Hoosiers Visit Akron in NCAA Tournament Third Round
11/25/2010 12:00:00 AM | Men's Soccer
Nov. 25, 2010
Indiana at Akron - Match Notes 
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No. 14 seed Indiana (10-7-2) at No. 3 seed Akron (19-1-1)
November 28 • 4 p.m. ET
Lee Jackson Field
Akron, Ohio
All-Time Series vs. Akron: Indiana leads, 24-4-3
Last Meeting: 1-0 Akron win on Sept. 18, 2009 in Akron.
Audio Stream: IUHoosiers.com (Mike Glasscott - Play-by-Play)
SETTING THE SCENE
• No. 14 seed Indiana faces off against No. 3 seed Akron in the third round of the NCAA Tournament.
• Indiana is making its 24th consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance and 35th overall.
• The Hoosiers have advanced to the third round of the tournament for the third straight year.
• Indiana is now 77-25-4 all time in NCAA Tournament games.
NEWS AND NOTES
• Indiana opened NCAA Tournament play with a convincing 5-1 win over No. 23 Tulsa.
• Andy Adlard, Nikita Kotlov, Harrison Petts and Will Bruin all scored, with Bruin putting up two goals and two assists.
• Joe Tolen also had two assists in the game, both on Bruin scores.
• Kotlov's goal gave Indiana a 2-0 lead at the half and was his first game-winning score of the season.
• Bruin has scored at least one goal in five of the last six matches.
• The last two players to score two goals in an NCAA Tournament game are Bruin and Jacob Peterson, who had two goals also vs. Tulsa in 2004.
• Bruin tied the school record for points in an NCAA Tournament game with six.
• His 12 shots is a new school record in an NCAA Tournamene game.
• Tolen now has five assists on the year, all on Bruin goals and all coming in the last six matches.
• It marked the ninth time in school history IU has scored five for more goals in an NCAA Tournament match.
• Seven of Indiana's 10 2010 opponents which made the NCAA Tournament field are in the third round of play.
• All five Big Ten teams which made the NCAA Tournament will be playing in today's third round.
• Indiana posted five wins over NCAA Tournament teams in 2010 (Creighton, Michigan, Michigan State, UCLA, Penn State).
• All but Creighton remain in the tournament.
• Four of those five teams are top-16 seeds, and three of the wins came on the road.
• Bruin is tied for second in the country in goals scored with 18. The top three goal scorers in the country are from the Big Ten (1-Corey Hertzog-Penn State, 20; 2-Soony Saad-Michigan, 18; Bruin).
SCOUTING THE ZIPS
• Akron earned the No. 3 seed in the NCAA Tournament with an impressive 18-1-1 record entering tournament play and capturing their fourth-straight Mid-American Conference title.
• The two blemishes on Akron's record are a 2-2 tie at Ohio State and a 2-1 loss at Cleveland State. They also played Penn State to double overtime before taking a 2-1 win.
• The Zips advanced to the third round with a 3-2 win over West Virginia and improved to 11-0 at home this season.
• Darren Mattocks had two goals in the win over West Virginian and leads the team in scoring with 17 goals. Michael Nanchoff has eight goals, six of which have come on penalty kicks.
• Darlington Nagbe and Kofi Sarkodie had seven goals each. A total of 12 different players have scored goals this year.
• Akron is outscoring its opponents 56-11, allowing just three first-half goals this season.
• Goalkeeper David Meves has started all 21 matches, allowing 11 scores for a 0.53 GAA in 1854:59 minutes. He also has 10 shutouts on the season.
• Head coach Caleb Porter is in his fifth season at Akron and enters the match with an 87-13-8 record. He is assisted by Jared Embick and Oliver Slawson.
SERIES HISTORY
• The Hoosiers and Zips have met 30 times since 1975, with IU holding a 24-4-2 advantage in the series.
• This is the fifth time the teams have met in the NCAA Tournament. Indiana is 4-0 in those meetings, the last a 3-2 overtime win in 1998.
