Indiana University Athletics
Indiana Plays Host to Evansville Wednesday
10/27/2009 12:00:00 AM | Men's Soccer
Oct. 27, 2009
Indiana vs. Evansville- Match Notes 
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INDIANA (7-7-1) vs. EVANSVILLE (10-5-1)
October 28, 2009 • 7:00 p.m. ET
Jerry Yeagley Field at Armstrong Stadium
Bloomington, Ind.
All-Time Series: Indiana leads, 21-4-3
Last Meeting: Indiana won, 3-2 in OT in Evansville on Sept. 30, 2008.
Last Meeting in Bloomington: Indiana won, 2-1 on Oct. 24, 2007.
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SETTING THE SCENE
• Indiana is looking to snap a three-game losing streak as it begins its final home stand of the season with Evansville on Wednesday night.
• The Hoosiers are also looking to snap a streak of 277 minutes without scoring a goal.
• Indiana leads the all-time series with Evansville, 21-4-3, and has gone 10-0-1 in the last 11 meetings against the Purple Aces.
NEWS AND NOTES
• Indiana was shut out for the fifth time this season and the third-straight match with a 2-0 loss at No. 12 Northwestern on Oct. 25.
• Indiana led the shot count by a 14-7 margin, including an 8-2 advantage in the first half.
• Freshman Kevin Bick led the way off the bench with four shot attempts.
• Redshirt freshman Tim Wylie earned his first career start in place of sophomore Will Bruin, who missed the match due to a red card suspension.
• Senior goalkeeper Nemanja Kostic made his first career appearance for Indiana in the match at Louisville on Oct. 21, playing the final 45 minutes between the pipes.
• Also making his first career appearance in the match at Louisville was junior defender Alex Boler.
• The Hoosiers have three-straight matches for the first time this season and the first time since a three-match losing streak to Creighton, Saint Louis and UAB in 2007.
• The Hoosiers have never been at the .500 mark this late in the season in program history. The Hoosiers were 5-5 on Sept. 29 in 1985 and went on to finish 12-9-1.
• Will Bruin had a season high nine shots, , three of which were on goal, in the 1-0 double overtime loss to Michigan State on Oct. 18.
• Indiana had a season-high 22 shots in the match, eight of which were on frame.
• Indiana stretched its win streak over Notre Dame to three with a 3-0 win on Oct. 14. Darren Yeagle and Will Bruin scored for the Hoosiers, but the game winner came in the 66th minute courtesy of an own goal by the Fighting Irish.
• Bruin's goal gives him a team-best six this season.
• Bruin leads the team in scoring with 15 points (6g, 3a).
• Freshman goalkeeper Luis Soffner recorded his sixth shutout of the season in the win at ND.
• Andy Adlard scored the game-winning goal at Michigan on Oct. 10 in the 54th minute, his fourth goal of the season and the second game winner.
• Three of Adlard's four goals this year have come when he plays off the bench.
• Soffner recorded his fifth shutout of the year in the win over the Wolverines.
• Yeagle's goal against Butler on Oct. 7 was his first since his freshman season in 2006. He had seven goals that year and was named the Big Ten Freshman of the Year.
• Bruin has scored at least one point in seven of 14 matches played.
• Indiana is 2-5-1 against top-25 teams this season.
• The Hoosiers are 1-2-1 in overtime games this year.
• IU is 3-0 when scoring three or more goals with wins over New Mexico (3-2), Kentucky (3-0) and Notre Dame (3-0).
• Conversely, the Hoosiers are 0-2 when giving up three or more goals.
• Earning the start in the second half against UK, redshirt freshman Nick Blevins saw his first career shot result in a goal.
• The Hoosiers improved to 16-0-3 in Big Ten openers with a 1-0 win at Wisconsin on Sept. 25.
• Sophomore Tommy Meyer recorded his first career point with an assist on Bruin's goal against the Badgers.
• Soffner recorded a shutout in his first career Big Ten match with the 1-0 blanking of Wisconsin.
• Indiana is averaging 13.7 shots per game, 1.13 goals per game and 5.7 shots on-goal per game.
• In tournament play this year, Indiana won the Mike Berticelli Memorial Tournament (2-0), finished second at the University of Akron Tournament (1-1) and third at the adidas/IU Credit Union Classic (0-1-1).
• A total of 3,920 fans were on hand for the season opener against St. John's on Sept. 4, a game which ended in a 0-0 double overtime tie.
SCOUTING THE PURPLE ACES
• Evansville enters Wednesday's match at 10-5-1 and is coming off a 1-0 win over Drake at home on Oct. 23. The Purple Aces have gone 2-1-1 in their last four matches.
• Tad Kreamalmeyer and Mike Luttrull are the leading goal scorers with five each, while Tom Irvin and Robby Lynch have scored four goals. Irvin is tops in points with 16, adding eight assists to his four goals.
