Indiana University Athletics
Hoosiers Visit Kentucky for Mid-Week Match
10/19/2010 12:00:00 AM | Men's Soccer
Oct. 19, 2010
NR/No. 16 Indiana at Kentucky - Match Notes 
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NR/NO. 16 INDIANA (7-4-1) at KENTUCKY (4-6-3)
October 20 • 7 p.m. ET
UK Soccer Complex
Lexington, Ky.
All-Time Series: Indiana leads, 21-1-2
Last Meeting: 3-0 Indiana win on Sept. 29, 2009
Last Meeting in Lexington: 4-0 Indiana win on Oct. 31, 2007
Radio: IUHoosiers.com
Play-By-Play: Mike Glasscott
SETTING THE SCENE
• Indiana kicks off a two-match road swing with a trip to non-conference foe Kentucky on Wednesday night.
• The Hoosiers bring a two-match win streak into Lexington and are 5-1-1 in their last seven matches.
• Indiana is 9-0-1 in Lexington vs. the Wildcats.
• The Hoosiers are 5-4 in nonconference games but are 3-1 in road matches this season.
• Alec Purdie is currently riding the hot foot with a goal in each of the last two matches.
• Fans can listen to the action on IUHoosiers.com with Mike Glasscott on the call.
NEWS AND NOTES
• The Hoosiers took over sole possession of first place in the Big Ten with a 2-1 win over No. 25 Michigan on Saturday night.
• Junior midfielder Alec Purdie got the scoring started in the 29th minute, his third goal of the season.
• The score came off a corner kick from senior midfielder Andy Adlard, IU's first set piece score this season.
• Purdie has tallied a goal in each of IU's last two matches.
• Adlard is tied for the team lead with five assists.
• Sophomore defender Caleb Konstanski tallied his first career goal, and it was the game winner, with a header in the 32nd minute.
• Freshman midfielder Harrison Petts had the assist on the play, his fifth of the season.
• Konstanski nearly had his second career score in the second half when his header bounced off the crossbar.
• It was the second time in as many matches that Indiana jumped out to a 2-0 first-half lead on its opponent.
• Indiana improved to 14-1-1 vs. Michigan and tallied its 85th Big Ten victory.
• The Hoosiers are now 5-1 against ranked teams this year.
• Indiana came away with a big road win on Oct. 9 with a 3-2 victory at No. 11 Creighton, 3-2.
• Junior Will Bruin jumped all over the BlueJays with two goals within a two-minute span to give the Hoosiers a 2-0 lead.
• Bruin was named the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) Player of the Week for the first time in his career on Oct. 12.
• Purdie scored the game-winning goal in the 67th minute, his second goal of the year and first game winner.
• Bruin put home his eighth goal of the season for Indiana's lone score in a 2-1 loss to No. 22 Notre Dame on Oct. 9.
• Adlard assisted on the goal.
• Petts salvaged a 1-1 tie for Indiana vs. Wisconsin on Oct. 3 with his second goal of the season coming in the 52nd minute.
• Junior Chris Estridge, starting in the midfield, picked up his first assist of the season on the play.
• Bruin scored the game winning goal for the second time in as many matches as the Hoosiers defeated in-state foe Evansville 1-0 on Sept. 29.
• Petts picked up his third assist of the season on the play, while senior Daniel Kelly recorded his first assist of the year.
• Sophomore goalkeeper Luis Soffner recorded his second shutout of the season.
• It was Indiana's first victory this year when scoring just one goal.
• The Hoosiers took a thrilling 3-2 win at No. 20 Penn State on Sept. 24.
• Bruin scored the game-winner with 11 seconds remaining, while freshman Nikita Kotlov had a goal and two assists.
• Petts had his first career goal in the win. He also picked up an assist.
• It was Indiana's first win in State College since the 2004 season.
SCOUTING THE WILDCATS
• Kentucky is 4-6-3 on the season, most recently playing Conference USA foe Memphis to a 1-1 tie in Lexington. The Wildcats are 1-1-2 in their last four matches.
• UK is 2-2-3 in matches played at the UK Soccer Complex.
• Eight of Kentucky's 13 matches have gone to overtime, including three of its last four.
• Sam Brooks, Matt Lodge and Tyler Riggs are all tied for the team lead in goals with three each, accounting for nine of Kentucky's 12 team scores.
• Brooks has also taken a team-best 27 shots this season.
• Opponents are outscoring Kentucky by a 17-12 margin, while the Wildcats hold a 184-155 advantage in shot attempts.
• Goalkeeper Tyler Beadle has started all 13 matches, with a 1.22 GAA in 1253:17 minutes of play.
• Head coach Ian Collins is assisted by Jeff Chaney, Matt Wilkerson and Jeremy Groves.
SERIES HISTORY
• Indiana leads the all-time series, 21-1-2.
• The Hoosiers are 3-0-2 in the last five meetings, including a 3-0 victory in Bloomington in 2009.
• Indiana has outscored Kentucky 9-1 in those five games.
