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The soccer gods are looking down on UVM. Hope the Catamounts win it all.

13 seed Marshall (meaning the 13th best team, each seed is in one bracket) defeated 1 seed Ohio State 1-0. The Final is on Monday at 8:00 P.M. Marshall is close enough to the College Cup for fans to drive.

Edit: I wonder if West Virginia and Vermont have the lowest combined population (expressed as a percent of the country's population to make a fair comparison to when the population was lower) by two states with the finalists in any top level NCAA Tournament (I am excluding FCS Finals such as last season when South Dakota State defeated Montana). Even schools in states with average or lower populations who are and/or used to be elite at Football, Men's Basketball, and/or Women's Basketball are in states with more people than West Virginia and Vermont combined such as UNLV (in Nevada), Clemson (in South Carolina), Kansas, Oklahoma, Connecticut, Alabama, and Kentucky. Nebraska does not have more people than West Virginia and Vermont combined, but Nebraska has more people than each of them individually. I thought about Delaware's national championship in Field Hockey, but it was against North Carolina, which has a high population. That was in 2016.

This is why it's so important to just get in the tournament in men's soccer (which Hofstra has been able to consistently do the past few years). Last year was a crap shoot too in the tournament. And now look at this year, a 13 seed vs. and unseeded team for the national title. Just get in and almost anyone can win it all.

The national championship game is on ESPN2 now.

Vermont 0, Marshall 0 at halftime.

Thanks for the reminder, Wags.

Fantastic finish! Congrats to UVM, winner in OT, 2-1.

Does anybody know if it is the first time we had our first game of a tournament with at least 48 teams (no lacrosse because is it not played by enough schools) be a home loss to the team that won the tournament?

What an incredible run for Vermont, from Unseeded to national champs. Travelled over 7,200 miles in the tournament alone to win all of those matches.

They looked done. I was saying during the game at our place how good their keeper was and how he really saved them against Hofstra but I didn't know until tonight that he is only a freshman and that he led the nation in save percentage.

Late in the second half, after he already knocked a ball down but allowed the rebound for a 1-0 Marshall lead, Marshall had a point blank shot in the box and it looked like it would be 2-0 and that Vermont would be done, but he made another great (diving) stop. Vermont scored very soon. After that tie it, 1-1, with only 9:34 left. Then they win it in OT. Glad that it was decided that way and in on PKs.

Also like the way college does it: counting the clock down rather than up, stopping and restarting with no stoppage time added, and the golden goal in OT rather than playing the full OT after a goal. All soccer should be that way.

Had no idea when I was at Hofstra's last game of the season that I was watching the future national champs (and I still believe even now that Hofstra was overall, the better team that night).

Imagine if they had only allowed the seeded teams into the tournament?!

That run was destiny, just meant to be. Congrats, Catamounts. But it goes to show hie it could be Hofstra too in this sport.

Appropriately, the 30 for 30 on the 1983 NC State men's basketball team is airing on the same station following that match because other than that Marshall isn't close it the juggernaut Houston was, that Vermont run was kind of the soccer equivalent.

Jojogunne wrote: ↑Mon Dec 16, 2024 11:39 pm Fantastic finish! Congrats to UVM, winner in OT, 2-1.

I bet I am the only one who cares and I know they call themselves UVM but they're really just UV. Just like Thunder are really just OC (but go by OKC).

Wags, Is it to prevent confusion with the University of Virginia? Virginia recently changed their branding from UVA to UV. It is similar to the U of Colorado being referred to as CU and not UC. Also, the U of Oklahoma goes by OU and not UO.

The Shadow wrote: ↑Tue Dec 17, 2024 12:26 am Wags, Is it to prevent confusion with the University of Virginia? Virginia recently changed their branding from UVA to UV. It is similar to the U of Colorado being referred to as CU and not UC. Also, the U of Oklahoma goes by OU and not UO.

I think it's just more fun to chant and that's why they do it. Virginia is correct now as UV. But UVM and UVA were both around for a long time so UVM could have been UV before Virginia if they wanted to be.

Would've been cool to have a UV school in a warm, very sunny area named the Rays (UV Rays).

I know no one else probably cares (and I'm not sure why I do), but CU and OU are wrong. They should be Colorado University and Oklahoma University if they want to go by CU and OU. That's even worse than UVM and UVA.

It's actually an abbreviation for their Latin name, Universitas Viridis Montis, or University of the Green Mountains.

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Here are the goals:

https://youtu.be/dUq7byCQbXs?si=GDrjF7Z96Ict9Y_J

We were the seventh seed.

JoeyBagODonuts1 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 17, 2024 6:48 am It's actually an abbreviation for their Latin name, Universitas Viridis Montis, or University of the Green Mountains.

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Wow, really? I wonder how many outside of the school know that. In that case, UVM is actually okay and they could also go by UGM and completely confuse everyone else.

I almost went to Vermont back in the day before choosing Hofstra. My grand parents lived in the State.

It has always been referred to as UVM by Vermont natives.