Hoosiers Close Regular Season at Ohio State

Sophomore Joe Tolen has tallied two goals and two assists in the last three matches for Indiana.

11/4/2010 12:00:00 AM | Men's Soccer

Nov. 4, 2010

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NO. NR/15 INDIANA (9-5-2, 4-0-1) at OHIO STATE (9-5-2, 3-2-0)

November 7  1 p.m. ET
Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium
Columbus, Ohio

All-Time Series: Indiana leads, 35-3-3
Last Meeting: 4-2 win by Ohio State on Nov. 13, 2009
Last Meeting in Columbus: 3-2 win in OT by Indiana on Oct. 26, 2008

Television: Big Ten Network (Tape Delay - 7 p.m. ET)
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SETTING THE SCENE
 Coming off a come-from-behind victory which clinched the Big Ten regular season title Indiana will close out the regular season at Ohio State Sunday afternoon.
 Indiana came back from a 2-0 second-half deficit to win 3-2 thanks to a pair of goals from Will Bruin and the game winner from Joe Tolen.
 Bruin leads the Big Ten in goals scored with 15.
 The Hoosiers look to avenge a pair of losses at the hands of Ohio State in 2009.
 Indiana has the opportunity to go undefeated in Big Ten play for the first time since 2007. The Hoosiers were 4-0-2 that season.

NEWS AND NOTES
 Indiana captured its 14th Big Ten regular season title with a 3-2 win over Northwestern on Sunday.
 Indiana trailed 2-0 early in the second half, but goals from junior Will Bruin in the 53rd and 62nd minutes tied things up at 2-all.
 Sophomore Joe Tolen knocked home his first career game winning goal in the 80th minute.
 Junior goalkeeper Nate Mitchell earned his second career start and is now 2-0 on the season in between the pipes.
 It was the first time this season the Hoosiers have won when the opponent scores first.
 Bruin's 13th goal of the season was not enough in a 4-1 loss to No. 8 Butler at Armstrong Stadium on Oct. 27.
 It was just the second time in eight meetings that Indiana has lost to a ranked opponent this season.
 Indiana picked up its sixth win of the season vs. a ranked opponent with a 3-0 victory at No. 10 Michigan State on Oct. 24.
 Bruin celebrated his 21st birthday in style with two goals, including the game winner, while assisting on the third.
 Bruin was named to the Top Drawer Soccer and College Soccer News Teams of the Week.
 Tolen had the other goal, the first of his career, and assisted on Bruin's second goal of the match.
 Goalkeeper Luis Soffner recorded his third shutout of the season, two of which have come against ranked opponents.
 Soffner was named Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week for the first time in his career.
 Indiana put up 21 shots but came away with just one goal in a 1-1 tie at Kentucky on Oct. 20.
 Senior midfielder Andy Adlard scored for the Hoosiers with his third penalty kick of the year. It was his fifth goal of the year, second on the team.
 Adlard is 3-for-3 on penalty kicks this season.
 Coming in off the bench, junior midfielder/defender Chris Estridge has a season-high six shot attempts.
 Indiana was held scoreless in the first half for just the fourth time this season. IU is 1-1-2 in those games.
 The Hoosiers are 5-1 against ranked teams this year.
 The Hoosiers took over sole possession of first place in the Big Ten with a 2-1 win over No. 25 Michigan on Oct. 16.
 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 Adlard, IU's first set piece score this season.
 Purdie has tallied a goal in two of the last three 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.
 Indiana came away with a big road win on Oct. 9 with a 3-2 victory at No. 11 Creighton, 3-2.
 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.

SCOUTING THE BUCKEYES
 Ohio State enters the game with a 9-5-2 overall record and a 3-2 mark in Big Ten play.
 The Buckeyes are 3-1 in their last four matches with wins over Valparaiso, Oakland and Wisconsin.
 Ohio State also has a 2-1 win over then-No. 11 Michigan State and played No. 1 Akron (2-2) and No. 8 Louisville (0-0) to ties.
 Konrad Warzycha is the team's leading scorer with seven goals on the year. Chris Hegngi and Austin McAnena have three goals each.
 Goalkeeper Matt Lampson has started all 16 matches, allowing 12 goals in 1492 minutes for a 0.72 GAA.
 The Buckeyes are outscoring their opponents 18-12 and have outshot their competitors by a 220-197 margin.
 Ohio State is led by head coach John Bluem, with assistants Frank Speth and Taly Goode.

