Cleveland State, the 2012 Horizon League Men's Soccer Champions, will meet Michigan State in the first round of the NCAA Men's Soccer Tournament, it was announced Monday night.
Cleveland State (11-5-3) will take its 10-match unbeaten streak to East Lansing for a 1 p.m. ET match on Thursday, Nov. 15.
The Vikings, who who qualified for the tournament this season for the first time since 1980, will be taking on their third Big Ten opponent of the season when they battle the Spartans. CSU was able to knock off the Michigan Wolverines in September, 3-0, while also falling 2-1 to the Wisconsin Badgers at the end of the same month. Both of those contests were on the road, with the Wisconsin game September 29th being the Vikings last loss to date.
The winner of the game Thursday in Michigan State will travel to South Bend, Indiana to take on the tournament's No. 1 overall seed, Notre Dame, in the second round Sunday at 7:00 p.m.
(Release courtesy of CSUVikings.com)