• Andy Adlard had a pair of goals in the victory, along with a score from Nick Blevins.
BRUIN HITS DOUBLE DIGITS
• Will Bruin tallied his ninth and 10th goals of the season in a 3-2 win at No. 11 Creighton on Oct. 9, setting a new career high for single-season goals.
• Bruin's previous best was nine goals scored in 2009.
• Bruin is the first Hoosier to hit the double-digit mark in goals scored in a season since Jacob Peterson had 12 goals in 2005.
• Bruin now has 25 career goals in 58 games played. He has started every match played in his career.
DID YOU KNOW?
• Seven of Will Bruin's 10 goals this season have come vs. ranked opponents.
• More than 50 percent (30/58) of Bruin's shots have been on frame.
• Indiana's defense held Michigan to just 12 shots, only two of which were on frame. That is well below the Wolverine's average of 21.5 shots per game and 8.0 shots on-goal per game.
• After tonight, three of Indiana's final four opponents are ranked in the top 25.
• The combined record of the seven teams Indiana has beaten this season is 48-27-14.
• Nine of Indiana's 17 regular-season opponents are currently ranked in the RPI top 20.
• The Hoosiers are 1-3 in Friday night matches after taking a 3-2 win at No. 20 Penn State on Sept. 24.
• In 12 games this season, Indiana has scored 12 first-half goals. The Hoosiers tallied just four first-half goals in all of 2009.
• Indiana is outscoring its opponents 12-5 in the first 45 minutes.
• Eleven different Hoosiers have put points on the board this year with Will Bruin, Andy Adlard, Alec Purdie, Nikita Kotlov, Caleb Konstanski, Tommy Meyer, Jacob Bushue, Tim Wylie, Harrison Petts, Chris Estridge and Daniel Kelly each putting up at least a point.
• Head Coach Todd Yeagley's first victory at the helm of the Hoosier program was a big one as the Hoosiers posted a 5-1 victory over No. 5 UCLA on Sept. 5.
• Sixteen of the 30 players on the roster hail from the state of Indiana, including two from right here in Bloomington.
• Adlard's goal vs. UMass on Sept. 19 was the game winner, making 10 of Adlard's 15 career goals game winners.
• Adlard has three game-winning goals this season.
• Head coach Todd Yeagley and assistant coaches Brian Maisonneuve, Ernie Yarborough and Chris Munroe all played collegiately at Indiana.
• Yeagley, Maisonneuve and Yarborough were in fact all teammates from 1992-94.
• Junior 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, 2009 a 1-0 win at Wisconsin. The Hoosiers have won 83 percent (84-13-9) of their Big Ten regular season matches.
MICHIGAN RECAP
•A pair of quick strikes in the first half were all the 18th-ranked Indiana men's soccer team needed as the Hoosiers took a 2-1 victory over No. 25 Michigan (8-3-3, 2-2 Big Ten) Saturday night on Jerry Yeagley Field at Armstrong Stadium.
• The all-important Big Ten victory puts the Hoosiers at 2-0-1 in conference action with three league matches remaining. Indiana is the only team in the Big Ten without a conference loss, and improves to 7-4-1 overall.
• Junior midfielder Alec Purdie scored his second goal in as many matches and this third of the season, putting home a corner kick from senior Andy Adlard at 28:51. Indiana won the corner when freshman midfielder Harrison Petts had his shot deflected over the goal line, setting up Adlard's set piece. Adlard served the ball into the mixer, and Purdie beat out the Michigan defenders in the scrum for the goal. It marks Indiana's first goal off a set piece this season.
• Purdie's play off the bench was key for the Hoosiers as his runs down the left side kept the Wolverines on their toes.
• Just over three minutes later it was sophomore defender Caleb Konstanski's turn to get on the stat sheet with his first career goal in the 32nd minute. With Petts bringing the ball up the left wing, the central defender made a run up the middle. Petts saw the run and lofted a ball into the center of the box, which Konstanski headed past Michigan goalkeeper Chris Blaise for what would be the game-winning goal.
• "We are confident, and we are first in the Big Ten, which is where we want to be," Konstanski said. "We are coming together at the right time in the season."
• "In the first half we were the better side and really were taking it to them," said head coach Todd Yeagley. "You have to reward yourself for that type of play (with goals). I liked that coming out of the half they wanted to get that third, fourth goal. We had some very good attacking opportunities in the first 20 minutes of the second half. To create those quality chances, we will put the ball in the net at some point."
• The Hoosiers came out on the attack in the first half and took control of the possession game a few minutes into play. The first scoring threat of the game came off the foot of junior forward Will Bruin as he took on Blaise 1v1 with the goalkeeper going down to his left for the save. Bruin was held scoreless on the night but was wreaking havoc on the Michigan defense all night.
• Indiana continued to take it to Michigan in the second half, coming out with the purpose of putting home a third goal. Just 38 seconds in freshman midfielder Nikita Kotlov broke free on the attack but pushed the shot wide right. Five minutes into the half, Purdie played a beautiful ball to the back post where Kotlov was making a run, but his service fell just behind Kotlov and rolled out for a goal kick.