• Phil Boerger has played all 16 matches in goal, allowing 16 goals for a 1.02 GAA. He has picked up five shutouts and recorded 62 saves in 1,415 minutes of play.
• The Purple Aces are outscoring their opponents 29-18, with 17 of their 29 goals coming in the first half. They also have a 239-203 shot advantage.
• Head coach Mike Jacobs is in his fourth season at Evansville and enters the match with a record of 38-29-4. He is assisted by Marshall Ray, Mike Miller and Mark Prizant.
SERIES HISTORY
• Indiana leads the all-time series, 21-4-3.
• The Hoosiers have won seven straight, including a 2-1 win in Bloomington in 2007 and last year's 3-2 overtime win in Evansville.
• Will Bruin scored the game-winning goal in the 94th minute last year, with Rich Balchan and Eric Alexander assisting on the score.
• That was Bruin's second goal of the match. Daniel Kelly had the other score for IU.
• Indiana has not lost a match in the series since Nov. 25, 1990 (1-0). That was an NCAA Tournament game played in Evansville.
• The Hoosiers have outscored the Purple Aces 15-3 in the last four meetings.
EVANSVILLE TIES
• Junior Andy Adlard has several ties to Evansville.
• His mother, Shelly Brand Adlard scored 1,713 points in her basketball career at UE and is still the school's all-time leading scorer.
• His father, Steve, is a former assistant soccer coach at Evansville.
DID YOU KNOW?
• Six of Indiana's seven losses have come to teams currently ranked in Soccer America's top 13 (No. 1 Akron, No. 2 Wake Forest, No. 7 UC Santa Barbara, No. 9 Louisville, No. 10 Northwestern and No. 13 Butler).
• Andy Adlard's two goals against No. 13 Kentucky marked his first career multiple-goal game.
• It was the first multiple-goal game by a Hoosier since Will Bruin had a pair of goals in a 3-2 OT win at Evansville on Sept. 30, 2008.
• Three of Adlard's four goals this season have come when he plays off the bench. And two of the four have been game winners.
• Seven of Adlard's 11 career goals have been game winners.
• Eight of Indiana's 15 matches have been one-goal affairs. IU is 4-4 in those games.
• Fifteen of Indiana's 17 goals this season have come after the halftime break
• Three of Indiana's 17 goals have come off set pieces.
• Both of Indiana's goals in Big Ten play have come between the 53rd minute and 57th minute.
• Sophomore Tommy Meyer and his father, Keith Meyer, are the first father-son combination to play soccer at Indiana. Meyer played for the Hoosiers in 1980 and 1982-84, winning NCAA titles in 1982 and 1983.
• Indiana played its 100th Big Ten regular season match on Sept. 25, a 1-0 win at Wisconsin. The Hoosiers have won 85 percent (82-10-9) of their Big Ten regular season matches.
GAME TIME CHANGE
• Indiana's season finale match against Penn State on Jerry Yeagley Field at Armstrong Stadium has had a time change.
• The match will now be played at 3 p.m., moving up four hours from the originally scheduled time of 7 p.m.
• The move was made so the match would not interfere with the IU Hall of Fame induction ceremony that night featuring former Hoosier coach Jerry Yeagley.
HOME SWEET HOME?
• Indiana has played 10 of its 15 games away from home this season, and maybe that is a good thing since the Hoosiers' record at Armstrong Stadium currently stands at 1-3-1.
• The Hoosiers' lone victory in front of its home crowd came on Sept. 29 in a 3-0 win over then-No. 13 Kentucky.
• IU has dropped home matches to No. 3 Wake Forest, Butler and Michigan State.
• Indiana opened the year with a 0-0 tie against No. 5 St. John's.
• Meanwhile, the Hoosiers are 3-4 on opponents' fields and 3-0 in neutral site matchups.
• Both of Indiana's Big Ten victories have come on the road.
WAKE UP!
• The Hoosiers have admittedly gotten off to slow starts in matches this season and a look at the statistics backs up that claim.
• Indiana has scored just two goals in the first period, with both of those scores coming at home against Butler (Oct. 7) and Kentucky (Sept. 29).
• IU had perked up in the second half where 14 of its 17 goals have been scored. The Hoosiers have also had one game-winning score in the second overtime period.
NORTHWESTERN RECAP
• No. 25 Indiana fell behind in the 63rd minute and could not mount a comeback in a 2-0 loss at No. 12 Northwestern (9-2-4, 2-1-1) Sunday afternoon at Lakeside Field in Evanston, Ill.
• The Hoosiers fall to 7-7-1 overall, 2-2 in Big Ten play. Indiana has now gone 277:22 minutes without scoring a goal.
