 AM ET today with Rochester now playing at CWRU at DiSanto Field in Cleveland.   Ron Jantz on the play-by-play call on the FloCollege CWRU feed.

Coming up at 11 AM Central/Noon Eastern is one of our D3 Games of the week in men's soccer with Brandeis at WashU from Francis Olympic Field in St. Louis, with Jay Murry on the play-by-play call.   Also coming up at the same time is NYU at UChicago from Stagg Field in Chicago.

Tomorrow, Emory at Carnegie Mellon.

As a reminder, FloCollege is your exclusive home this season for all video streaming of UAA soccer matches. 

FYI, here is what "the Hive" thinks about the prediction of the outcome of today's Brandeis at WashU men's match, according to the Youtube show from Simplecoach--

Brandeis win-- 21%/Wash U win-- 46%/Draw-- 33%

Interesting comment from Ron Jantz right now-- This UAA match vs Rochester is CWRU's first home game in men's soccer since Sunday, September 14, 2025, when the Spartans played Allegheny.   CWRU has played their previous 4 games before today on the road.

Quote from: deiscanton on October 03, 2025, 03:26:45 PMThe WashU men's soccer team is carrying a 7 game win streak heading into the match vs Brandeis this Saturday, and this year's WashU team beat CCIW teams North Park and Wheaton (IL) in the same season for the first time in program history.

Co-sign.

I expected people to overlook WashU early after the blemish against Westminster, the injured players, and so on.  But Brandeis vs. WashU is obviously the UAA game of the week.

The Bears are fielding the youngest team in the league, but they are quickly putting things together.  Overlook this team at your peril.

According to Ron Jantz on play by play, Rochester has dominated possession of the ball in this first half vs CWRU, but the possession advantage does not show up on the shots taken.   By shots taken by each team, the half seems pretty even.  In the 33rd minute, Rochester has taken 4 shots to CWRU's 3, but 2 of CWRU's 3 shots have been on target, vs none for Rochester.   Match is still scoreless in the 34th minute. 

Correction: Brandeis vs. WashU is one of the biggest games in Division III this week.

Rochester defender Mikey Burke made a spectacular header block on a CWRU shot on target in the 41st minute to keep the match vs CWRU scoreless. 

Rochester and CWRU now at halftime, scoreless at 0-0.

CWRU leading in shots, 6-4, and in shots on goal, 3-0.

Rochester took 2 corner kicks to CWRU's one corner kick.

Fouls even at 3 a piece with no cards issued.

CWRU whistled offsides twice, vs no offsides for Rochester.

I will be switching over now to the Brandeis at Wash U FloCollege feed, but will be following live stats for all 3 of the UAA men's games today.

Really impressed by the little guy #22 on Wash U. He's going to be a problem in the UAA for the next few years.

Wash U goal scored in the 23rd minute of the first half from #14 Quentin Gomez, assist from #22 Sebastian Valdes.

Wash U leads 1-0 over Brandeis.

First goal of the UAA conference season. 

Rochester goal scored in the 67th minute from #14 Kamal Ibrahim, unassisted.
Rochester leads over CWRU, 1-0, at DiSanto Field in Cleveland.

Quote from: deiscanton on October 04, 2025, 12:28:49 PMWash U goal scored in the 23rd minute of the first half from #14 Quentin Gomez, assist from #22 Sebastian Valdes.

Wash U leads Brandeis, 1-0.

First goal of the UAA conference season. 

Awful corner coverage by Deis there. Wash U looking firmly in control this half.

CWRU has just scored the equalizer in the 70th minute.  Equalizer scored by CWRU's #20 Micah Rossen, assisted by #12 Mitchell Fein.

Rochester and CWRU now tied at 1-1.

Quote from: NEsoccerfan on October 04, 2025, 12:31:18 PM

Quote from: deiscanton on October 04, 2025, 12:28:49 PMWash U goal scored in the 23rd minute of the first half from #14 Quentin Gomez, assist from #22 Sebastian Valdes.

Wash U leads Brandeis, 1-0.

First goal of the UAA conference season. 

Awful corner coverage by Deis there. Wash U looking firmly in control this half.

Wash U leading in shots now, 4-1.  Shots on goal even at 1 a piece, but WashU's shot on target resulted in a goal.  Wash U leading in corner kicks so far, 4-2. 

Just when I felt Deis was settling into the game, crafty #22 sets up a through ball that leads to a trashy deflection goal, but a goal nevertheless. 2-0 Wash U.

Wash U's 2nd goal scored in the 41st minute from #32 Ethan Wirtschafter, assist by #35 Yash Kshirsager.

Wash U's 3rd goal scored in the 42nd minute from #32 Ethan Wirtschafter, giving Wirtschafter a brace.

Wash U now leads, 3-0, over Brandeis. 

I thought WashU was due for a win today, but really surprised by the late goals given up by Brandeis on the run of play late in the first half.

WashU looks like they may be well on their way to a win today.  Brandeis may play better in the second half, but the Judges are going to have a tough time getting 3 goals back to equalize.

Game now at halftime.   Wash U up 3-0 over Brandeis. 

We have a final from DiSanto Field in Cleveland.

Rochester and CWRU finish today with a 1-1 draw.

Each team gets a point in the UAA standings. 

Halftime at Stagg Field in Chicago.

NYU and UChicago scoreless, 0-0, at the half.

Looks like Brandeis alum Jonah White will be doing the play by play for the UChicago UAA home soccer games this season, as he is currently a grad student at Northwestern. 

Sure enough, Jonah White with the call of the NYU at UChicago doubleheader today. 

I am going to have to catch him later today on the on-demand feed, as I really miss him doing the Brandeis home play by play this season.   At least he will still be doing play by play in the UAA this year, even if it is with UChicago Maroons home games. 

Quote from: NEsoccerfan on October 04, 2025, 12:17:07 PMReally impressed by the little guy #22 on Wash U. He's going to be a problem in the UAA for the next few years.

The Bears have no less than five freshmen that are going to be a problem. Only one player in the rotation today is graduating.

UChicago has just scored 2 quick goals on NYU.

UChicago's first goal came in the 51st minute from #8 Edward Wu, assist by #14 Giovanni Caselli.

UChicago's second goal came in the 52nd minute, also from #8 Edward Wu, giving Edward Wu a brace on the day.

UChicago now leads over NYU, 2-0.

To give some color to Jay Murry's comments about 2 Brandeis players getting a yellow card so far this match, #26 Kaden Collins of Brandeis got a yellow card in the first half vs WashU, and #5 Dylan Marzouca of Brandeis got a yellow card this half vs WashU.  These numbers are what these players are wearing today. 

UChicago has just scored again in the 58th minute.

Chicago's 3rd goal of the match came from #26 Alex Gomas, assisted by #17 Jadyn Hsieh-Bailey.

UChicago now leading, 3-0, over NYU, and the Maroons look well on their way to victory today. 

UChicago has just scored again in the 63rd minute.

Chicago's 4th goal of the match came from #31 Chase Perry.

UChicago now leads, 4-0, over NYU.

WashU has just scored again in the 68th minute.

WashU's 4th goal on the match came from #32 Ethan Wirtschafter, giving Wirtschafter a hat-trick on the day.  Assist by #7 Wole Adeoye. 

WUPHF mentioned earlier today about how WashU got a great class of first year players this season, but junior Ethan Wirtschafter is proving to be the man of the match today. 

WashU now leading over Brandeis, 4-0.

Brandeis starting goalkeeper Tyler Correnti has been pulled out of the match after playing 76 minutes.

#1 Benny Shin now in goal for Brandeis. 

Hard to describe how thoroughly outclassed the Judges were today. I say outclassed because Brandeis was clearly targeting No. 6 and No. 32 today.

It happens, but I do not like it.

All of Saturday's UAA men's matches are now final.

Wash U won over Brandeis, 4-0.

UChicago won over NYU, 4-0.

Next up for Brandeis will be a home non-conference match on Tuesday evening vs Anna Maria before the defending UAA men's champion Emory comes to Waltham, MA for Brandeis homecoming weekend on Saturday, with an 11 AM ET start.

Wash U plays next Saturday at CWRU for CWRU's Homecoming weekend-- Game has an early start time next Saturday of 10 AM ET. 

UChicago plays next Saturday at Carnegie Mellon, with a start time there of 11 AM ET.

NYU has a non-conference match at Rutgers-Newark Wednesday afternoon at 4 PM ET, before hosting Rochester next Saturday with a start time of 5:30 PM ET.

Emory and Carnegie Mellon play their UAA opener in Pittsburgh tomorrow with a start time of 11 AM ET.

Quote from: WUPHF on October 04, 2025, 02:00:09 PMHard to describe how thoroughly outclassed the Judges were today. I say outclassed because Brandeis was clearly targeting No. 6 and No. 32 today.

It happens, but I do not like it.

At least for consolation, I saw Jay Murry on the video feed from the booth with a post-match interview with WashU men's head soccer coach Andrew Borderlon with Bordelon's comments on today's match.  The WashU goalkeeper Cal L'Hommedieu also got a post-match interview from Jay Murry. 

Quote from: deiscanton on October 04, 2025, 01:37:12 PMWUPHF mentioned earlier today about how WashU got a great class of first year players this season, but junior Ethan Wirtschafter is proving to be the man of the match today. 

He will be among the 2-3 finalists for player of the year honors.  As a junior, he would need to lead his team to a league championship or co-championship to win it.

I just wanted to make a clarification on what I wrote yesterday-- Jonah White does indeed have a play by play contract with U. Chicago athletics to do some home games this academic year, but the contract is only to cover the UChicago men's soccer home games this season.   I humbly apologize for the mistake, as it was a result of not going through the replays of all of the UChicago home soccer matches this season.   He made his UChicago men's soccer home play by play debut on September 6, 2025, when UChicago hosted Milwaukee School of Engineering, but he has done the play by play of all UChicago men's soccer home matches this season.  While I miss him doing the Brandeis home play-by-play, I will be looking forward to his coverage of more UChicago home games this season-- in men's soccer this season, and hopefully for basketball from the Ratner Center this winter. 

Quote from: deiscanton on October 04, 2025, 01:03:05 PMLooks like Brandeis alum Jonah White will be doing the play by play for the UChicago UAA home soccer games this season, as he is currently a grad student at Northwestern. 

Sure enough, Jonah White with the call of the NYU at UChicago doubleheader today. 

I am going to have to catch him later today on the on-demand feed, as I really miss him doing the Brandeis home play by play this season.   At least he will still be doing play by play in the UAA this year, even if it is with UChicago Maroons home games. 

Emory has just scored their first goal of the match vs Carnegie Mellon in the 17th minute.

Emory goal scored by #11 Lorenzo Avalos, unassisted.

Emory leads over Carnegie Mellon, 1-0, in Pittsburgh.   

Halftime in Pittsburgh, PA--

Emory leading over Carnegie Mellon, 1-0, on a 17th minute goal from #11 Lorenzo Avalos, unassisted.  (Goal scored at 16 minutes, 59 seconds   into the match.)

Emory leading in shots taken, 7-2, and in shots on target, 3-0.  Emory's Ignacio Cubeddu had 2 of the 3 shots on target, but did not score this half.   

No corner kicks taken this half-- Neither side whistled for offsides.

Emory committed 10 fouls, while Carnegie Mellon committed 6 fouls.

Yellow card was given to Emory's #19 Nick Carrano.

Emory men's soccer looking to win in Pittsburgh for the first time since November 3, 2012.    In the previous 6 matches that Emory played at Carnegie Mellon in men's soccer, the Eagles went 0-3-3.   Emory is 4-11-4 vs Carnegie Mellon in UAA men's soccer matches played at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh.  Overall, Carnegie Mellon leads this series, 16-13-8 vs Emory.   

Watching the matches on FloCollege, it seems that the video stream is streaming on at least one minute behind the live stats feed, so the game is actually live on the live stats, so when a goal is scored, the live stats sometimes record that goal first, and then you see the goal a minute later on the streaming feed.  Of course, with the on-demand replay, you can instantly rewind the game to see the goal on instant replay. 

Carnegie Mellon has just scored the equalizer.

The equalizer was scored in the 51st minute off a set piece corner kick by #25 Idan Garten, assisted by #21 James Ashby.  It was the first corner kick of the match.   (Goal scored at 50 minutes, 48 seconds into the match.)

Emory and Carnegie Mellon now tied at 1-1.

Tartans have been doing a decent job marking Emory's Ignacio Cubeddu so far, according to the Carnegie Mellon commentary. 

No second half shots taken by Cubeddu so far.   Just 3 shots taken by Cubeddu in the first half, with 2 of those on target. 

Final from Pittsburgh--

Emory and Carnegie Mellon finish with a 1-1 draw. 

Nick Schmieg did the play-by-play of this game, while Kevin Zielmanski was on color.   Both commentators are regulars on the Presidents Athletic Conference Sports Network, which is the parent network for Carnegie Mellon athletics broadcasts,as the old CMU Tartans Sports Network is a sister channel of the PAC Sports Network.   Unfortunately, the commentators forgot to mention that FloCollege was streaming this contest, instead referring to the game being produced on the CMU Sports Network, while they should be mentioning "CMU Sports Network on FloSports".

Emory drops to 10-0-1 on the season, 0-0-1 in the UAA.   Carnegie Mellon improves to 7-1-4, 0-0-1 in the UAA.

Both the Eagles and the Tartans get a point in the standings.

The co-leaders in the UAA after 1 match round are WashU and UChicago, each at 3 points in the standings, and each with a +3 conference goal differential for tiebreaking purposes.  (UAA tiebreaker rules only allow teams to count only 3 goals of a victory margin per UAA soccer match, so while both UChicago and WashU each won their matches by 4-0 scorelines, in effect only 3 of those goals in the 4 goal victory margins will count toward the conference goal differential.)

Emory, Carnegie Mellon, Rochester, and CWRU each have 1 point in the standings.

Brandeis and NYU with 0 points. 

With the tie, Emory cannot start dropping wins vs lowest ranked NPI teams to boost their NPI yet as the Eagles did not get their 11th victory today--- the Eagles have to count this tie in their NPI calculations, as all ties and losses in soccer must be kept in the resume for NCAA Power Index calculations.  Emory will have a chance to get the 11th win to start dropping games when the Eagles play at Brandeis next Saturday. 

No UAA men's soccer team was able to drop games off their NPI soccer calculations last year, as no UAA men's team had 10 actual wins in their resume last season.  For men's soccer, you must keep at least 10 actual wins in your resume for NPI purposes.   All ties and losses are kept as well. 

The DIII men's and women's soccer committees are expected to release their first official NPI Summary reports of the season tomorrow for games played through Sunday, October 5, 2025, as they used the first week of October to start releasing the NPI soccer season reports last season.   The DIII men's soccer committee accidentally published an NPI Summary Report for a few hours early last Monday, but pulled the report when they realized that it was too early to release a report.  The DIII women's soccer committee did not release an NPI Summary report last week. 

NCAA Power Index numbers are dynamic, and they change with each DIII soccer game played.     

I just watched the Carnegie Mellon equalizer vs Emory on the FloCollege replay.  It looked like Emory did not mark Garten well enough when James Ashby took the corner, so Garten was able to get a header off the corner in the 51st minute to give Carnegie Mellon with what will turn out to be a quality tie vs Emory right now, and perhaps a quality tie that will boost NCAA tournament at-large selection chances for the Tartans at the end of the season. 

