# 2018 Big Ten men's soccer tournament

The 2018 Big Ten Conference men's soccer tournament is the 28th edition of the tournament. It determined the Big Ten Conference's automatic berth into the 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship. Wisconsin enters the tournament as the defending champions. The Number 1 Seeded Indiana beat the number 3 seeded Michigan in the Big Ten Tournament Championship Game 3 to 0. Indiana won its 13th Big Ten Tournament title.

## Seeds

All nine Big Ten schools participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records. The top 10 teams received a first round bye and the top four teams received a double bye. Tiebreaking procedures remained unchanged from the 2016 Tournament.
| Seed | School | Conference record | Conference record | Conference record | Conference record | Conference record | Conference record | Conference record | Conference record |
| Seed | School | Pld. | W | L | T | GF | GA | GD | Pts. |
| 1 | Indiana | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 3 | +10 | 24 |
| 2 | Wisconsin | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 8 | +4 | 18 |
| 3 | Michigan | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 6 | +5 | 14 |
| 4 | Michigan State | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 5 | +3 | 14 |
| 5 | Maryland | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 15 | 11 | +4 | 12 |
| 6 | Penn State | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 8 | +1 | 11 |
| 7 | Rutgers | 8 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 16 | -8 | 6 |
| 8 | Northwestern | 8 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 10 | -6 | 3 |
| 9 | Ohio State | 8 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 18 | -13 | 1 |

## Bracket

| First Round November 3 | First Round November 3 | First Round November 3 | Quarterfinals November 4 | Quarterfinals November 4 | Quarterfinals November 4 | Semifinals November 9 | Semifinals November 9 | Semifinals November 9 | Championship November 11 | Championship November 11 | Championship November 11 |
| | | | 1 | Indiana | 2$^{OT}$ | | | | | | |
| 8 | Northwestern | 3 | 8 | Northwestern | 1 | | | | | | |
| 9 | Ohio State | 1 | | | | 1 | Indiana (pen.) | 1 (4) | | | |
| | | | | | | 5 | Maryland | 1 (3) | | | |
| | | | 4 | Michigan State | 0 | | | | | | |
| | | | 5 | Maryland | 1$^{OT}$ | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | 1 | Indiana | 3 |
| | | | | | | | | | 3 | Michigan | 0 |
| | | | 3 | Michigan | 3 | | | | | | |
| | | | 6 | Penn State | 1 | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | 3 | Michigan | 1 | | | |
| | | | | | | 2 | Wisconsin | 0 | | | |
| | | | 2 | Wisconsin | 6 | | | | | | |
| | | | 7 | Rutgers | 3 | | | | | | |

## Top goalscorers
### 2 goals

* Spencer Glass - Indiana
* Noah Melick - Wisconsin
* Matt Moderwell - Northwestern
* Umar Farouk Osman - Michigan

### 1 goal

* Alex Alfaro - Wisconsin
* Rece Buckmaster - Indiana
* Camden Buescher - Northwestern
* Ben Di Rosa - Maryland
* Ryan Gallagher - Penn State
* Brandon Golden - Rutgers
* Jeremaih Gutjahr - Indiana
* Andrew Gutman - Indiana
* Miles Hackett - Rutgers
* Jordan Hall - Rutgers
* Jack Hallahan - Michigan
* Noah Leibold - Wisconsin
* Sean Lynch - Northwestern
* Eric Matzelevich - Maryland
* Jake Scheper - Ohio State
* Isaac Schlenker - Wisconsin
* Cory Thomas - Indiana
* Marc Ybarra - Michigan
* Patrick Yim - Wisconsin

## All-Tournament team

* Andrew Gutman, Indiana - Defensive Player of the Tournament
* Francesco Moore, Indiana
* Cory Thomas, Indiana - Offensive Player of the Tournament
* Amar Sejdic, Maryland
* Robbie Mertz, Michigan
* Jackson Ragen, Michigan
* Connor Corrigan, Michigan State
* Matt Moderwell, Northwestern
* Ryan Gallagher, Penn State
* Jordan Hall, Rutgers
* Isaac Schlenker, Wisconsin