• Indiana is 9-3 all-time in matches played in Akron, with its last win a 2-0 victory in 2006.
• Akron won the last meeting at Lee Jackson Field, 1-0 in 2009.
• As players, both head coach Todd Yeagley and assistant coaches Brian Maisonneuve and Ernie Yarborough were 4-0 against the Zips, including a 10-0 win in 1994.
• Maisonneuve had two goals in a 4-0 win in 1993. Yeagley had three goals and Maisonneuve another two in the 10-0 win in 1994.
• Akron head coach Caleb Porter was 3-0 against Akron while playing at Indiana, outscoring the Zips 16-0 in those three meetings.
• In 30 meetings Indiana has allowed just 16 goals while scoring 69.
TOLEN ON HIS TOES
• Sophomore Joe Tolen has seen his playing time increase over the last few matches and he has made the most of his opportunities.
• Over the last six games, Tolen has two goals and five assists. He entered this season with just one career assist.
• In a 3-0 win at No. 10 Michigan State, Tolen scored his first career goal and assisted on a Will Bruin score.
• Against No. 8 Butler, Tolen picked up another assist, again contributing to a Bruin goal.
• But the biggest goal of his career came on Oct. 31 against Northwestern when he scored the game winner to secure the Big Ten regular season title for Indiana.
• In the Big Ten Tournament semifinal game, Tolen assisted on Will Bruin's score less than four minutes into the match.
• He added another two assists, both on Bruin goals, in a 5-1 win over Tulsa in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
• For the season Tolen has appeared in 13 matches, making two starts including his first career start against Northwestern. He has taken seven shots, four of which have been on goal, and two of those four have hit the back of the net.
BIG TEN DOMINATION
• Since the Big Ten began sponsoring men's soccer in 1991, the Hoosier have dominated the league.
• The Hoosiers are 87-13-10 in regular season matches, tallying 30 more victories than second-place team Penn State (57).
• Indiana has never lost in its Big Ten opener, going 17-0-3 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 14 times, including nine-straight seasons from 1996-2004. IU won back-to-back regular season titles in 2006 and 2007 and claimed the 2010 crown.
• Indiana has been the league's goals-against average leader in 15 of 19 seasons, including 2007 when the Hoosiers allowed just two goals in six matches for a 0.31 GAA.
• IU had a league-record 11 Big Ten Players of the Year, including Will Bruin in 2010.
• The Hoosiers have also boasted the Freshman of the Year three of the last five years, with Bruin taking the award in 2008.
BRUIN HITS DOUBLE DIGITS
• Will Bruin continues to be a scoring machine for Indiana, recording goals No. 17 and 18 in a 5-1 win over Tulsa on Nov. 21 in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. It was his fifth multiple-goal match of the season.
• His 16th goal of the year came in a 2-1 loss to Penn State in the Big Ten Tournament.
• Numbers 14 and 15 came in a 3-2 win over Northwestern on Oct. 31.
• Bruin's 18 goals matches the most by a Hoosier this century.
• Indiana's last 20-goal scorer was Aleksey Korol in 1999.
• Bruin's 11th and 12th goals of the season came in a 3-0 win at No. 10 Michigan State. No. 13 was scored against No. 8 Butler.
• Bruin tallied his ninth and 10th goals of the season in a 3-2 win at No. 11 Creighton on Oct. 9.
• Bruin's previous best was nine goals scored in 2009.
• Bruin now has 33 career goals in 65 games played. He has started every match played in his career.
SUNDAY IS FUNDAY
• Perhaps head coach Todd Yeagley should look into rearranging the schedule to make all games Sunday affairs as Indiana is 6-2-1 when playing on Sunday this season.