Quote from: deiscanton on October 05, 2025, 01:14:17 PMThe co-leaders in the UAA after 1 match round are WashU and UChicago, each at 3 points in the standings, and each with a +3 conference goal differential for tiebreaking purposes.  (UAA tiebreaker rules only allow teams to count only 3 goals of a victory margin per UAA soccer match, so while both UChicago and WashU each won their matches by 4-0 scorelines, in effect only 3 of those goals in the 4 goal victory margins will count toward the conference goal differential.)

I appreciate the tiebreaker scenarios, but once or twice a season, I'll remind others that the UAA does award co-champions.

Every co-champion is entitled to brag about being the UAA champion.  The winner of the tiebreaker does get the auto-bid, but not bragging rights.

Also, where did Carnegie Mellon find that Idan Garten kid, wow!

Quote from: WUPHF on October 05, 2025, 01:49:34 PM

Quote from: deiscanton on October 05, 2025, 01:14:17 PMThe co-leaders in the UAA after 1 match round are WashU and UChicago, each at 3 points in the standings, and each with a +3 conference goal differential for tiebreaking purposes.  (UAA tiebreaker rules only allow teams to count only 3 goals of a victory margin per UAA soccer match, so while both UChicago and WashU each won their matches by 4-0 scorelines, in effect only 3 of those goals in the 4 goal victory margins will count toward the conference goal differential.)

I appreciate the tiebreaker scenarios, but once or twice a season, I'll remind others that the UAA does award co-champions.

Every co-champion is entitled to brag about being the UAA champion.  The winner of the tiebreaker does get the auto-bid, but not bragging rights.

Thanks for the clarification.   I just forgot to mention the co-champions part of it for conference title purposes.  Sorry about that. 

Quote from: deiscanton on October 05, 2025, 01:59:25 PMThanks for the clarification.   I just forgot to mention the co-champions part of it for conference title purposes.  Sorry about that. 

You're good, no need to apologize.

I cannot remember the last time we had co-champions in soccer, probably have to go back aways.

Quote from: WUPHF on October 05, 2025, 02:01:53 PM

Quote from: deiscanton on October 05, 2025, 01:59:25 PMThanks for the clarification.   I just forgot to mention the co-champions part of it for conference title purposes.  Sorry about that. 

You're good, no need to apologize.

I cannot remember the last time we had co-champions in soccer, probably have to go back aways.

We had 4 UAA co-champions for men's soccer in the 2012 season, which was the last time men's soccer had UAA co-champions.   In that season, Brandeis, Carnegie Mellon, Emory, and WashU shared the UAA conference title with each co-champion finishing with 13 points with a 4-2-1 record in UAA play.

Most valuable player that season was Sam Ocel of Brandeis.

Rookie of the year that season was Jorge Bilbao of U.Chicago.

UAA coaching staffs of the year that season were the Brandeis coaching staff led by head coach Mike Coven-- (Gabe Margolis was one of the assistants on the Brandeis staff), and the Carnegie Mellon coaching staff led by head coach Arron Lujan. 

2012 was the first time in my memory that Brandeis got a share of a UAA title in men's soccer.   In the 2015 season, Brandeis men's soccer won the UAA title outright. 

BTW, out of the 4 co-champions that season, Carnegie Mellon got the AQ on the tiebreaker.   Both Carnegie Mellon and Brandeis went 2-1 vs the other co-champions to separate themselves in the first round of the tiebreaker, and then Carnegie Mellon defeated Brandeis in the head-to-head that season to clinch the tiebreaker on the second round. 

Brandeis finished the 2012 regular season at 16-2-1, and not only got a Pool C at-large bid to the 2012 NCAA DIII Men's Soccer tournament, but also got to host first and second round games.   Brandeis then went on to the "Sweet 16", where they lost to Williams, with the "Sweet 16" match being played at Amherst College. 

Quote from: deiscanton on October 05, 2025, 02:16:08 PMWe had 4 UAA co-champions for men's soccer in the 2012 season, which was the last time men's soccer had UAA co-champions.   In that season, Brandeis, Carnegie Mellon, Emory, and WashU shared the UAA conference title with each co-champion finishing with 13 points with a 4-2-1 record in UAA play.

I am not surprised given the dominance of those Chicago teams and some Emory teams too.  By the way, are you watching the women's game?  After 45 minutes of play, two of the top teams in the nation have combined for two shots and one corner according to the live stats. 

Quote from: WUPHF on October 05, 2025, 02:23:39 PM

Quote from: deiscanton on October 05, 2025, 02:16:08 PMWe had 4 UAA co-champions for men's soccer in the 2012 season, which was the last time men's soccer had UAA co-champions.   In that season, Brandeis, Carnegie Mellon, Emory, and WashU shared the UAA conference title with each co-champion finishing with 13 points with a 4-2-1 record in UAA play.

I am not surprised given the dominance of those Chicago teams and some Emory teams too.  By the way, are you watching the women's game?  After 45 minutes of play, two of the top teams in the nation have combined for two shots and one corner according to the live stats. 

I am watching the women's game now.  Unfortunately, there were some technical difficulties in getting the FloCollege feed started for that game, so the match was not joined in progress on video until the 41st minute. The first half was only shown nearly exclusively on the live stats feed.   No loss there, as there were no goals scored in the first half.  If you are watching this later on the FloCollege replay, you can join the Emory vs Carnegie Mellon women's game at the start of the second half. 

Quote from: deiscanton on October 05, 2025, 01:21:51 PMI just watched the Carnegie Mellon equalizer vs Emory on the FloCollege replay.  It looked like Emory did not mark Garten well enough when James Ashby took the corner, so Garten was able to get a header off the corner in the 51st minute to give Carnegie Mellon with what will turn out to be a quality tie vs Emory right now, and perhaps a quality tie that will boost NCAA tournament at-large selection chances for the Tartans at the end of the season. 

Credit to CMU coaches, they had a number of set piece plays ready for this game. Their goal was one of them, designed to attach the center of Emory's corner kick defense with a well struck line drive that was headed in by a player who started in front of goalie then ran out to 6 yards, shielded and flicked it in. Hated to see the goal, but applaud the design by the coaches.

After prematurely releasing an NCAA Power Index (NPI) summary report last Monday morning, which then got removed from the NCAA Statistics website just a few hours later, the NCAA DIII Men's Soccer Committee has finally released the first official NPI Summary report of the season.

This NPI report covers games through Sunday, October 5, 2025-- so it includes the UAA conference action from the weekend.

The report is located at http://stats.ncaa.org/selection_rankings/nitty_gritties/45910

Here is how the UAA men's soccer teams are ranked nationally by NPI as of this morning--

1.) Brandeis (#5 nationally in D3NPI)-- 57.926
2.) Emory (#7 nationally in D3NPI)-- 57.701
3.) WashU (#9 nationally in D3NPI)-- 57.502
4.) U.Chicago (#24 nationally in D3NPI)-- 55.845
5.) Carnegie Mellon (#47 nationally in D3NPI)-- 54.484
6.) CWRU (#53 nationally in D3NPI)-- 54.376

The top 6 UAA men's soccer teams this week in NPI carry a quality win bonus, as their NPIs are above 54.

7.) Rochester (#61 nationally in D3NPI)-- 53.880
8.) NYU (#231 nationally in D3NPI)-- 48.573

Brandeis men's soccer now playing their final non-conference regular season game of the season.  Judges hosting Anna Maria, the newest team in the MASCAC (#194 in NPI-- 49.610).  The Anna Maria Amcats had played in the GNAC for many years prior to becoming the first private college to join the MASCAC as a full core member this season.  The Amcats previously were in MASCAC as an associate member for men's and women's ice hockey for two seasons prior to this one. 

Benny Shin in goal for Brandeis for this match after replacing Tyler Correnti late in the match vs WashU on Saturday. 

The Brandeis play by play commentator did not announce his name at the start of tonight's broadcast, but I recognize him as Dan Strafford based on my familiarity with his voice and his play by play cadence from calling previous Brandeis events in the past.

Brandeis has just scored the first goal of the match in the 5th minute, goal scored by Nico Beninda with the assist by Rainer Osselmann-Chai.  (Live stats have the goal scored at 4 minutes, 29 seconds into the match.)

Brandeis leading over Anna Maria early in the match, 1-0. 

Halftime in Waltham, MA

Brandeis (ranked #12 in the D3 United Soccer Coaches poll this week) leading over Anna Maria, 1-0.

Brandeis leading in shots over Anna Maria, 12-2, and in shots on goal, 5-0.

Brandeis leading in corner kicks, 4-1.

Anna Maria got whistled for 9 fouls, while Brandeis got whistled for 4 fouls.

Yellow card was issued to Brandeis's Slater Lofreddo.

Each team was whistled once for offsides in the first half.

Second half of Brandeis vs Anna Maria underway.

Yellow card has just been issued to Anna Maria's Flobatir Abdou in the 47th minute. 

Yellow card has just been issued to Anna Maria's Clayton Foster in the 49th minute.

Yellow card has just been issued to Anna Maria's Hugo Drougard in the 59th minute.

Yellow card has just been issued to Brandeis's Maddox Yu in the 84th minute.

Brandeis still leading over Anna Maria, 1-0.

Final from Waltham, MA--

Brandeis picks up their 8th win of the season, defeating Anna Maria 1-0.  Brandeis moves to 8-1-2 on the season, while Anna Maria drops to 3-7-1 overall, 3-6-1 vs D3 teams, with the 7th Amcats loss coming to DI Patriot League side Holy Cross in a game that counted for both Anna Maria and Holy Cross.

Next up:  Homecoming game vs Emory-- Saturday, October 11, 2025-- 11 AM ET.

Final stats--

Brandeis led in shots for the game, 23-4, and in shots on goal, 9-2.

Brandeis led in corner kicks taken, 9-1.

Brandeis whistled for 15 fouls, while Anna Maria was whistled for 20 fouls.

Live stats indicated that 4 yellow cards were given to Anna Maria players, while 3 yellow cards were given to Brandeis players.

Anna Maria was whistled for offsides 4 times vs Brandeis getting whistled 2 times for offsides.

I was hoping for a Brandeis 2-0 or 3-0 win vs Anna Maria tonight, but I will have to settle for the 1-0 win. 

I am going to be at Gordon Field in Waltham, MA on Saturday to see the Emory at Brandeis Homecoming soccer doubleheader, and I want to see if Kansas_hokie is planning to be seeing the matches in person as well.  I wish that I had the money to go to the Brandeis Athletics Hall of Fame induction ceremony afterwards, as I personally knew and cheered on both of the basketball players who are being inducted this year.  I expect that I will see some of my old time Brandeis friends at the Homecoming games, but I am not sure that I will be able to stay and see the current players from the comedy troupe Boris' Kitchen perform some of the old sketches later that evening.   I believe that for their "Old ****' show, the troupe is performing the "Greek chorus" skit.  I remember that I played the sea monkey package delivery person in the original skit.  The "Greek chorus" referred to me as "A Messenger!  A Messenger!  Alas!  Could he be carrying a message of doom?"

Kansas_Hokie, let me know if you are coming on Saturday, and if so, how I will be able to recognize you.   

I will be there and will message you with details. Looking forward to it, should be a great match!

After week 1 it's two at the top, two at the bottom and 4 in the middle. This week will start to sort everything out, but still way too early to call. Hard to believe D3 bracket day is one month away, season goes by way too quickly.

WashU at CWRU
Emory at Brandeis
Chicago at CMU
Rocherster at NYU

Brandeis pulls one back with 21 seconds ago to pull off the 1-1 draw v. Emory. I was only able to catch the last 15 minutes or so, which seemed pretty even. Eager to hear the Deiscanton and Kansas Hokie in-person impressions. Who had the better of the play? Who stood out to you guys on each team? etc. etc.

Case gave up a goal on an Olympico in the 1st half, lost 1-0 to WashU.

Man, they need to figure out how to get the ball in the net...2 goals in their last 5 games.

Quote from: NEsoccerfan on October 11, 2025, 01:24:27 PMBrandeis pulls one back with 21 seconds ago to pull off the 1-1 draw v. Emory. I was only able to catch the last 15 minutes or so, which seemed pretty even. Eager to hear the Deiscanton and Kansas Hokie in-person impressions. Who had the better of the play? Who stood out to you guys on each team? etc. etc.

My short thoughts on the game was that Brandeis men's soccer tends to play better in the second half of matches this season as they adjust to the opponent's style of play.   The Emory goal in the opening half came from Lorenzo Avalos on an assist from Ignacio Cubeddu in the 21st minute, but unlike last weekend, Brandeis held on in the first half and was able to go to halftime only down 1 goal rather than down by 3 goals.  This set the stage for the eventual Brandeis equalizer in the second half.  Until the equalizer came, saves by Brandeis goalkeeper Tyler Correnti kept the Judges in the match while the Judges searched for the equalizer.   When the equalizer came in the final minute of play from Brandeis's Keller Chamovitz on an assist from Maddox Yu, I felt that the goal was more like a game winner than an equalizer.   While an outright win vs Emory would have been terrific, I felt more than satisfied with the draw today.   

I got to meet Kansas_Hokie, who came up from Pennsylvania for the match.   Of course, parents tend to want to watch their kids play.  He stayed in Sturbridge, MA last night by himself because the rooms were a bit cheaper than what was available in Waltham, MA.  Currently, he is driving back to Pennsylvania while the Emory soccer teams are flying back to Atlanta.   Kansas_Hokie is not heading to Atlanta for the home matches vs NYU, but will head to Atlanta the following weekend.   As for me, I took an Uber from my apartment in Canton, MA this morning, but found a friend at the game who is a Brandeis women's soccer alum from Walpole, MA whom I followed years ago when she played for then Brandeis soccer coach Denise Dallamora.  She was headed back to Walpole after the doubleheader and was very glad to give me a ride home.   That either saved me another $40 that I would have needed to spend for a direct Lyft ride home, or it would have saved me extra hours that I would have needed to take the T back to Boston for a commuter rail train home to Canton Junction followed by a walk home from the station.  As it is, I got home by 4:30 PM ET.  I had my lunch from one of the food trucks parked for the Brandeis Homecoming tailgate in between the men's and women's soccer matches. 

The NCAA DIII Men's Soccer Committee has released the second official NPI Summary report of the season.

This NPI report covers games through Sunday, October 12, 2025.

The report is located at http://stats.ncaa.org/selection_rankings/nitty_gritties/46118 (http://stats.ncaa.org/selection_rankings/nitty_gritties/46118)

Here is how the UAA men's soccer teams are ranked nationally by NPI as of this morning--

1.) Emory (#6 nationally in D3NPI)-- 58.140
2.) Brandeis (#7 nationally in D3NPI)-- 58.097
3.) WashU (#8 nationally in D3NPI)-- 57.925
4.) U.Chicago (#20 nationally in D3NPI)-- 56.221
5.) Carnegie Mellon (#42 nationally in D3NPI)-- 54.825
6.) Rochester (#53 nationally in D3NPI)-- 54.350
7.) CWRU (#56 nationally in D3NPI)-- 54.146

7 of the 8 UAA men's soccer teams this week carry a quality win bonus, as their NPI values are above 54.

8.) NYU (#221 nationally in D3NPI)-- 49.066

Well, it looks like I am going to have to watch the first half of tonight's Chicago at North Park game on demand, because I admittedly was napping when the game started and woke up at halftime.

