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#2 Men's Soccer vs #5 Wake Forest 8/24

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No. 2 Hoosiers Open Season at No. 5 Wake Forest

 
  BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – The No. 2-ranked Indiana University men's soccer team will open the 2018 season against No. 5 Wake Forest on Friday night at Spry Stadium in Winston-Salem, N.C.
 
Kickoff for the highly-anticipated matchup is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. ET. The match will be streamed live on ACC Network Extra through WatchESPN. Live stats for the match can be found at IUHoosiers.com.
 
SETTING THE SCENE
• The No. 2-ranked Indiana Hoosiers will open the 2018 season at No. 5 Wake Forest on Friday at Spry Stadium in Winston-Salem, N.C.
• Indiana is opening the season with a true road match for the first time since playing at Saint Louis (W, 2-1) in 2014. In road matches to begin seasons, Indiana is 8-1-2 all-time.
• The Hoosiers are unbeaten in the team's last seven season openers, posting a record of 5-0-2.
The last season-opening loss came in 2010 in double-overtime to California, 2-1.
• IU returns nine starters from 2017's team that posted a record of 18-1-6, reaching the NCAA College Cup Final. Indiana fell in double-overtime to Stanford, 1-0.
• Indiana was seeded No. 2 overall in the 2017 NCAA Tournament, marking the 13th time in the
last 15 years since the current seeding format began in 2003 that IU has earned a top-16 seed.
• The Hoosiers reached the College Cup for a NCAA-record 19th time. IU's 15 appearances in the College Cup Final is also a NCAA record.
• The berth for the Hoosiers was the team's 31st-straight bid to the NCAA Tournament and the
42nd overall in the program's history.
 
NEWS AND NOTES
• Senior D Andrew Gutman was named to the MAC Hermann Trophy Watch List for the first time in his Hoosier career. Last season, Gutman was named Second-Team All-America by the United Soccer Coaches after helping the Hoosiers lead the NCAA in shutouts (18) and goals allowed (7). The First-Team All-Big Ten and All-Midwest Region selection also netted seven goals on the year and added four assists.
• Both Gutman and sophomore GK Trey Muse earned preseason All-America accolades from both Top Drawer Soccer and College Soccer News.
• Gutman, Muse and senior MF Francesco Moore were all named to the Big Ten Preseason Honors List, as the Hoosiers were unanimously picked as the league's favorites in a poll conducted of the conference's head coaches.
 
SCOUTING THE DEMON DEACONS
• The Wake Forest Demon Deacons enter the season ranked No. 5 in the United Soccer Coaches poll after posting a record of 19-2-2 in 2017.
• Wake Forest won the team's second-consecutive ACC Tournament title last year and earned the No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament.
• After beating Columbia and Butler, the Demon Deacons lost to eventual national champion Stanford at home, 2-0, in the NCAA Tournament quarterfinals.
• WF lost seven players to the MLS last season, but were still picked to win the ACC Atlantic division.
• MF Brad Dunwell (First-Team) and F Kyle Holcomb (Freshman) were both named to preseason Best XI teams by Top Drawer Soccer.
 
SERIES HISTORY
• Friday's match between the Hoosiers and the Demon Deacons will mark the fifth time the two programs have met on the pitch, with the series tied at 2-2-0.
• In the only meeting in Winston-Salem in 2015, Wake Forest used a goal in the 88th minute from Ricky Greensfelder to beat the Hoosiers in the third round of the NCAA Tournament.
• In the four matches, IU has out-scored WF, 6-3.
 
HOOSIERS RETURN NINE STARTERS
• The Indiana Hoosiers return nine starters from the 2017 team that posted a record of 18-1-6 in 2017, reaching the College Cup Final.
• IU also returns 83 percent of the team's minutes played, 69 percent of the goals scored and 88 percent of the assists.
• Indiana's Grant Lillard signed a Homegrown Contract with the Chicago Fire, while freshman Mason Toye signed a Generation adidas deal with the MLS and was selected No. 8 overall by Minnesota United FC in the MLS SuperDraft.
 
INDIANA TABBED BIG TEN FAVORITES
• The Hoosiers were unanimously picked as the favorites in the Big Ten in a preseason poll conducted of the league's coaches.
• Along with being named the preseason favorite, IU's Andrew Gutman, Francesco Moore and Trey Muse were named to the Big Ten Preseason Honors List.
 
IU OPENS SEASON RANKED NO. 2
• After reaching the College Cup Final in 2017, the Hoosiers opened the season ranked No. 2 in the United Soccer Coaches poll.
• IU was also ranked No. 2 by College Soccer News and No. 5 by Top Drawer Soccer.
 
UP NEXT
• The No. 2-ranked Hoosiers will head to Cary, N.C. to face the No. 3 North Carolina Tar Heels on Sunday. In the eight-match history between the two storied programs, the series is tied 4-4-0.

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Let's get it on!  Rennicks up top.  Stream  // Live Stats

1    T. MUSE
5    T. MEHL
6    J. MAHER
7    T. SWARTZ
10    J. RENNICKS
12    A. PANCHOT
13    F. MOORE
14    G. DORSEY
15    A. GUTMAN
17    J. GUTJAHR
19    R. BUCKMASTER
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Ugh. What a terrible end to one of the most entertaining college soccer matches you will ever see. Honestly, our D looks as good as it ever has and gave up 2 goals as Wake converted on 2 of the 3 real opportunities they had all night which rarely if ever happens. The only guy who had an awful game was Muse in goal. Our D didn't require him to do much but the 2 times we did slip he was unable to bail us out and on 2 additional attempts almost let the ball in the net on what should of been fairly easy saves. I would never say go to Caulfield but if Muse ever has a game like this again (doubt he will) we may be in trouble. 

I honestly thought we may go 0-2 this weekend and then not lose the rest of the year. You can tell me that we play so many good tourney teams and we do but only Wake, UNC, ND, Maryland and MSU can match us pound for pound and the latter two are at home. Most tourney teams while good still are inferior (Butler and VCU are examples of this) to us and we can control those matches giving us a much higher opportunity to win although never take anything for granted. 

Tonight was such an even match that deserved to end in a tie but did not. The only thing I worry about still is no go to scorer. Tonight tells you nothing as even a top end forward would of been shut down by this Wake D but I do worry about teams at the next level (ALA Butler and VCU again) where a go to scorer can make all the difference in the world between a win and a tie.

I expect something similar Sunday where it will be an up and down game with chances few and far between for both teams and an even match that could go either way. These are honestly the most fun games to watch in terms of quality of game but also most nerve wacking as well. Than starting next week we should dominate almost everyone we play like we usually do and hopefully will have the results to show that.  

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1 hour ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

Well, certainly not the start we wanted. This schedule of ours worries me.


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It shouldn't "worry" anyone. This kind of schedule is what elite programs do. We're either a legitimate contender or we aren't.

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10 hours ago, TheWatShot said:

It shouldn't "worry" anyone. This kind of schedule is what elite programs do. We're either a legitimate contender or we aren't.

Couldn’t agree more. Elite programs face elite competition. It’s been that way since the beginning of time

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