In the 71st minute, Dal Santo deflected a shot for a save, but Sekine fired the rebound into the goal to give the Golden Bears a 1–0 lead that held up for the victory, sending Cal into the round of 16 and ended the Cougars' season. When the "2014 NSCAA/Continental Tire NCAA Division I Men's All-Region" teams were announced on December 10, Christian Volesky and Mat Polster were both named to the West Region First Team. On December 11, Christian Volesky and Mat Polster were among the 55 college Division I players invited to the 2015 adidas MLS Player Combine to showcase their talents to the coaching staffs of all 20 Major League Soccer clubs. Mat Polster was named to the 2014 NSCAA Men's University Division "Scholar All-America First Team" on December 18. In Top Drawer Soccer's (TDS) preseason list of the top 100 college soccer players in the nation, Christian Volesky was ranked #41, and Matt Polster was ranked #81. In the TDS MVC Postseason Top 20, Christian Volesky was ranked #1, Matt Polster #2, Andrew Kendall-Moullin #3, Justin Bilyeu #6, Austin Ledbetter #9, Garet Christianson #10, and Paul Scheipeter #15. At the 2015 adidas MLS Player Combine, both Christian Volesky and Matt Polster had standout performances, with Volesky being named the "Tom Fitzgerald MLS Combine Most Valuable Player". On January 15, 2016, MLS held its SuperDraft. Matt Polster was selected by the Chicago Fire as the 7th overall player taken. Christian Volesky was drafted by the Portland Timbers as the 11th pick in the second round and the 32nd pick overall. Scott Donnelly was named as the Cougars' new head coach on December 6, 2013 following Kevin Kalish's unexpected resignation. Donnelly, former head coach at Division II Mars Hill College had been the Cougars' associate head coach for the previous two seasons after coming to SIUE from the same position at Northern Illinois. Assistants are  first year coaches David Korn and Scott Gyllenborg, seventh year goalkeepers coach Brian Jones, and first year director of operations Billy Berger. On August 10, it was announced that coach Scott Donnelly had suddenly and unexpectedly resigned after being recruited to be the new Technical Advisor for the Northeast region with the United States Soccer Federation (U.S. Soccer).