Ray Reid’s Connecticut Huskies won a pair of home matches in Big East play this week, defeating Providence and Pittsburgh to remain #1 in the TopDrawerSoccer.com Tournament 48 National Ranking for men’s college soccer. The Huskies continue to edge out North Carolina, New Mexico and Maryland, who all won during the week as well, and Akron who moves past Creighton and back into the top 5 after a pair of victories. 

 

The ranking is a running effort to project the postseason NCAA Tournament field, including all automatic conference and at-large qualifiers. Weekly updates will appear every Monday.

 

Click here for the latest version of the Tournament 48 National Ranking.

Meanwhile, Charlotte’s Guiseppe Gentile has been named the TopDrawerSoccer.com Men's College Player of the Week. Gentile scored four goals in helping the 49ers to victories this week over Duquesne and St. Bonaventure.

 

The TopDrawerSoccer.com Men’s College Team of the Week is chosen after reviewing every match report for Division One soccer.

 

GK:  Victor Rodriguez, New Mexico

D: Bryan Gallego, Akron

D: Chad Barson, Akron

M: Andrew Boisvert, Xavier

M: Gideon Asante, Old Dominion

M: Pedro Ribeiro, Coastal Carolina

F: Guiseppe Gentile, Charlotte

F: Chandler Hoffman, UCLA

F: Mamadou Diouf, Connecticut

F: Dom Dwyer, South Florida

F: Eriq Zavaleta, Indiana

F:  Mark Sherrod, Memphis