Chicago leading North Park at halftime, 3-1.

Gregory Sager on play by play tonight, with Jonah White on color commentary. (Yes, the same Jonah White who was doing play by play last year for Brandeis and MIT home soccer games, and the same Jonah White who is currently doing the UChicago play by play for the home men's soccer games this season for the Maroons.)

In the first half, North Park got the first goal of the evening in the 15th minute.  Nico Chavez scored the goal for the Vikings at the 14:53 mark, with the assist by Mathias Soerum.

Chicago then scored 3 goals in the final 15 minutes of the half.

The equalizer came in the 33rd minute on a goal from Chicago's Edward Wu at the 32:04 mark, unassisted.

Chicago then took the lead in the 39th minute on a goal from Jaden Hsieh-Bailey at the 38:10 mark, unassisted.

Chicago then made it 3-1 in the 42nd minute on Jaden Hsieh-Bailey's 2nd goal of the contest at the 41:19 mark, with Evan Kanellos picking up the assist.

Jaden Hsieh-Bailey has a brace on the evening so far. 

Watching the second half live now. 

North Park scores in the 86th minute on a header goal off a corner kick from Christian Vaaland at the 85:12 mark.  Vidar Rydall took the corner for the Vikings and got the assist.

Chicago still leading at North Park, 3-2.

Eddie Wu is a beast.  Good to see him hitting his stride.

Final from North Park--

Chicago 3, North Park 2.

North Park drops to 7-5 on the season, and the only way that the Vikings will be able to qualify for the NCAAs this year is to win the CCIW tournament and get the AQ.  North Park came into the contest ranked at #84 in the NPI with no quality win bonus for beating the Vikings.

U.Chicago improves to 8-1-4 on the season, and now has 10 adjusted wins when you count 1/2 wins for each tie on the season. 

A hard physical contest with lots of fouls called, but no bookings.  North Park committed 25 fouls in the contest (a season high for the Vikings), while U.Chicago committed 14 fouls.

I will have to watch Chicago's equalizer on replay tomorrow morning, as Greg Sager described it as an "Olimpico" goal off a corner kick.   

(In other words, the equalizer was scored directly off the corner with no other player touching the ball.)

Fortunately, this game is not behind a paywall, as North Park uses Boxcast for their streaming platform. 

Good performance from the Maroons on Wednesday against a physical NP team. I cannot help but look ahead to next Friday's fixture featuring the Maroons at Emory!

CMU and Wash U will also be a sneaky good game this weekend. Love this time of year.

Quote from: laker4141 on October 17, 2025, 02:41:26 PMGood performance from the Maroons on Wednesday against a physical NP team. I cannot help but look ahead to next Friday's fixture featuring the Maroons at Emory!

CMU and Wash U will also be a sneaky good game this weekend. Love this time of year.

CWRU is also hoping UChicago is looking forward to Emory! 😀

This week's UAA game schedule

Today (Saturday, October 18, 2025)

11 AM Eastern  (Rankings according to United Soccer Coaches D3 National rankings)-- 2 games on tap.

1.) #6 Brandeis at Rochester-- JC DeLass on play by play with former Rochester men's soccer head coach Chris Apple on color commentary.

A Week 8 D3 Soccer pool game

Hive predicted:  Brandeis 54% chance of winning, Rochester 32% chance of winning, Draw about 13 to 14% chance.

2.) NYU at #3 Emory-- Probable play by play person may be Will Hopkins, I will have to check FloCollege stream.

(Update-- former Emory men's soccer alum Patrick Carver on play by play today.  He last did play by play for the Sonny Carter Invitational earlier this season, but did not do play by play in the previous Emory men's soccer home game.)

Later today at 5:30 PM Central/6:30 PM Eastern

3.) CWRU at #19 U.Chicago-- Jonah White most likely on play by play for this one.


Tomorrow (Sunday, October 19, 2025) at 11 AM Central/Noon Eastern

4.) RV-- Carnegie Mellon at #4 Wash U-- Jay Murry on play by play.

I just saw this from the Wash U newspaper and thought it might be of interest.  There are probably a lot of former club soccer players on DIII campuses that could play if given a chance.

'Over the Moon':  Yash Kshirsagar's Journey from Walk-On to the Men's Soccer Team (https://www.studlife.com/sports/2025/10/06/over-the-moon-yash-kshirsagars-journey-from-walk-on-to-the-mens-soccer-team)

QuoteIn the spring of 2024, then-first-year Yash Kshirsagar received an email that would change his life.

The midfielder had not heard back from former WashU men's soccer head coach Joe Clarke for months. He was passed over for an offer to play varsity soccer at WashU out of high school. After being accepted to WashU on his academic merit, he says he "stayed persistent" in emailing Clarke his updates: highlight reels, monthly check-ins, anything to keep in contact with the Bears' coach. All he heard back was radio silence, until Clarke's name appeared in his inbox with a surprising question.

"He said, 'I want you to come to our first training session on Friday at 6:00 a.m. Can you be there?'" Kshirsagar recalled. "And I was like, 'Yeah, of course I'll be there.'"

Now a junior on the varsity men's soccer team, Kshirsagar's story is different from most. Kshirsagar is the only player on the team to join as a walk-on, joining the team after a season playing for the men's club soccer team. He rode the bench for the entire 2024 season. But this year, he has come off the bench in a majority of the Bears' games and started in an early-season tilt against Westminster College. He is playing on the wing this season, a difficult adjustment from the midfield position he has played his entire life. But against all odds, this season, Kshirsagar has gotten regular minutes and goal-scoring opportunities.

Sometimes, Kshirsagar himself can't even believe it.

"There was about a year where I was really uncertain about my future and I didn't really know if I would play again," he said. "So having that all pay off is such a relief. I'm just over the moon."

Kshirsagar starred in high school, serving as team captain for his final season at the St. Paul Academy and Summit School in St. Paul, Minnesota. In 2023, he joined the Minneapolis City Futures team, which plays in the United Premier Soccer League. Through Minneapolis City, Kshirsagar met now-senior Zach Susee, a well-known name in Minnesota soccer circles and a forward for the WashU men's soccer team. The two of them had never met, but they shared a career progression — from the youth-level Salvo Soccer Club, to Minneapolis City, and ultimately, to WashU.

"I got to play with Yash a little bit at [Minneapolis] City, and he was on one of the teams that I used to watch at tournaments when I was younger," Susee said. "It's pretty cool that we have someone on the team from the same area and same club as me, even if I didn't know him personally."

Kshirsagar woke up early that day to train with the team. After attending a few more training sessions, he got an invite to the team lift session. The newly-hired head coach, Andrew Bordelon, soon asked him to practice with the team. He dressed with the team in an exhibition game against Saint Louis University that April but didn't see the field. He began to plan his daily routine around a team he didn't yet know he was a part of, all for the opportunity to play with the senior team.

At the end of the spring season, Kshirsagar had to ask Bordelon the uncomfortable question: did he make the team? He got the answer he had been waiting for.

"I kind of knew by then, since I was invited to train and practice all spring," Kshirsagar said. "But him saying that in words and giving me the confirmation was just incredible."

Despite training and practicing for the men's soccer team for over a year, Kshirsagar didn't see the field until the 33rd minute of the men's soccer 2025 season opener against Millikin University.

Bordelon turned to his former walk-on midfielder for the first time – poetically, replacing Susee on the pitch. 35 minutes later, first-year Wole Adeoye crossed a ball into the box. Once again, Kshirsagar did not waste his opportunity. He scored the goal that extended WashU's lead to 6-0, but more importantly, scored his first collegiate goal. He has not scored since facing Millikin, but he recorded his first career start in the following game against Westminster College.

"In the moment, I didn't really think about everything I have done to get that goal," he said. "But after the game, when I was with my parents, I realized all the steps I had to take to get there. That was a special moment."

Kshirsagar is still constantly adjusting. He is adapting to a new position, one which requires him to be less involved with playmaking and more clinical with his finishing. He's still training and improving every single day. With many of the Bears' regular forwards injured, the new winger is taking the opportunity to continue to carve out a prominent role for this year's squad.

"My goal is to bring that spark," he said. "I want to bring that speed and attacking power. And when I'm playing to my ability, that's something I'm able to do well."

So far, Kshirsagar has done just that. This year, he has logged valuable minutes in nearly all of the Bears' seven games. His energy off the bench is palpable, always bringing a good attitude with him into games.

"He is one of the most positive people I've ever met and just a genuinely nice person," Susee said. "He's just a really, really good guy, everyone in the locker room enjoys having him around, and now he's one of the guys that just fits well with the team."

For Kshirsagar, the journey has always been about more than just personal glory. He sees himself as proof that persistence pays off and that there's space for players who may not have taken the traditional recruiting route.

 "The main thing is to keep reaching out," he said, offering advice to future walk-ons. "At first, I didn't really see the importance of me following up so persistently. But I think that if I had sent only three emails instead of the ten that I did send, [Clarke] probably wouldn't have emailed me and called me up."

From captaining his high school soccer team, to doubting whether collegiate soccer was within reach, to becoming the team's only walk-on among a roster of highly-touted high school recruits, Kshirsagar's success has come in waves. And as the Bears' season continues, he's determined to keep building on that momentum — one game, one opportunity at a time.

NYU has scored a goal early at Emory.

NYU goal scored in the 4th minute from Kenyon Namdar at the 3:54 mark, assist by Wilhelm Frissell.

NYU up 1-0 at Emory early in the first half.

Emory has scored an equalizer.

The equalizer came in the 14th minute on an Emory goal by Adeyemi Oni at the 13:05 mark, assist by Danny Moya.

Emory and NYU tied at 1-1 in Atlanta in the first half.

Emory has taken the lead over NYU.

Emory's second goal of the match came in the 20th minute on a goal by Adeyemi Oni at the 19:28 mark, assist by Prescott Bayman.

Adeyemi Oni now has a brace in today's match.

Emory currently leading over NYU, 2-1.

NYU has scored an equalizer.

The equalizer came in the 26th minute on an NYU goal scored by Giulio Potenti at the 25:50 mark, assist by Ethan Zarka.

Emory and NYU now tied at 2-2.

Quote from: deiscanton on October 18, 2025, 11:31:53 AMAdeyemi Oni now has a brace in today's match.

Emory currently leading over NYU, 2-1.

Emory capitalized on two terribly-bad defensive stands by NYU.

Violets score.  Fantastic work by Zarka to connect with Potenti for the header.

NYU has just taken the lead over Emory once again.

NYU's third goal of the match came in the 29th minute on a goal scored by Terra Nagai at the 28:09 mark.

NYU now leading over Emory, 3-2, in Atlanta, still in the first half.

Absolutely dreadful miscue for Emory.  NYU plays the long ball, covered by an Eagles defender who inadvertently gives it away to Nagai for the easy goal.

Halftime at Fauver Stadium in Rochester, NY--

Brandeis and Rochester tied at 0-0.

Brandeis's best chance to take the lead came in the 44th minute when a golazo attempt by Rainer Osselmann-Chai at the 43:24 mark hit the top crossbar.

Halftime stats

Brandeis outshot Rochester in the first half, 7-1, with each team getting one shot on target.

Brandeis took 2 corner kicks to Rochester's one corner.

Brandeis committed 11 fouls to Rochester's 5 fouls.

Yellow card issued to Brandeis's Keller Chamovitz in the 27th minute.

Brandeis whistled for offsides once, while Rochester was not whistled for offsides. 

Halftime at Woodruff PE Center Stadium in Atlanta, GA

NYU leading over Emory, 3-2.

Halftime stats

Emory outshot NYU, 13-5, with Emory also leading in shots on target, 6-4.

Each team took 1 corner kick in the half.

NYU got an assist in 2 of their 3 goals scored, while both of Emory's goals came with an assist.

Emory whistled for 6 fouls while NYU got whistled for 5 fouls.

Emory was whistled for offsides once, while NYU did not get whistled for offsides.

Rochester has scored.

Rochester goal came in the 50th minute on a goal by Kamal Ibrahim at the 49:42 mark, assist by Johnny Makula.

Ibrahim's 4th goal of the season.

Rochester now leading over Brandeis, 1-0, early in the second half.

Emory has scored their second equalizer of the match.

The Emory equalizer came on a goal in the 52nd minute scored by Lorenzo Avalos at the 51:40 mark.

Emory and NYU now tied at 3-3, early in the second half. 

Emory has now retaken the lead.

Emory's 4th goal of the match came in the 54th minute on a goal scored by Ignacio Cubeddu at the 53:19 mark.

Emory now leading over NYU, 4-3, early in the second half. 

Insane game in Atlanta.  The Avalos goal was as good as anything you will see in Division III.  And Cubeddu wow...

4-3 Eagles have retaken the lead in a must-win game for Emory.

Meanwhile, in Rochester, Brandeis has picked up the pace searching for an equalizer.

A yellow card was issued to Brandeis's Kaden Collins in the 58th minute.

Rochester still leading over Brandeis, 1-0, in the 63rd minute.

Emory has scored their 5th goal of the match.

Emory's 5th goal came in the 62nd minute on a goal scored by Jack Burgess at the 61:09 mark, assist by Ignacio Cubeddu.

Emory now leading over NYU, 5-3, still in the 62nd minute. 

Emory has now scored their 6th goal of the match.

Emory's 6th goal came in the 67th minute on a goal scored by Lorenzo Avalos at the 66:47 mark, assist by Terrence Noh.

Lorenzo Avalos now has a brace.

Emory now leading over NYU, 6-3, in the 70th minute.

Brandeis has scored 2 goals in the 79th minute to take the lead over Rochester.

The Brandeis equalizer came on a goal by Slater Lofreddo at the 78:12 mark.

Then Brandeis scored the go-ahead goal on a goal by Langston Byrd at the 78:26 mark.

2 Brandeis goals in a 14 second stretch.

Brandeis now leading over Rochester, 2-1 in the 80th minute.

A yellow card has just been issued to Rochester's Milo Bisenic in the 81st minute.

Final in Rochester, NY--

Brandeis 2, Rochester 1.

Brandeis men's soccer first victory at Fauver Stadium since 2015.

Rochester's 11 game unbeaten streak comes to an end.

The win gets Brandeis to 10.5 adjusted wins, meaning that Brandeis will now be able to drop 1/2 of their win vs #290 in NPI Regis (MA) to further boost the NPI score for the Judges.   The win value game score for beating Regis (MA) was less than Brandeis's current NPI value, so Brandeis will be able to drop 1/2 of that win over Regis (MA) right now. 

Game stats for Brandeis at Rochester men--

Brandeis's 2 goals were unassisted, while Rochester's goal came with an assist.

Brandeis outshot Rochester, 18-8, and led 8-5 in shots on target.

Brandeis took 7 corner kicks to Rochester's 2.

Brandeis was whistled for 20 fouls, while Rochester was whistled for 12 fouls.

Brandeis players were issued 2 yellow cards, while Rochester players got 1 yellow card.

Brandeis was whistled for offsides 2 times, while Rochester was whistled for offsides once.

Final from Atlanta, GA--

Emory 6, NYU 3.

Game stats

Emory got 4 assists on their 6 goals, while NYU got 2 assists on their 3 goals.

Emory outshot NYU, 23-9, and led in shots on target, 14-5.

Emory took 5 corner kicks, to NYU's 1 corner kick.

Both teams whistled for 10 fouls a piece.

