#IUMS vs Notre Dame - 7 PM/BTN

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The No. 4-ranked Indiana University men's soccer team will host No. 10 Notre Dame on Tuesday, Sept. 17 at 7:00 p.m. ET at Jerry Yeagley Field at Bill Armstrong Stadium in Bloomington, Ind. Following the match, will feature the program's annual Fireworks Night.

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SCOUTING THE FIGHTING IRISH
• The Notre Dame Fighting Irish come in to Tuesday's match with the Hoosiers with an overall record of 3-1-0 on the season. After posting three-straight victories to open the year, UND lost the team's ACC opener at home to Clemson on Sept. 13, 4-2.
• The Fighting Irish are ranked No. 10 in the latest United Soccer Coaches poll. They come in at No. 9 in the College Soccer News rankings and No. 15 in Top Drawer Soccer's poll.
• Prior to the season, Notre Dame was tabbed to finish fifth in the Coastal Division of the ACC in a poll conducted of the league's coaches.
• Jack Lynn leads the Fighting Irish and ranks third in the ACC with five goals on the season.
 
SERIES HISTORY
• In the storied history between Indiana and Notre Dame dating back to 1973, IU holds a record of 31-10-2 against the Fighting Irish, including a 16-6-1 mark against UND at Armstrong Stadium.
• Last season, the teams met twice, with the Hoosiers coming away victorious on both occasions.
• Indiana defeated Notre Dame, 1-0, on Nov. 30 in the NCAA Tournament Quarterfinals to earn the team's second-straight berth to the College Cup.
• IU has won four of the last six meetings in the series.
 
INDIANA UNDEFEATED IN LAST 28 HOME MATCHES
• The Hoosiers are undefeated in the team's last 28 matches at Jerry Yeagley Field at Bill Armstrong Stadium, posting a mark of 26-0-2.
• IU's last loss at home came to No. 20 Virginia Tech, 2-1 in overtime, on Nov. 27, 2016 in the third round of the NCAA Tournament.

[Aaron 4,293]

Not going but will be watching on BTN. 

This is a great measuring stick. Notre Dame has had some problems defensively so far but talent wise is one of the few teams who can match IU pound for pound. I have seen ND three times in last year (twice last year and once in spring) and the guy we need to keep an eye on is Jack Lynn who is one of the elite scorers in the country. When we faced off against an elite scorer in Edward Kizza of Pit to open the season we did a terrible job containing him and he got two goals in first half. If we don't contain Lynn better we are not coming back as Notre Dame will not give up three unanswered goals. Got to contain Lynn and hopefully a few games of experience will allow that. Other elite Notre Dame players to watch are Mohammed Omar, Ian Aschieris and Aiden McFadden.

With our roster last year we beat them twice but ND was one of the few teams to hang with us in both games. It took an OT goal in regular season that had a possible offside penalty not called and then a Panchot goal that was close to offside in NCAA Tourney (and now we have VAR starting this year so any goal will only count if we are onside). In the spring we looked completely over matched but that was before Penn, Morris and all the elite freshman were here so that is not a great omen.   

To sum up I have no idea what to expect but this is maybe the best team IU will face all year and will tell us how close IU is to being a top team again. 

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Let's do this! Bezerra in for Warr.

 

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Caulfield with a nice save.

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ND strikes first.

1-nil, 40'

[Aaron 4,293]

Our youth bit us again.

We played about the best first 35 min. of the season and had two terrific chances without giving ND any at all and dominated possession. Than in the last 10 min. ND stepped up there game and IU failed to responded which is a youth issue.

I don't get how ND's D has given up so many goals. It looks absolutely terrific and talented and their goalie is a load. 

As I keep saying this IU team has all the talent in the world but needs to connect better on their final passes and improve chemistry which should happen as season goes on.

Also once again not the best decision by Caulfield in my mind on ND goal coming out but not totally his fault either. Again didn't do anything wrong but last year Muse made an out of this world save in first half on a much harder shot. Caulfield has been better than I thought so far this year but he is not Muse (which isn't his fault) and its going to cost a few more goals probably.

One more thing: Crowd's this year have been the worst ever and its not close. This is a game that usually draws 4K plus but tonight has no more than 2K it looks like on a beautiful night. Even the opener drew decently (2,800) but those opening games on a beautiful night generally have closer to 4K also. Crowds usually go down to 1-2K as season goes on so the fact that our 2 highest drawing games generally (opener, ND) drew a bit lower may not speak great for rest of season. Not sure if people are down on IU athletics in general, they don't trust this young team yet or sports attendance is way down in general (IU vs. ND attendance in South Bend was way down as well last year from past) but this is definitely a major concern that bares watching.        

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GOOOAAALLL! Endeley with the equalizer.

1-1, 66'

[Aaron 4,293]

We huffed and puffed and finally blew the house down. Great cross from Waever to Endeley who headed it into right corner.  1-1.

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OT again.

 

[Aaron 4,293]

Well what would it be without OT for this team. Another terrific half.

Endeley is going to be an absolute star before it is all said and done. The only freshman with a higher ceiling is Penn but he is probably a one and done. Basically think of Penn as Romeo and Endeley as a Yogi or Phinisee who is probably a four year player who will keep getting better and will be a great development project over that time being a bit undersized but a ton of talent.

Let's see what happens in OT.

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@JPPrice: The NCAA record for OT games in a season is 14, so Hoosiers are more than a third of the way there. #iums

[LamarCheeks 18,956]

Good grief -- that ND goalie is a monster. He's huge! 

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2OT

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1-1 draw. We host Wisconsin on Friday.

 

[Aaron 4,293]

Honestly not a bad result. I had this as a loss and thought we would get outplayed based on how good ND is and how we looked first 4 games. Instead we stepped up and played by far our best game of the year so far and were dominant outside of the last 10 min. of the first half. The key going forward is going to be for the few bad minutes you play not to give up a goal as we did tonight. 

If this team plays like this the rest of the year it will be a great season. This same performance against Wiscy Friday nets you a victory as most teams don't have the organization playing D in the box that ND does and also don't have a Godzilla body type playing goalie.

The key is going to be to bottle up this performance and continue to grow and develop chemistry and this season has every bit the potential to be as strong as the last three. I said before the game you have to contain Jack Lynn and IU made him disappear completely and the only time I heard his name was the twice the announcers said he was completely not involved in the game. Huge step forward from when the Pitt star Kizza ate our lunch in the opener and is a sign of growth from IU's young team.

I will be there Friday but may post a bit from my phone as I have done in the past when attending.