SERIES HISTORY
 Indiana holds a 35-3-3 record in the series dating back to the first season of varsity play in 1973.
 Two of IU's three losses in the series came last year, a 1-0 overtime loss in the regular season and a 4-2 loss in the semifinals of the Big Ten Tournament. Andy Adlard and Will Bruin had the scores for IU.
 The last meeting in Columbus came in 2008, a 3-2 overtime win for IU.  Andy Adlard had the game winner in that match with a free kick in the 92nd minute.
 The teams are 2-2-2 in the last six meetings, including a pair of double overtime scoreless matches in 2007. IU won both meetings in 2008, OSU won both meetings in 2009.

HIT THE ROAD, JACK
 For Indiana, the road has been a much kinder place to play in 2010.
 The Hoosiers are 4-1-1 in true road matches and 5-2-1 in all matches played away from Armstrong Stadium.
 Indiana is 4-0-1 in its last five games away from Bloomington, including wins at Penn State, Creighton and Michigan State.
 In contrast, the Hoosiers won four of eight home matches, going 4-3-1.

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 three games, Tolen has two goals and two 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.
 For the season Tolen has appeared in 10 matches, making 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 87-12-10 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 have claimed the 2010 crown.
 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.

BRUIN HITS DOUBLE DIGITS
 Will Bruin continues to be a scoring machine for Indiana, recording his 14th and 15th goals of the season in a 3-2 win over Northwestern on Oct. 31.
 It was Bruins' fourth multiple-goal game of the season.
 Bruin's 15 goals is the most by a Hoosier in a season since Pat Noonan scored 16 in 2001.
 Noonan has the top single-season goal performance of the 2000s for Indiana with 16 in 2001. 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 30 career goals in 62 games played. He has started every match played in his career.

DID YOU KNOW?
 Indiana currently ranks seventh in the nation in average attendance.
 Ten of Will Bruin's 15 goals this season have come vs. ranked opponents.
 Indiana was the first team to win on Michigan State's home field in 2010.
 The Hoosier defense was just the second team to hold the high-scoring Spartans scoreless this season.
 Joe Tolen has six points in the last three games. He entered the 2010 season with just one career point.
 Indiana's defense held Michigan to just 12 shots, only two of which were on frame. That was well below the Wolverine's average of 21.5 shots per game and 8.0 shots on-goal per game.
 Nine of Indiana's 17 regular-season opponents are currently ranked in the RPI top 25, with three of the nine in the top 10.
 In 15 games this season, Indiana has scored 13 first-half goals. The Hoosiers tallied just four first-half goals in all of 2009.
 Twelve 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, Joe Tolen 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.
 Ten of Andy Adlard's 17 career goals have been game winners.
 Adlard has three game-winning goals this season.

