Men's Soccer 2024

[stuball888]

we host UNCW for the championship game. Sorry Evan I read the first goal time wrong

[RainDelay]

I admittedly don’t follow the soccer team at all, but if we’re in the championship might as well check it out. Is the game available on FloSports just like our basketball games are?

[triplec2195]

Yes!

[HUSID74]

Great win and home game to boot! Richie certainly knows how to coach and recruit. Seems like we reload and win championships every year!

[EvanJ]

I admittedly don’t follow the soccer team at all, but if we’re in the championship might as well check it out. Is the game available on FloSports just like our basketball games are?

Flo uses different names for different sports such as FloHoops. When I first paid, I did not realize that it includes everything Flo has in many sports. It has basketball from Europe, and NCAA sports including non-Division I teams. Over the weekend it had Adelphi, which is the nearest four year college to Hofstra.

We could be the first team to win four consecutive CAA Tournaments, and the first team to host and win consecutive Finals.

[RainDelay]

I admittedly don’t follow the soccer team at all, but if we’re in the championship might as well check it out. Is the game available on FloSports just like our basketball games are?

Flo uses different names for different sports such as FloHoops. When I first paid, I did not realize that it includes everything Flo has in many sports. It has basketball from Europe, and NCAA sports including non-Division I teams. Over the weekend it had Adelphi, which is the nearest four year college to Hofstra.

We could be the first team to win four consecutive CAA Tournaments, and the first team to host and win consecutive Finals.

Thank you, yeah I’ve been realizing that. I’ve only ever used it to watch basketball and baseball! Will be checking out the soccer for sure.

[HUSID74]

I think the championship game is at 7 pm, the same time the men are playing UMASS...need to have two screens going!

[EvanJ]

We are 4th in the RPI, and UNCW is 76th. When the committee made rankings during the season, we were 11th, but I do not know how long ago that was. The Selection Show is Monday at 1:00 P.M. It is a big soccer week because national teams are playing. One good thing about Flo is that you can watch a game after it happens without seeing the score. I do not try to watch more than one game at a time.

[EvanJ]

https://www.flocollege.com/live/126019 will have video.

https://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=559459 will have statistics.

[ProudofPride]

4-peat!

[EvanJ]

We dominated including having more shots 13 to 5 and more shots on goal 7 to 2, but we did not score until we got help in the 81st minute. Pierce Infuso sent the ball toward the goal, and a defender headed in an own goal, which we were not given a shot on goal for, so our shots on goal were all saved. I am assuming he did not know how far away from the goal the goalkeeper was. We had more corner kicks 8 to 1 In professional soccer, own goals are given to the player who did it. The statistics called this a team goal. It was by Josef Hefele, who got ejected with 1:54 left.

We became the first team to win four consecutive tournaments, and tied James Madison and William & Mary for the most tournaments won with eight.

The Selection Show is on Monday at 1:00 P.M.

Edit: https://caasports.com/news/2024/11/17/m ... -uncw.aspx is titled "Hofstra Earns Fourth Consecutive Men’s Soccer Conference Title With 1-0 Win Over UNCW." UNCW goalkeeper Trey Smiley's 7 saves were his career-high. UNCW's 5 shots were their season-low. We got Goddard (Most Outstanding Players), Carles, Infuso, and Woznicki as all-tournament selections.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P0C3qm80XI are highlights by the CAA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEUzmLGHqdw is our postgame press conference.

https://gohofstra.com/news/2024/11/13/m ... -week.aspx is titled "Goddard Selected NCAA National Player of the Week." He got honored by the NCAA for the first two rounds and honored by the CAA for the whole tournament.

We have not written a recap yet.

[Pride97]

Tonight was the first time I attended a Hofstra soccer game - took the family (one of my boys plays so he was really into it).

Hofstra was definitely the better team throughout and could have easily won by more. Owned possession for most of the game. Crazy that they won on an own goal late in the 2nd.

Seemed like a good fan turn out with many clearly knowledgeable of soccer.

Great to see this dominance over the past 4 years. Definitely will go again. Hope they can make some noise in the NCAAs.


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[HUSID74]

Congrats to this dominant program...they are an example for all Hofstra sports.
Let's make some noise in the NCAA's.

[CTDutch]

Would hope to gat a 1st round bye and then a home game like last year.
I don't know how reliable this source is, but they show Hofstra with an RPI of 4 with a strength of schedule of 8. Looks good enough to equal last year's draw.
https://rpiupdatemenssoccer.blogspot.co ... RPI%20Rank

[Wags]

Congrats to this dominant program...they are an example for all Hofstra sports.

Amen!

Let's make some noise in the NCAA's.

LET'S GO!!!!

