The 48-team field for the 2015 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship was announced on Monday, with powers Wake Forest, Clemson, Georgetown and Akron earning the top four seeds. Each of those teams will have home-field advantage until this year's NCAA College Cup, which will be held at Sporting Park in Kansas City, Kansas from Dec. 11-13.
Three more ACC schools – North Carolina, Syracuse and Notre Dame – were seeded Nos. 5-7, respectively, while Stanford, led by US international forward Jordan Morris, was seeded eighth.
First- and second-round games will be played this weekend, beginning Thursday, with the top 16 seeds earning byes and only having to play once in the opening week. The Round of 16 will be held the weekend of Nov. 28, and the quarterfinals will take place on the weekend of Dec. 5.
Last year's champion, Virginia (pictured), and runner-up UCLA both received at-large bids and will host opening-round games, while neither of last year's beaten semifinalists, Providence and UMBC, reached the tournament.
2015 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship
No. 1 Wake Forest vs. Charlotte/Radford winner
No. 2 Clemson vs. Elon/Winthrop winner
No. 3 Georgetown vs. Hofstra/Lehigh winner
No. 4 Akron vs. Rutgers/LIU Brooklyn winner
No. 5 North Carolina vs. Coastal Carolina/North Florida winner
No. 6 Syracuse vs. Dartmouth/Hartwick winner
No. 7 Notre Dame vs. Tulsa/FIU winner
No. 8 Stanford vs. Cal State Fullerton/Santa Clara winner
No. 9 Ohio State vs. Dayton/Oakland winner
No. 10 Maryland vs. Virginia/Rider winner
No. 11 Seattle vs. UCLA/Cal Poly winner
No. 12 Creighton vs. Kentucky/Drake winner
No. 13 Denver vs. SMU/Utah Valley winner
No. 14 South Florida vs. Boston College/Vermont winner
No. 15 UCSB vs. South Carolina/Furman winner
No. 16 Indiana vs. UConn/Boston Univ. winner