NORTHWESTERN RECAP
 Staring at a 2-0 deficit just 17 seconds into the second half of play, the Indiana men's soccer team responded with three unanswered goals for a 3-2 victory over Northwestern (8-6-2, 2-2-1 Big Ten) Sunday night on Jerry Yeagley Field at Armstrong Stadium. With the win the Hoosiers clinch the Big Ten regular season title and the No. 1 seed at the Big Ten Tournament Nov. 11-14 in State College, Pa.
 "Tonight was very special," said head coach Todd Yeagley. "To be down 2-0 early in the second half, this group never gave up and we were playing some of our best soccer that last 30 minutes and really had Northwestern on its heels. We played with passion and made plays, which is what we talked about at the half."
 Junior Will Bruin got the Hoosiers (9-5-2, 4-0-1 Big Ten) on the scoreboard at 52:29 with his 14th goal of the season with the assist going to senior Andy Adlard. Adlard had the ball deep on the right side and put it into the box where it touched off a Northwestern defender. It immediately landed at Bruin, who juggled it twice before knocking it straight down the middle to cut the deficit to one.
 Not even 10 minutes later it was again Bruin with the equalizing score to put the Hoosiers right back into contention. This time it was Alec Purdie serving up the ball to the streaking forward, who sent in a low ball to the lower left to put Northwestern on its heels.
 Bruin's 15 goals on the season are the most by a Hoosier since Pat Noonan scored 16 in 2001.
 It was sophomore Joe Tolen who became the hero of the game with his first career game-winning score coming at 79:48. Bruin knocked the ball down at about 20 yards out and played it on to 12 who took a screaming shot from distance that Northwestern goalkeeper Jonathan Harris had no chance of stopping. Tolen, who earned his first career start today, has been a spark for Indiana offensively with two goals and two assists over the last three matches.
 The win marked the first time this season that Indiana has come back to win when the opposing team scores first. Northwestern struck first at 40:57. Matt Eliason sent in a long throw from in front of the Northwestern bench that was flicked on by Cody Stanley to Connor Holloway. Holloway hit a low roller from a few yards out for his first goal of the season.
 It took just 17 seconds in the second half for Northwestern to double its lead when Oliver Kupe ran under a long ball from Jack Hillgard. IU goalkeeper Nate Mitchell was out off his line and Kupe got behind him for the score.
 That woke the Hoosiers up as they began a relentless attack on the Northwestern goal which led up to the two Bruin scores in a nine-minute span. The Hoosiers had close calls with shots from Bruin and freshman Jacob Bushue. After Bruin's second goal Indiana did not back down with sophomore defender Caleb Konstanski sending one off the cross bar in the 63rd minute and having another shot saved by Harris on the 65th minute.
 The Hoosiers finished the match with 16 shots, eight of which were on frame. Three of Bruin's four shots were on target, along with two of three attempts from Adlard.
 Getting his second start in goal, Mitchell improved to 2-0 on the year and came away with several key saves for the Hoosiers to finish with a career-best six stops.
 For Indiana it is the 14th regular season title in program history and the first since 2007. Seniors Daniel Kelly, Rich Balchan and Adlard, who were honored prior to the game along with Cameron Jordan, were also part of that 2007 championship team as freshmen. 

RPI RELEASED-WEEK 4
 In the fourth release of the RPI, Indiana is now No. 9.
 Two Big Ten teams are in the top 10 with Penn State No. 8 and Indiana No. 9. Other Big Ten rankings are No. 12 Michigan State, No. 14 Ohio State, No. 30 Michigan, No. 82 Northwestern and No. 131 Wisconsin.
 In addition to the Big Ten teams, IU's opponents are No. 6 California, No. 10 Notre Dame, No. 11 Butler, No. 13 UCLA, No. 17 Creighton, No. 21 Brown, No. 60 Cal Poly, No. 67 Kentucky, No. 73 Drake, No. 99 Evansville  and No. 109 UMass.
 The Hoosiers were No. 22 in the initial rankings released on Oct. 12, 14th in the second release on Oct. 19 and No. 8 in the third release on Oct. 26.
 The RPI will be 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.
 McCarroll will now be placed on the national ballot for consideration for the ESPN Academic All-America team. Those honorees will be announced on Nov. 17.

HOOSIERS IN THE NATIONAL POLLS
 Indiana fell three spots to No. 15 in the Soccer America poll.
 The Hoosiers are receiving votes in the NSCAA/HendricksCars.com National Coaches Poll.
  Indiana remains at No. 18 in the College Soccer News poll.
 Indiana also stays at No. 18  in the Soccer Times poll and is the highest-ranked Big Ten team.

NCAA STATISTICS (as of 11/1)
 Junior forward Will Bruin is ranked among the top-five in several NCAA Division I categories.
 Bruin is second in points per game (2.06), second in total points (33), second in goals per game (0.94) and second in total goals (15).
 In addition, senior midfielder Andy Adlard is tied for 30th in assists per game (0.44) and tied for 24th in total assists (7).

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 30 goals this season have been split nearly equally with 13 coming in the first half and 17 in the second half.
 The Hoosiers have taken 253 shots: 121 in the first half and 123 in the second half. Five shots have come in the first OT period, and four in the second.
 Of its 90 corner kicks, 45 were taken in the first half and 42 in the second half.
 The Hoosiers are even fairly 50/50 in fouls with 62 in the first half and 76 in the second.

SUNDAY IS FUNDAY
 Perhaps head coach Todd Yeagley should look into rearranging the schedule to make all games Sunday affairs as Indiana is 5-0-1 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 and a 3-2 victory over Northwestern on Oct. 31.
 The only Sunday blemish is a 1-1 tie with Wisconsin on Oct. 3.