A red card was issued to NYU's Ethan Zarka in the 89th minute-- straight red.  Zarka is automatically suspended for NYU's game next Friday afternoon vs Carnegie Mellon as a result.

NYU players got issued 3 yellow cards, while Emory players got issued 2 yellow cards.

Emory was whistled for offsides 3 times, while NYU was whistled for offsides once.

Next UAA men's game is this evening at 5:30 PM Central/6:30 PM Eastern, when U.Chicago hosts CWRU.

Brandeis and Emory move to 1-1-1 and 1-0-2 with four games left and remain in contention for the championship.

They would have been crazy longshots if the early scores had held.

The league looks very interesting if 0-1-1 Case Western Reserve and 0-0-2 Carnegie Mellon earn road wins over 1-0-1 Chicago and 2-0-0 Washington University.

Brandeis will jump Emory in this week's NPI. With Wesleyan losing, they will fall below both of them. Brandeis moves to #4, Emory #5. Top 4 seeds in NPI are protected against being in a region with any other top 4 seed, same for 5-8.

If Wash U beats CMU though...Wash U jumps both Brandeis and Emory and moves to 4.

CWRU at #19 UChicago right now.

Jonah White on the play by play.

I could barely hear him speak on the stream early on in this match, but perhaps the audio problems are clearing up.

Quote from: deiscanton on October 18, 2025, 06:50:47 PMCWRU at #19 UChicago right now.

Jonah White on the play by play.

I could barely hear him speak on the stream early on in this match, but perhaps the audio problems are clearing up.

Not yet, I can't hear him either.

They seem to have fixed the audio...but are now in lightning delay.

We have a weather delay at Chicago due to a thunderstorm passing through the U.Chicago campus.

Due to the lightning delay, play has now been suspended for at least 30 minutes.

At the start of the delay, the score is CWRU 0, U.Chicago 0 in the 29th minute.

The clock has been stopped at the 28:25 mark, and will resume from there when play resumes, either later this evening, or possibly tomorrow if play cannot resume this evening. 

I just woke up after a few hours of sleep to see if the match between CWRU and #19 UChicago resumed after the weather delay, and fortunately it did.

The first half was delayed at least 2 weather delays due to thunderstorms passing through the U.Chicago campus, but the match finally resumed after 8 PM Central/9 PM Eastern, and was able to be played to its conclusion this evening.

The final score tonight was #19 UChicago 1, CWRU 0.

UChicago's goal came early in the second half, in the 54th minute of the match, and was scored by William Stewart at the 53;34 mark, with the assist from Max Weene.

Game stats

UChicago outshot CWRU, 12-9, and led in shots on target, 6-3.

UChicago took 7 corner kicks to CWRU's one corner kick.

CWRU was whistled for 14 fouls, while UChicago was whistled for 12 fouls.

No player on either team was booked by the officials.

Each team was whistled for offsides just once.

Next UAA match

RV Carnegie Mellon at #4 WashU at 11 AM Central/Noon Eastern tomorrow (Sunday, October 19, 2025) to conclude the matches for this weekend. 

Chicago outlasts Case 1-0 after 3 lightning delays and buckets and buckets of rain. The Maroons withstood waves of pressure and several late shots and pulled out the win. Evenly matched game throughout.

Big win for Chicago in UAA race. Tough last four for them (Emory, Rochester, Brandeis, Wash U), but they are getting close to sealing an at-large NCAA bid at minimum. FYI, Emory, Brandeis, and Wash U already have.

Let's look at Case's numbers a bit after this loss. To get to a level where they have a chance at an at-large bid, they need wins. Last four are Brandeis, NYU, Emory, and CMU. If they lose to NYU or CMU, they will need to win both Brandeis/Emory. I don't think winning at NYU & CMU plus two ties at Brandeis/Emory will be enough.

Lose to Brandeis next week and their only hope is to win out. Any two losses or even lose/tie with Brandeis/Emory and chances at NCAA will be really small.

UAA NCAA looks like - Wash U, Brandeis, Emory chasing protected seeds 1-4 and 5-8. Chicago looking like a 2 seed in a NCAA pod, CMU/Rochester on the bubble, Case needs wins, NYU is out. UAA likely gets 4-6 bids this year.

Quote from: kansas hokie on October 19, 2025, 09:42:31 AMBig win for Chicago in UAA race. Tough last four for them (Emory, Rochester, Brandeis, Wash U), but they are getting close to sealing an at-large NCAA bid at minimum. FYI, Emory, Brandeis, and Wash U already have.

Let's look at Case's numbers a bit after this loss. To get to a level where they have a chance at an at-large bid, they need wins. Last four are Brandeis, NYU, Emory, and CMU. If they lose to NYU or CMU, they will need to win both Brandeis/Emory. I don't think winning at NYU & CMU plus two ties at Brandeis/Emory will be enough.

Lose to Brandeis next week and their only hope is to win out. Any two losses or even lose/tie with Brandeis/Emory and chances at NCAA will be really small.

UAA NCAA looks like - Wash U, Brandeis, Emory chasing protected seeds 1-4 and 5-8. Chicago looking like a 2 seed in a NCAA pod, CMU/Rochester on the bubble, Case needs wins, NYU is out. UAA likely gets 4-6 bids this year.

I'm thinking 4 will make it...Emory, WashU, Chicago and Brandeis. Unfortunately don't think Case is in unless they can finally score a goal or two. Don't know enough about CMU to judge them.

Case is a perfect example of a team with no margin for error...one defensive breakdown per game and they pick up a loss or tie. They've played WashU and Chicago tough, but had one breakdown in each game, and probably should have beaten Rochester.

They just can't find a way to put the ball in the net. I noticed last night their normal starter at striker came off the bench, and not until midway through the game. No idea on the reason- sick, injury, shaking things up? A senior got the first start of his career in that position last night- did fine but still not enough. Their freshman midfielder (Rossen) also didn't play- he's scored a couple for them but don't know the reason for that either.

Just a lot of struggles offensively.

Wash U goal in the 12th minute.

Wash U goal scored by Daniel Kochen at the 11:34 mark.    Golazo from 25 yards out.  Assist by Luca Violone.

Wash U leading over Carnegie Mellon, 1-0, in the 15th minute. 

Halftime in St. Louis, MO--

Wash U 1, Carnegie Mellon 0

Halftime stats

Wash U's goal came with an assist.

Wash U outshot Carnegie Mellon 7-1, and led in shots on target, 3-0.

Wash U took 2 corner kicks, while Carnegie Mellon has yet to attempt a corner kick.

Each team whistled for 7 fouls a piece.

Yellow card issued to Carnegie Mellon's James Ashby in the 30th minute.

Neither team whistled for offsides. 

Final from St. Louis, MO--

Wash U 1, Carnegie Mellon 0

Wash U goes to 3-0 in the UAA and is the men's leader for the AQ at 9 points after 3 rounds of match play.

Final stats

Wash U outshot Carnegie Mellon 12-7, and each team had 3 shots on target.

Carnegie Mellon took 7 corner kicks in the match, while Wash U took 5 corner kicks.

Each team whistled for 11 fouls each.

Carnegie Mellon players were booked with 3 yellow cards, while WashU players got booked with 1 yellow card.

Wash U was whistled once for offsides, while Carnegie Mellon was not whistled for offsides.

UAA Men's standings after 3 rounds of match play.

1.)  Wash U leads with 9 points at 3-0 in the UAA, 11-1 overall.

2.)  U.Chicago is in second place with 7 points at 2-0-1 in the UAA, 9-1-4 overall.

3.)  Emory in third place with 5 points at 1-0-2 in the UAA, 11-0-2 overall.

T-4.)  Brandeis is tied for fourth at 4 points at 1-1-1 in the UAA, 9-1-3 overall.
       Rochester also tied for fourth at 4 points at 1-1-1 in the UAA, 7-3-4 overall.

6.)   Carnegie Mellon in sixth place at 2 points-- 0-1-2 in the UAA, 7-2-5 overall.
7.)   CWRU in seventh place at 1 point-- 0-2-1 in the UAA, 6-3-4 overall.
8.)   NYU in the basement at 0 points, 0-3 in the UAA, 2-8-1 overall.

I just want to give you an update as to my posting of the UAA men's soccer teams and where they stand in the NPI rankings when the next NPI summary report comes out tomorrow morning as anticipated.   I will probably not be able to have it posted until late Monday morning or early Monday afternoon, as I have an appointment tomorrow morning around 9:30 AM ET that I have to keep.   In addition, the Boston area may have some wild weather passing through between 8 AM and 2 PM ET tomorrow from the system that affected weather in the Midwest last night, so I am not sure about if winds will knock out power for a while. At the very least, the Boston area is going to have heavy downpours sometime Monday morning for at least an hour with strong to damaging winds.  I will discuss the new NPI summary report tomorrow when I get a chance to do so.   

Quote from: deiscanton on October 19, 2025, 12:18:46 PMWash U goal scored by Daniel Kochen at the 11:34 mark.    Golazo from 25 yards out.  Assist by Luca Violone.

Fantastic goal by Kochen for his 5th of the season.  Only a freshman.  Meanwhile, freshman Idan Gartan, the leading goal scorer for the Tartans did not even get off a shot.

The NCAA DIII Men's Soccer Committee has released the third official NPI Summary report of the season.

This NPI report covers games through Sunday, October 19, 2025.

The report is located at http://stats.ncaa.org/selection_rankings/nitty_gritties/46277 (http://stats.ncaa.org/selection_rankings/nitty_gritties/46277)

Here is how the UAA men's soccer teams are ranked nationally by NPI as of this morning--

1.) Emory (#3 nationally in NPI)-- 58.709
2.) WashU (#4 nationally in NPI)-- 58.651
3.) Brandeis (#7 nationally in NPI)-- 58.535
4.) U.Chicago (#14 nationally in NPI)-- 57.279
5.) Carnegie Mellon (#45 nationally in NPI)-- 54.830
6.) Rochester (#65 nationally in NPI)-- 54.151

6 of the 8 UAA men's soccer teams this week carry a quality win bonus,as their NPI values are above 54.

7.) CWRU (#72 nationally in NPI)-- 53.843
8.) NYU (#217 nationally in NPI)-- 49.252

Quote from: deiscanton on October 20, 2025, 11:57:17 AMThe NCAA DIII Men's Soccer Committee has released the third official NPI Summary report of the season.

Thanks, hey tell me, UChicago has the ability to host both the men and women, yes?

I was thinking about where the Washington University men might go.

Augsburg and St. Olaf, let's say, would necessitate a flight and there are enough programs among the upper Midwest to fill those sites.  There is UChicago and Lake Forest. 

Quote from: WUPHF on October 20, 2025, 12:42:29 PM

Quote from: deiscanton on October 20, 2025, 11:57:17 AMThe NCAA DIII Men's Soccer Committee has released the third official NPI Summary report of the season.

Thanks, hey tell me, UChicago has the ability to host both the men and women, yes?

I was thinking about where the Washington University men might go.

Augsburg and St. Olaf, let's say, would necessitate a flight and there is enough programs among the upper Midwest to fill those sites.  There is UChicago and Lake Forest. 

Yes, U.Chicago has hosted both the DIII Men's and Women's Soccer Tournaments on the same weekend in the past using the turf field/football stadium for the men, and the grass field for the women.  This is because the regular season games for U.Chicago use both of these fields as home fields for their respective sports. 

If one tournament is conducted on a Friday/Saturday schedule and the other on a Saturday/Sunday schedule, I would see no reason why U.Chicago could not do this again.  Also, one tournament could be played in the afternoon and the other in the evening. 

Quote from: deiscanton on October 20, 2025, 01:03:15 PMYes, U.Chicago has hosted both the DIII Men's and Women's Soccer Tournaments on the same weekend in the past using the turf field/football stadium for the men, and the grass field for the women.  This is because the regular season games for U.Chicago use both of these fields as home fields for their respective sports. 

If one tournament is conducted on a Friday/Saturday schedule and the other on a Saturday/Sunday schedule, I would see no reason why U.Chicago could not do this again.  Also, one tournament could be played in the afternoon and the other in the evening. 

Thanks, I cannot remember it happening, though my memory is always short.

cool story out of WashU
https://www.studlife.com/sports/2025/10/06/over-the-moon-yash-kshirsagars-journey-from-walk-on-to-the-mens-soccer-team

Yes, I think U Chicago can host both due to using (and having) two fields. NCAA requires over half of your home games using the field used for NCAA hosting but I'm sure the leaders at U Chicago can make that work. Don't think the same is available to Emory, Wash U, or Brandeis so while all may earn the right to host (and at least 1-2 of those four will have "protected" seeds it seems), this year the women have priority for hosting the first/second rounds so those other three schools would travel.

Tufts, Lake Forest, and Christopher Newport also have both men and women's team in hosting positions in this week's NPI, that could be 5-6 sites needed beyond the top 16 and not all schools have facilities that meet NCAA standards to host. Where all these teams go will be one of the real surprises of the bracket on 11/10.

Quote from: kansas hokie on October 20, 2025, 01:43:15 PMYes, I think U Chicago can host both due to using (and having) two fields. NCAA requires over half of your home games using the field used for NCAA hosting but I'm sure the leaders at U Chicago can make that work. Don't think the same is available to Emory, Wash U, or Brandeis so while all may earn the right to host (and at least 1-2 of those four will have "protected" seeds it seems), this year the women have priority for hosting the first/second rounds so those other three schools would travel.

Right, only Chicago has multiple fields.  Others can correct me if I am wrong, but the grass field is also used by the baseball and softball teams so interestingly, Chicago might not be able to host both Spring sports in the same weekend, though I have no idea...

Quote from: WUPHF on October 20, 2025, 03:02:14 PM

Quote from: kansas hokie on October 20, 2025, 01:43:15 PMYes, I think U Chicago can host both due to using (and having) two fields. NCAA requires over half of your home games using the field used for NCAA hosting but I'm sure the leaders at U Chicago can make that work. Don't think the same is available to Emory, Wash U, or Brandeis so while all may earn the right to host (and at least 1-2 of those four will have "protected" seeds it seems), this year the women have priority for hosting the first/second rounds so those other three schools would travel.

Right, only Chicago has multiple fields.  Others can correct me if I am wrong, but the grass field is also used by the baseball and softball teams so interestingly, Chicago might not be able to host both Spring sports in the same weekend, though I have no idea...

Due to its sizable width, the Stagg grass accommodates baseball and softball simultaneously. The fences run right up next to each other in center/right center, and the two programs play on the same day all the time during the spring. The baseball field has monster power alleys, it's one of the largest fields in D3 for sure. If you hit a home run at UChicago (especially with all the cross breezes coming off the lake), you've really done something. There were some years in the past where there were less than 4 combined home runs hit at J. Kyle Anderson Field in a full season.

For reference, this is an aerial view of the outdoor fields:
https://athletics.uchicago.edu/sports/2023/6/12/facilities-athletic-fields.aspx

Quote from: kansas hokie on October 20, 2025, 01:43:15 PMTufts, Lake Forest, and Christopher Newport also have both men and women's team in hosting positions in this week's NPI, that could be 5-6 sites needed beyond the top 16 and not all schools have facilities that meet NCAA standards to host. Where all these teams go will be one of the real surprises of the bracket on 11/10.

Also, thanks for catching Lake Forest. A friend of mine is going to follow WashU wherever they go and was curious.  Maybe the No. 1 seed in Madison, WI?