• A mental lapse by the Hoosiers provided the lone goal of the night for Michigan as Soony Saad popped in a free kick at 56:35 for his 11th goal of the season. After a foul was called outside the box, Indiana was in the midst of setting its wall when Saad played the ball in over an unsuspecting Luis Soffner for the score.
• Soffner went untested in the net for most of the night, need to make just one save for his sixth victory of the season between the pipes.
• "We are still trying to eliminate some of the mistakes we are making," Yeagley said. "I thought we played well, but we got away with some careless mistakes in the back in the first half tonight."
• Konstanski nearly made it a two-goal match again in the 60th minute when he got on the end off yet another serve from Petts, but this time put his offering off the cross bar. In the 76th minute, Indiana served up one of its seven corner kicks as Petts served in a ball that was punched out by Blaise. Senior defender Daniel Kelly corralled the rebound and took a shot that was just off the mark. Bruin made a great solo run with under nine minutes left in the match with the shot trailing wide left.
RPI RELEASED-WEEK 2
• In the second release of the RPI, Indiana jumped up eight spots to No. 14
• The Hoosiers rank third in the Big Ten, behind No. 7 Michigan State and No. 8 Ohio State.
• The rest of the Big Ten includes No. 20 Penn State, No. 43 Michigan, No. 89 Northwestern and No. 141 Wisconsin.
• In addition to the Big Ten teams, IU's opponents are No. 9 Creighton, No. 10 Butler, No. 13 California, No. 16 UCLA, No. 17 Notre Dame, No. 19 Brown, No. 69 Cal Poly, No 71 Drake, No. 81 Evansville, No. 98 UMass, and No. 108 Kentucky.
• The Hoosiers were No. 22 in the initial rankings released on Oct. 12.
• The RPI will be released every Tuesday through the end of the regular season.
HOOSIERS IN THE NATIONAL POLLS
• Indiana moved up two spots in the Soccer America top-25, coming in at No. 16.
• The Hoosiers are receiving 14 votes in the NSCAA/HendricksCars.com National Coaches Poll, five spots out of the top 25. Two Big Ten teams are ranked in the top 25 with No. 16 Michigan State and No. 25 Ohio State. Penn State and Michigan are also receiving votes.
• Indiana moved up five spots to No. 20 in the College Soccer News poll.
• Indiana moved up one place to No. 22 in the Soccer Times poll.
FRESHMEN TO THE RESCUE
• The freshmen duo of Harrison Petts and Nikita Kotlov have been key to the Hoosiers' success this season.
• The two have accounted for 20 percent of Indiana's goals this season and 36 percent of the team's assists .
• Petts has put up at least one point in five of Indiana's last six matches, where the Hoosiers have gone 4-1-1.
• He had a goal and an assist in a thrilling 3-2 win at Penn State on Sept. 24, accounting for his first career score.
• Against Evansville on Sept. 29 he assisted on Will Bruin's game-winning goal in the 30th minute.
• It was Petts' goal in the 52nd minute that salvaged a 1-1 tie for Indiana vs. Wisconsin on Oct. 3.
• He also assisted on Caleb Konstanski's game-winning goal vs. Michigan on Oct. 16.
• Petts has started all 12 matches and is tied for third on the team in scoring with nine points (2g, 5a). He has 27 shots, 11 of which are on frame.
• Fellow freshman Nikita Kotlov has also come through for IU and is fifth in scoring with eight points (2g, 4a).
• Kotlov had a goal and two assists in the 3-2 win at Penn State.
• His first career goal came in a 2-0 win over No. 22 Drake on Sept. 12, and his first assist came in a 5-1 win over No. 5 UCLA.
NCAA STATISTICS (as of 10/11)
• Junior forward Will Bruin is ranked among the top-15 in several NCAA Division I categories.
• Bruin is tied for 12th in points per game (1.75), tied for 12th in total points (21), tied for sixth in goals per game (0.83) and tied for fourth in total goals (10).
EVEN STEVEN
• The Hoosiers have posted nearly identical stats in first and second half play this season, showing a consistency not seen in recent years.
• Indiana's 22 goals this season have been split nearly equally with 12 coming in the first half and 10 in the second half.
• The Hoosiers have taken 192 shots: 98 in the first half and 89 in the second half. Three shots have come in the first OT period, and two in the second.
• Of its 67 corner kicks, 35 were taken in the first half and 29 in the second half.
• The Hoosiers are even fairly 50/50 in fouls with 48 in the first half and 56 in the second.
OHIO STATE MATCH PICKED UP BY BIG TEN NETWORK
• The Indiana-Ohio State match on Nov. 7 at 1 p.m. ET in Columbus, Ohio has been selected by the Big Ten Network as its wildcard match for that weekend.
• The game will air on a tape-delay basis Sunday, Nov. 7 at 7 p.m. ET.
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