The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Friday, September 23
Waco, Texas
6 p.m.
University of Texas
at
#RV Baylor
Soccer preview: at #RV Baylor and Oklahoma [Sept. 23 & 25, 2016]
09.22.2016 | Soccer
The Longhorns prep to open Big 12 Conference play with road trips to face the Bears and Sooners
Texas Game Notes at Baylor & Oklahoma
Regular Season Matches #10 & 11: TEXAS (6-3-0) at No. RV Baylor (7-3-0) and Oklahoma (7-2-1)
Schedule
Fri., Sept. 23 – 6 p.m. CT – TEXAS at No. RV Baylor – TV: FOX Sports Plus
Sun., Sept. 25 – 1 p.m. CT – TEXAS at Oklahoma – TV: FOX Sports Oklahoma, FOX College Sports Central, FOX Sports Go
Locations: Waco, Texas (Betty Lou Mays Soccer Field); Norman, Okla. (OU Soccer Complex)
Tickets: at Baylor: LINK; at Oklahoma: LINK
Live Stats: at Baylor: LINK; at Oklahoma: LINK
Television: The match at Baylor will be shown live on FOX Sports Plus with Lincoln Rose (PXP) and Heath Nielsen (analyst) on the call. The contest at Oklahoma will be shown on FOX Sports Oklahoma, FOX College Sports Central and FOX Sports Go.
Radio: None available for either match
Free Kicks:
- At 6-3-0 overall, Texas is off to its best nine-match start to a season since Angela Kelly arrived to helm the UT program prior to the 2012 campaign. The best previous nine-match start under Kelly was 5-3-1 back in 2013. The last time the Longhorns started a season with six wins over their opening nine matches was in 2011 when the Burnt Orange & White opened at 6-3-0. The 2013 squad also posted Kelly's best 10- and 11-match records at 6-3-1 and 7-3-1 on the way to a 12-6-2 finish.
- The 2016 edition of the Texas Longhorns defense is statistically the BEST of the Angela Kelly era (2012-16) as far as goals allowed and shots on goal are concerned after the first nine matches of the season, having permitted only seven total goals and 24 shots on frame. IN FACT, UT IS ALLOWING JUST 2.7 SHOTS ON GOAL PER MATCH THIS SEASON!
- Following their Sunday win over then unbeaten UCSB, the Longhorns are currently riding a three-match winning streak, tying for the second-longest winning skein over the last five seasons. Since the start of 2012, when Angela Kelly took over as the head coach, UT has now won three matches in a row on seven different occasions (twice already in 2016) and last won four in a row from Sept. 20-29, 2013.
- Texas loves to jump on its opponents early in matches in 2016 as the Longhorns have now scored their first goal of the match during the opening 15:21 of four separate contests this season. UT has also scored three times over the initial 9:38 in three of its last four matches (#19 Ohio State, Miami OH, UCSB).
- Texas possesses quite a history against this weekend's Big 12 Conference opponents, Baylor and Oklahoma. The Longhorns are 11-8-3 all-time against the Bears and 5-3-1 during match-ups in Waco. Since 2006, the last 10 meetings between the two teams have either ended up in ties or with a one-goal margin of victory with Texas leading over that stretch 5-3-2 (Baylor has won three of the last five in the series). UT is 13-8-1 against the rival Sooners and 5-4-0 in Norman, while the Longhorns have won five of the last six overall meetings. The Burnt Orange & White lost by identical 2-1 scores to both Baylor and Oklahoma in Austin last season.
- The Longhorns will begin Big 12 Conference play on Friday night at Baylor. Texas enters that match-up 11-8-1 all-time in Big 12 openers, having won three of their last four overall (lost at No. 5 West Virginia in the Big 12 opener in 2015, 2-0) and are 5-6-0 in such match-ups on the road. UT head coach Angela Kelly is 3-1-0 in league lidlifters (2015, lost at No. 5 West Virginia, 2-0; 2014, beat No. 6 Texas Tech, 1-0 (OT); 2013, beat TCU, 2-0; 2012, won at Iowa State, 4-0).
