No. 5 Indiana Heads to Northwestern on Tuesday

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – The No. 5-ranked Indiana University men's soccer team will head to Evanston, Ill. on Tuesday to face Big Ten rival Northwestern at 8:00 p.m. ET.

Tuesday's match will be televised live nationally on BTN, with a live stream available at BTNPlus.com. Live stats are available at IUHoosiers.com.

SETTING THE SCENE
• Indiana bounced back from the team's first loss of the season, beating Sacramento State on Friday, 1-0, on a goal from Joshua Penn. GK Sean Caulfield made a career-high six saves in recording his second shutout of the season.
• Indiana is undefeated in the team's last 29 regular-season, Big Ten conference matches, posting a record of 20-0-9. IU's last league loss in the regular season came on Oct. 10, 2015 in overtime at Ohio State, 1-0.
• Last season, the Hoosiers won both the Big Ten regular season championship (15th time) and Big Ten Tournament championship (13th time) in the same season for the first time since 2006.
• Also, IU advanced to the College Cup for the second-straight year and for a NCAA-record 20th time in program history.
• Indiana earned the No. 2 overall for the 2018 NCAA Tournament, marking the 14th time in the last 16 years since the current seeding format began in 2003 that IU earned a top-16 seed.
• The berth for the Hoosiers was the team's 32nd-straight bid to the NCAA Tournament and the 43rd overall in the program's history.

NEWS AND NOTES
• The preseason honors have piled up for Indiana sophomore Jack Maher prior to the 2019 season. Maher was the only sophomore named to the MAC Hermann Trophy Watch List and also earned preseason All-America honors from both Top Drawer Soccer (Second Team) and College Soccer News (Third Team).
• Freshman Joshua Penn was named to the preseason Freshman Best XI by Top Drawer Soccer. Indiana's 2019 recruiting class was ranked No. 2 in the nation by Top Drawer Soccer.
• Maher, along with Spencer Glass and Simon Waever, were named to the Big Ten Preseason Honors List.
• In the Big Ten preseason poll conducted by the league's coaches, Indiana was picked No. 1. Maryland was tabbed second, while Michigan was picked to finish third in the conference.

SCOUTING THE WILDCATS
• The Northwestern Wildcats come into Tuesday's match with a record 5-3-1 on the season, including a mark of 1-0-1 in Big Ten play.
• NU won 3-1 at Maryland to open league action on Sept. 20 before playing Ohio State to a 0-0 draw on Saturday.
• Bardia Kimiavi leads the Wildcats with three goals on the season.
• In a preseason poll conducted of the league's head coaches, the Wildcats were picked to finish seventh in the Big Ten.

SERIES HISTORY
• In the series history dating back to 1983, the Hoosiers hold a 30-2-7 record over the Wildcats.
• IU in unbeaten in the team's last 13 matches against Northwestern, posting a mark of 7-0-6.
• Indiana is 13-1-3 all-time in Evanston.
• Last year, IU beat NU in the regular season, 2-1, and also took down the Wildcats in the Big Ten Tournament, 2-1.

REGULAR SEASON DOMINANCE
• Indiana is undefeated in the team's last 29 regular-season, Big Ten conference matches, posting a record of 20-0-9.
• IU's last league loss in the regular season came on Oct. 10, 2015 in overtime at Ohio State, 1-0.

HOOSIERS TABBED BIG TEN FAVORITES
• The Hoosiers were tabbed as the Big Ten preseason favorites in a poll conducted of the league's coaches for the second-straight year.
• Along with being named the preseason favorite, IU's Spencer Glass, Simon Waever and Jack Maher were named to the Big Ten Preseason Honors List.

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Players Mentioned

Sean Caulfield

Spencer Glass

Jack Maher

Joshua Penn

Simon Waever