Quote from: blue_jays on October 20, 2025, 03:09:16 PMDue to its sizable width, the Stagg grass accommodates baseball and softball simultaneously. The fences run right up next to each other in center/right center, and the two programs play on the same day all the time during the spring. The baseball field has monster power alleys, it's one of the largest fields in D3 for sure. If you hit a home run at UChicago (especially with all the cross breezes coming off the lake), you've really done something. There were some years in the past where there were less than 4 combined home runs hit at J. Kyle Anderson Field in a full season.

For reference, this is an aerial view of the outdoor fields:
https://athletics.uchicago.edu/sports/2023/6/12/facilities-athletic-fields.aspx

That is good trivia, thanks!

Quote from: WUPHF on October 20, 2025, 01:26:07 PM

Quote from: deiscanton on October 20, 2025, 01:03:15 PMYes, U.Chicago has hosted both the DIII Men's and Women's Soccer Tournaments on the same weekend in the past using the turf field/football stadium for the men, and the grass field for the women.  This is because the regular season games for U.Chicago use both of these fields as home fields for their respective sports. 

If one tournament is conducted on a Friday/Saturday schedule and the other on a Saturday/Sunday schedule, I would see no reason why U.Chicago could not do this again.  Also, one tournament could be played in the afternoon and the other in the evening. 

Thanks, I cannot remember it happening, though my memory is always short.

U.Chicago hosted first/second rounds for both the men's and women's DIII soccer tournaments in 2017.   The women played the first/second rounds at Stagg Grass Fields on Friday and Saturday morning/afternoon, while the men played the first/second rounds at Stagg Turf Field/football stadium on Saturday and Sunday evening. 

Emory's places to go for NCAA look very limited - only three teams are within 500 miles and on track to get a bid:

Hampden Sydney (NPI 13)
Lynchburg (NPI 16)
Hanover (IN) (NPI 77, auto bid possible)
Covenant (NPI 97)

if not any of those, Emory is flying somewhere and that could be anywhere. Other UAA teams have many options in their 500 mile radius.

UAA with 3 out of the top 5 in the latest rankings, and 4 out of 12. Much different compared to last year!

2 Emory
3 WashU
5 Brandeis
12 Chicago

UAA newbie question...why doesn't the UAA have a conference tournament? My first thought was because of the distance amongst the teams, but I don't think that's it. What is the real reason?

VASoccerDad....yes, it's distance and by not having one they can spread out the travel so conference games are usually only one per weekend. Two in one weekend gives you trips like Wash U this weekend...@ Rochester NY on Friday then fly to Atlanta Saturday and play Sunday morning (#2 vs. #3 match as well), fly back to STL on Sunday night and go to class Monday. Chicago does that same circuit in reverse this weekend.

Using the conference tourney weekend for one more regular season match allows for one less of those type of crazy trips. And that's not counting the travel that would be needed for a conference tournament on top of that. This design works better for UAA and the student athletes.

NESCAC is an example of a top league with closer geographically so they play home and home in conference and have a conference tourney, much less out of conference matches than UAA schedule.

Thanks Kansas Hokie- that would have been my guess but I wasn't sure. I wonder if they ever thought of a neutral site tournament- say in Nashville or Richmond. Still a ways to go for some of the NE schools I guess. Obviously conferences with a much smaller geographical footprint have an easier time of it from a travel standpoint...just curious about the UAA.

From a purely soccer standpoint, it definitely puts all the emphasis on doing well in the regular season.

I had two kids play d1 and one is at d2 now while the other is at Emory. There's a real difference in the season in terms of recovery and overall balance when the UAA schedule puts games on weekends mostly. It helps. The mid-week / weekend grind of d1 and d2 (with high level teams having more home games and lower level having more away) is a real difference.

UAA schools came together to prioritize elite academics and form an elite athletic conference in the process. They have poured $$$ into all their teams to do so and it's working. Hard to find a better top to bottom conference in d3 across all sports. NESCAC can have an argument, I understand.

Quote from: VASoccerDad on October 21, 2025, 06:22:04 PMI wonder if they ever thought of a neutral site tournament- say in Nashville or Richmond.

UAA Volleyball has a postseason tournament, but they play at a UAA school, rotating each year.  I know nothing of volleyball, but in terms of recovery, they seem to be able to play more games per weekend than other sports.

The idea of a conference tournament gets brought up periodically, but the league continues with the status quo.

Quote from: WUPHF on October 22, 2025, 09:31:31 AM

Quote from: VASoccerDad on October 21, 2025, 06:22:04 PMI wonder if they ever thought of a neutral site tournament- say in Nashville or Richmond.

UAA Volleyball has a postseason tournament, but they play at a UAA school, rotating each year.  I know nothing of volleyball, but in terms of recovery, they seem to be able to play more games per weekend than other sports.

The idea of a conference tournament gets brought up periodically, but the league continues with the status quo.

They should keep the status quo, the model works well and puts the right emphasis on regular season results mattering. I always have beef with conference tournaments where an average team gets hot for 2 or 3 games and grabs the AQ.
Plane travel is expensive, and the UAA schools have rightly emphasized that being in class as much as possible matters. A conference championship weekend works well in some sports (cross country, tennis, volleyball). But I always hear complaints about 2 games in a weekend in soccer being too taxing, so not cramming in extra games for a conference tournament makes sense to me.
Volleyball players are used to playing 2-3 matches per day on busy weekends, it's just part of their grind and how the sport is run. It's a sport reliant on explosive movements in a small area versus continuous running like soccer.

Quote from: blue_jays on October 22, 2025, 09:49:41 AMThey should keep the status quo, the model works well and puts the right emphasis on regular season results mattering. I always have beef with conference tournaments where an average team gets hot for 2 or 3 games and grabs the AQ.

I agree and I do not think anything will change anytime soon.  Especially in light of the financial issues.

Big double-header weekend for everyone starting today...should really help sort out the standings and either hurt/help those on the NPI bubble.

Friday (homes teams listed first):
Brandeis vs Case- 5:00p
Rochester vs WashU- 5:00p
Emory vs Chicago- 5:00p
NYU vs CMU- 12:30p

Sunday (home teams listed first):
NYU vs Case- 11:00a
Rochester vs Chicago- 10:30a
Emory vs WashU- 11:00a
Brandeis vs CMU- 11:00a

WashU and Chicago with major miles accumulations, at least Case and CMU get to stay in the same region.

The men's match between Carnegie Mellon and NYU is now underway from Lubetkin Field at Mal Simon Stadium (NJIT) in Newark, NJ.

I will live post this game, but I will not be able to live post on the 5 PM games today due to Friday night Shabbat evening services from my synagogue starting on-line at the second half of the 5 PM men's soccer evening games.

Tonight is the anniversary of my mother's death, and I want to say kaddish for her.

I will check the final scores of the 5 PM men's games after services, and I will live post on Sunday.

In the meantime, I am watching Carnegie Mellon at NYU right now. 

We currently have technical difficulties on the FloCollege video feed, but I am following the game on live stats as well.

BTW, NYU undergraduate student Jonathan Mak is on play-by-play for this game.

Video feed on FloCollege is now back up at NJIT. 

Update-- Just as I say that, the stream froze again momentarily.  The technical difficulties on the stream don't look to be completely resolved yet. 

Video feed on FloCollege now back up at NJIT.   Let's see if the stream holds. 

Yellow card issued in the 14th minute on Carnegie Mellon's Buck Magee at the 13:37 mark.

Score still 0-0 between Carnegie Mellon and NYU in the 15th minute. 

This video stream of Carnegie Mellon at NYU is driving me crazy with the FloCollege technical difficulties message going on and off. 

I don't think NYU had that problem last year when Hudl was streaming their home games. 

Quote from: deiscanton on October 24, 2025, 12:50:28 PMThis video stream of Carnegie Mellon at NYU is driving me crazy with the FloCollege technical difficulties message going on and off. 

I don't think NYU had that problem last year when Hudl was streaming their home games. 

I've seen the problem happen with too many different streams to believe that it is school-related.  I'll assume it is Flo Sports related until proven otherwise.

Yellow card was issued in the 24th minute to NYU's Giulio Potenti at the 23:22 mark.

Carnegie Mellon and NYU still tied at 0-0 in the final minute of the first half.

Halftime in Newark, NJ--

Carnegie Mellon 0, NYU 0

Halftime stats--

NYU outshot Carnegie Mellon, 8-4, and led in shots on target, 3-0

Carnegie Mellon took 5 corner kicks to NYU's 4 corner kicks.

Carnegie Mellon was whistled for 6 fouls, while NYU was whistled for 3 fouls.

1 player from each team got a booking from the referee.

Carnegie Mellon was whistled for offsides 3 times, while NYU was only whistled once for offsides.

NYU has scored the first goal of the match vs Carnegie Mellon.

NYU goal scored in the 72nd minute on a goal from Giulio Potenti at the 71:41 mark, assist by Keyon Namdar.

It looks like the goal came off an NYU corner kick, at least indirectly on the rebound.

NYU leading over Carnegie Mellon, 1-0, in the 74th minute.   

If this scoreline holds, Carnegie Mellon will need to win at Brandeis on Sunday, as the at-large chances for the Tartans will be nearly gone with a loss to a team ranked at #217 in the NPI going in. (NPI valued at 49.252 through games of Oct. 19).     Carnegie Mellon would only get an approx loss value of 41.864 for losing to NYU, which CMU has to keep.  The Tartans are ranked at #45 in the NPI through games of Oct. 19 with an NPI of 54.830

Carnegie Mellon's Dominic Hoar-Weiler booked with a yellow card in the 81st minute.

NYU's Joe Brancato booked with a yellow card in the 82nd minute.

NYU still leading over Carnegie Mellon, 1-0, in the 86th minute.

Final from Lubetkin Field at Mal Simon Stadium (NJIT campus) in Newark, NJ--

NYU 1, Carnegie Mellon 0

NYU improves to 3-8-1, 1-3 in the UAA-- 3 points through 4 match rounds.

Carnegie Mellon drops to 7-3-5, 0-2-2 in the UAA, 2 points through 4 match rounds.

Final stats

NYU outshot Carnegie Mellon, 14-8, and led in shots on target, 6-0.

Carnegie Mellon took 10 corner kicks, while NYU took 8 corner kicks.

Carnegie Mellon was whistled for 12 fouls, while NYU was whistled for 5 fouls.

2 Carnegie Mellon players were booked by the referee, while 3 NYU players were also booked by the referee.

The third NYU player booked was NYU's Julian Recio, who got a yellow card at the 84:29 mark.

Carnegie Mellon was whistled for offsides 4 times, while NYU was only whistled once for offsides.

Well, now that I have had my day of rest-- I will be live posting Matchday #5 in the UAA tomorrow.

First, the line scores from the rest of Friday night--

The big story was up in Rochester, NY on Friday, where Rochester pulled off the home win over WashU, 3-2, and handed the Bears their first UAA conference loss.   Rochester's at-large chances improved with the win, and can improve further if the Yellowjackets follow up with a win over UChicago tomorrow at Fauver Stadium.   The UChicago at Rochester match is the first match of the day and will kick off at 10:30 AM ET.

Earlier on Friday, Carnegie Mellon's at-large chances took what may end up to be a fatal hit when the Tartans lost at NYU outright.  NYU won yesterday, 1-0.  This season, NYU was the one team that other UAA teams were expected to beat, but Carnegie Mellon could not get the job done.   Should Carnegie Mellon win at Brandeis tomorrow, the win might keep the at-large chances for the Tartans on life support.  A tie at Brandeis now is probably not enough for the Tartans to stay in the hunt for an at-large bid to the NCAAs.

In Waltham, MA, Brandeis unfortunately could not score a goal against CWRU, but did play the Spartans to a goalless draw.  Brandeis's NPI took a slight hit from the draw vs CWRU, but the Judges were able to drop the remaining 1/2 win vs Anna Maria as a result of the tie vs CWRU to mitigate the hit.  Two of Brandeis's non-conference opponents, Wheaton (MA) and Coast Guard, played each other in NEWMAC play to a 1-1 draw in New London, CT today, but I will not know until Monday morning what effect that will initially have on the Brandeis NPI.  Keep in mind that any Division III game will affect a team's NPI dynamically to some degree, even if the effect is not noticeable in the published number because the effect happened in the seventh or eighth digit of the NPI.  Published NPIs are only rounded to the thousandth of a point for purposes of NCAA tournament selection.  Brandeis seems to be secure in getting into the NCAA DIII tournament field on an at-large bid with 3 games left, but I may know for sure when the next NPI summary report comes out Monday morning. 

In Atlanta, Emory and UChicago played each other to a 1-1 draw.  I believe that Kansas_hokie is watching the Emory games in person this weekend, so he can post later about his experience over the weekend at Woodruff PEC Stadium.  In the D3soccer pool, only 27 percent of the respondents correctly predicted a draw for that game-- 57 percent thought that Emory would win outright.    This week's pool also has the WashU at Emory game tomorrow.

I will live post tomorrow starting at 10:30 AM ET. 

The UAA table through 4 rounds-- 3 rounds remaining.

Results published as win/loss/tie.

1.)  Wash U-- 3-1-0 in UAA play--  9 pts.-- 11-2-0 overall.
2.)  U.Chicago-- 2-0-2 in UAA play-- 8 pts.-- 9-1-5 overall.
3.)  Rochester-- 2-1-1 in UAA play-- 7 pts.-- 8-3-4 overall.
4.)  Emory-- 1-0-3 in UAA play-- 6 pts.-- 11-0-3 overall.
5.)  Brandeis-- 1-1-2 in UAA play-- 5 pts.-- 9-1-4 overall.
6.)  NYU-- 1-3-0 in UAA play-- 3 pts.-- 3-8-1 overall.
T-7.)  Carnegie Mellon-- 0-2-2 in UAA play-- 2 pts.-- 7-3-5 overall.
T-7..)  CWRU-- 0-2-2 in UAA play-- 2 pts.-- 6-3-5 overall.

Sunday's matches will help us decide if we are going to go to the last weekend (Wash U hosts Chicago; Rochester hosts Emory) to decide the UAA title. Will be a fun Sunday.

Yes, I'm in Atlanta for both matches. Emory had way more chances than Chicago and I'm sure the shot count was imbalanced. Chicago played some counter-attack and their goal was on a brilliant free kick cross and nice finish. Emory didn't have their top goal scorer Ignacio Cubbedo due to a late yellow card in the NYU game. He's a difference maker, but Emory still had plenty of chances to take this one.

We'll see what's left in the tank for the Wash U game. Emory must win to realisticallly keep UAA title hopes alive, Wash U currently controls their own destiny but there's a lot of soccer to be played. Wash U has a horrendous travel schedule, but it's their last trip until NCAA time when they will be travelling away as their women's team will host on campus in the first two rounds.

Quote from: kansas hokie on October 25, 2025, 10:20:56 PMSunday's matches will help us decide if we are going to go to the last weekend (Wash U hosts Chicago; Rochester hosts Emory) to decide the UAA title. Will be a fun Sunday.

Yes, I'm in Atlanta for both matches. Emory had way more chances than Chicago and I'm sure the shot count was imbalanced. Chicago played some counter-attack and their goal was on a brilliant free kick cross and nice finish. Emory didn't have their top goal scorer Ignacio Cubbedo due to a late yellow card in the NYU game. He's a difference maker, but Emory still had plenty of chances to take this one.

