2018 American Athletic Conference men's soccer season

2018 American Athletic Conference men's soccer season
2018 American Athletic Conference men's soccer season
League	NCAA Division I
Sport	Soccer
Duration	August 24, 2018 – November 11, 2018
Teams	8
2019 MLS SuperDraft
Top draft pick	Emil Cuello, 19th overall
Picked by	LA Galaxy
Regular Season
Season champions	UCF
Runners-up	SMU
Tournament
Champions	SMU
Runners-up	UCF
Finals MVP	Offensive: Emil Cuello; Defensive: Grant Makela
AAC men's soccer seasons
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LeagueNCAA Division I

SportSoccer

DurationAugust 24, 2018 – November 11, 2018

Teams8

2018 American Athletic Conference men's soccer standings
v t e	Conf.					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
No. 18 UCF +	5	–	1	–	1	13	–	3	–	3
SMU ‡+	5	–	1	–	1	10	–	5	–	3
South Florida	4	–	1	–	2	7	–	8	–	2
Connecticut +	3	–	2	–	2	12	–	6	–	2
Memphis	2	–	4	–	1	8	–	7	–	4
Temple	2	–	4	–	1	5	–	10	–	4
Tulsa	2	–	5	–	0	6	–	9	–	2
Cincinnati	1	–	6	–	0	3	–	14	–	1

‡ – 2018 American Tournament champion + – Invited to the 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship As of December 11, 2018 Rankings from United Soccer Coaches

The 2018 American Athletic Conference men's soccer season was the 6th season of men's varsity soccer in the conference. The season began on August 24 and concluded on November 11, 2018.

The regular season was won by UCF, who finished conference play with a 5–1–1 record, and won on tiebreakers against SMU. SMU won the American Tournament, defeating UCF 5–4 in penalty kicks following a 1–1 draw in regulation and overtime. SMU earned the conference's automatic berth into the NCAA Tournament, while UCF and Connecticut received at-large berths into the tournament. In the NCAA Tournament, SMU lost in the first round to Oregon State.^[1]^[2] Connecticut beat rivals, Rhode Island,^[3] in the first round, before losing to Indiana in the second round.^[4] UCF was one of the 16 seeded teams (seeded 14th),^[5] allowing them to earn a bye into the second round. There, they lost in overtime to Lipscomb.^[6]

Following the season, Cal Jennings won the Offensive MVP award for the conference. Jacob Hauser-Ramsey of Connecticut won the Defensive MVP. Fellow UCF players, Louis Perez, Yannik Oettl, and Scott Calabrese won the AAC Midfielder, Goalkeeper, and Coach of the Year awards, respectively.^[7] Perez and Jennings were also named All-Americans by United Soccer Coaches.^[8]

Emil Cuello was the first AAC player to be drafted in the 2019 MLS SuperDraft, when he was selected by the LA Galaxy with the 19th overall pick in the first round of the draft.

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Team	Head coach	Previous job	Years at school	Overall record	Record at school	American record	NCAA Tournaments^[9]	NCAA College Cups^[9]	NCAA Titles^[9]
Cincinnati	Hylton Dayes	Wright State	19	229–229–62 (.500)	131–144–42 (.479)	7–27–4 (.237)	2	0	0
Connecticut	Ray Reid	Southern Connecticut	22	434–124–73 (.746)	288–107–58 (.700)	26–11–9 (.663)	16	2	1
Memphis	Richard Mulrooney	Memphis (asst.)	5	24–32–11 (.440)	24–32–11 (.440)	11–20–7 (.382)	0	0	0
SMU	Kevin Hudson	SMU (asst.)	4	38–14–6 (.707)	38–14–6 (.707)	14–5–3 (.705)	2	0	0
South Florida	Bob Butehorn	Florida Gulf Coast	2	135–100–31 (.566)	6–6–4 (.500)	3–3–2 (.500)	4	0	0
Temple	Dave MacWilliams	Philadelphia KiXX	19	140–161–34 (.469)	140–161–34 (.469)	12–19–7 (.408)	3	0	0
Tulsa	Tom McIntosh	Tulsa (asst.)	22	244–164–48 (.588)	244–164–48 (.588)	15–11–4 (.567)	10	0	0
UCF	Scott Calabrese	FIU	2	93–73–22 (.553)	8–6–2 (.563)	4–2–1 (.643)	3	0	0

