2016 Atlantic Coast Conference men's soccer season

The 2016 Atlantic Coast Conference men's soccer season was the 63rd season of men's varsity soccer in the conference.

2016 Atlantic Coast Conference men's soccer season
League	NCAA Division I
Sport	Soccer
Duration	August, 2016 – November, 2016
Number of teams	12
2017 MLS SuperDraft
Top draft pick	Miles Robinson, Syracuse
Picked by	Atlanta United FC, 2nd overall
Regular season
Season champions	Atlantic: Wake Forest Coastal: North Carolina
Runners-up	Atlantic: Louisville Coastal: Virginia
Season MVP	Offensive: Jon Gallagher Midfielder: Ian Harkes Defensive: Miles Robinson
Top scorer	Jon Gallagher (14)
Tournament
Champions	Wake Forest
Runners-up	Clemson
Finals MVP	Ian Harkes
ACC men's soccer seasons
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2016 ACC men's soccer standings

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Atlantic
No. 2 Wake Forest ‡	5	–	1	–	2			19	–	2	–	4
No. 6 Louisville +	5	–	2	–	1			14	–	6	–	2
No. 5 Clemson +	4	–	1	–	3			14	–	4	–	5
No. 11 Syracuse +	4	–	2	–	3			12	–	4	–	4
Boston College +	3	–	3	–	3			9	–	9	–	3
NC State	1	–	8	–	0			5	–	12	–	0
Coastal
No. 4 North Carolina +	5	–	1	–	2			14	–	3	–	4
No. 13 Virginia +	4	–	2	–	3			11	–	4	–	5
No. 14 Notre Dame +	4	–	3	–	2			12	–	7	–	2
No. 8 Virginia Tech +	3	–	4	–	2			13	–	5	–	4
Duke	2	–	6	–	1			7	–	8	–	2
Pittsburgh	0	–	7	–	2			2	–	13	–	3
‡-2016 ACC Tournament champion + - Invited to the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship As of 13 December 2016 Rankings from NSCAA

The Wake Forest Demon Deacons and the Syracuse Orange are the defending regular season and tournament champions, respectively.

Changes from 2015

• Jay Vidovich replaced Joe Luxbacher has the Pittsburgh Panthers head coach

Teams

Stadiums and locations

Atlantic Division^[1]
Team	Stadium	Capacity
Boston College Eagles	Newton Soccer Complex	2,500
Clemson Tigers	Riggs Field	6,500
Louisville Cardinals	Lynn Stadium	5,300
NC State Wolfpack	Method Road	3,000
Syracuse Orange	SU Soccer Stadium	5,000
Wake Forest Demon Deacons	Spry Stadium	3,000

Coastal Division^[1]
Team	Stadium	Capacity
Duke Blue Devils	Koskinen Stadium	7,000
North Carolina Tar Heels	Fetzer Field	5,025
Notre Dame Fighting Irish	Alumni Stadium	2,500
Pittsburgh Panthers	Ambrose Urbanic Field	735
Virginia Cavaliers	Klöckner Stadium	8,000
Virginia Tech Hokies	Thompson Field	2,500

1. ^ Florida State, Georgia Tech and Miami do not sponsor men's soccer

Personnel

Team	Head coach	Captain
Boston College Eagles	Ed Kelly	Zeiko Lewis
Clemson Tigers	Mike Noonan	Patrick Bunk-Andersen
Duke Blue Devils	John Kerr Jr.	Ryan Thompson
Louisville Cardinals	Ken Lolla	Michael DeGraffenreidt
NC State Wolfpack	Kelly Findley	Alex McCauley
North Carolina Tar Heels	Carlos Somoano^[2]	Colton Storm
Notre Dame Fighting Irish	Bobby Clark^[3]	Chris Hubbard
Pittsburgh Panthers	Jay Vidovich^[4]	Romeo Charron
Syracuse Orange	Ian McIntyre^[5]	Liam Callahan
Virginia Cavaiers	George Gelnovatch^[6]	Nicko Corriveau
Virginia Tech Hokies	Mike Brizendine^[7]	Som Essome
Wake Forest Demon Deacons	Bobby Muuss^[8]	Ian Harkes

Regular season

Rankings

National Soccer Coaches Association of America

Legend

		Increase in ranking
		Decrease in ranking
		Not ranked previous week

Main article: List of NCAA Division I men's soccer teams ranked in the 2016 Top 25 coaches poll