- Texas has had no shortage of heroines thus far in 2016 as four different players (one from every class) own match-winning goals this season over the first nine matches. Senior forward Jasmine Hart had the match-winner against the College of Charleston, junior forward Olivia Brook managed the winning score against Sam Houston State, sophomore forward Alexa Adams tickled the twine to top Miami (OH) and freshman forward Tecora Turner scored in the 65th minute to knock off previously unbeaten UCSB. The most different players to register a match-winning score in a single season under Angela Kelly is nine in both 2013 & 2014.
- Texas enters this weekend's Big 12-opening action fresh off a 2-1 victory last Sunday against previously unbeaten UCSB (8-0-0). The Longhorns got the first career goals from freshman forwards Cyera Hintzen and Tecora Turner to knock off the Gauchos. For her efforts, Turner was chosen as the Big 12 Conference's Freshman of the Week (Sept. 20). UCSB goalie Brittney Rogers had entered the match against the Longhorns having allowed just one goal in 600 total minutes of action for a 0.15 GAA before UT struck twice.
- The Longhorns recently had a season-long shutout streak of 226:53 broken on a 47th minute goal by UCSB and enter play against Baylor on Friday night having allowed just one goal over their last 270 minutes of action.
- Texas sophomore forward Alexa Adams has picked up this season where she left off from an All-Big 12-level rookie campaign in 2015. The Lancaster, Calif., native scored during three consecutive UT matches against the College of Charleston, Detroit and Sam Houston State and owns goals in five of Texas' nine matches in 2016. She now has registered at least one point in 12 of the Longhorns' last 16 matches dating back to Oct. 9, 2015, against Iowa State. Over that 16-match stretch, Adams has 10 goals and six assists for 26 total points on an efficient 37 shots. In fact, on her LAST 14 SHOTS ON GOAL, ADAMS HAS SCORED 10 TIMES (71% scoring efficiency!).
- The Longhorns have really benefitted from other teams' mistakes thus far this season, getting the gift of two opponent "own goals" over their first nine matches. Both of the "own goals" have proven to be match-winners against Detroit and North Texas, but only the score against the Mean Green on Sept. 16 provided the true final difference in UT's 1-0 triumph.
- Scoring first and out-shooting opponents seem important as far as success goes for the 2016 Longhorns as Texas holds a 6-1 record when putting up the first goal of a match and when firing more total shots through nine contests this season.
- Over the four-plus season tenure of head coach Angela Kelly, if Texas scores a goal, there's a pretty good chance UT will win the match. Since starting 2012, the Longhorns are 45-12-6 in contests where they tickle the twine at least once and are 6-1 in such situations so far this season.
- Two Longhorns were named in the recent release of Top Drawer Soccer's listing of its "Top 20 Players in the Big 12 Conference." Sophomore forward Alexa Adams came in at No. 12, while injured redshirt sophomore forward Mikayla Flores rounded out the ranking in the No. 20 slot.
- Texas senior midfielder Julia Dyche is off to a very "helpful" start to the 2016 season with five assists already through just nine matches. She needs just three more to enter the Longhorns single-season top 10 list where she would tie four players for 10th. The all-time single-season assist record at Texas is 14 by Kelly Wilson established back in 2004. Dyche's five assists this season are one more than she had previously combined for over her first three seasons at UT (four assists total over her first three seasons combined). DYCHE CURRENTLY RANKS 20TH IN ALL OF NCAA DIVISION I IN TOTAL ASSISTS!
- Several Longhorns seem to ALWAYS be on the pitch. Senior defender Isabelle Kerr and freshman defender Atu Mshana have played all 815 possible minutes this season, while freshman defender Emma Jett (783) and senior midfielder Julia Dyche (776) and have been on the field for almost 800 of the available minutes.
- Texas' defense is particularly stingy, having not allowed more than two goals in a single match since allowing three during a 3-1 loss at TCU back on Oct. 17, 2014, a stretch of 35 consecutive contests. In fact, an opponent has only scored more than two goals in a contest four times since head coach Angela Kelly took over the program (three times in her first season on the Forty Acres in 2012) and ONLY ONCE OVER THE LONGHORNS' LAST 78 MATCHES!
- A pair of Longhorns seem to always be penciled in the line-up as senior midfielder Julia Dyche has earned at least some playing time in Texas' last 57 matches, while senior defender Isabelle Kerr has appeared in 51 of UT's last 52 contests dating back to each player's freshman campaign in 2013.
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