• "This is a very difficult loss," said head coach Mike Freitag. It is indicative of the season at this point and time. For whatever reason we have not come together as a team and we have very little time left to do that."
• Northwestern took a 1-0 lead at 62:12 when Matt Eliason corralled a free ball in the box and sent it to the lower left corner. It was the first goal scored by Northwestern against Indiana since the 2005 season when the teams played to a 1-1 tie.
• The Wildcats put the match out of reach with their second goal in the 79th minute as Oliver Kupe scored his second goal of the season.
• The Hoosiers did not record a shot in the second half until 12:30 remaining when Eric Alexander sent a shot high. With 10 minutes to play freshman Kevin Bick sent a ball off the NU cross bar.
• With sophomore Will Bruin ineligible for this contest after receiving a red card in the last match, redshirt freshman Tim Wylie earned his first career start, pairing up top with senior Darren Yeagle.
• Alexander took a shot in the 11th minute that Northwestern goalkeeper Misha Rosenthal came out to block, The ball rolled over to the back post but no Hoosier was in position to put home the rebound.
• Neil Wilmarth, who came on for the Hoosiers mid-way in the first half, out-jumped his opponent and got his head on the end of an Andy Adlard corner kick in the 33rd minute but an IU defender was there for the team save.
• Indiana was lucky to survive a pair of dangerous chances by the Wildcats in the first half. Goalkeeper Luis Soffner tried to one-hand a serve that bounced over his head, but he was able to cover the ball before an NU player could get a foot on it. With less than 10 minutes to play, a deflected header off a corner kick bounced off the cross bar and out of play to keep Northwestern scoreless.
• The Hoosiers had an 8-2 advantage in shots at the half, limiting NU to just one on-goal look. Yeagle and Kevin Bick led IU with two attempts each.
BIG TEN DOMINATION
• Since the Big Ten began sponsoring men's soccer in 1991, the Hoosier have dominated the league.
• The Hoosiers are 82-12-9 in regular season matches, tallying nearly 30 more victories than second-place team Penn State (54).
• Indiana has never lost in its Big Ten opener, going 16-0-3 in those matches.
• IU has won 11 Big Ten tournament titles, sharing the 1995 crown with Wisconsin.
• Indiana has also been crowned regular season champion 13 times, including nine-straight seasons from 1996-2004. IU won back-to-back regular season titles in 2006 and 2007.
• Indiana has been the league's goals-against average leader in 15 of 18 seasons, including 2007 when the Hoosiers allowed just two goals in six matches for a 0.31 GAA.
• IU had a league-record 10 Big Ten Players of the Year, including two of the last four seasons.
• The Hoosiers have also boasted the Freshman of the Year three of the last four years, with Will Bruin taking the award in 2008.
NCAA RPI RANKINGS RELEASED
• The NCAA has released its second RPI rankings of the season for men's soccer and the Hoosiers are in the No. 7 spot.
• Indiana was No. 17 in the first rankings on Oct. 13.
• Out of the seven Big Ten teams, five are ranked in the top 25 with Indiana joined by No. 4 Northwestern, No. 16 Penn State, No. 23 Michigan State and No. 24 Ohio State.
• The Rating Percentage Index is a mathematical measurement of a team's strength.
• The NCAA tournament selection committee uses it to help determine which teams will receive at-large bids to the NCAA Tournament. The formula consists of a team's winning percentage against Division I opponents (25 percent), the opponents' strength of schedule (50 percent) and the opponents' opponents' strength of schedule (25 percent).
• The rankings for Indiana's opponents to date are as follows: No. 1 Wake Forest, No. 3 Akron, No. 4 Northwestern, No. 13 Butler, No. 23 Michigan State, No. 27 St. John's, No. 28 New Mexico, No. 33 Wisconsin, No. 36 Notre Dame, No. 42 Michigan, No. 44 Louisville, No. 48 UC Santa Barbara, No. 67 Kentucky, No. 142 FIU, No. 154 Seattle.
INDIANA IN THE BIG TEN
• Here is where the Hoosiers sit in the latest Big Ten rankings:
INDIVIDUAL
Shots:
T-2. Will Bruin - 56
T-8. Andy Adlard - 38
Points:
T-9. Will Bruin - 15
Goals
7. Will Bruin - 6
Game-Winning Goals
T-3. Will Bruin - 3
Goals-Against Average
5. Luis Soffner - 1.05
Shutouts
T-2. Luis Soffner - 6
TEAM
Shots
4. Indiana- 206
Goals
5. Indiana- 17
Assists
6. Indiana- 14
Goals Allowed
6. Indiana- 18
Saves
7. Indiana- 44
Goals-Against Average
6. Indiana- 1.15
Shutouts
T-4. Indiana- 6
Fouls
7. Indiana-124
