No. 2 Hoosiers Host No. 4 Maryland in a Big-Time Men’s Soccer Matchup Unbeaten, No. 2-ranked Indiana (8-0-2, 3-0-1 B1G) welcomes perhaps its greatest test yet. Maryland – ranked as high as No. 4 in the national polls – comes to town, setting up Tonight’s top five matchup on Jerry Yeagley Field at Bill Armstrong Stadium. Kickoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. ET. Fans unable to attend the match can watch via the Big Ten Network. Friday is Student Appreciation Night. IU Soccer wants to thank Hoosier Army – the best student section in college soccer – for its relentless support with free pizza for students that arrive early, while supplies last. As always, IU students and faculty/staff get in free. At halftime, Indiana men’s soccer will honor three of its trailblazing teams: the 1974, 1975 and 1976 squads. The three squads combined for 45 victories in 54 matches and earned IU’s first appearances in the NCAA Tournament (1974), College Cup (1976) and national championship match (1976).
Indiana played its first two ranked matches in late September, earning a win and a draw. The tonight is the second match of a four-match homestand. IU is 7-0-0 at Bill Armstrong Stadium this season thanks to its loyal fanbase, which has managed a 3,756 average attendance. Indiana head coach Todd Yeagley and Maryland’s Sasho Cirovski are the Big Ten’s two greatest coaches outside Jerry Yeagley. No coach has won more matches in Big Ten play than Todd Yeagley (78), while Cirovski ranks third behind the Yeagleys in both No. of wins (54) and winning percentage (.631).
IU’s defensive performances have told the story of its unbeaten start, as the Hoosiers rank top of the Big Ten and tied-for-second nationally in goals against average (.500). Goalkeeper Michal Mroz leads the Big Ten in every major goalkeeping category. Indiana forward Stephane Njike has totaled five G/A in five games after assisting both goals in last Friday’s 2-1 victory over Penn State.
At 6-1-1, Maryland ranks all over the place in this week’s national polls: No. 6 in United Soccer Coaches, No. 12 in Top Drawer Soccer and its highest rating at No. 4 from College Soccer News. Four Terrapins have combined for six Big Ten weekly awards this season. Said El Eyssami and Rodrigo Neri lead the team with four goals and nine points each. Maryland has scored 16 goals through eight matches (2.0 per game) and allowed 14 (1.8 per match). Head coach Sasho Cirovksi leads Maryland in his 34th season, boasting a 457-181-77 record during his time in College Park. Over 36 seasons as a head coach, he owns a 483-193-83 career record.
Since it joined the Big Ten Conference in 2014, Maryland has challenged IU as the second-winningest program in the conference in that span, by percentage (.707 to .631). In that stretch, Indiana boasts a 64-21-19 league record, has totaled 213 points in conference regular season play and has won nine Big Ten Championships. Maryland ranks second in all three categories with a 54-27-22 mark, 184 points and seven titles. Head-to-head, Maryland head coach Sasho Cirovski has a two-game advantage on IU’s Todd Yeagley. Since 2014, the Terps have six victories to Indiana’s five, and seven more matches have ended in a draw or penalty shootout. The last five meetings have been decided by one goal or a draw, and the teams are split in that span (Both 2-2-1).
Indiana University Cross Country Goes North for Joe Piane invitational The Indiana men’s and women’s cross-country teams travel to their third meet of the season at the Joe Piane Notre Dame Invitational. The Meet will be hosted by Notre Dame at South bend, Ind. this morning with the first race starting at 10 am EDT. The Blue division races will open the day with the women’s 5K and men’s 8K starting at 10 am and 10:40 am, respectively. The open divisions will follow at 11:20 am starting both the men’s (8K) and women’s (5K) races.
The Hoosiers will see runners in both blue division races and both open races. They will have 10 in each blue division race with two men and five women competing in the open sections. Indiana will race 14 men and women with a combined 28 runners competing attached over the weekend.
| Men’s Championship | Women’s Championship |
| Liam Bauschke, Alex Bruns, Caden Click, Dom Ellis, Aidan Lord, Dylon Nalley, Tony Provenzano, Sam Quagliaroli, Ahmed Saleh and Elroe Tafese | Harper Allen, Heidi Harmeyer, Ava Jarrell, Jasmine Martoglio, Lily Myers, Michaela Quinn, Joey Rastrelli, Maddie Rocchio, Lucinda Rourke and Katy Zang |
| Men’s Open | Women’s Open |
| Jackson Gackenheimer and Matt Kim | Sadie Foley, Veronica Hargrave, Kiera Jenke, Catie McCabe andNola Somers Glenn |
IUXC will be back in action on Oct. 16th when they head back to Indiana State for the Pre-National meet.
