IRVING, Texas – Fresh off securing the fourth American Athletic Conference tournament championship in program history on Nov. 14, Tulsa received the No. 6 national seed in the 2021 NCAA Division I Men’s Soccer Championship on Monday afternoon. The Golden Hurricane received a first-round bye into the 48-team field as the automatic qualifier from The American.
 
Tulsa (15-1-1) will face the winner of Creighton (8-7-2) and Missouri State (17-1-0) on Nov. 21 in an NCAA second-round match at Hurricane Stadium in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The winner of the match will feed into a pod with No. 13 national seed West Virginia, Virginia Tech and Campbell for the third round of the tournament.
 
Tulsa earned its 12th all-time NCAA tournament berth after capturing the American Men’s Soccer Championship with a 2-1 victory over UCF in the conference title match at Hurricane Stadium. The Golden Hurricane previously secured the automatic NCAA bid from The American as the three-time conference champion from 2014-16. Tulsa previously appeared in the NCAA quarterfinal round in 2004 and 2009 as a member of Conference USA to mark the program’s best showing in the NCAA tournament.
 
Teams from The American have logged a combined 12-16-5 mark in the NCAA Championship since the conference was reconstituted in 2013. SMU became the first squad to reach an NCAA quarterfinal representing The American after defeating UCF 2-1 in overtime in the 2019 third round. Last season’s conference champion UCF reached the third round of the NCAA Championship in Cary, North Carolina this past May.
 
American Athletic Conference Men’s Soccer
2021 NCAA Division I Men’s Soccer Championship
 
NCAA Second Round – Sunday, Nov. 21, 7 p.m. (ET)/6 p.m. (CT)
Missouri State/Creighton at No. 6 Tulsa – Hurricane Stadium; Tulsa, Oklahoma