# 2014 Big Ten Conference men's soccer season

The 2014 Big Ten Conference men's soccer season was the 24th season of men's varsity soccer in the conference.
Penn State Nittany Lions were the two-time defending regular season champions, while the Indiana Hoosiers were the defending tournament champions.

## Changes from 2013

Rutgers and Maryland joined the conference from the American Athletic Conference and Atlantic Coast Conference respectively.

## Preseason

Newcomers Maryland was picked to win the conference ahead of Penn State.

### Preseason poll

| Projected Rank | School | 2013 Finish |
| 1 | Maryland | 2nd (Atlantic Coast Conference) |
| 2 | Michigan State | 3rd |
| 3 | Michigan | 4th |
| 4 | Penn State | 1st |
| 5 | Indiana | 5th |
| 6 | Northwestern | 7th |
| 7 | Wisconsin | 2nd |
| 8 | Rutgers | 8th (American Athletic Conference) |
| 9 | Ohio State | 6th |

## Teams
### Stadia and locations

| Team | Location | Stadium | Capacity |
| Indiana Hoosiers | Bloomington, Indiana | Armstrong Stadium | 6,000 |
| Maryland Terrapins | College Park, Maryland | Ludwig Field | 7,500 |
| Michigan Wolverines | Ann Arbor, Michigan | U-M Soccer Stadium | 2,200 |
| Michigan State Spartans | East Lansing, Michigan | DeMartin Soccer Complex | 2,500 |
| Northwestern Wildcats | Evanston, Illinois | Lakeside Field | 900 |
| Ohio State Buckeyes | Columbus, Ohio | Owens Memorial Stadium | 10,000 |
| Penn State Nittany Lions | State College, Pennsylvania | Jeffrey Field | 5,000 |
| Rutgers Scarlet Knights | Piscataway, New Jersey | Yurcak Field | 5,000 |
| Wisconsin Badgers | Madison, Wisconsin | McClimon Stadium | 2,000 |
* Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska and Purdue do not sponsor men's soccer

### Personnel

| Team | Head Coach | Shirt supplier |
| Indiana | Todd Yeagley | Adidas |
| Maryland | Sasho Cirovski | Under Armour |
| Michigan | Chaka Daley | Adidas |
| Michigan State | Damon Rensing | Nike |
| Northwestern | Tim Lenahan | Under Armour |
| Ohio State | John Bluem | Nike |
| Penn State | Bob Warming | Nike |
| Rutgers | Dan Donigan | Adidas |
| Wisconsin | John Trask | Adidas |

## Regular season
### Results

| Home \ Away | IND | UMD | MIC | MSU | NOR | OSU | PSU | RUT | WIS |
| Indiana | — | 1–2 | — | 2–3 | 1–1 | — | 0–1 | — | — |
| Maryland | — | — | — | 0–1 | — | 1–0 | 4–0 | — | 2–0 |
| Michigan | 1–3 | 1–1 | — | — | — | 1–2 | 0–1 | — | — |
| Michigan State | — | — | 2–3 | — | 1–1 | — | — | 0–0 | 2–1 |
| Northwestern | — | 3–2 | 0–0 | — | — | — | 2–1 | — | 2–0 |
| Ohio State | 1–2 | — | — | 3–2 | 2–0 | — | — | 4–1 | — |
| Penn State | — | — | — | 0–2 | — | 1–0 | — | 1–0 | 2–1 |
| Rutgers | 1–2 | 2–3 | 0–3 | — | 0–2 | — | — | — | — |
| Wisconsin | 2–2 | — | 1–2 | — | — | 0–2 | — | 2–3 | — |

## Postseason
### Big Ten Tournament

| Semifinal | Semifinal | Semifinal | Final | Final | Final |
| 1 | Maryland$^{PKs}$ | 0(3) | | | |
| 5 | Michigan State | 0(2) | | | |
| 5 | Michigan State | 0(2) | 1 | Maryland | 2 |
| | | | 6 | Indiana | 1 |
| 6 | Indiana | 2 | 6 | Indiana | 1 |
| 2 | Ohio State | 1 | | | |

### NCAA Tournament

| Seed | Region | School | 1st Round | 2nd Round | 3rd Round | Quarterfinals |
| 3 | 3 | Michigan State | BYE | W 1–0 vs. Oakland – (East Lansing) | T, 2–2 $^{W,4–3pen.}$ vs. Washington – (East Lansing) | L, 2–3 vs. Providence – (East Lansing) |
| 4 | 2 | Maryland | BYE | L, 0–1 vs. UMBC – (College Park) | | |
| 5 | 2 | Indiana | BYE | L, 0–1 vs. Xavier – (Bloomington) | | |
| — | 1 | Ohio State | T, 1–1 $^{W,13–12pen.}$ vs. Akron – (Columbus) | L, 1–2 vs. Notre Dame – (Notre Dame) | | |
| — | 1 | Penn State | W 2–1 vs. Hartwick – (Evanston) | L, 1–2 vs. Syracuse – (Syracuse) | | |
| — | 4 | Northwestern | L, 0–1 vs. SIU Edwardsville – (State College) | | | |