	Team ranking	First place votes	Raw points
1.	UCF	4	46
2.	SMU	3	43
3.	Connecticut	1	38
4.	South Florida	0	34
5.	Tulsa	0	26
6.	Temple	0	19
7.	Cincinnati	0	11
8.	Memphis	0	9

Cincinnati	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR
	United Soccer^[11]	CSN^[12]	Hero Sports^[13]	Soccer America^[14]	TopDrawer Soccer^[15]
Connecticut	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR
Memphis	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR
SMU	8	10	6	7	6
South Florida	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR
Temple	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR
Tulsa	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR
UCF	NR	NR	26	NR	NR

Honor	Recipient
Preseason Offensive Player of the Year	Garrett McLaughlin, SMU
Preseason Defensive Player of the Year	Jacob Hauser-Ramsey, Connecticut
Preseason Goalkeeper of the Year	Christian Knight, South Florida

Week	Offensive			Defensive			Goalkeeper		Rookie
Week	Player	Position	Team	Player	Position	Team	Player	Team	Player	Position	Team
Aug. 26^[16]	Louis Perez	MF	UCF	Mitchell Cashion	DF	Tulsa	Cooper Clark	Tulsa	Felix Metzler	DF	Connecticut
Sep. 2^[17]	Cal Jennings	FW	UCF	Pierre Cayet	DF	Temple	Harrison Devenish-Meares	South Florida	Gilles Kuhler	FW	Tulsa
Sep. 9^[18]	Tomasz Skublak	FW	UCF	Koray Easterling	DF	Tulsa	Yannik Oettl	UCF	Jalen Campbell	FW	Temple
Sep. 16^[19]	Cal Jennings	FW	UCF	Jacob Hauser-Ramsey	DF	Connecticut	Tyler Hofmann	Memphis	none announced
Sep. 23^[20]	Lukas Fernandes	MF	Temple	Talen Maples	DF	SMU	Simon Lefebvre	Temple	Lane Warrington	MF	SMU
Sep. 30^[21]	Rex Epps	FW	Cincinnati	Jacob Hauser-Ramsey	DF	Connecticut	Yannik Oettl	UCF	Ibrahima Diop	FW	Connecticut
Oct. 7^[22]	Cal Jennings	FW	UCF	Jacob Hauser-Ramsey	DF	Connecticut	Harrison Devenish-Meares	South Florida	Edgar Alaniz	MF	Memphis
Oct. 14^[23]	Tomasz Skublak	FW	South Florida	Jacob Hauser-Ramsey	DF	Connecticut	Grant Makela	SMU	Gilles Kuhler	FW	Tulsa
Oct. 21^[24]	Abdou Mbacke Thiam	FW	Connecticut	Ben Roberts	DF	Memphis	Yannik Oettl	UCF	Gurman Sangha	MF	Memphis
Oct. 28^[25]	Lukas Fernandes	MF	Temple	Philip Ponder	DF	SMU	Simon Lefebvre	Temple	Thomas Haney	DF	SMU
Nov. 4^[26]	Louis Perez	MF	UCF	Philip Ponder	DF	SMU	Noah Lawrence	Cincinnati	Emilio Ycaza	MF	South Florida

2018 American Athletic Conference men's soccer season

Head coaches

Preseason

Preseason poll

Preseason national rankings

Preseason All-Conference teams

Regular season

Players of the Week

Rankings

United Soccer

Top Drawer Soccer

Postseason

AAC Tournament

NCAA Tournament

Postseason awards and honors

Conference honors

Regional honors

National honors

American vs other conferences

MLS SuperDraft

Total picks by school

List of selections

Homegrown contracts

References

External links

Related Articles

		Improvement in ranking
		Drop in ranking
RV		Received votes but were not ranked in Top 25
NV		No votes received

First round Nov. 6			Semifinals Nov. 8			Final Nov. 10

			1	UCF (2OT)	3
4	Connecticut	3	4	Connecticut	2
5	Temple	1				1	UCF	1 (4)
						2	SMU (pen.)	1 (5)
			2	SMU (OT)	2
3	South Florida	1	6	Memphis	1
6	Memphis	3

