The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Sunday, November 7
Round Rock, Texas
2:30 p.m. CT
University of Texas
vs
#9 TCU - Final
No. 20 Soccer preview: vs. No. 9 TCU [Big 12 Final]
11.05.2021 | Soccer
The Longhorns go for their first Big 12 Championship since 2007 on Sunday against the regular-season titlists TCU
Big 12 FINAL: #20 Texas (11-3-6, 6-0-3 Big 12) vs. #9 TCU (16-2-2, 7-1-1 Big 12)
Time: Sunday, Nov. 7 – 2:30 p.m. CT
Location: Round Rock, Texas (Round Rock Multipurpose Complex)
Tickets: LINK
TV: The match will be broadcast live on ESPNU with Glenn Davis (play-by-play) and Jill Loyden (color) on the call and can be watched through this LINK.
Live Stats: LINK
Free Kicks:
- Texas owns a 9-6-4 series advantage over TCU but is 0-0-2 against the Horned Frogs in neutral site meetings at the Big 12 Soccer Championship (0-0, 2OT ties in 2012 & 2019 with TCU advancing on PK's in both). The Horned Frogs have had the best of the recent series with a 3-1-3 advantage over the last seven meetings. The two teams tied 1-1 (2OT) in Austin back on Sept. 30.
- Texas is heading to the Big 12 Championship Final for the fifth time in program history (2001, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2021). UT is 1-2-1 in its four previous match-ups with two titles (2006, 2007).
- Texas is currently riding a PROGRAM-RECORD 14-MATCH UNBEATEN RUN dating back to Sept. 12, breaking the old mark previously held by the 2006 & 2017 Longhorns. During their skein, the Longhorns have outscored opponents by a total of 31-8, fired off an average of 17.6 shots-per-match and registered nine shutouts. Eight different Texas players have scored goals over that stretch led by the "Run BMG" trio of Byars (12 goals), Missimo (seven goals) and Grosso (four goals) as well as senior forward Mackenzie McFarland (four goals). Fifth-year senior goalkeeper Savannah Madden owns a 0.54 GAA & an .875 save percentage while making 56 saves over 1334:26 of match action.
- Rookie standouts Lexi Missimo and Trinity Byars are threatening some longstanding Texas freshman single-season records. Missimo has already tied Kati McBain's freshman mark of 13 assists from the 2000 season, while Byars needs one more goal and four more points to equal Kelly Wilson's 13-goal, 38-point output as a rookie back in 2001.
- The release of the annual Big 12 Conference awards on Nov. 2 contained a lot of Burnt Orange. Lexi Missimo earned Texas' seventh all-time (and fourth over the last six years) nod as the Big 12 Conference Freshman of the Year and joined Trinity Byars and Julia Grosso on the All-Big 12 First Team. Savannah Madden, EmJ Cox and Emma Regan received All-Big 12 Second Team honors, while Cox, Byars and Missimo were each named to the Big 12 All-Freshman Team. The six total honorees marked the most in a single season for the Texas program since 2006.
- Lexi Missimo now owns an impressive 12 career goals, 15 career assists and 39 career points over her first 23 collegiate matches. She became the fastest Longhorns player to reach 10 goals in program history (12 matches), breaking former Longhorns All-American Kelly Wilson's (2001) record by one match. Trinity Byars is right on her teammate's heels with 12 goals and 10 assists for 34 points over her first 20 career matches.
- The Longhorns have won 42 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.
- UT is 35-3-3 since the start of the 2018 season when scoring first in a match & is 10-0-2 in such contests in 2021.
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