LOS ANGELES – Cal State LA's men's soccer team, the defending NCAA Division II champions and two-time defending Super Region 4 champs, remained at No. 2 in the NCAA Division II Super Region 4 poll released by the NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Committee on Wednesday.

This is the final poll released by the committee before the official selection of the tournament field, which will be made on Monday.

The Golden Eagles won Super Region 4 championships in University Stadium in 2019 and 2021 on their way to national championship game appearances in both seasons. The Golden Eagles won the 2021 national title and were runners-up in 2019, both times facing Charleston (W.V.) in the title game.
 
The top-10 teams in four Super Regions will make the NCAA Tournament.

Cal State LA (13-1-3) is one of three California Collegiate Athletic Association teams ranked in the Super Region 4. CCAA regular-season champion Cal State Dominguez Hills is fourth and Cal Poly Pomona is ranked sixth.

St. Mary's of Texas (10-0-6) remains at No. 1 in the region. Cal State LA is second and followed by Colorado-State Pueblo (15-3-1), Cal State Dominguez Hills (13-0-5), Colorado School of Mines (13-4-2), Cal Poly Pomona (11-2-6), Simon Fraser (10-5), West Texas A&M (6-3-8), Midwestern State (10-5-2), Western Washington (11-3-3), Northwest Nazarene (11-3-2) and UC-Colorado Springs (11-5-4).
 
The poll determines the qualifiers for the NCAA Championships.
 
The five conferences in the Super Region 4 – the CCAA, Great Northwest Athletic Conference, the PacWest Conference, the Lone Star Conference and the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference – each receive an automatic bid. The CCAA's automatic bid goes to the winner of the conference tournament.
 
The top six teams receive first-round byes with No. 7 facing No. 10 at the site of the No. 2 seed and No. 8 facing No. 9 at the site of the No. 1 seed as the first-round matchups. The top four seeds then host second-round games with the highest remaining seed after that round in line to host the next two rounds.
 
Cal State LA won the 2021 and 2019 Super Region championships and hosted the first two weeks of the playoffs each time. The Golden Eagles edged Colorado State-Pueblo, 2-1, Colorado Mesa, 2-1 in overtime and Cal Poly Pomona, 1-0, to advance to the national semifinals. In 2019, the Golden Eagles beat Midwestern State, 3-0, in a second-round match on the first week and then advanced past St. Mary's and Cal State San Bernardino to reach the NCAA semifinals.
 
Cal State LA also claimed NCAA West Region titles in 2011 and 2014.
 
The championship field will be announced on ncaa.com on Monday, Nov. 7 at 3:30 p.m.
 
Cal State LA will be trying for its third straight conference tournament title this weekend at Cal State San Bernardino. The No. 2 seed Golden Eagles will face No. 6 Sonoma State in a semifinal match on Friday at 11:30 a.m. The other semifinal features No. 1 seed Cal State Dominguez Hills vs. No. 5 seed Chico State. The winners will square off for the tournament title on Sunday at 1 p.m.
 
Cal State LA is competing in the conference tournament for an 11^th straight season.