UAA Soccer

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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

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

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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 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.

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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 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. 

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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

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

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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

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

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Rochester at Carnegie Mellon is underway.

According to live stats, Emory at CWRU is yet to start due to CWRU's Senior Day activities. 

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Emory at CWRU is now underway.

Rochester and Carnegie Mellon still at 0-0 in the 8th minute.

[CalJohn]

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.

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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.

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. 

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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. 

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.

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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. 

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. 

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.