Indiana University Athletics
No. 14 Indiana Travels to Michigan
10/9/2009 12:00:00 AM | Men's Soccer
Oct. 9, 2009
No. 14 Indiana at Michigan- Match Notes 
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NO. 14/15 INDIANA (5-3-1, 1-0) at MICHIGAN (8-2-1, 1-1)
October 10, 2009 • 3:30 p.m. ET
U-M Soccer Complex
Ann Arbor Mich.
All-Time Series: Indiana leads, 12-1-1
Last Meeting: IU won, 3-0 on Nov. 29, 2008 in Bloomington, Ind.
Last Meeting in Ann Arbor: IU won, 3-2 in OT on Sept. 29, 2007
Television: Big Ten Network (Tape Delay- 9 p.m. ET)
Play-by-Play: Dean Linke
Color: Richard Broad
SETTING THE SCENE
• Indiana looks to break a two-game losing stretch as it returns to Big Ten play at Michigan on Saturday, Oct. 10 in Ann Arbor.
• The Hoosiers are 4-2 away from home this season.
• Indiana has never lost in Ann Arbor, holding a 4-0 record.
• IU has outscored Michigan 10-3 in games played in Ann Arbor.
• The teams met three times last year, with IU taking victories in the Big Ten Tournament (1-0) and NCAA Tournament (3-0).
NEWS AND NOTES
• Indiana has lost back-to-back matches for the first time this season and the first time since 2007 when it dropped three straight.
• IU has lost back-to-back games just 14 times in its 37-year history.
• The Butler match was the first time this season the Hoosiers lost when scoring first (4-1).
• Darren 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.
• Will Bruin assisted on the goal and increased his team scoring lead to 13 points (5g, 3a).
• Bruin has scored at least one point in six of 10 matches.
• Bloomington South product Caleb Konstanski made his second start of the season in the match against Butler.
• Including Saturday's match at Michigan, IU will play four of its next five on the road before finishing the season with three straight home matches.
• Indiana is 1-3-1 against top-25 teams this season.
• The Hoosiers are 1-1-1 in overtime games this year.
• Indiana recorded its second three-goal match of the year in a 3-0 win over No. 13 Kentucky on Sept. 29.
• IU is 2-0 when scoring 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.
• Eric Alexander has the best percentage of on-frame attempts (5 or more) with 10 of his 17 shots this season on goal (58 percent).
• Lee Hagedorn has the best percentage of all with 50 percent of his shot attempts (1 of 2) going in the net.
• Indiana is averaging 14.3 shots per game, 1.30 goals per game and 6.1 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 WOLVERINES
• Michigan is 8-2-1 on the year, most recently picking up a 3-0 win at home over Wisconsin on Oct. 4.
• The Wolverines are 1-1 in Big Ten play with a 2-0 loss at Penn State on Sept. 27. They are 1-1-1 in their last three matches, including a tie at Oakland (0-0).
• Mauro Fuzetti leads the team with eight goals and has tallied three assists for a total of 19 points. Justin Meram has six goals and six assists for 18 points.
• Ten different Michigan players have scored this year, with four posting two or more goals.
• Michigan is a perfect 5-0 at home.
• Goalkeeper Chris Blais has played in 11 matches, allowing 11 goals for a 1.03 GAA.
• Head coach Steve Burns is in his ninth season at Michigan and enters the match with a record of 98-74-19.
• He is assisted by Paul Snape and Chris Grassie.
SERIES HISTORY
• Indiana leads the all-time series, 12-1-1.
• Indiana's first loss to the Wolverines came last season in Bloomington, a 1-0 decision.
• The lone tie came in 2006, 2-2 in Bloomington.
• Two of the 14 matches in the series have gone into overtime, 2003 (2-1 Hoosiers) and 2007 (3-2 Hoosiers). Both those matches were in Ann Arbor.
• Michigan has scored five goals in the last five meetings after scoring just four goals in the previous nine meetings combined.
DID YOU KNOW?
• 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.
• Six of Indiana's 10 matches have been one-goal affairs. IU is 3-3 in those games.
• Eleven of Indiana's 13 goals this season have come after the halftime break
• Three of Indiana's 12 goals have come off set pieces.
• 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 (81-10-9) of their Big Ten regular season matches.