Seed	Region	School	1st Round	2nd Round	3rd Round	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Championship
14	3	UCF	BYE	L 0–1 (OT) vs. Lipscomb – (Orlando, FL)
None	1	SMU	L 1–2 vs. Oregon State – (Corvallis, OR)
None	4	Connecticut	W 4–3 vs. Rhode Island – (Storrs, CT)	L 0–4 vs. #2 Indiana – (Bloomington, IN)
		W–L (%):	1–1–0 (.500)	0–2–0 (.000)	0–0–0 (–)	0–0–0 (–)	0–0–0 (–)	0–0–0 (–) Total: 1–3–0 (.250)

Award	Recipient(s)
2018 AAC Men's Soccer Individual Awards^[28]
Offensive Player of the Year	Cal Jennings, UCF
Midfielder of the Year	Louis Perez, UCF
Defensive Player of the Year	Jacob Hauser-Ramsey, Connecticut
Goalkeeper of the Year	Yannik Oettl, UCF
Rookie of the Year	Felix Metzler, Connecticut
Coach of the Year	Scott Calabrese, UCF
Team Fair Play Award	Connecticut

First Team	Second Team	Rookie Team
2018 AAC Men's Soccer All-Conference Teams^[28]
Goalkeeper Yannik Oettl, So., UCF Defenders Jacob Hauser-Ramsey, Sr., UConn† Talen Maples, So., SMU Ben Roberts, Jr., Memphis Midfielders Louis Perez, So., UCF† Yoni Sorokin, So., UCF Emil Cuello, Sr., SMU David Zalzman, Sr., M, Memphis Forwards Cal Jennings, Jr., UCF† Abdou Mbacke Thiam, Sr., UConn† Tomasz Skublak, Sr., USF	Goalkeeper Grant Makela, Jr., SMU Defenders Avionne Flanagan, So., USF Dylan Greenberg, R-Sr., UConn Robin Lapert, So., UConn Yanis Leerman, Fr., UCF Midfielders Chase Bromstedt, So., Tulsa Lukas Fernandes, Jr., Temple Dayonn Harris, R-Jr., UConn Felix Metzler, Fr., UConn Alex Zis, Jr., USF Forwards Garrett McLaughlin, Jr., SMU Akean Shackleford, Jr., SMU	Defenders Andres Hernandez Betancur, UCF Henrique Gallina, USF Yanis Leerman, UCF† Midfielders Knut Ahlander, SMU Jalen Campbell, Temple Andres Charles-Barrera, Temple Felix Metzler, UConn† Lane Warrington, SMU Forwards Ibrahima Diop, UConn Gilles Kuhler, Tulsa† Gurman Sangha, Memphis

Player	Pos.	School	Honor	Ref.
Cal Jennings	FW	UCF	College Soccer News First-Team All-America	^[29]
Cal Jennings	FW	UCF	USC First-Team All-American	^[30]
Louis Perez	MF	UCF	USC Third-Team All-American	^[30]

Team	Round 1	Round 2	Round 4	Total
Cincinnati	0	0	0	0
Connecticut	0	1	0	1
Memphis	0	0	1	1
SMU	1	0	0	1
South Florida	0	0	0	0
Temple	0	0	0	0
Tulsa	0	0	0	0
UCF	0	0	0	0

Round	Pick #	MLS team	Player	Position	College	Ref.
1	19	LA Galaxy	Emil Cuello	Midfielder	SMU	^[32]
2	42	Colorado Rapids	Jacob Hauser-Ramsey	Defender	Connecticut
4	95	Portland Timbers	David Zalzman	Midfielder	Memphis

v t e American Conference men's soccer
Teams	Charlotte 49ers Florida Atlantic Owls FIU Panthers Memphis Tigers Missouri State Bears South Florida Bulls Temple Owls Tulsa Golden Hurricane UAB Blazers
Championships	American Tournament
Awards	Player of the Year
Seasons	2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
Tournament	2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
Rivalries	War on I-4 (South Florida–UCF)

v t e 2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season
Regular Season	America East American ACC Atlantic Sun Atlantic 10 Big East Big South Big Ten Big West Colonial Conference USA Horizon Ivy MAAC Mid-American Missouri Valley Northeast Pac-12 Patriot Southern Sun Belt Summit WAC West Coast
Tournaments	America East American ACC Atlantic Sun Atlantic 10 Big East Big South Big Ten Big West Colonial Conference USA Horizon MAAC Mid-American Missouri Valley Northeast Patriot Southern Sun Belt Summit WAC
National Tournaments	NCAA Final Spring Men's College Program
Rankings & awards	United Soccer Coaches Top 25 Poll All-Americans

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