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Soccer preview: at Oklahoma [Oct. 24, 2014]
10.23.2014 | Soccer
Texas has won the last four meetings over its rival dating back to Oct. 7, 2011
Match 17: Texas (8-6-2, 2-3-0 Big 12) at Oklahoma (8-5-3, 2-2-1 Big 12)
Time: Friday, Oct. 24 – 7 p.m. CT
Location: Norman, Okla. (OU Soccer Complex – 3,500)
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Television: The match is slated for broadcast on Fox Sports Southwest + and Fox College Sports (Atlantic) - CHANNEL GUIDE
Radio: None
All-Time Series: Texas leads its series against archrival Oklahoma by a 12-7-1 total and has won the last four meetings between the two programs dating back to 2011. UT is just 4-4 on the road against the Sooners but has won in each of its last three visits to Norman in 2012 (W, 1-0), 2009 (W, 2-1) and 2007 (W, 4-0).
Free Kicks:
- Texas hasn't allowed Oklahoma to score a goal since back on Nov. 3, 2010, during a Big 12 Conference tournament match In San Antonio, Texas. That's a shutout streak of 419:01 spanning over the previous five meetings between the two teams.
- TopDrawerSoccer.com has released its lists of what the organization deemed to be its Top 100 Players of the Midseason and the Top 100 Freshmen of 2014. Junior netminder Abby Smith was ranked No. 31 among the Top 100 Players of the Midseason, while forward Olivia Brook made the Top 100 Freshmen list by coming in at No. 96.
- Looking at current records (as of 10/23), Texas has played 16 teams that have combined to post a 146-79-26 overall record (a .633 winning percentage) thus far in 2014. As of Oct. 22, the NCAA rated UT's slate as the EIGHTH-toughest schedule by percentage in Division I. Twelve of those 16 teams possess winning records, while three of those squads (UCLA, Arizona State & West Virginia) have lost two or fewer matches.
- Texas owns just an 8-12-1 mark in road matches under head coach Angela Kelly but has seen a recent run of success markedly improve that total. UT is 6-3-1 in its last 10 true road matches, including a 4-2 record in 2014 with wins at Hawai'i (2-1), at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, at Texas State (2-0) and at Iowa State (1-0), but a 2-0 loss at USF and a 3-1 defeat at TCU.
- The Longhorn program holds an 85-40-15 all-time record against members of the Big 12 Conference and is 12-9-1 against league foes since Angela Kelly took over as head coach.