[EvanJ]

When I saw that Massachusetts will host a First Round game with the winner playing the 6 seed, I thought that could be us, but it was not. We were the next team named as the 7 seed, and we will host the winner of Iona at Vermont. The 10 seed is Duke, so we will play them in the Third Round if both of us win in the Second Round. There are 16 teams seeded from 1 to 16 and 32 unseeded teams. There are not the same number in each bracket like in Men's and Women's Basketball. With an RPI of 4th, I would have been mad with anything worse than the 8 seed who gets to host in the Third Round if they reach it. A strength of schedule of 8 means we were not a mid-major with a week schedule, so it would have been nice to get a top four seed to match our RPI and guarantee no away games. The College Cup has the Semifinals and Final in Cary, NC, so the top four seeds just have to win three home games to get there.

[CTDutch]

#7 Seed nationally, first round bye. Then the winner of Vermont - Iona. If we win that game, we get another home game. That very well could be vs #10 Duke, against our ex-star goalie Wessel Speel who transferred after last season

[Wags]

#7 Seed nationally, first round bye. Then the winner of Vermont - Iona. If we win that game, we get another home game. That very well could be vs #10 Duke, against our ex-star goalie Wessel Speel who transferred after last season

https://x.com/HofstraMSOC/status/1858589561091485970

Highest seed in program history! And the way the tournament went last year, with the seeds that made it to the final couple of rounds, No. 7 is a seed that could have a legit shot to win a national title!

Bracket:
https://x.com/NCAASoccer/status/1858575 ... 24/photo/1

[EvanJ]

https://gohofstra.com/news/2024/11/18/m ... d-bye.aspx is titled "Seeded Once Again! No. 7 Hofstra Earns First Round Bye."

https://www.ncaa.com/news/soccer-men/ar ... ule-scores has video of the Selection Show.

https://caasports.com/news/2024/11/18/h ... nship.aspx is titled "Hofstra Receives No. 7 National Seed In NCAA Men's Soccer Championship."

Duke plays before us. If they lose to San Diego or California-Davis, a California team will have to fly round-trip across the country two weeks in a row. The opponents are chosen to minimize travel, but that is not possible for every team.

[EvanJ]

Despite winning the CAA Tournament, we fell from fourth to fifth in the RPI, so we get the same amount of home games as if teams were seeded by the RPI. If we were fourth in the RPI, making us the 7 seed could have taken away a Quarterfinal home game that the RPI would have said we earned. The top fifteen in the RPI got seeded along with Indiana, who is 21st. West Virginia is 16th in the RPI, unseeded, and if they win in the First Round they will go to 11 seed Virginia. Duke is tenth in the RPI, so they got the seed the RPI says they deserved. The top fifteen of the RPI has seven ACC teams and no more than one team from any other conference. The Atlantic 10, Big East, Big Ten, CAA, Ivy League, Missouri Valley, Summit League, and Sun Belt have one of the top fifteen.

https://www.espn.com/watch/player/_/id/ ... 0941383544 will have video of Iona vs. Vermont. There are sixteen games today, and the first three have started. Duke will not find out their first opponent until midnight when San Diego vs. California-Davis ends. Our Second Round game is the only Second Round game that may or may not be between teams from the same state depending on the First Round. The Second Round games of Stanford hosting UCLA or California-Santa Barbara and Missouri State hosting Saint Louis or Kansas City will be between teams from the same state. The First Round games between teams from the same state are those two, North Carolina State vs. Charlotte, Washington vs. Seattle, San Diego vs. California-Davis, and Cornell vs. Fordham.

Six seeded teams are not from the power four plus Big East in most sports. I say "most sports" because fewer teams play Men's Soccer, and some conferences do not play it. There are no SEC teams among the 48. The only teams south of North Carolina are Clemson and Furman in South Carolina, Southern Methodist (SMU) in Dallas, North Florida, and west coast teams.

Edit: Iona at Vermont started, and https://www.ncaa.com/game/6348192 has statistics for it. I do not like the statistics format from the NCAA as much as the StatBroadcast format that all CAA teams and many other teams use. The color announcer is Vermont's Women's Soccer coach, who played for Connecticut in four NCAA Tournaments including the 2003 Final. It is the third consecutive season that Vermont hosted the MAAC champion in the First Round, and Vermont won the previous two. In Football, snow makes it hard to score, but Western Michigan won 5-1 in Men's Soccer this afternoon. They go to 1 seed Ohio State.

Edit: After neither team scored in 110 minutes, Furman became the first away team to win when they won penalty kicks at North Carolina. Last year North Carolina defeated us on penalty kicks and got three rounds farther than they did this year.

Vermont leads Iona 4-0, so hopefully we defend much better than Iona did. With LIU down 1-0 at Maryland, and Princeton (arguably not in the NYC area) down 1-0 at Akron, we could be the only NYC area team in the Second Round. If LIU and Princeton lose, Penn and Massachusetts will be the nearest Second Round teams to us.