ADLARD NAMED BIG TEN OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
• After coming up with a pair of goals, including the game winner, in a 3-0 win over No. 13 Kentucky last week, junior Andy Adlard was named the co-Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week on Oct. 5. It is the first Big Ten weekly honor for Adlard.
• Adlard helped Indiana to its first win over a ranked opponent this season with the 3-0 win over the Wildcats on Tuesday. The Hartland, Wis., native netted two goals, including the game-winner off a header in the 30th minute. He put the game out of reach with his second score of the match and third of the season with a shot to the lower-right corner to give the Hoosiers a 2-0 advantage. On Friday at No. 11 UC Santa Barbara, Adlard led the Hoosiers with a three shots, two of which were on frame. Currently Adlard is second on the team in goals (3), total points (8) and shots (26).
USING HIS HEAD
• In the game of soccer, the focus is usually on the use of your feet. But for sophomore Will Bruin, it has been all about his head so far in 2009.
• Three of Bruin's five goals this season have been headers. Two have come off corner kicks from teammate Andy Adlard, while his third was off a free kick from Joe Tolen.
• Bruin finally used his foot to put home the game-winner against FIU on Sept. 20.
• He added another game winner with his foot in a 1-0 win at Wisconsin on Sept. 25.
BUTLER RECAP
• The Indiana men's soccer team took a 1-0 lead over Butler with less than four minutes gone off the clock but could not hang on, giving up a goal in the final minutes of regulation to sent the game to double OT where the Bulldogs came up with a 2-1 victory Wednesday night on Jerry Yeagley Field at Armstrong Stadium.
• It looked as if the Hoosiers would take this game early on as senior Darren Yeagle recorded his first goal since the 2006 season, heading home a ball from Will Bruin at the 3:19 mark. Bruin brought the ball down the right side and anticipating the service, Yeagle headed straight for the net where he headed the ball just under the cross bar.
• Ten minutes later, freshman Kevin Bick had a shot that the BU goalkeeper Fabian Knopfler saved, but the ball popped up out of his hands ad Bruin was waiting for a chance to pounce. A Butler defender quickly stepped in to thwart the scoring chance.
• It looked as if the Hoosiers had taken a 2-0 lead at 19:29 when junior Rich Balchan put the ball in the back of the net off a feed from Bick, but the offsides flag went up. Other first half opportunities included a header from Bruin that was just high, and a running shot from senior Eric Alexander that was inches wide right from pay dirt. Even a throw in from freshman Matt Wiet nearly found the back of the net as the ball bounced over Knopfler's head but took a Butler bounce and went over the cross bar and out of play.
• Indiana held a 6-2 shot advantage at the break.
• The Bulldogs came out attacking in the second half, including a header from Tyler Pollock that bounced off the cross bar, but they would not get the equalizer until 82:45. With the ball bouncing around in front of the net, Pollock got a foot on it and shot it past IU goalkeeper Luis Soffner. Butler finished with 11 shots to the Hoosiers' seven in the second half.
• With a renewed sense of urgency, it seemed as if Indiana would put one home, as it had no problems getting the ball in the box in the first overtime. With four minutes to play in the first overtime period, sophomore Alec Purdie took a shot that bounced off the hands of Knopfler.
• IU would get just one shot in the second OT before Connor Burt headed home the game-winning score at 103:33 off a corner kick.
RANKING THE HOOSIERS
• Indiana ranks among the top 25 in all five polls.
• College Soccer News dropped the Hoosiers five spots to No. 11.
• Soccer America moved IU down five spots to No. 15.
• The Hoosiers went down five spots to No. 14 in the NSCAA poll.
• Soccer Times moved the Hoosiers down seven spots to No. 14.
• Indiana is down one spot in the TopDrawerSoccer men's tournament 48 ranking to No. 12.
• Four Big Ten teams are in the Soccer America top 25 this week with No. 12 Northwestern, No. 15 Indiana, No. 18 Ohio State and No. 24 Penn State.
• Two Big Ten teams grace the NSCAA top 25 with IU at No. 14 and Northwestern at No. 21.
BIG TEN DOMINATION
• Since the Big Ten began sponsoring men's soccer in 1991, the Hoosier have dominated the league.
• The Hoosiers are 81-10-9 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.
