MSOC: Men move up to No. 24.

[GoMuskies]

I guess the Big East isn't very strong. For whatever it's worth (which seems like not much given how few games are played in a soccer season), Xavier was #44 in the RPI.

[GoMuskies]

Also, is college soccer in the space where college baseball was 25 years ago? Where a lot of the "big schools" didn't take it seriously and a lot of smaller schools like Rice, Fullerton, Pepperdine, Wichita State, etc. were powerhouses? Because I know Akron is a soccer powerhouse, and I'm looking at the top of the soccer RPI rankings and seeing names like Lipscomb, FIU, Cornell, UNC Greensboro, Penn, SMU, Vermont, Tulsa, St. Louis and New Hampshire (all joining Arkon in the top 20).

[Masterofreality]

Also, is college soccer in the space where college baseball was 25 years ago? Where a lot of the "big schools" didn't take it seriously and a lot of smaller schools like Rice, Fullerton, Pepperdine, Wichita State, etc. were powerhouses? Because I know Akron is a soccer powerhouse, and I'm looking at the top of the soccer RPI rankings and seeing names like Lipscomb, FIU, Cornell, UNC Greensboro, Penn, SMU, Vermont, Tulsa, St. Louis and New Hampshire (all joining Arkon in the top 20).

St Louis has been really good for a long time

[Masterofreality]

I guess the Big East isn't very strong. For whatever it's worth (which seems like not much given how few games are played in a soccer season), Xavier was #44 in the RPI.

And I know they lost to Creighton, a hot team that beat Georgetown, but you can’t lose that game.

[GoMuskies]

St Louis has been really good for a long time

So has Akron. And so had Fullerton and Wichita State and Pepperdine in baseball before the "big boys" decided they were going to start caring about baseball, too.

[X-band '01]

Too many ties, not enough wins. It was a tough ending to the year but a lot better than where they were originally picked.

[xu9697]

Big time shame they did not get in, but, as others have alluded to, it seemed like everything that could go wrong at the end did. Future is bright. I believe success breeds success, so hoping that the success of both soccer programs will help each other in attracting talent and allow X to grow stronger in college soccer.

[GoMuskies]

Damn, who would have ever expected ME of all people to be first to soccer news? Akron was officially announced as a member of the Big East for soccer today.

https://twitter.com/BIGEAST/status/1...fRr6c-gndvq78A

[94GRAD]

Damn, who would have ever expected ME of all people to be first to soccer news? Akron was officially announced as a member of the Big East for soccer today.

https://twitter.com/BIGEAST/status/1...fRr6c-gndvq78A

Can't believe the MAC isn't sponsoring soccer anymore

[X-band '01]

Wonder what other MAC programs would be dropping soccer - I think Kentucky was also in the MAC as an affiliate men's soccer member at some point.