The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Sunday, November 3
Kansas City, Missouri
8 p.m. CT
University of Texas
vs
TCU - Quarterfinal
Soccer preview: Big 12 Championship Quarterfinals vs. TCU
11.02.2019 | Soccer
The third-seeded Longhorns open the league's annual showcase event by facing the sixth-seeded Horned Frogs
Soccer Match 19 – BIG 12 CHAMPIONSHIP QUARTERFINAL: No. 6 seed TCU (10-6-2, 4-3-2 Big 12) vs. No. 3 seed Texas (11-7-0, 6-3-0 Big 12)
Time: Sunday, Nov. 3 – 8 p.m. CT
Location: Kansas City, Mo. (Children's Mercy Victory Field - Swope Soccer Village)
TV: The match is scheduled to be web-streamed on Big 12 Now on ESPN+ and can be viewed through this LINK.
Live Stats: LINK
Free Kicks:
- Texas leads its all-time series over TCU by a total of 9-5-2 (TCU counts several match-ups in its total that occurred before the Longhorns became a varsity program) and won this year's meeting in Austin on Oct. 3, 1-0, as Cyera Hintzen scored the winner at 87:34. The Longhorns are 0-0-1 versus the Horned Frogs in a lone neutral site meeting having tied 0-0 (2OT) in the 2012 Big 12 Championship semis (TCU advanced 4-2 on PK's).
- Texas is making its 23rd all-time appearance at the Big 12 Championship, owning a 13-18-7 record in the annual event. While UT has advanced out of the quarterfinals on penalty kicks twice (2014 & 2017) over the stretch, the Longhorns are looking for their first win in the league's signature event since a QF victory in 2012.
- Texas finished undefeated on the road in Big 12 play this season, going 4-0, to post its first flawless league road slate since going 5-0 back in 2006. The last time before this occurrence that the Longhorns posted at least three league road wins in a single campaign was 2014.
- The Longhorns have faced a tough schedule this season as 12-of-18 played opponents currently own winning records and 10 of those opponents own 10-or-more victories (Oklahoma State, Texas Tech, Kansas, Colorado, Monmouth, Gonzaga, Washington, TCU, Denver and West Virginia). According to the most recent NCAA strength of schedule ratings, Texas has played the 36th toughest slate in NCAA Division I.
- Texas has spread the scoring around in a major way so far in 2019 as 11 DIFFERENT LONGHORNS have scored goals and 13 different players own points. Keep in mind that in 2018, the Burnt Orange & White had 10 different goal scorers over an entire 21-match season. The most players registering goals during a single campaign since Angela Kelly took over was 13 back in 2013.
- Texas is 18-2-1 over the past two seasons when scoring first in a match and 8-1-0 when doing so during the 2019 campaign with the only loss this year coming to No. 17 Texas Tech on Oct. 27, 2-1 (OT).
- The Longhorns have now won 28 consecutive matches in which they scored two-or-more goals in a contest dating back to the start of the 2017 season. The last time Texas failed to win when tickling the twine on two occasions was in a 3-2 defeat at TCU back on Oct. 28, 2016.
- After going just 2-8 in one-goal matches back in 2016, the Longhorns have since turned around their fortunes in such contests by going 25-12 in their last 37 one-goal matches since beginning 2017 (7-4 so far in 2019).
- With time running short, Texas' offense seems to step up to the challenge as SEVEN of the Longhorns 2019 match-winning goals have come in the 62nd-minute or later. Four of those (Gonzaga, at Kansas State, TCU, at Oklahoma) have been scored in the 81st-minute or later with the last three occurring at the 86:02 (K-State), 87:34 (TCU) and 107:25 (at Oklahoma) marks. In all, nine of Texas' 11 match-winning goals this season have been scored in the second half or overtime.
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