	Pre^[9]	Wk 1^[10]	Wk 2^[11]	Wk 3^[12]	Wk 4^[13]	Wk 5^[14]	Wk 6^[15]	Wk 7^[16]	Wk 8^[17]	Wk 9^[18]	Wk 10^[19]	Wk 11^[20]	Wk 12^[21]	Final^[22]
Boston College	11	11	25	15	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV		25	RV	RV
Clemson	3	2	2	6	7	5	5	3	8	5	3	3	3	5
Duke			RV
Louisville			RV	RV	13	9	8	4	13	7	10	9	7	6
North Carolina	8	3	3	2	9	4	4	8	3	3	4	10	10	4
NC State		RV	RV
Notre Dame	9	4	1	1	3	2	2	2	4	12	16	20	15	14
Pittsburgh
Syracuse	6	6	6	5	2	3	3	10	6	6	7	6	8	11
Virginia	17	12	17	17	16	RV	RV	21	16	17	17	17	16	13
Virginia Tech		RV	15	23	19	18	18	15	23	23	23	RV	RV	8
Wake Forest	5	21	21	12	14	11	11	7	2	2	2	2	2	2

Top Drawer Soccer

^[23]

Legend

		Increase in ranking
		Decrease in ranking
		Not ranked previous week

	Pre	Wk 1	Wk 2	Wk 3	Wk 4	Wk 5	Wk 6	Wk 7	Wk 8	Wk 9	Wk 10	Wk 11	Wk 12	Wk 13	Wk 14	Wk 15	Wk 16	Final
Boston College	15	10	10	18	18	16	25	14	12	23	RV	RV	17
Clemson	10	8	8	5	6	5	6	4	4	4	4	3	3	4	4	5	5	5
Duke				20	RV
Louisville				17	13	6	4	6	3	12	8	13	12	7	6	6	6	6
North Carolina	1	1	1	1	1	3	2	2	6	2	5	4	9	9	8	4	4	4
NC State
Notre Dame	19		12	6	2	2	1	1	1	3	9	12	14	13	11	17	17	17
Pittsburgh
Syracuse	5	4	4	3	3	1	3	3	11	9	7	7	5	6	5	11	11	11
Virginia	RV	17	17	13	23	19	19	19	15	8	11	11	13	16	13	13	13	13
Virginia Tech							17	17	17	RV	23				20	8	8	8
Wake Forest	11	23	23				11	12	10	7	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	2

Postseason

ACC tournament

Main article: 2016 ACC Men's Soccer Tournament

	Semifinals					Final
	8	Boston College	0
	4	Clemson	1
						4	Clemson	1
						2	Wake Forest	3
	3	Louisville	1
	2	Wake Forest	2

NCAA tournament

Main article: 2016 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship

A record nine teams will participate in the NCAA tournament. Seven of the nine teams earned seeds and byes to the second round.

Seed	Region	School	1st round	2nd round	3rd round	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Championship
2	4	Wake Forest	BYE	W 2–0 vs. Coastal Carolina – (Winston-Salem)	W 2–1 vs. SIUE – (Winston-Salem)	W 2–0 vs. Virginia Tech – (Winston-Salem)	W 2–1 vs. #6 Denver – (Houston)	T, 0–0 ^L, 4–5 PK vs. #5 Stanford – (Houston)
3	3	Clemson	BYE	W 2–1 (OT) vs. South Carolina – (Clemson)	W 3–1 vs. #14 Albany – (Clemson)	L 0–1 vs. #6 Denver – (Clemson)
4	2	Louisville	BYE	W 2–1 vs. UCLA – (Louisville)	W 3–1 vs. #13 Notre Dame – (Louisville)	L 0–2 vs. #5 Stanford – (Louisville)
8	1	Syracuse	BYE	W 3–0 vs. Dartmouth – (Syracuse)	L 0–1 vs. #9 North Carolina – (Syracuse)
9	1	North Carolina	BYE	W 3–2 (OT) vs. FGCU – (Chapel Hill)	W 1–0 vs. #8 Syracuse – (Syracuse)	W 1–0 (2OT) vs. Providence – (Chapel Hill)	T, 0–0 ^L, 9–10 PK vs. #5 Stanford – (Houston)
12	2	Virginia	BYE	W 2–1 (2OT) vs. Vermont – (Charlottesville)	L 0–1 vs. #5 Stanford – (Stanford)
13	2	Notre Dame	BYE	W 1–0 vs. Loyola-Chicago – (Notre Dame)	L 1–3 vs. #4 Louisville – (Louisville)
—	3	Boston College	W 1–0 vs. Fordham – (Boston)	L 0–3 vs. #14 Albany – (Albany)
—	4	Virginia Tech	W 1–0 vs. ETSU – (Blacksburg)	W 3–2 vs. #10 Charlotte – (Charlotte)	W 2–1 (OT) vs. #7 Indiana – (Bloomington)	L 0–1 vs. #2 Wake Forest – (Winston-Salem)

