INDIANAPOLIS — The field and bracket for the 2023 NCAA Division I Men’s Soccer Championship were announced today by the NCAA Division I Men’s Soccer Committee, which awarded the tournament’s No. 1 seed to Marshall (17-2). The Thundering Herd won the Sun Belt Conference regular season and tournament championships on the way to a nation’s-leading 17 wins for the 2020 national champions.
The No. 2 seed is 2013 national champion Notre Dame (11-2-4), while two-time national champion North Carolina (10-3-6) and 2019 national champion Georgetown (13-2-3) are the No. 3 and No. 4 seeds.
Indiana (12-4-4) and UCLA (9-3-5) will both be making their 48th appearance as the Hoosiers extend their streak to 37 consecutive tournament berths. Only one school will be making its tournament debut as Bryant (16-1-2) earns its first championship appearance as the winner of the America East Conference.
Last season’s national champion, Syracuse (8-4-7), returns to the tournament for the ninth time as its bid to repeat opens at home with a first-round match-up against Boston U. (12-3-4).
The 48-team field is made up of champions from 23 conferences, who qualified automatically, in addition to 25 teams that were selected at-large. The top 16 teams were seeded and received first-round byes. All first-round games will be played Thursday, Nov. 16, on campus sites, while all second-round action will take place Sunday, Nov. 19. The third round will be played Nov. 25 and 26, while the quarterfinals will be played Dec. 1 and 2.
ESPNU will provide live coverage of all three games of the semifinals and final on Dec. 8 and 11 at Lynn Family Stadium in Louisville as the Men’s College Cup comes to Kentucky for the first time in the history of the tournament.
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Twenty-three teams and conferences receiving automatic qualification are:
| CONFERENCE | TEAM |
|---|---|
| American | Charlotte |
| America East | Bryant |
| ACC | Clemson |
| A-10 | Dayton |
| ASUN | Lipscomb |
| Big East | Xavier |
| Big South | High Point |
| Big Ten | Indiana |
| Big West | UC Irvine |
| CAA | Hofstra |
| Horizon League | Green Bay |
| Ivy League | Yale |
| Metro Atlantic | Rider |
| Missouri Valley | Western Michigan |
| Northeast | Long Island |
| Ohio Valley | SIU Edwardsville |
| Pac-12 | UCLA |
| Patriot League | Boston |
| SoCon | Mercer |
| Summit League | Omaha |
| Sun Belt | Marshall |
| WAC | California Baptist |
| WCC | San Diego |
Twenty-five teams selected at-large:
| AT-LARGE QUALIFIERS |
|---|
| Denver |
| Duke |
| Florida International University |
| Georgetown |
| James Madison |
| Kentucky |
| Louisville |
| Loyola Marymount University |
| Memphis |
| Missouri State |
| New Hampshire |
| North Carolina |
| Notre Dame |
| Oregon State |
| Pittsburgh |
| Portland |
| Seattle University |
| SMU |
| Stanford |
| Syracuse |
| University of Central Florida |
| Vermont |
| Virginia |
| Wake Forest |
| West Virginia |