• IU put a 5-1 victory up against No. 5 UCLA on Sunday, Sept. 5, and came back the next week with a 2-0 victory over No. 22 Drake on Sunday, Sept. 12. The Hoosiers also recorded a 2-1 win at UMass on Sunday, Sept. 19, a 3-0 win over No. 10 Michigan State on Oct. 24, a 3-2 victory over Northwestern on Oct. 31 and a 5-1 win over Tulsa on Nov. 21
• The only Sunday blemishes have been a 1-1 tie with Wisconsin on Oct. 3 and a 1-0 loss at Ohio State in the regular season finale on Nov. 7.
DID YOU KNOW?
• Indiana is 9-0 when scoring two or more goals this year.
• Indiana currently ranks seventh in the nation in average attendance.
• Will Bruin is the No. 2 ranked upperclassman in the TopDrawerSoccer top 100 list. Rich Balchan comes in at 96.
• Harrison Petts is ranked No. 15 on the TopDrawerSoccer Top 100 Freshman list, with Nikita Kotlov No. 23 and Jacob Bushue No. 83.
• Twelve of Will Bruin's 18 goals this season have come vs. ranked opponents.
• None of Bruin's 18 goals have come off set pieces.
• His 18 goals are the most by a Hoosier this decade, topping the previous high of 16 by Pat Noonan in 2001.
• His 41 points in the most by a Hoosier since Noonan put up 44 in 2001.
• Bruin's 101 shots this year? Most since Pat Noonan had 109 in 2001.
• It is just the fifth time in school history a player has put up 100 or more shots in a season.
• Bruin has scored two or more goals in five matches this season.
• Andy Adlard's seven assists are a new career high.
• 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.
TULSA RECAP
• The 14th-seeded Indiana men's soccer team made a statement in its second round NCAA Tournament match with a 5-1 victory over Tulsa Sunday night on Jerry Yeagley Field at Armstrong Stadium. With the win IU improves to 10-7-2, while Tulsa ends its season at 12-7-2.
• It is the most goals by Indiana in an NCAA Tournament game since a 5-0 win over VCU in 2003. Indiana has scored five or more goals nine times in NCAA Tournament play.
• "Tulsa is a very good team," said head coach Todd Yeagley. "We had a very good midfield and back line performance tonight. A lot of players of the game tonight, but certainly (Cameron Jordan and Will Bruin) were two of the best on both sides of the field.
• "(Tulsa) is a very aggressive attacking team and we knew that going into the game. They send a lot of players forward. With that lead we wanted to try and get a third(goal), which we did. And from there we had to make sure we were smart and stay disciplined."
• "We had a really good week of practice," Bruin said. "We got after it every day. Everyone was mentally clicked in and everyone had a great game. That is how you want to be playing come tournament time."
• "We were very organized," Jordan said. "With me and (Jacob) Bushue in there we were communication well and guys were stepping up early."
• Indiana came out of the gates firing, putting up seven shots in the first 14 minutes. IU nearly had its first goal of the game with a three-shot flurry in the ninth minute as a shot from junior Alec Purdie was saved by Tulsa goalkeeper Ray Clark. Junior Will Bruin got off a shot on the rebound from Clark's save, resulting in a another stop for the goalkeeper. The ball bounced out to Bruin again, who was denied a goal when a Tulsa defender cleared the ball off the line.
• The Hoosiers were finally rewarded for their offensive pressure as senior midfielder Andy Adlard gave Indiana the 1-0 lead in the 41st minute with his sixth goal of the year. Freshman Nikita Kotlov set up the play, dragging the ball down to the goal line before laying off a centering pass to Adlard, who made a run up the middle and took his shot from the penalty spot.
• Four minutes later it was Kotlov who was the goal scorer, putting in what would be the game-winning goal, the first of his career. Bruin set up the play with a shot that bounced back out to Kotlov, who slotted the ball around Clark for the score. Indiana went into the halftime break with a 15-4 shot advantage, with 12 of those shots on frame.
• Freshman Harrison Petts gave Indiana a three-goal advantage in the 52nd minute with his third scoring strike of the year. Bruin recorded his second assist of the match, playing the ball off the right side to Petts who took his shot around Clark from eight yards out.
