Country USA Runners-up UCLA (3rd title game) Goals scored 85 (3.7 per match) | Teams 24 Matches played 23 | |
Champions Saint Louis (10th title) | ||
The 1973 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship was the fifteenth organized men's college soccer tournament by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, to determine the top Division I college soccer team in the United States. The Saint Louis Billikens won their tenth national title by defeating the UCLA Bruins for the second consecutive year in the championship game, 2-1 after one overtime period. The final match was played on January 4, 1974, in Miami, Florida, at the Miami Orange Bowl for the third straight year.
Starting in 1973, the NCAA changed its classification system and the former University Division became Division I. At the same time, the College Division split into Division II and Division III.
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1973 NCAA Division I Soccer Championship Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA