Indiana University Athletics
Indiana Plays Host to Butler in NCAA Second Round Match
11/21/2009 12:00:00 AM | Men's Soccer
Nov. 21, 2009
Indiana vs. Butler- Match Notes 
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INDIANA (11-9-1) vs. NO. 22/NR BUTLER (14-2-2)
NCAA TOURNAMENT- SECOND ROUND
November 22, 2009 • 2:00 p.m. ET
Jerry Yeagley Field at Armstrong Stadium
Bloomington, Ind.
All-Time Series: Indiana leads, 18-2-1
Last Meeting: Butler won, 2-1 in 2OT on Oct. 7, 2009 in Bloomington.
Live Streaming: IUHoosiers.com (free)
SETTING THE SCENE
• Indiana is making its 23rd consecutive appearance in the NCAA Tournament and its 24th overall as it plays host to No. 12 seed Butler in second round Sunday afternoon.
• The Hoosiers own an all-time record of 75-24 4 in Tournament play, with an Division I-best 75 wins and .747 winning percentage.
• The Hoosiers are looking to avenge a 2-1 double overtime loss to the Bulldogs in Bloomington on Oct. 7.
• This is the fourth time the teams have met in the NCAA Tournament. Indiana is 2-1 in those matches.
• Butler's NCAA Tournament win over the Hoosiers came in 1995 (1-0 in the regional semifinal).
NEWS AND NOTES
• Indiana advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament with a 2-0 win over No. 7 Louisville on Nov. 19.
• Senior Darren Yeagle recorded his first career multiple goal game with both scores in the victory.
• Both of his goals came in the second half, giving IU 22 of its 27 goals scored in the second 45 minutes.
• Indiana is 4-2 in its last six matches.
• The Hoosiers are making a second-round NCAA Tournament appearance for the 14th straight season.
• Sophomore Will Bruin had seven of Indiana's 11 shots against the Cardinals.
• Redshirt freshman goalkeeper Luis Soffner earned his eighth shutout this season and 10th victory.
• The win over Louisville was just the fourth Indiana victory over a ranked opponent in 11 tries (4-6-1).
• Indiana's 23-straight NCAA Tournament appearances is the third longest active streak in Division I (Virginia-29; UCLA-27).
• The Hoosiers now have an all-time record of 27-4-1 in NCAA Tournament openers.
• The Hoosiers advanced to the quarterfinal of the NCAA Tournament in 2008 before falling at St. John's in overtime, 3-2.
• Indiana has made 17 College Cup appearances, most recently in 2004.
• Twelve of Indiana's 18 regular-season opponents made the 2009 NCAA Tournament field. Out of those 12, eight earned top-16 seeds.
• Indiana is not a seed in the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2002. In 2002, only the top eight teams were seeded. They moved to a 16-team seeding format in 2003.
• Indiana has scored a goal within the first four minutes seconds of the second half in three of the last four matches (48:07 vs. Ohio State; 45:40 vs. Penn State; 45:20 vs. Wisconsin).
• Andy Adlard's goal in the fifth minute against Ohio State in the Big Ten Tournament semifinals was just the fourth first-half goal for the Hoosiers this season.
• Adlard has scored a goal against the Buckeyes in three of the last four meetings.
• Will Bruin's second half goal against Ohio State in the semifinals of the Big Ten Tournament gives him a goal in two of the last three games.
• He as scored at least one point in three of the last four matches with an assist in IU's 2-1 win over Penn State on Nov. 6.
• Indiana's 2-0 win over Wisconsin in the Big Ten Tournament quarterfinals gives it an all-time record of 34-3-4 against the Badgers.
• Bruins' game-winning goal against the Badgers was his first score since Oct. 14 at Notre Dame.
• Bruin leads the team in scoring with 20 points (8g, 4a).
• Bruin currently leads the Big Ten in shots (91) and is third in game-winning goals (4).
• Redshirt freshman goalkeeper Luis Soffner is third in the Big Ten in shutouts with eight.
• Senior midfielder Eric Alexander has had an assist in each of the last three IU victories (Penn State, Wisconsin, Louisville).
• Indiana tied its season high with 22 shot attempts vs. Wisconsin (other- vs. Michigan State).
• The Hoosiers are 9-1 when scoring two or more goals.
• Will Bruin's seventh goal of the season against Wisconsin was also his fourth game winner of the year.
• Lee Hagedorn scored his third goal of the season on Nov. 6 against Penn State. That matches his career goal total heading into the 2009 season.
• Daniel Kelly's first goal of the season was also the game winner against Penn State. It was his fourth career game-winning score.
• Soffner picked up in the win in goal after coming on for an injured Nemanja Kostic in the second half.
• The Hoosiers have yet to take a penalty kick this season.
• IU is 1-3-1 in overtime contests this season.
• This is just the second time in school history that Indiana has lost nine matches in a season (12-9-1 in 1985). IU entered the NCAA Tournament that season with a record of 11-8-1.
• The Hoosiers have never had a losing Big Ten record but have finished at .500 twice (2008 and 2009).
• Indiana has scored 27 goals this season, while allowing 24 goals.
• Indiana's lowest goal total to date is 31 in 2007. Indiana has scored fewer than 40 goals just six times in 36 season, not including 2009.
• The Hoosiers snapped a 300+-minute scoreless streak with Lee Hagedorn's goal in the 68th minute for a 2-0 win over Evansville on Oct. 28.
• It was Hagedorn's first game-winning goal of the season and his second score overall.
• Nick Blevins added an insurance goal in the 81st minute, his second of the season.
• Blevins has appeared in just six matches and taken just five shots, two of which have resulted in goals.
• Freshman Matt Wiet's long throw-in set up Blevins' goal as he simply had to tap the ball in.
• Senior transfer Nemanja Kostic earned his first start in goal against Evansville and picked up the shutout, making just one save in 90 minutes of action
• Kostic made his first career appearance for Indiana in the match at Louisville on Oct. 21, playing the final 45 minutes between the pipes.
• 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 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.
• 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 five goals this year have come when he plays off the bench.
• 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.
• 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 0-3 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 14.2 shots per game, 1.25 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 BULLDOGS
• Butler is 14-2-2 on the season and earned the No. 12 seed and a first round bye into the 2009 NCAA Tournament.
• This is Butler's first NCAA Championship appearance since 2001 and its fifth overall. It is 2-4-1 all time in NCAA Men's Soccer Championship action.
• Boris Gatzky leads the offense with seven goals and seven assists for 21 points. Julian Cardona has six goals and three assists on the year.
• In all, six different players have scored two or more goals in 2009.
• Butler has scored 29 goals this season while allowing 11. The Bulldogs have outscored opponents 21-5 in the second half.
• Fabian Knopfler has played 14 matches in goal, allowing nine scores in 1281:26 for a 0.63 GAA.
• Head coach Kelly Findley is in his fourth season at Butler.
• He is assisted by David Costa, Steve Cox and Bryce Cooper.
SERIES HISTORY
• Indiana leads the series, 18-2-1. The series began in 1991 with a 5-0 Indiana victory in Indianapolis.
• Butler won its second in the series with a 2-1 2OT win on Oct. 7 of this year.
• Both of IU's losses to Butler have been in Bloomington.
• The Hoosiers have won five of the last six against Butler.
• IU's only other loss came in 1995, a 1-0 defeat in Bloomington in an NCAA Tournament game.
• Indiana has outscored the Bulldogs 17-4 over the last six meetings.
• Darren Yeagle has the Hoosiers lone goal in the regular season meeting, scoring just three minutes into the first half.
• Daniel Kelly scored the game-winning goal against the Bulldogs last year just 11 seconds into the match. Neil Wilmarth added an insurance goal in the 67th minute.
• Lee Hagedorn and Eric Alexander provided the goals in a 2-0 win in Bloomington in 2007.
LAST TIME THESE TWO TEAMS MET...
• 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 on Oct. 7 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 looked 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.
INDIANA vs. HORIZON LEAGUE
• Indiana is 58-7-3 against teams from the Horizon League. Teams in the Horizon League that play men's soccer are Butler, Cleveland State, Detroit, UW Green Bay, Loyola (Ill.), UIC, Valparaiso, Wright State and UW-Milwaukee.
• IU is 18-2-1 against Butler, 15-5-1 against Cleveland State, 4-0 against UW Green Bay, 4-0 against UIC and 17-0-1 against UW Milwaukee.
DID YOU KNOW?
• Five of Indiana's nine losses have come to teams ranked in Soccer American's final poll (No. 1 Akron, No. 3 Wake Forest, No. 8 Ohio State, No. 12 UC Santa Barbara, No. 14 Louisville).
• Andy Adlard's two goals against No. 13 Kentucky marked his first career multiple-goal game.
• It was the second multiple-goal game for a Hoosier in a three-game span. Will Bruin had a pair of goals in a 2-1 OT win over Florida International on Sept. 20.
• Three of Adlard's five goals this season have come when he plays off the bench. And two of the five have been game winners.
• Seven of Adlard's 12 career goals have been game winners.
• 10 of Indiana's 21 matches have been one-goal affairs. IU is 5-5 in those games.
• Twenty-three of Indiana's 27 goals this season have come after the halftime break
• Four of Indiana's 27 goals have come off set pieces, and one has come off a throw-in.
• 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 83 percent (83-13-9) of their Big Ten regular season matches.
SARKODIE NAMED TO ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICA TEAM
• Indiana University senior defender Ofori Sarkodie was named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America third team, the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) announced on Nov. 18.
• This is the sixth-straight season that the Hoosiers have had an Academic All-American as Sarkodie joins Danny O'Rourke (2004), Chris Munroe (2005) and Chay Cain (2006-08).
• Sarkodie is an exercise science major where he maintains a 3.5+ GPA. He is currently working on a pre-med track with plans to possibly attend medical school or become a physician's assistant in the future.
• On the field Sarkodie has started all 20 games played at defender this season and helped lead the Hoosiers to nine shutouts and an 11-9-1 record.
• Sarkodie was one of three Big Ten players honored, joining Penn State's Jason Yeisley (first team) and Northwestern's Matt Eliason (second team). In addition, Sarkodie's younger brother Kofi, a sophomore at the University of Akron, was a first-team selection.