Indiana University Men’s Soccer Set to Celebrate Trailblazing Teams They did it first. Indiana has played in more NCAA College Cups (22) and national championship games (17) than any program in Division I men’s soccer. Since it became a varsity program in 1973, no other program can match its 50 NCAA Tournament appearances. This week, IU celebrates trailblazers: members of its 1974, 1975 and 1976 men’s soccer teams will be honored during halftime of tonight’s match, as the No. 2 Hoosiers host No. 4 Maryland.
In May of 1973, the Indiana University Board of Trustees voted to award varsity status to men’s soccer after coach Jerry Yeagley had led the club program for 10 seasons. The decision immediately paid off; Indiana won 12 of its 14 games during its debut ‘73 season. One year later – two years into the program’s varsity status – the 1974 team earned the program’s first NCAA Tournament bid. Upon selection, Yeagley told reporters: “There are many times since we began the soccer program here with six players 11 years ago that I have questioned whether or not we could make it. To get varsity status last year was the first step to a national title, this is the second.” The team finished 14-3-0, falling in the regional to 70’s powerhouse SIU-Edwardsville. But the Hoosiers were just getting started. IU put together a 13-3-1 record in 1975, just missing the tournament, before a historic 1976 season.
In the spring of ’76, Bloomington watched as Bob Knight’s IU basketball team completed an undefeated 32-0 season to win that program’s third of five national championships. Fifty years later, it remains the last men’s Division I basketball team to finish a season unbeaten. Come fall, Yeagley’s soccer team – in its fourth varsity season – nearly matched the basketball team’s achievement. The Hoosiers strode into the ’76 title game with an 18-0-1 record but fell to San Francisco, another 70’s powerhouse that won its second straight NCAA title. Still, the group left its legacy as the first IU soccer team to reach a “College Cup” and a national final.
Six years and three more finals later, the Hoosiers would reach the mountaintop in 1982 – winning its first of eight NCAA Championships. But not without the efforts of those ’74, ’75 and ’76 teams that showed the way, that won a combined 45 of 54 games. “The club players had laid a great foundation,” Yeagley says. “But to be in the final four and to play a championship game in four years was a big surprise to a lot of people. Not to us, but to a lot of other people – who’s this Indiana? “We played a great game. We missed a penalty kick that could have won it. And after that, nobody asked, ‘Who’s that Indiana?’ “I’m really excited [to celebrate them]. I haven’t seen some of them for quite some time, other I’ve seen quite often, but to have the whole group together and watch them enjoy each other, reunite with each other, relive the good old days and just watch them hug each other – that’ll make it worthwhile.”
1974-76 Teams, by the numbers… 1 Player and 1 Coach in the IU Athletics Hall of Fame 2 Coaches who have won an NCAA Division I National Championship 3 Players who played for U.S. Men’s National Team in international competition 1 Hermann Trophy winner 6 All-Americans 3 Players who rank Top 10 for points and 4 Players who rank Top 15 for goals in program history At least 13 players who enjoyed professional soccer careers Altogether, these players, coaches and managers have given a minimum of 500 years of work in soccer outside their IU club and varsity coaching, managing and playing time.
Indiana University Volleyball’s Comeback Falls Short in Five-Set Heartbreaker at Wisconsin There was no shortage of fight from head coach Steve Aird’s squad on the road. In one of the toughest environments in the country, the Indiana volleyball team (9-3, 2-1 B1G) came just short of completing the biggest reverse sweep in program history. Sixth-ranked Wisconsin picked up the momentum in set five to take a 3-2 victory (25-19, 25-14, 22-25, 20-25, 15-8) on Thursday evening in Madison. IU hadn’t won multiple sets against the Badgers since the team’s last win in 2012. In front of nearly 7,000 fans, the Hoosiers proved they belong on the national stage. It’s the first time that IU has taken a top-10 team to the fifth set on the road since a victory over No. 5 Ohio State in 2022 (W, 3-2). All three of the Hoosiers’ losses this year are to teams currently ranked in the top 11 of the national poll.
