The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Friday, September 26
Austin, Texas
7 p.m.
University of Texas
vs
Texas Tech
Soccer preview: No. 6 Texas Tech [Sept. 26, 2014]
09.25.2014 | Soccer
Texas hosts the sixth-ranked Red Raiders in both teams' Big 12 Conference opener.
Match 11: No. 6 Texas Tech (9-0-0) at Texas (5-3-2)
Time: Friday, Sept. 26 – 7 p.m. CT
Location: Austin, Texas (Mike A. Myers Stadium & Soccer Field)
Live Stats: http://www.sidearmstats.com/texas/wsoc/
Television: The match will be broadcast live on Longhorn Network (accessible through WATCHESPN with certain cable providers) with Glenn Davis (play-by-play) and Monica Gonzalez (analyst) on the call.
Radio: All UT home matches can be heard free via an Internet audio stream at http://texas.leanplayer.com/. Lincoln Rose will call the action for all Texas home matches.
All-Time Series: Texas leads the all-time series against Texas Tech by a 12-6-3 total. Over the last eight meetings in the series, the two programs own identical 3-3-2 records.
Match Promotions:
- Horns & Heroes: Texas Soccer pays tribute to our local heroes at the sixth-annual Horns & Heroes event. Gates open at 6 p.m. for fans to tour/snap pics with police cars, fire trucks, a helicopter and more. Emergency response and military personnel receive free admission with their service ID.
Free Kicks:
- Looking at current records (as of 9/25), Texas has played 10 teams that have combined to post a 50-30-9 overall record (a .612 winning percentage) thus far in 2014 or what the NCAA currently rates the 24th-toughest schedule by percentage in Division I. Six of those 10 teams own winning records, while four of those squads (UCLA-unbeaten, Arizona State-one loss, both Arkansas and UCF-two losses) have lost two or fewer matches. That tough schedule is reflected in the Longhorns' RPI (Ratings Percentage Index) as UT sits at No. 43 in the initial NCAA RPI release of the campaign (9/22), good for fifth among Big 12 teams.
- Close matches have proven to be the theme since 2007 in Texas' series against Texas Tech as all eight contests over that time frame have ended either tied or with the teams separated by just a single goal (overall record in the series for both programs over that span is 3-3-2). TTU has won the last two matches in the series, however, by identical 1-0 scores in 2012 & 2013. Texas hasn't beaten the Red Raiders at Mike A. Myers Stadium in Austin, Texas, since 2007 (W 1-0), having gone 0-1-2 against Texas Tech during that time.
- Several Texas players entered the starting line-up as freshmen and haven't been left out since. Senior defenders Brooke Gilbert and Julie Arnold have started all 71 possible matches during their four-year careers, while junior midfielder Lindsey Meyer has been penciled in the starting XI in all 50 possible matches during her stay on the Forty Acres.
- The Texas soccer program holds an 83-37-15 all-time record against members of the Big 12 Conference and is 12-6-3 against Texas Tech and 1-2-0 against Sunday's opponent West Virginia. UT is 5-2-1 over its last eight league matches, however, those two defeats came in 2013 meetings against the Red Raiders and Mountaineers.
- The Longhorns currently lead the NCAA Division I statistics in corner kicks with 81 over 10 matches for an 8.1 corner-per-match average. With nine regular-season contests remaining, if UT keeps up its the current pace of earning corners, this year's squad would come very close to breaking the school record of 162 set back in 2003 before entering any potential postseason action. Texas has scored three times off corner kicks this season with Brooke Gilbert finishing the first two scores during the 5-1 win over Nevada on Aug. 31, and most recently, Sharis Lachappelle heading in a corner taken by Chantale Campbell during the second half of the 2-0 win at Texas State (Sept. 21). West Virginia has earned 69 corners in 2014 to trail Texas for the top spot in the Big 12 standings.
| 1. | TEXAS | 81 |
| 2. | Cincinnati | 79 |
| 3. | Virginia Tech | 77 |
| 4. | Virginia | 74 |
| 5. | UL-Monroe | 72 |
- Since becoming a member of the Big 12 Conference prior to the 1996 season, Texas soccer holds a 10-7-1 record all-time in its league openers (UT was 1-0 in its lone soccer lidlifter in the Southwest Conference). The Longhorns possess a 5-2-1 mark in Big 12 schedule openers at home and have defeated Friday's opponent Texas Tech in its only two such conference-opening meetings between the two programs back in 2006 (away - W, 2-0) and 2007 (home - W, 1-0). Texas has won both Big 12 Conference openers under the guidance of third year head coach Angela Kelly (2012 - at Iowa State, W, 4-0; 2013 - TCU, W, 2-0).
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