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2010 NCAA COLLEGE CUP ROUNDUP
The 2010 NCAA D-I Women's College Soccer tournament started on November 12, 2010 and concluded with the College Cup (Final Four) over the December 3-5 weekend in Cary, North Carolina. The CASL Soccer Showcase tournament for U15-19 Girls runs concurrently with the College cup and is held in the immediate area to allow for attendance at the College Cup in the evenings. CASL is one of the Big Three recruiting events for college recruiters. The 2010 NCAA D-I Men's College Soccer tournament began November 18 and concluded with the College Cup over the December 10-12, 2010 weekend in Santa Barbara, California. The 2010 NCAA D-II Women's College Soccer tournament began November 12 and concluded on December 4th with the championship in Louisville, KY. The NCAA D-III Women's Soccer tournament began November 11 and concluded in San Antonio, TX on December 4th. The NCAA D-I soccer championship is a single-elimination tournament featuring 64 college soccer teams, both conference champions and at-large champions. 34 Conference tournament champions receive automatic bids. The remaining slots 30 slots are at-large berths and are chosen by a selection committee appointed by the NCAA. The selection process and tournament seedings are based on RPI data and rankings and win-loss records and a some intangibles. Playoff brackets are constructed with minimizing travel expenses in mind. While this does present some of the best teams with being eliminated early, at the same time it creates some very exciting matches. There are 64 teams who receive invitations, some for outright winning their conference, conference tournament; and other receiving at-large invitations because they are in power conferences. The tournament is split into four (4) regions, though not geographical, with each region having four seeds. In all regions, the #1 seed plays the #16 seed; the #2 team plays the #15, and so on. The effect of this seeding structure ensures that the better a team is seeded, the worse-seeded their opponents will be. The brackets are not reseeded after each round.
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