Behind a career high 54 assists from second-year setter Teodora Krickovic, IU’s offense came to life after a slow start. The Hoosiers hit .353 in the fourth frame and committed five-or-fewer attacking errors in the final four sets of the match. Fifth-year opposite hitter Avry Tatum and second-year outside hitter Jaidyn Jager shared the team lead with 16 kills. First-year outside hitter Sara Snowbarger added a career high 11 kills. Even after moving to the bench last week, second-year middle blocker Victoria Gray was ready when her number was called. She started the final four sets of the match and contributed eight kills with zero errors on a .571 hitting percentage. Her counterpart, third-year middle blocker Ella Boersema, added eight kills and two blocks. Fifth-year middle blocker Kiki Granberry led the team with three blocks, all in the first set.
IU was extra aggressive from the end line as it tried to disrupt Wisconsin’s potent offense. Tatum contributed a career high four aces. Boersema added three aces from her patented jump serve. In the end, a major discrepancy in service errors (14-3) became too much to overcome. Jager contributed the 10th double-double of her career with 16 kills and 10 digs. Second-year libero Hannah Leftridge led the charge with 15 digs. Five different players had at least five digs as IU’s gritty defense started to shine late in the match. Krickovic finished the night with eight digs and four kills. The Hoosiers will fly to New Jersey tomorrow as they prepare for a Sunday afternoon contest at Rutgers. First serve from Jersey Mike’s Arena is set for 2 p.m. ET on Big Ten Network as the program goes for its 10th win of the season. Jason Knapp and Allie Sczech will have the call.
The ability to side out was the key to winning Thursday’s match. IU was above 60% in each of the two sets it won while Wisconsin rose above 70 to win three of the five games and the contest itself. On top of that, Wisconsin hit at an efficient .302 clip through the night while IU racked up 28 attacking errors. Even with a valiant effort from the back row, Wisconsin nudged IU in the defensive battle. The Badgers had more blocks (10.0-6.0) and digs (56-51) behind 16 digs from libero Anna Bardaro and six blocks from middle blocker Lynney Tarnow.
Second-year setter Teodora Krickovic helped run a balanced offense for the Hoosiers on Thursday evening. She recorded a career high 54 assists while getting all five primary attackers at least eight kills. She set first-year outside hitter Sara Snowbarger to a career high 11 kills and second-year middle blocker Victoria Gray to an efficient .571 hitting percentage. Second-year outside hitter Jaidyn Jager and fifth-year opposite hitter Avry Tatum each shared the team lead with 16 kills in the five-set battle at Wisconsin. Jager has gone for double-digit kills in 10 of the 12 matches this season and has reached 15 in five of them. Tatum has combined for 26 kills in her first two matches back. IU turned up the service pressure on Thursday night to the tune of eight aces. It’s the seventh game this season that the Hoosiers have had at least eight points from the end line. Tatum (4) and third-year middle blocker Ella Boersema (3) each had a career high in aces.
A’ja Wilson scores 36 points as the Las Vegas Aces send the Indiana Fever home again with a 94-83 in Game 3 A’ja Wilson made sure her basketball spoke for itself Thursday night, as the four-time WNBA MVP scored 36 points to lead the defending champion Las Vegas Aces to a 94-83 victory over the Indiana Fever in the deciding Game 3 of the first round. The third-seeded Aces, who have won three of the past four titles, moved on to play the winner of the Golden State-Dallas series, which will be decided Friday night in San Francisco.
This is the second year in a row Las Vegas has ended the season for Caitlin Clark and the Fever, who were seeded sixth. The teams met in the semifinals a year ago, with the Aces pulling out an overtime victory in the finale of the five-game series. Wilson book ended this series with sensational performances in Games 1 and 3, making her sure verbal confrontation with a Fever fan Tuesday in Indianapolis wouldn’t be the enduring memory. The league did not punish Wilson, who opened the series with 38 points and 16 rebounds, followed up in this game by making 11 of 18 shots and grabbing 10 rebounds. Teammate Chelsea Gray added 23 points and Jackie Young scored 18. Clark scored 11 points in the first quarter but was held to seven the rest of the game. Kelsey Mitchell led Indiana with 23 points and Aliyah Boston had 19 points and 10 rebounds.
Tensions ran high again Thursday, both teams bringing the physical play expected when each season is on the line in a game that had the intensity of a WNBA Finals. Clark and Las Vegas’ Brianna Turner each picked up a technical foul just more than three minutes into Game 3. The Fever were huddling on the court when Turner worked her way into the group only to be shoved out by Clark. Early in the second quarter, Indiana coach Stephanie White was called for a technical, arguing that Turner brought down Lexie Hull, who instead picked up the foul.