All-ACC awards and teams

2016 ACC Men's Soccer Individual Awards^[24]
Award	Recipient(s)
Offensive Player of the Year	Jon Gallagher, Notre Dame
Midfielder of the Year	Ian Harkes, Wake Forest
Defensive Player of the Year	Miles Robinson, Syracuse
Freshman of the Year	Cam Lindley, North Carolina
Coach of the Year	Bobby Muuss, Wake Forest

2016 ACC Men's Soccer All-Conference Teams^[24]
First Team	Second Team	Third Team	Freshman Team
Zeiko Lewis, Sr., F, Boston College Tim Kübel, Jr., D, Louisville Mohamed Thiaw, Jr., F, Louisville Cam Lindley, Fr., M, North Carolina Brandon Aubrey, Sr., D, Notre Dame Jon Gallagher, Jr., F, Notre Dame Chris Nanco, Sr., F, Syracuse Miles Robinson, So., D, Syracuse Alec Ferrell, Sr., G, Wake Forest Ian Harkes, Sr., M, Wake Forest Jacori Hayes, Sr., M, Wake Forest	Diego Campos, Jr., F, Clemson Oliver Shannon, Jr., M, Clemson Brian White, Jr., F, Duke Colton Storm, Sr., D, North Carolina Alan Winn, Jr., F, North Carolina Zach Wright, Jr., F, North Carolina Julius Duchscherer, So., M, NC State Pablo Aguilar, Jr., M, Virginia Jeff Caldwell, Jr., G, Virginia Edward Opoku, So., F, Virginia Marcelo Acuna, Jr., F, Virginia Tech	Patrick Bunk-Andersen, So., D, Clemson Geoffrey Dee, Jr., M, Louisville Daniel Johnson, Sr., M, Louisville Walker Hume, Sr., D, North Carolina James Pyle, So., G, North Carolina Evan Panken, Gr., M, Notre Dame Mo Adams, Fr., M, Syracuse Jean-Christophe Koffi, So., M, Virginia Sergi Nus, So., D, Virginia Brad Dunwell, So., M, Wake Forest Kevin Politz, Jr., D, Wake Forest	Lasse Lehmann, Fr., M, Boston College Malick Mbaye, Fr., D, Clemson Tanner Dieterich, Fr., D, Clemson Suniel Veerakone, Fr., M, Duke Max Moser, Fr., M, Duke Cam Lindley, Fr., M, North Carolina Mauricio Pineda, Fr., M, North Carolina Tommy McCabe, Fr., M, Notre Dame Mo Adams, Fr., M, Syracuse Robin Afamefuna, Fr., D, Virginia Terrell Lowe, Fr., M, Virginia Ema Twumasi, Fr., M, Wake Forest

Draft picks

Main article: 2017 MLS SuperDraft

The ACC had 18 total players selected in the 2017 MLS SuperDraft. There were 7 players selected in the first round, 5 players selected in the second round, 4 players selected in the third round, and 2 players selected in the fourth round. The 18 selections were the most selections from any conference in the draft. ACC schools Louisville and Syracuse lead the league with 4 selections from each school.

FW

Forward

MF

Midfielder

DF

Defender

GK

Goalkeeper

Player	Team	Round	Pick #	Position	School
Miles Robinson	Atlanta United FC	1st	2	DF	Syracuse
Jeremy Ebobisse	Portland Timbers	1st	4	FW	Duke
Daniel Johnson	Chicago Fire	1st	11	MF	Louisville
Colton Storm	Sporting Kansas City	1st	14	DF	North Carolina
Zeiko Lewis	New York Red Bulls	1st	17	FW	Boston College
Jacori Hayes	FC Dallas	1st	18	MF	Wake Forest
Brandon Aubrey	Toronto FC	1st	21	DF	Notre Dame
Alec Ferrell	Minnesota United FC	2nd	23	GK	Wake Forest
Liam Callahan	Colorado Rapids	2nd	24	DF	Syracuse
Stefan Cleveland	Chicago Fire	2nd	26	GK	Louisville
Aaron Jones	Philadelphia Union	2nd	33	DF	Clemson
Walker Hume	FC Dallas	2nd	37	DF	North Carolina
Robert Moewes	Toronto FC	3rd	52	GK	Duke
Chris Nanco	Philadelphia Union	3rd	55	FW	Syracuse
Michael DeGraffenriedt	New York City FC	3rd	60	DF	Louisville
Øyvind Alseth	Toronto FC	3rd	65	MF	Syracuse
Romilio Hernandez	Portland Timbers	4th	80	MF	Louisville
Juan Pablo Saavedra	Toronto FC	4th	87	DF	Virginia Tech

See also

• 2016 NCAA Division I men's soccer season
• 2016 ACC Men's Soccer Tournament
• 2016 Atlantic Coast Conference women's soccer season

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