• Tulsa struck back quickly for its only goal of the match as Ashley McInnes sent in a chip over Indiana goalkeeper Luis Soffner to cut the Hoosiers' lead to two. That woke up the Golden Hurricane attack as Indiana withstood a 10-minute period of offensive pressure but managed to keep the ball out of the net.
• After setting up two early goals, it was Bruin's turn to get in on the scoring action with his 17th and 18th goals of the season providing the final 5-1 scoreline. Number 17 came on an assist from sophomore Joe Tolen, who played the ball over to Bruin on the right resulting in a shot from 12 yards out at 72:11. The two hooked up again in the 79th minute as Tolen knocked the ball down to Bruin, who tapped in a slow roller. Tolen has assisted on five Bruin goals this year, all coming in the last six matches.
• Despite 10 shots from the Golden Hurricane in the second half, Indiana finished with a commanding 25-14 shot advantage, with 20 of those 25 shots on goal. Bruin had a season-high 12 shots, 10 of which were on goal, while Petts added five and Adlard three.
• Clark had a busy day between the pipes for Tulsa with 14 saves to go along with one team save. Soffner picked up his eighth win of the season, tallying five saves in 90 minutes of action.
RPI RELEASED-FINAL REGULAR SEASON
• In the final regular season release of the RPI, Indiana finished in the No. 12 spot, tops among Big Ten teams. That is four spots lower than its previous ranking of No. 8.
• Four Big Ten teams finished in the top 15 with No. 12 Indiana, No. 13 Penn State, No. 14 Michigan and No. 15 Michigan State. Ohio State came in at No. 20, followed by No. 93 Northwestern and No. 117 Wisconsin.
• In addition to the Big Ten teams, IU's opponents are No. 6 California, No. 8 UCLA, No. 10 Notre Dame, , No. 11 Butler, No. 22 Creighton, No. 28 Brown, No. 45 Kentucky, No. 71 Cal Poly, No. 75 Drake, No. 114 Evansville and No. 118 UMass.
• The Hoosiers were No. 22 in the initial rankings released on Oct. 12, 14th in the second release on Oct. 19, No. 8 in the third release on Oct. 26, No. 9 in the fourth release on Nov. 2 and No. 8 in the fifth release on Nov. 9.
• The RPI was released every Tuesday through the end of the regular season.
MCCARROLL NAMED TO ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT TEAM
• Indiana University men's soccer junior midfielder Tyler McCarroll (Carmel, Ind.) was named to the College Sports Information Directors of America/ESPN Academic All-District first team, CoSIDA announced on Nov. 2.
• McCarroll is a biology major at Indiana where he maintains a 3.9 GPA. This season he has appeared in nine matches, including victories over No. 10 Michigan State, No. 25 Michigan, No. 11 Creighton, No. 5 UCLA, as well as Indiana's 3-2 win Oct. 31 over Northwestern which clinched the Big Ten regular season title.
HOOSIERS IN THE NATIONAL POLLS
• Indiana dropped out of the final Soccer America poll after sitting at No. 24 the week prior.
• The Hoosiers are receiving votes in the NSCAA/HendricksCars.com National Coaches Poll.
• Indiana dropped to No. 28 in the College Soccer News poll.
• Indiana is receiving votes in the Soccer Times poll.
NCAA STATISTICS (as of 11/22)
• Junior forward Will Bruin is ranked among the top-five in several NCAA Division I categories.
• Bruin is second in points per game (2.16), second in total points (41), tied for first in goals per game (0.95), and tied for second in goals scored (18).
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 31 goals this season have been split nearly equally with 14 coming in the first half and 17 in the second half.
• The Hoosiers have taken 275 shots: 130 in the first half and 136 in the second half. Five shots have come in the first OT period, and four in the second.
• Of its 96 corner kicks, 45 were taken in the first half and 48 in the second half.
• The Hoosiers are even fairly 50/50 in fouls with 73 in the first half and 88 in the second.
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