IUMS vs Wisconsin - Friday, 09.15.23 @ 7:30

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B1G season opens Friday night and we need to start finding some offense.  Badgers (3-2-1) with their 3 wins being their first 3 matches of the season.  Offensively they've scored just 5 goals in their 6 matches.  Television coverage on B1G+.

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Match Preview

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Scoreless at the half as neither team has mounted much of an offensive attack.   Hoosiers 4 shots; 1 on goal.  Wisky 2 shots; neither on goal.  Wisky's Drew Brown issued a yellow card.

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Jared Kelly --  IU has scored just one goal in its last 315 minutes of match time, and that hasn't changed heading into half. Hoosiers have controlled most of the possession tonight, but nothing too dangerous. IU has work to do.

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15 minutes remaining and still scoreless.  Both teams have taken 5 shots; each with just 1 on goal.

Somebody's got to become an offensive weapon for us and sooner rather than later.

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Hoosiers now (2-2-2) on the season after a scoreless tie with Wisky to open B1G play.  We've scored a grand total of 4 goals in 6 matches and if we can't find some offensive firepower this is not going to be a fun season.  In tonight's match we finished with 10 shots; just 2 on goal while Wisky had 6 and 1.

Next up for us is a 7:30 Tuesday evening home match against Butler.  Then next Friday night at 7:00 we're on the road in East Lansing.

[Aaron 4,293]

Their is no obvious answer with the striker position up the middle and its bogs down the whole offense. Yeagley is the best in the business at solving early season issues but this is his biggest test yet with no clear answers on the roster who can create chances. The loss of Ryan Wittenbrink is far bigger than anyone including Yeagley realized. 

Expectations may need to be adjusted to just making tournament again and keep the streak going of every year since 1986. They have the defense to do it, but unless something changes with the attack (and I'm not sure it will) the team will be sweating during the selection process for the first time since the 80's (unless they get the auto bid through Big Ten Tourney).  

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Yeagley' post-match presser.