CLEVELAND, OH – Kenyon earned its 15th North Coast Athletic Conference Men’s Soccer Championship after finishing the regular season with a 7-1 record, collecting 21 points.
Ohio Wesleyan leads the league with 24 conference titles, followed by the Owls’ 15. Denison and Wooster have three titles apiece, while DePauw and Wittenberg have each captured one.
Denison (6-0-2, 20 pts) finished second in conference standings this fall, followed by DePauw and John Carroll (4-3-1, 13 pts) and Ohio Wesleyan and Wittenberg (3-4-1, 10 pts). Rounding out the nine-team standings were Wooster (2-4-2, 8 pts), Oberlin (1-5-2, 5 pts) and Wabash (1-7-0, 3 pts).
As NCAC champs, Kenyon enters the NCAC Tournament as the top seed and will host fourth-seeded DePauw on Thursday, Nov. 5, at 2:00 p.m. The Owls defeated the Tigers 3-0 during the regular season on Oct. 3. Second-seeded Denison will host third-seeded John Carroll in the other semifinal at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday. The Big Red edged the Blue Streaks 2-1 on Oct. 7.
The tourney final is set for Sunday, Nov. 8, at the site of the highest remaining seed to emerge from the semifinal round.
TOURNEY NOTES: The tournament winner receives the NCAC's automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament ... Kenyon will make its 19th overall appearance in the four-team tournament field and currently owns the longest active streak of 14-straight appearances … Denison will make its 16th appearance overall and seeks its fifth tournament crown … DePauw, the two-time defending conference tournament champion, returns to the postseason for the fourth-consecutive season and will make its 10th overall appearance after a six-year run from 2011-16. The Tigers navigated the 2025 tournament bracket as the No. 1 seed, edging No. 4 Kenyon 3-2 in the semifinals before capturing the tourney title with a 3-1 victory over No. 2 Denison … John Carroll enters the conference postseason for the first time in just its second season in the league … Ohio Wesleyan leads all programs with 11 tournament titles, followed by Kenyon with five, Denison and DePauw with four apiece, and Allegheny with one.