We'll see what's left in the tank for the Wash U game. Emory must win to realisticallly keep UAA title hopes alive, Wash U currently controls their own destiny but there's a lot of soccer to be played. Wash U has a horrendous travel schedule, but it's their last trip until NCAA time when they will be travelling away as their women's team will host on campus in the first two rounds.

Regarding Ignacio Cubeddu's 1 match suspension on Friday vs UChicago-- Cubeddu got his 5th yellow card of the season in that game vs NYU.   Because Cubeddu now has 5 yellow cards on the season, he had to sit out on Friday vs UChicago due to yellow card accumulation.    He can play today vs Wash U, but he will have to serve another match suspension for yellow card accumulation if he gets 3 additional yellow cards without a red vs WashU, CWRU, and Rochester.  (1 yellow card each of the remaining 3 straight regular season games.) 

3 other Emory players are currently on 4 yellow cards right now and will be serving a match suspension for yellow card accumulation next weekend at CWRU if they pick up a yellow card today.   These players are Lorenzo Avalos, Adeyemi Oni, and Danny Moya.

No WashU players are currently on 4 yellow cards for the season.   Ethan Wirtschafter is leading WashU with 3 yellow cards accumulated. 

Among the other UAA teams--

1.)  Brandeis's Kaden Collins had to sit out Friday vs CWRU for yellow card accumulation as well.  Brandeis's Slater Lofreddo is currently on 4 yellow cards, and he will have to sit out next weekend at UChicago if he picks up a yellow card today vs Carnegie Mellon.

2.)  NYU's Felipe Remon is currently leading the Violets with 4 yellow cards and will be suspended next weekend for yellow card accumulation if he picks up a yellow card today vs CWRU.

Other UAA players currently in yellow card trouble--

1.) Rochester-- None
2.) UChicago-- None
3.) CWRU-- None
4.) Carnegie Mellon-- None, but Dominic Hoar-Weiler is currently leading the Tartans with 3 yellow cards accumulated this season.

Another update on yellow card accumulation--

If a player on a UAA men's soccer team picks up his 5th yellow card of the season on the final matchday of UAA play, the mandatory one game suspension for yellow card accumulation is served either (1) in the first round of the NCAA DIII men's soccer tournament if that player's team qualifies for the tournament either automatically or through an at-large bid, or (2) in the first regular season game of next season if that team does not make the NCAA DIII soccer tournament.

If a player makes it through the final day of UAA match play with 4 or fewer yellow cards on the season and that player's team qualifies for the NCAA DIII men's soccer tournament, then the player does not get suspended for yellow card accumulation if the player picks up his 5th yellow card of the season during the tournament.   However, the player would get the 1 match suspension for yellow card accumulation if he picks up his 8th yellow card of the season during that tournament. 

Quote from: kansas hokie on October 25, 2025, 10:20:56 PMEmory didn't have their top goal scorer Ignacio Cubbedo due to a late yellow card in the NYU game. He's a difference maker, but Emory still had plenty of chances to take this one.

Unfortunately, the Bears were without their UAA defensive player of the year on Friday so I assume he will be out today.  Two other key reserves did not play, though I am not sure if that was injury related.  Enjoy the games!

So that is where Cubbedo ended up? think he played for Amherst 2019.

Quote from: camosfan on October 26, 2025, 08:16:36 AMSo that is where Cubbedo ended up? think he played for Amherst 2019.

Yes, that is where Ignacio Cubbedu ended up, and yes, he did indeed play for Amherst in 2019. 

Always wondered if he was kicked out of school, was the most talented midfielder in NESCAC for about 3 seasons, then he liked felled out of sight.

Quote from: camosfan on October 26, 2025, 09:42:27 AMAlways wondered if he was kicked out of school, was the most talented midfielder in NESCAC for about 3 seasons, then he liked felled out of sight.

The 2020-2021 season did not happen due to the COVID pandemic, Cubeddu played his second season in 2021-2022, took an academic gap year in 2022-2023, returned to Amherst for his junior (third) season and played that in 2023-2024, and he was injured after the first game of his senior season at Amherst last year and got a medical waiver.  Cubeddu graduated from Amherst in the spring of 2025 and then entered Emory as a grad transfer where he is playing out his final year of eligibility. 

BTW, in case you were wondering, Ignacio Cubeddu scored a goal vs NYU in that same game that he picked up his 5th yellow card of the season.   Cubeddu comes into today's match vs WashU with 11 goals scored by him for Emory on the season, and 1 goal scored in UAA play. 

Chicago at Rochester underway, 0-0 in the 4th minute. 

Very difficult right now to live post.  Using my phone right now, but the server is slow to load.  I am following the games right now and will post later when the server is having an easier time loading.

Halftime--

Chicago 1, Rochester 0

Chicago goal scored in 45th minute by Max Weene at the 44:13 mark, assist by Samuel Jimenez.

Holding off on posting detailed game stats until server traffic clears.

Halftime stats--

Chicago outshot Rochester, 6-5, and led in shots on target, 3-2.

Chicago took 5 corner kicks while Rochester is yet to attempt a corner kick.

Chicago whistled for 9 fouls with 2 Chicago players booked by the referee, while Rochester was whistled for 4 fouls with 1 Rochester player booked by the referee.

No team whistled for offsides.

Wash U has scored at Emory.

Wash U goal came in the 25th minute on a goal scored from Daniel Kochen at the 24:55 mark, unassisted.

Wash U leading at Emory, 1-0, in the 31st minute.

Second half underway at Rochester between the Maroons and the Yellowjackets.

Halftime in Newark, NJ--

CWRU 0, NYU 0

Halftime stats

CWRU outshot NYU, 6-2, and led in shots on target, 2-0.

CWRU took 3 corner kicks to NYU's 1 corner kick.

CWRU whistled for 5 fouls while NYU was whistled for 4 fouls.

No players on either team booked by the referee.

Each team whistled once for offsides.

Halftime in Atlanta, GA--

Wash U 1, Emory 0

Halftime stats

Both teams even on shots taken at 6 a piece.

Wash U leading in shots on target, 2-1.

Wash U took 4 corner kicks while Emory took 2 corner kicks.

Wash U whistled for 8 fouls while Emory was whistled for 3 fouls.

1 Wash U player was booked by the referee, while 1 Emory player and a member of the Emory coaching staff were booked by the referee.  (YC listed as awarded to Emory without a player listed-- which means that it was awarded to the bench.)

Each team whistled once for offsides.

Halftime in Waltham, MA--

Carnegie Mellon 0, Brandeis 0

Halftime stats

Brandeis outshot Carnegie Mellon, 11-4, but each team was even in shots on target at 1 a piece.

Each team was whistled for 6 fouls a piece.

2 Carnegie Mellon players were booked by the referee, while 1 Brandeis player was booked by the referee.

Don't worry-- the Brandeis player that was booked was not Slater Lofreddo, but Rainer Osselmann-Chai.  That is Osselmann-Chai's 3rd yellow card of the season. 

Carnegie Mellon was whistled 3 times for offsides, while Brandeis was whistled once for offsides.

Chicago leading over Rochester, 1-0, in the 71st minute.

CWRU and NYU tied at 0-0 in the 47th minute.

The other 2 games still at halftime.

All 4 UAA matches are now in the second half.

Chicago leading over Rochester, 1-0, in the 74th minute.

Carnegie Mellon and Brandeis tied at 0-0 in the 46th minute.

Wash U leading over Emory, 1-0, in the 46th minute.

CWRU and NYU tied at 0-0 in the 52nd minute.

Chicago has scored their 2nd goal of the match at Rochester.

The Chicago goal came in the 77th minute on a goal from Ricky Kai at the 76:03 mark, assist by Max Weene.

Chicago leading over Rochester, 2-0, in the 82nd minute.

CWRU has scored their 1st goal of the match at NYU.

The CWRU goal came in the 59th minute on a goal from Ashton McNally at the 58:46 mark, assist by McLaren Baggett.

CWRU leading over NYU, 1-0, in the 60th minute.

Final at Fauver Stadium in Rochester, NY--

Chicago 2, Rochester 0

Chicago improves to 3-0-2 in the UAA-- 11 points-- 10-1-5 overall.

Rochester drops to 2-2-1 in the UAA-- 7 points-- 8-4-4 overall.

Live scores--

Carnegie Mellon 0, Brandeis 0-- 71st minute.

Wash U 1, Emory 0-- 69th minute.

CWRU 1, NYU 0-- 72nd minute.

Carnegie Mellon has scored in Waltham, MA

Carnegie Mellon goal scored in the 82nd minute on a goal from Dominic Hoar-Weiler at the 81:51 mark, assist by Mateas Fitzwilliam.

Carnegie Mellon leading over Brandeis, 1-0, in the 83rd minute. 

Final from Newark, NJ--

CWRU 1, NYU 0

CWRU improves to 1-2-2 in the UAA-- 5 points-- 7-3-5 overall.

NYU drops to 1-4-0 in the UAA-- 3 points-- 3-9-1 overall.

Final from Atlanta, GA--

Wash U 1, Emory 0

Wash U improves to 4-1-0 in the UAA-- 12 points-- 12-2 overall

Emory drops to 1-1-3 in the UAA-- 6 points-- 11-1-3 overall.

Final from Waltham, MA--

Carnegie Mellon 1, Brandeis 0

Brandeis suffers their first home loss of the season in their final regular season home game.  Brandeis finishes their UAA slate on the road for the final 2 weekends of the regular season.

Carnegie Mellon head coach Brandon Bowman got a red card in the final minutes of the match, which means that he will have to serve a 1 match touchline suspension next weekend vs Rochester.

Carnegie Mellon improves to 1-2-2 in the UAA-- 5 points-- 8-3-5 overall.

Brandeis drops to 1-2-2 in the UAA-- 5 points-- 9-2-4 overall.

Carnegie Mellon needed that win at Brandeis today after losing on Friday at NYU-- It seems that the at-large chances may still be alive for the Tartans.

Brandeis's chances for a high seed in the NCAAs have taken a hit, but depending on what the NPI summary report shows tomorrow morning, I still think that it is more likely than not that Brandeis's chances for an at-large bid remain solid with 2 matches to go. 

The race for the UAA men's title has come down to Wash U and Chicago, with Emory, Brandeis, CWRU, Carnegie Mellon, and NYU mathematically out of the running for the UAA Men's Soccer Championship.

Rochester is technically alive in the UAA title race at 7 points, but a Wash U victory in pne of their remaining 2 matches will eliminate the Yellowjackets from the hunt for the title. 

Wash U has a 2 point lead over UChicago-- Wash U has 12 UAA conference points, while UChicago has 10 UAA conference points, and a Wash U win vs NYU next Saturday combined with a Brandeis win or draw at Chicago next Sunday will give the UAA title and AQ to the Bears.   Should Wash U and Chicago both win next weekend, then Wash U would then secure the UAA championship with at least a home draw vs Chicago on the final matchday of the UAA season.    If UChicago wins out their remaining 2 UAA games, then the Maroons will win the UAA Men's Soccer Championship and the AQ that goes with it. 

Back from Atlanta, Wash U disrupted Emory's play more than any team i've seen this year and they had the better of it for long stretches in the match. #14 on defense for Wash U was fantastic, believe he was conference defensive player of the year last year and can understand why. Honestly not a lot of great chances for either team yet Wash U got the goal on a messy corner kick and that's all they needed. First time all year that Emory was held scoreless.

Kudos to Wash U women as well for knocking off #1 Emory 2-1 in the afternoon tilt. Great trip to Atlanta for Wash U.

Quote from: kansas hokie on October 26, 2025, 10:53:00 PMBack from Atlanta, Wash U disrupted Emory's play more than any team i've seen this year and they had the better of it for long stretches in the match. #14 on defense for Wash U was fantastic, believe he was conference defensive player of the year last year and can understand why. Honestly not a lot of great chances for either team yet Wash U got the goal on a messy corner kick and that's all they needed. First time all year that Emory was held scoreless.

Kudos to Wash U women as well for knocking off #1 Emory 2-1 in the afternoon tilt. Great trip to Atlanta for Wash U.

He was a difference maker.  Surprised by how much difficulty Emory had getting a handle on the ball.  WashU showed up in a big way.

SC.

Quote from: kansas hokie on October 26, 2025, 10:53:00 PM#14 on defense for Wash U was fantastic, believe he was conference defensive player of the year last year and can understand why.

Yes, this guy.

Quote from: WUPHF on October 26, 2025, 07:13:15 AM

Quote from: kansas hokie on October 25, 2025, 10:20:56 PMEmory didn't have their top goal scorer Ignacio Cubbedo due to a late yellow card in the NYU game. He's a difference maker, but Emory still had plenty of chances to take this one.

Unfortunately, the Bears were without their UAA defensive player of the year on Friday so I assume he will be out today.  Two other key reserves did not play, though I am not sure if that was injury related.  Enjoy the games!

The NCAA DIII Men's Soccer Committee has released the fourth official NPI Summary report of the season.

This NPI report covers games through Sunday, October 26, 2025.

The report is located at http://stats.ncaa.org/selection_rankings/nitty_gritties/46397 (http://stats.ncaa.org/selection_rankings/nitty_gritties/46397)

Here is how the UAA men's soccer teams are ranked nationally by NPI as of this morning--

1.) WashU (#4 nationally in NPI)-- 59.026
2.) U.Chicago (#5 nationally in NPI)-- 58.650
3.) Emory (#8 nationally in NPI)-- 58.416
4.) Brandeis (#16 nationally in NPI)-- 57.750
5.) Carnegie Mellon (#46 nationally in NPI)-- 55.317
6.) Rochester (#51 nationally in NPI)-- 55.100
7.) CWRU (#56 nationally in NPI)-- 54.888

7 of the 8 UAA men's soccer teams this week carry a quality win bonus,as their NPI values are above 54.

8.) NYU (#181 nationally in NPI)-- 50.613

From now until the end of play on Sunday, November 9, the NCAA DIII Men's Soccer Committee is releasing daily NPI summary reports with updated numbers.  This is because we are now in the final 2 weeks of the regular season.

This NPI report covers games through Monday October 27, 2025.

The report is located at http://stats.ncaa.org/selection_rankings/nitty_gritties/46431 (http://stats.ncaa.org/selection_rankings/nitty_gritties/46431)

Here is how the UAA men's soccer teams are ranked nationally by NPI as of this updated run of the numbers--

1.) WashU (#4 nationally in NPI)-- 59.029
2.) U.Chicago (#5 nationally in NPI)-- 58.663
3.) Emory (#8 nationally in NPI)-- 58.418
4.) Brandeis (#16 nationally in NPI)-- 57.751
5.) Carnegie Mellon (#46 nationally in NPI)-- 55.319
6.) Rochester (#51 nationally in NPI)-- 55.102
7.) CWRU (#57 nationally in NPI)-- 54.890

7 of the 8 UAA men's soccer teams currently carry a quality win bonus,as their NPI values are above 54.

8.) NYU (#181 nationally in NPI)-- 50.615

From now until the end of play on Sunday, November 9, the NCAA DIII Men's Soccer Committee is releasing daily NPI summary reports with updated numbers.  This is because we are now in the final 2 weeks of the regular season.

This NPI report covers games through Tuesday,October 28, 2025.

The report is located at http://stats.ncaa.org/selection_rankings/nitty_gritties/46439 (http://stats.ncaa.org/selection_rankings/nitty_gritties/46439)

Here is how the UAA men's soccer teams are ranked nationally by NPI as of this updated run of the numbers--

1.) WashU (#5 nationally in NPI)-- 59.070
2.) U.Chicago (#6 nationally in NPI)-- 58.736
3.) Emory (#8 nationally in NPI)-- 58.463
4.) Brandeis (#16 nationally in NPI)-- 57.814
5.) Carnegie Mellon (#46 nationally in NPI)-- 55.348
6.) Rochester (#54 nationally in NPI)-- 55.071
7.) CWRU (#58 nationally in NPI)-- 54.934

7 of the 8 UAA men's soccer teams currently carry a quality win bonus,as their NPI values are above 54.

8.) NYU (#185 nationally in NPI)-- 50.621

From now until the end of play on Sunday, November 9, the NCAA DIII Men's Soccer Committee is releasing daily NPI summary reports with updated numbers.  This is because we are now in the final 2 weeks of the regular season.

This NPI report covers games through Wednesday, October 29, 2025.

The report is located at http://stats.ncaa.org/selection_rankings/nitty_gritties/46454 (http://stats.ncaa.org/selection_rankings/nitty_gritties/46454)

Here is how the UAA men's soccer teams are ranked nationally by NPI as of this updated run of the numbers--

1.) WashU (#5 nationally in NPI)-- 59.093
2.) U.Chicago (#6 nationally in NPI)-- 58.769
3.) Emory (#8 nationally in NPI)-- 58.584
4.) Brandeis (#15 nationally in NPI)-- 57.862
5.) Carnegie Mellon (#42 nationally in NPI)-- 55.428
6.) Rochester (#53 nationally in NPI)-- 55.130
7.) CWRU (#62 nationally in NPI)-- 54.933

7 of the 8 UAA men's soccer teams currently carry a quality win bonus,as their NPI values are above 54.

8.) NYU (#185 nationally in NPI)-- 50.676

Quote from: deiscanton on October 26, 2025, 01:21:24 PMFinal from Waltham, MA--

Carnegie Mellon 1, Brandeis 0

Brandeis suffers their first home loss of the season in their final regular season home game.  Brandeis finishes their UAA slate on the road for the final 2 weekends of the regular season.

Carnegie Mellon head coach Brandon Bowman got a red card in the final minutes of the match, which means that he will have to serve a 1 match touchline suspension next weekend vs Rochester.

Carnegie Mellon improves to 1-2-2 in the UAA-- 5 points-- 8-3-5 overall.

Brandeis drops to 1-2-2 in the UAA-- 5 points-- 9-2-4 overall.

Carnegie Mellon needed that win at Brandeis today after losing on Friday at NYU-- It seems that the at-large chances may still be alive for the Tartans.

Brandeis's chances for a high seed in the NCAAs have taken a hit, but depending on what the NPI summary report shows tomorrow morning, I still think that it is more likely than not that Brandeis's chances for an at-large bid remain solid with 2 matches to go. 

The red card was overturned on appeal because one of the two cautions was actually given to the assistant coach and not the head coach, so he only accumulated one yellow.

Quote from: College Soccer Observer on October 30, 2025, 02:50:30 PM

Quote from: deiscanton on October 26, 2025, 01:21:24 PMFinal from Waltham, MA--

Carnegie Mellon 1, Brandeis 0

Brandeis suffers their first home loss of the season in their final regular season home game.  Brandeis finishes their UAA slate on the road for the final 2 weekends of the regular season.

Carnegie Mellon head coach Brandon Bowman got a red card in the final minutes of the match, which means that he will have to serve a 1 match touchline suspension next weekend vs Rochester.

Carnegie Mellon improves to 1-2-2 in the UAA-- 5 points-- 8-3-5 overall.

Brandeis drops to 1-2-2 in the UAA-- 5 points-- 9-2-4 overall.

Carnegie Mellon needed that win at Brandeis today after losing on Friday at NYU-- It seems that the at-large chances may still be alive for the Tartans.

Brandeis's chances for a high seed in the NCAAs have taken a hit, but depending on what the NPI summary report shows tomorrow morning, I still think that it is more likely than not that Brandeis's chances for an at-large bid remain solid with 2 matches to go. 

The red card was overturned on appeal because one of the two cautions was actually given to the assistant coach and not the head coach, so he only accumulated one yellow.

The appeal looks to be correctly decided.   I was wondering why the Carnegie Mellon head coach was given the red card to begin with-- it did not look like he deserved a straight red while the assistant coach was only given a yellow.  The referee apparently did think that Coach Bowman had gotten a yellow earlier in the match when he did not.

Thanks for the update. 

Of course, it is a little bit difficult to measure if/when a head coach accumulates enough yellows to get a one match touchline suspension, since cautions on any coach in the coaching staff are recorded on the play by play sheet as bench cautions as a group, and not to a particular coach. 

From now until the end of play on Sunday, November 9, the NCAA DIII Men's Soccer Committee is releasing daily NPI summary reports with updated numbers.  This is because we are now in the final 2 weeks of the regular season.

This NPI report covers games through Thursday, October 30, 2025.

The report is located at http://stats.ncaa.org/selection_rankings/nitty_gritties/46493 (http://stats.ncaa.org/selection_rankings/nitty_gritties/46493)

Here is how the UAA men's _grisoccer teams are ranked nationally by NPI as of this updated run of the numbers--

1.) WashU (#5 nationally in NPI)-- 59.099
2.) U.Chicago (#6 nationally in NPI)-- 58.847
3.) Emory (#8 nationally in NPI)-- 58.595
4.) Brandeis (#15 nationally in NPI)-- 57.866
5.) Carnegie Mellon (#42 nationally in NPI)-- 55.438
6.) Rochester (#53 nationally in NPI)-- 55.136
7.) CWRU (#61 nationally in NPI)-- 54.941

7 of the 8 UAA men's soccer teams currently carry a quality win bonus,as their NPI values are above 54.

8.) NYU (#185 nationally in NPI)-- 50.684

From now until the end of play on Sunday, November 9, the NCAA DIII Men's Soccer Committee is releasing daily NPI summary reports with updated numbers.  This is because we are now in the final 2 weeks of the regular season.

This NPI report covers games through Friday,October 31, 2025.

The report is located at http://stats.ncaa.org/selection_rankings/nitty_gritties/46514 (http://stats.ncaa.org/selection_rankings/nitty_gritties/46514)

Here is how the UAA men's soccer teams are ranked nationally by NPI as of this updated run of the numbers--

1.) WashU (#5 nationally in NPI)-- 59.140
2.) U.Chicago (#6 nationally in NPI)-- 58.860
3.) Emory (#8 nationally in NPI)-- 58.619
4.) Brandeis (#15 nationally in NPI)-- 57.867
5.) Carnegie Mellon (#42 nationally in NPI)-- 55.450
6.) Rochester (#53 nationally in NPI)-- 55.143
7.) CWRU (#61 nationally in NPI)-- 54.951

7 of the 8 UAA men's soccer teams currently carry a quality win bonus,as their NPI values are above 54.

8.) NYU (#183 nationally in NPI)-- 50.723

Rochester at Carnegie Mellon is underway.

According to live stats, Emory at CWRU is yet to start due to CWRU's Senior Day activities. 

Emory at CWRU is now underway.

Rochester and Carnegie Mellon still at 0-0 in the 8th minute.

I have followed Case Western Reserve's soccer team for a few years.  It is extremely frustrating to look good early only to repeatedly underperform starting right before conference play.  I couldn't hold it in another year and had to vent.  Sorry for the long post.

This year eerily follows what I saw last year:  The team through 8 or 9 games looked good in 2024, while the games after the team looked like a totally different team.  It was a different team after the Coach started tinkering with the lineups, especially the defense. 

What happened this year is unbelievable.  The team was great at first.  Through 9 games, the defense gave up 1 goal and was statistically the best defense in the country.  Though the keeper, Winter, is one of the best around, he hardly had to make any saves in the first half of the season, because the defense was so stout.  Though underutilized, the left back, first year Trosh, played box to box, giving Case an extra midfielder and forward on offense while getting back for defensive duties.  The speedy junior right back, Vlastaris, mostly played on the defensive half of the field, but was very successful, shutting down his side defensively and has a very long throw.  The left center back, first year Eby, played great defense and was technically very good.

Though the team was very successful at first, a good coach could see some cracks that could be exploited.  Play was predictable.  The first year left center back had trouble passing/seeing left and predictably passed almost exclusively to the senior right center star back Phillip Washington.  Once it got right, the ball almost always stayed right while the midfield had a bad habit of dribbling into pressure and turning it over.  Finally, Case had trouble completing easy finishes.  Regardless, the team started out 6 wins, no losses, and 3 ties, looking like a playoff team.

Then, like last year, the coach decides to switch up the defensive players and the strategy.  Trosh was benched, going from playing 90 minutes to none.  At first, I thought he must have been injured, because to me (and the announcers of the games) he seemed like Case's best overall field player, I don't remember him turning it over, his passing was fabulous, and he had a great left foot.  Apparently, he was not hurt, just in dog house. 

Then the coach switches its best player Phillip Washington to the left back, where Case never plays to.  It also appears that Case started playing extra defensive midfielders, while the backs rarely went forward as Trosh had been doing (maybe going forward is what upset the coach).  So all of the sudden, Case turned into a team that sits back on defense while the other team fires shots.  This may work for a team with great counter attack speed, but Case doesn't really have that.  When Trosh came in during the Chicago game, it was at right back, where he sat back like a center back, clearly told not to go forward like he had.

The Case coach, as in previous years, tinkers too much and screws up a good thing.  I am not sure he understands how important chemistry is to a team.  Since his shake-up:  1 win against horrible NYU team on fluke goal, 3 losses, and 2 ties, all together with 3 goals for and 5 goals against.  Worse yet, if it were not for the amazing goalkeeping by Winter, who now is making a ton of saves, it would be far worse.
Hopefully Case gets it back together and wins the next two games and gets a playoff chance.

Quote from: CalJohn on Yesterday at 11:17:09 AMI have followed Case Western Reserve's soccer team for a few years.  It is extremely frustrating to look good early only to repeatedly underperform starting right before conference play.  I couldn't hold it in another year and had to vent.  Sorry for the long post.

This year eerily follows what I saw last year:  The team through 8 or 9 games looked good in 2024, while the games after the team looked like a totally different team.  It was a different team after the Coach started tinkering with the lineups, especially the defense. 

What happened this year is unbelievable.  The team was great at first.  Through 9 games, the defense gave up 1 goal and was statistically the best defense in the country.  Though the keeper, Winter, is one of the best around, he hardly had to make any saves in the first half of the season, because the defense was so stout.  Though underutilized, the left back, first year Trosh, played box to box, giving Case an extra midfielder and forward on offense while getting back for defensive duties.  The speedy junior right back, Vlastaris, mostly played on the defensive half of the field, but was very successful, shutting down his side defensively and has a very long throw.  The left center back, first year Eby, played great defense and was technically very good.

Though the team was very successful at first, a good coach could see some cracks that could be exploited.  Play was predictable.  The first year left center back had trouble passing/seeing left and predictably passed almost exclusively to the senior right center star back Phillip Washington.  Once it got right, the ball almost always stayed right while the midfield had a bad habit of dribbling into pressure and turning it over.  Finally, Case had trouble completing easy finishes.  Regardless, the team started out 6 wins, no losses, and 3 ties, looking like a playoff team.

Then, like last year, the coach decides to switch up the defensive players and the strategy.  Trosh was benched, going from playing 90 minutes to none.  At first, I thought he must have been injured, because to me (and the announcers of the games) he seemed like Case's best overall field player, I don't remember him turning it over, his passing was fabulous, and he had a great left foot.  Apparently, he was not hurt, just in dog house. 

Then the coach switches its best player Phillip Washington to the left back, where Case never plays to.  It also appears that Case started playing extra defensive midfielders, while the backs rarely went forward as Trosh had been doing (maybe going forward is what upset the coach).  So all of the sudden, Case turned into a team that sits back on defense while the other team fires shots.  This may work for a team with great counter attack speed, but Case doesn't really have that.  When Trosh came in during the Chicago game, it was at right back, where he sat back like a center back, clearly told not to go forward like he had.

The Case coach, as in previous years, tinkers too much and screws up a good thing.  I am not sure he understands how important chemistry is to a team.  Since his shake-up:  1 win against horrible NYU team on fluke goal, 3 losses, and 2 ties, all together with 3 goals for and 5 goals against.  Worse yet, if it were not for the amazing goalkeeping by Winter, who now is making a ton of saves, it would be far worse.
Hopefully Case gets it back together and wins the next two games and gets a playoff chance.

Welcome to the D3Boards, CalJohn.  Congrats on your first post.   

BTW, I would not be surprised if Kansas_Hokie is at DiSanto Field right now watching the Emory at CWRU game in person.   CWRU is a manageable drive from where he lives. 

Quote from: deiscanton on October 26, 2025, 02:02:27 PMWash U has a 2 point lead over UChicago-- Wash U has 12 UAA conference points, while UChicago has 10 UAA conference points, and a Wash U win vs NYU next Saturday combined with a Brandeis win or draw at Chicago next Sunday will give the UAA title and AQ to the Bears.   Should Wash U and Chicago both win next weekend, then Wash U would then secure the UAA championship with at least a home draw vs Chicago on the final matchday of the UAA season.    If UChicago wins out their remaining 2 UAA games, then the Maroons will win the UAA Men's Soccer Championship and the AQ that goes with it. 

The Bears have just a one-point lead over 3-0-2 Chicago, but a win today keeps them in the driver's seat.  Unfortunately, we will need to wait until tomorrow to know what the stakes are for the final game of the season.

Quote from: WUPHF on Yesterday at 11:27:46 AM

Quote from: deiscanton on October 26, 2025, 02:02:27 PMWash U has a 2 point lead over UChicago-- Wash U has 12 UAA conference points, while UChicago has 10 UAA conference points, and a Wash U win vs NYU next Saturday combined with a Brandeis win or draw at Chicago next Sunday will give the UAA title and AQ to the Bears.   Should Wash U and Chicago both win next weekend, then Wash U would then secure the UAA championship with at least a home draw vs Chicago on the final matchday of the UAA season.    If UChicago wins out their remaining 2 UAA games, then the Maroons will win the UAA Men's Soccer Championship and the AQ that goes with it. 

The Bears have just a one-point lead over 3-0-2 Chicago, but a win today keeps them in the driver's seat.  Unfortunately, we will need to wait until tomorrow to know what the stakes are for the final game of the season.

Thanks for catching me on this.    Apparently, I forgot to edit that previous post for the updated standings. 

A yellow card has been issued to Carnegie Mellon's Henry Hawthorn in the 35th minute. 

A yellow card has been issued to Rochester's Will Fallona in the 39th minute.

Halftime in Pittsburgh--

Rochester 0, Carnegie Mellon 0

Halftime game stats--

Rochester outshot Carnegie Mellon, 5-4, but no shots from either team ended up on target.

Each team took 1 corner kick.

Rochester was whistled once for offsides, while Carnegie Mellon was not whistled for offsides.

Carnegie Mellon was whistled for 6 fouls, while Rochester was whistled for 5 fouls.

One player from each team was booked by the referee.

Halftime in Cleveland--

Emory 0, CWRU 0

Halftime stats

Emory outshot CWRU, 6-2.  Each team had 2 shots on target.