The Aces threatened to run away from Indiana in the third quarter, taking a 67-55 before going cold over the final 4:32 and making just one shot. The Fever twice cut their deficit to two points in the fourth to make Las Vegas sweat out the ending. Aces forward Stephanie Talbot, who started all but one game this season, did not play because of a leg injury and was replaced by Jewell Loyd, who scored 11 points. Talbot averaged 8.5 points and 3.5 rebounds in the first two games of this series.
Taylor University Women’s Soccer Ranked 10th in First National Selection Committee Top 25 Poll The Taylor University women’s soccer team is ranked 10th in the first-ever STADIONIC-NAIA Women’s Soccer National Selection Committee Top 25 Poll released Wednesday, extending the program’s streak of consecutive national poll appearances to 10 dating back to last season. It’s the highest national ranking in program history as the Trojans put their unbeaten home record on the line Saturday at 1 p.m. when they host No. 18 Spring Arbor at Turner Stadium. The Trojans (7-1-3, 1-0-2 CL) went 2-0-2 since the previous national poll. TU rallied for a 3-2 win over Campbellsville, which was receiving votes, then opened Crossroads League play with a 2-0 victory over Bethel before earning back-to-back draws with then-ranked No. 4 Indiana Wesleyan and Goshen. The Trojans are unbeaten in 12 straight matches at Turner Stadium (10-0-2), with nine shutouts in that span.
TU’s 29 goals have come from 13 different players, marking the fourth straight season with at least 12 goal scorers. Leah McQuade leads the team with eight goals, matching her career high, while Lauryn Dolvin and Lydia Bailey share the team lead with four assists apiece. Entering the week, TU ranked third in corner kicks (80), 20th in goals-against average (0.70), 32nd in shots on goal (92) and 34th in goals (28). Five total Crossroads League programs are ranked: No. 2 Indiana Wesleyan, No. 5 Grace, No. 7 Marian, No. 10 Taylor and No. 18 Spring Arbor. Following Saturday’s match against the Cougars, the Trojans will continue a tough stretch when it travels to No. 7 Marian a week later on Saturday, Oct. 10, for its third test against a nationally ranked opponent in four outings.
Lauryn Dolvin’s Equalizer Lifts No. 20 Taylor University Women’s Soccer to Draw with Goshen No. 20 Taylor put 16 shots on frame Wednesday night at Turner Stadium, but only one beat Goshen goalkeeper Hailey Ballast as the teams played to a 1-1 draw in Crossroads League action. The result kept TU (7-1-3, 1-0-2 CL) unbeaten at home this season at 7-0-1 and extended its unbeaten run at Turner Stadium to 12 consecutive matches (10-0-2). It was the second draw between the programs in the last three years, and second consecutive 1-1 result for the Trojans after playing to a draw at No. 4 Indiana Wesleyan on Saturday.
The visitors struck first in the ninth minute as Natalie Boulier stood over a free kick 20 yards out, directly at the top of the box, and fired it into the top shelf for a 1-0 lead. The goal was Goshen’s first in league play this season and ended a four-match run of shutout losses. The early strike by the Maple Leafs led to the first halftime deficit the Trojans have faced all year, and just the third in the previous 35 matches. TU answered with 14 first-half shots, four of them from Leah McQuade inside the opening 12 minutes, but Ballast made six saves to keep the Trojans off the board before the break.
It took less than three minutes of the second half for the Trojans to find the back of the net. Christina Brubaker played a ball into the box, and McQuade unloaded a hard shot on target that Ballast pushed away. The rebound stayed in front of goal, and Lauryn Dolvin cleaned it up from close range in the 48th minute to level the match. It was Dolvin’s fifth goal of the season, second-most on the team. TU controlled possession for most of the night and pressed for a winner, taking 20 shots and six corner kicks after halftime. Eliza Luttrell nearly put the hosts ahead with a shot that was tipped over the crossbar.
Then, with under three minutes remaining, Leilani Bisera lofted a ball from 25 yards out to the far post that found Dolvin on the run, but the bounce came up too high for a clean touch and the attempt sailed over. Campbell Massey forced one more save from Ballast in the final seconds. McQuade finished with a game-high seven shots, three on goal. Massey added four shots, three on target, and TU held an 8-0 edge in corner kicks. Ava Callaway made one save and faced just two shots on goal. Ballast was the difference for Goshen, finishing with 15 saves, nine in the second half. TU returns to action Saturday afternoon when it plays host to No. 16 Spring Arbor. Kickoff in Upland is scheduled for 1 p.m. at Turner Stadium.