2024 Big West Conference men's soccer tournament
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| 2024 Big West Conference men's soccer tournament | |||||
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| Classification | Division I | ||||
| Teams | 6 | ||||
| Matches | 5 | ||||
| Attendance | 6,899 | ||||
| Site | Campus Sites (Higher Seed) | ||||
| Champions | UC Davis (2nd title) | ||||
| Winning coach | Dwayne Shaffer (2nd title) | ||||
| MVP | Cason Goodman[1] (UC Davis) | ||||
| Broadcast | ESPN+ | ||||
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| Conf. | Overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cal Poly | 4 | – | 1 | – | 4 | 7 | – | 4 | – | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UCSB + | 4 | – | 2 | – | 3 | 12 | – | 5 | – | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UC Irvine | 4 | – | 3 | – | 2 | 8 | – | 8 | – | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UC Davis ‡ | 4 | – | 3 | – | 2 | 10 | – | 6 | – | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cal State Bakersfield | 4 | – | 3 | – | 2 | 7 | – | 6 | – | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cal State Fullerton | 3 | – | 2 | – | 4 | 7 | – | 6 | – | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UC Riverside | 3 | – | 2 | – | 4 | 5 | – | 6 | – | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UC San Diego | 3 | – | 5 | – | 1 | 4 | – | 9 | – | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sacramento State | 3 | – | 6 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 10 | – | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| CSUN | 0 | – | 5 | – | 4 | 2 | – | 8 | – | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rankings from United Soccer Coaches Source: Big West | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 2024 Big West Conference men's soccer tournament was the postseason men's soccer tournament for the Big West Conference held on November 6 through 15, 2024. All rounds of the tournament were hosted at the higher seeds home stadium. The six-team single-elimination tournament consisted of three rounds based on seeding from regular season conference play. The defending champions were the UC Irvine Anteaters.[2][3] UC Irvine was unable to defend its crown as the third seed, falling to UC Santa Barbara in the Semifinals, 2–1. Fourth seed UC Davis would go on to win the tournament defeating UC Santa Barbara 2–0 in the Final.[4][5] This was the second Big West tournament title for the UC Davis program, and their first since 2019. The title was also the second for head coach Dwayne Shaffer.[6] As tournament champions, UC Davis earned the Big West's automatic berth into the 2024 NCAA Division I men's soccer tournament.
The top six teams in the regular season earned a spot in the 2024 tournament. Teams were seeded based on regular season conference record and tiebreakers were used to determine seedings of teams that finished with the same record. The first and second seeds earned a bye into the Semifinals, and hosted their Semifinal game. There was a three-way tie for the third, fourth, and fifth seeds in the tournament as Cal State Bakersfield, UC Davis, and UC Irvine all finished with identical 4–3–2 regular season records. UC Irvine defeated both UC Davis and Cal State Bakersfield during the regular season and is therefore the third seed. UC Davis defeated Cal State Bakersfield during the regular season and is therefore the fourth seed, while Cal State Bakersfield is the fifth seed. Another tiebreaker was required for the sixth and final seed in the tournament as Cal State Fullerton and UC Riverside both finished with 3–2–4 regular season records. The two teams tied their regular season match-up 3–3, so a second tiebreaker was required. Cal State Fullerton earned the sixth seed by virtue of goal difference in league games. Cal State Fullerton finished with a +5 goal difference, while UC Riverside finished with a 0 goal difference.[7]
| Seed | School | Conference Record | Points |
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| 1 | Cal Poly | 4–1–4 | 16 |
| 2 | UC Santa Barbara | 4–2–3 | 15 |
| 3 | UC Irvine | 4–3–2 | 14 |
| 4 | UC Davis | 4–3–2 | 14 |
| 5 | Cal State Bakersfield | 4–3–2 | 14 |
| 6 | Cal State Fullerton | 3–2–4 | 10 |
Bracket
Source:[8]
| First round Wednesday, Nov. 6 | Semifinals Saturday/Sunday, Nov. 9/10 | Final Friday, Nov. 15 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Cal Poly | 1 (4) | ||||||||||||
| 4 | UC Davis | 2 | 4 | UC Davis (pen.) | 1 (5) | |||||||||
| 5 | Cal State Bakersfield | 1 | 4 | UC Davis | 2 | |||||||||
| 2 | UC Santa Barbara | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | UC Santa Barbara | 2 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | UC Irvine | 1 | 3 | UC Irvine | 1 | |||||||||
| 6 | Cal State Fullerton | 0 | ||||||||||||
