No. 22 Indiana Hosts Rutgers on Sunday

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – The No. 22 Indiana Hoosiers will host Big Ten rival Rutgers on Sunday afternoon at Jerry Yeagley Field at Bill Armstrong Stadium at 3 p.m. The match will be broadcast live on the Big Ten Network and online on BTN2GO.

Sunday, Sept. 20
Rutgers (2-2-1, 0-1-1) vs. No. 22 Indiana (3-2-1, 0-1-0)
3:30 p.m. ET • Armstrong Stadium
Coverage: Big Ten Network • BTN2GO • Live Stats

SETTING THE SCENE
• The Hoosiers will look to even the team's Big Ten conference record at 1-1-0 with a victory over the Rutgers Scarlet Knights on Sunday afternoon.
• This past Wednesday, the Hoosiers tied at in-state foe Butler, 2-2. IU took a 2-0 lead in to halftime, but the Bulldogs answered with a pair of second-half goals in front of a crowd of 4,411 at the Butler Bowl.
• Last week, the Hoosiers opened up Big Ten play on the road at Penn State, falling to the Nittany Lions, 1-0, in a hard-fought match. The loss was just the second in Big Ten openers in program history for the Hoosiers.
• The Hoosiers added two wins to their record at the Mike Bertecelli Memorial Tournament. Indiana rallied from an early deficit for a 2-1 win over UAB, then followed that with a 2-0 shutout against No. 24 South Florida.

NEWS AND NOTES
• Femi Hollinger-Janzen was named one of 30 candidates for the Senior CLASS Award. From the list of 30 candidates, a national media committee will select ten finalists for the 2015 Senior CLASS Award in October.
• Indiana sports one of the nation's youngest rosters in 2015 with 20 underclassmen on the team. The Hoosiers are tied for the ninth-youngest team in the country and rank as the youngest squad in the Big Ten.
• Despite the youth, Indiana returns 21 players from last year's roster, including 19 letterwinners from a year ago.

SCOUTING THE SCARLET KNIGHTS
• Rutgers enters Sunday's match with the Hoosiers with an overall record of 2-2-1 on the season and a 0-1-0 mark in conference play.
• The Scarlet Knights opened the year with wins over Siena and Colgate, before falling to Syracuse on the road and Wisconsin at home in the team's league opener.
• This past Wednesday, Rutgers traveled to Monmouth and came away with a 2-2 tie.
• Prior to the season, the Scarlet Knights were picked to finish eighth in the Big Ten in a poll conducted of the conference's head coaches.

SERIES HISTORY
• Indiana enters Sunday's match with Rutgers leading the all-time series, 6-1-1, that dates back to 1993.
• After dropping the first match between the two schools, IU hasn't lost to the Scarlet Knights in the last seven matches.
• Last season, Indiana beat Rutgers on the road, 2-1, with Femi Hollinger-Janzen and Tanner Thompson each netting a goal for the Hoosiers in the win.

BUCKMASTER VS. BUTLER
• Freshman Rece Buckmaster made the most of his first collegiate start at Butler on Sept. 16, scoring his first career goal.
• Scoring goals is not new to Buckmaster, who helped lead Canterbury to a pair of state titles. The Auburn, Ind., native had a goal and an assist in the 2012 IHSAA state title game.

BIG TEN DOMINATION
• The Hoosiers are 94-24-13 in regular season matches, 26 more victories than the next closest team (Penn State)
• IU has won 12 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 re-claimed the regular season crown in 2010.

UP NEXT
• The Hoosiers will host in-state foe Evansville at Jerry Yeagley Field at Armstrong Stadium on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.
• Live stats for the match can be found at IUHoosiers.com

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Players Mentioned

Rece Buckmaster

Femi Hollinger-Janzen

Tanner Thompson

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