Emory took 5 corner kicks, while CWRU only took 1 corner kick.

Emory was whistled for 5 fouls, while CWRU was only whistled for 2 fouls.

No players from either team were booked by the referee.

Each team was whistled once for offsides.

Rochester has just scored the first goal of the day in UAA play.

Rochester goal scored in the 52nd minute from Milos Bisenic on a header at the 51:37 mark, assist by Kamal Ibrahim.

Rochester leading over Carnegie Mellon, 1-0, in the 54th minute.

Emory at CWRU tied at 0-0 in the 50th minute.

NYU at Wash U tied at 0-0 in the 14th minute.

Yellow card issued to Rochester's Jasper Danielian in the 54th minute.

NYU has scored the first goal of the match at WashU.

NYU goal scored in the 20th minute on a goal from Terra Nagai at the 19:26 mark, assist by Keyon Namdar.

NYU leading over WashU, 1-0, in the 23rd minute.

Rochester leading over Carnegie Mellon, 1-0, in the 66th minute.

Emory and CWRU tied at 0-0 in the 61st minute.

NYU leading over WashU, 1-0 in the 25th minute.

Yellow card issued to Carnegie Mellon's Tristan Gonzalez in the 67th minute.

Emory has scored a goal at CWRU.

Emory goal scored in the 68th minute on a goal from Logan Steren at the 67:27 mark, assist by Jack Burgess.

Emory leading over CWRU, 1-0, in the 71st minute.

At the moment, all 3 UAA road teams playing today are leading in their respective matches.

Yellow card issued to Rochester head coach Ben Cross in the 75th minute.  Play by play sheet lists it as a bench yellow issued to the team.

Halftime in St. Louis--

NYU 1, WashU 0

Halftime stats

NYU got an assist on their goal.

Each team took 3 shots a piece.  All 3 of WashU's shots were on target, while 2 of the 3 NYU shots were on target.

WashU took 2 corner kicks, while NYU took 1 corner kick.

WashU was whistled for 3 fouls, while NYU was whistled for 1 foul.

No players on either team were booked by the referee.

NYU whistled twice for offsides, while WashU was whistled once for offsides.

Final in Pittsburgh--

Rochester 1, Carnegie Mellon 0

Final stats

Rochester's goal came with an assist.

Carnegie Mellon outshot Rochester, 10-7, and led in shots on target, 2-1.

Carnegie Mellon took 5 corner kicks, while Rochester only took 1 corner kick.

Each team was whistled for 12 fouls a piece.

4 yellow cards were issued to Rochester, while 2 yellow cards were issued to Carnegie Mellon.

Rochester was whistled 3 times for offsides, while Carnegie Mellon was whistled twice for offsides.

Final in Cleveland--

Emory 1, CWRU 0

Final game stats--

Emory's goal came with an assist.

Emory outshot CWRU, 16-8, and led in shots on target, 7-3.

Emory took 11 corner kicks, while CWRU only attempted 1 corner kick.

Emory was whistled for 14 fouls, while CWRU was only whistled for 3 fouls.

2 yellow cards were issued to Emory players, while only 1 yellow card was issued to a CWRU player.

CWRU was whistled twice for offsides, while Emory was only whistled once for offsides.

NYU still leading over WashU, 1-0, in the 68th minute.

It will be the upset of the year in the UAA if NYU holds on to this scoreline. 

Final from St. Louis--

NYU 1, WashU 0

A regular season version of a giant killing in the UAA.

NYU's 20th minute goal from Terra Nagai was the only goal of the match, and NYU pulled off the major upset.

It is a shame that due to the technical difficulties with the audio that Jay Murry was not able to call this one.

UChicago can take the lead in the UAA outright with a victory tomorrow over Brandeis.  If Chicago and Brandeis play to a draw, then WashU and UChicago will be the UAA co-leaders going into the final game of the UAA regular season.

Final game stats

NYU's goal came with an assist.

NYU outshot WashU, 9-5, and led in shots on target, 5-3.

WashU took 7 corner kicks, while NYU attempted 3 corner kicks.

NYU was whistled for 8 fouls, while WashU was whistled for 6 fouls.

No players on either team were booked by the referee.

NYU was whistled 5 times for offsides, while WashU was whistled once for offsides.

Update-- I found out why Jay Murry was not calling this game.  He was at Drury University watching his daughter graduate from Drury's Physician Assistant program, and the graduation conflicted with the soccer matches.  Congrats to Jay Murry's daughter on the occasion. 

Current match table--

1.)  WashU-- 4-2-0 in UAA play (12 points)-- 12-3-0 overall.
2.)  UChicago-- 3-0-2 in UAA play (11 points)-- 10-1-5 overall.
3.)  Rochester-- 3-2-1 in UAA play (10 points)-- 9-4-4 overall.
4.)  Emory-- 2-1-3 in UAA play (9 points)-- 12-1-3 overall.
5.)  NYU-- 2-4-0 in UAA play (6 points)-- 4-9-1 overall.
T-6.) Brandeis-- 1-2-2 in UAA play (5 points)-- 9-2-4 overall.
T-6.) Carnegie Mellon-- 1-3-2 in UAA play (5 points)-- 8-4-5 overall.
T-6.) CWRU-- 1-3-2 in UAA play (5 points)-- 7-4-5 overall.

Match round 6 concludes tomorrow with Brandeis at UChicago-- Kickoff is at 11 AM Central Standard Time/Noon Eastern Standard Time.

Remember to turn your clocks back 1 hour tonight. 

Impact of Saturday results (Emory win, NYU win, Rochester win plus Bowdoin loss in NESCAC and Wash U loss)..

Chicago controls it's UAA destiny, win @ Brandeis and it's down to next week's UC/Wash U match for conference title. Tie Brandeis and Rochester could tie and be co-champion if they beat Emory and UC/Wash U tie.

NPI wise...Emory (59.03) jumps up over chicago for now (will change tomorrow), likely to #4 nationally with Wash U and Bowdoin losses. With Augsburg and St. Olaf in same conference and 2 / 3 nationally, there's a scenario where UAA could get two national top 4 seeds.

Wash U drops to around 14 with loss today.

Rochester win over CMU moves them up to NPI of 55.59...not enough for at-large, they need a result against Emory and a tie might not be enough. Right now a tie would get them to 55.79, right on the bubble.

CMU, CWRU, and NYU won't make the NCAA tourney.

Chicago, Wash U, Emory, and Brandeis will make the tourney.

Quote from: kansas hokie on Yesterday at 08:11:45 PMImpact of Saturday results (Emory win, NYU win, Rochester win plus Bowdoin loss in NESCAC and Wash U loss)..

Chicago controls it's UAA destiny, win @ Brandeis and it's down to next week's UC/Wash U match for conference title. Tie Brandeis and Rochester could tie and be co-champion if they beat Emory and UC/Wash U tie.

NPI wise...Emory (59.03) jumps up over chicago for now (will change tomorrow), likely to #4 nationally with Wash U and Bowdoin losses. With Augsburg and St. Olaf in same conference and 2 / 3 nationally, there's a scenario where UAA could get two national top 4 seeds.

Wash U drops to around 14 with loss today.

Rochester win over CMU moves them up to NPI of 55.59...not enough for at-large, they need a result against Emory and a tie might not be enough. Right now a tie would get them to 55.79, right on the bubble.

CMU, CWRU, and NYU won't make the NCAA tourney.

Chicago, Wash U, Emory, and Brandeis will make the tourney.

Actually, Chicago is playing at home vs Brandeis-- so properly, it is Brandeis @ UChicago.  UChicago is home team on Sunday, playing on the Stagg Turf Field/football stadium.  That is why the match is on Sunday this weekend rather than on Saturday with the other 3 UAA games of the round. 

Unfortunately, in the football (which the rest of the world calls it as "American football") Senior Day Homecoming game that the UChicago Maroons played today at the Stagg Football Stadium, Monmouth defeated the Maroons, 29-0. in a Midwest Conference match. 

From now until the end of play on Sunday, November 9, the NCAA DIII Men's Soccer Committee is releasing daily NPI summary reports with updated numbers.  This is because we are now in the final 2 weeks of the regular season.

This NPI report covers games through Saturday,November 1, 2025.

The report is located at http://stats.ncaa.org/selection_rankings/nitty_gritties/46552

Here is how the UAA men's soccer teams are ranked nationally by NPI as of this updated run of the numbers--

1.) U.Chicago (#6 nationally in NPI)-- 59.037
2.) Emory (#8 nationally in NPI)-- 59.034
3.) Wash U (#13 nationally in NPI)-- 57.992
4.) Brandeis (#15 nationally in NPI)-- 57.958
5.) Rochester (#42 nationally in NPI)-- 55.625
6.) Carnegie Mellon (#58 nationally in NPI)-- 55.019
7.) CWRU (#68 nationally in NPI)-- 54.713

7 of the 8 UAA men's soccer teams currently carry a quality win bonus,as their NPI values are above 54.

8.) NYU (#137 nationally in NPI)-- 51.974

Quote from: kansas hokie on Yesterday at 08:11:45 PMRochester win over CMU moves them up to NPI of 55.59...not enough for at-large, they need a result against Emory and a tie might not be enough. Right now a tie would get them to 55.79, right on the bubble.

I cannot remember the last time a potential UAA co-champion needed the AQ to get to the postseason, that the AQ actually mattered, but...

If Chicago draws today and draws next week, Rochester will hold the tiebreaker for the AQ in the event of a win over Emory and a three-way tie, IIRC.

If Chicago loses today and draws next week, Rochester will hold the tiebreaker over Washington University if they can defeat Emory and force the two-way tie.

Emory vs. Case Western:  16th game for Case and senior day.  Case Western had chances they couldn't convert against a good Emory team. Emory 1, Case 0.

Case Coach shakes up defensive minutes again.  Benches Senior Back Washington for last 10 minutes of SENIOR day.  Plays new defender for 20 minutes, even though he had only seen a total of 49 minutes in 2 years.  Plays offensive minded left back Trosh spot minutes at center back at end.  Not a shock that Case Western gives up another goal on a corner kick missed defensive assignment.  Of course, if no goals are scored you cannot win.

This kind of shuffling should happen during preseason or the season's start, not in a must win game against a top conference foe. It seems as though Case coaching staff is searching for goal scoring by shuffling the defense and sitting back, which makes no sense.

Next year looks bright for Case as long as key players don't quit or leave and if they find a decent replacement of their great senior keeper Winter. I suspect many of their best players would get snatched up quickly by other teams if they wanted to leave; the talent is there. Of course, even if the good players return, they can't help if they are not played or if their psyche is destroyed by the kind of shenanigans that happened the last two years.

The FloCollege feed is accidentally listing the record of the Brandeis women's soccer team in the preview graphics of the Brandeis at UChicago men's soccer match.   The UChicago men's soccer team record is listed correctly. 

I expect that Jonah White will be doing play by play of today's men's soccer match from the Stagg Turf Field. 

Brandeis v UChicago is underway, and Jonah White, who did the Brandeis home games play by play for many previous seasons when he was a student at Brandeis, is now doing the UChicago men's soccer play by play this season, as he moved over the summer from the Boston area to Chicago to pursue graduate studies at Northwestern University. 

Jonah White also did play by play in previous seasons for MIT soccer as well.

UChicago has scored the first 2 goals of the match in quick fashion off 2 corner kicks.

The first UChicago goal was scored in the 18th minute on a goal scored by Sean Cooke at the 17:53 mark, assist by William Stewart, off a corner kick.  First college goal scored by Sean Cooke.

The second UChicago goal was scored in the 21st minute on a goal initally credited to Alex Gomas, but now credited to Nick Lorr at the 20:02 mark, assist also by William Stewart off a corner kick.

UChicago leading over Brandeis, 2-0, in the 22nd minute.

Quote from: CalJohn on Today at 10:41:09 AMEmory vs. Case Western:  16th game for Case and senior day.  Case Western had chances they couldn't convert against a good Emory team. Emory 1, Case 0.

Case Coach shakes up defensive minutes again.  Benches Senior Back Washington for last 10 minutes of SENIOR day.  Plays new defender for 20 minutes, even though he had only seen a total of 49 minutes in 2 years.  Plays offensive minded left back Trosh spot minutes at center back at end.  Not a shock that Case Western gives up another goal on a corner kick missed defensive assignment.  Of course, if no goals are scored you cannot win.

This kind of shuffling should happen during preseason or the season's start, not in a must win game against a top conference foe. It seems as though Case coaching staff is searching for goal scoring by shuffling the defense and sitting back, which makes no sense.

Next year looks bright for Case as long as key players don't quit or leave and if they find a decent replacement of their great senior keeper Winter. I suspect many of their best players would get snatched up quickly by other teams if they wanted to leave; the talent is there. Of course, even if the good players return, they can't help if they are not played or if their psyche is destroyed by the kind of shenanigans that happened the last two years.

Interesting post...I am very interested in this as my son will be playing for Case next year as a 1st year. He definitely plays a position of need so hopefully will get some time as 2 of the top 3 in his position group are graduating. The other one will be a junior next year but had a strange season this year. Started and played about 75 minutes a game for the first 10-11 games, then moved to the bench and only played 20 minutes or so after that. 

I've wondered about that...did something happen or was the coach just trying to find some scoring so mixed it up? One of the their primary midfielders early in the season suddenly disappeared (Rossen), don't know if he was injured or if something else was going on, I'm not close enough to the program to know.

Anyone have any insights?

Yellow card issued to Brandeis's Elan Romo in the 29th minute according to the live stats, although Jonah White thought on commentary that Brandeis's Charlie Culbert actually got the yellow

Yellow card issued to UChicago's Chase Perry in the 32nd minute.

Update--

The second UChicago goal initially credited to Alex Gomas has now been credited as having been scored by Nick Lorr.

Yellow card issued to UChicago's Rafe Westlund in the 44th minute.

Halftime in Chicago--

UChicago 2, Brandeis 0

Halftime stats

Both UChicago goals came off corner kicks, and came with assists.

Brandeis outshot UChicago, 7-5, but UChicago led in shots on target, 3-2.

Brandeis took 7 corner kicks, to UChicago's 2 corner kicks.

UChicago was whistled for 10 fouls, while Brandeis was whistled for 7 fouls.

2 yellow cards were issued to UChicago players, while just 1 yellow card was issued to a Brandeis player.

UChicago was whistled twice for offsides, while Brandeis was only whistled once for offsides.

Brandeis has just scored a goal to cut the UChicago lead to 1 goal.

The Brandeis goal was scored in the 48th minute on a goal scored by Juan Vera at the 47:49 mark, assist by Nico Beninda.

Also an update on UChicago's second goal scored at the 20:02 mark-- that is now credited as a Brandeis own goal. 

UChicago leading over Brandeis, 2-1, in the 51st minute.

Yellow card was issued to UChicago's Alex Gomas in the 50th minute.

Brandeis has scored the equalizer to tie the match at 2 goals a piece.

The equalizer was scored in the 64th minute on a goal from Brandeis's Rainer Osselmann-Chai at the 63:04 mark, assist by Maddox Yu.

Brandeis and UChicago now tied at 2-2 in the 64th minute.

UChicago has scored a goal to retake the lead.

UChicago's third goal of the match was scored in the 73rd minute on a goal by Chase Perry at the 72:41 mark.

It is Chase Perry's 5th goal of the season.

UChicago now back on top over Brandeis, 3-2, in the 76th minute.