Rutgers At Penn / NCAA First Round / Nov 17th / Match Thread
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3-0 Penn. Like a different sport on this turf. Might as well be playing on a concrete schoolyard .. Big Ten champions should never have been shafted like this in some rec league field on middle school broadcast against another conference champion .. terrible
Men's Soccer's Season Concludes In First Round Of NCAA Tournament
That sucks.
Great run. Back to back BIG Champs has a nice ring to it. Goal for next year.
Will be interesting to see the team grow.
Great run. Back to back BIG Champs has a nice ring to it. Goal for next year.
Will be interesting to see the team grow.
McElderry needs to leverage this year and make this team competitive for NCAA appearances every year.
The Rutgers Athletics Dept. needs to hire a shaman. Too many of our teams’ postseason appearances result in lackluster performances.
Penn should never have been granted a home game. Proper and non temporary facilities should be criteria to host.
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With Rhodes Field out of commission, Penn soccer moves to Penn Park
With Rhodes Field out of commission for the time being, Penn's soccer teams are competing at Penn Park, a drastically different venue.
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Agreed 100% but we still played on the same field and played just awfulPenn should never have been granted a home game. Proper and non temporary facilities should be criteria to host.
With Rhodes Field out of commission, Penn soccer moves to Penn Park
With Rhodes Field out of commission for the time being, Penn's soccer teams are competing at Penn Park, a drastically different venue.
Absolutely agree. Should have put that in my post. RU can't use as excuse but the NCAA has used this criteria why RU could not be a host site in the past.
At least this was better than the last ncaa game vs Akron. That game was demoralizing.
Still the guys seemed very much off their game. They hadn't played this sloppy all season.
Team will and should get a nice boost recruiting in both the clubs and the transfer portal after winning a B1G ring. Keep climbing the ladder and start strengthening the OOC schedule, much like men's lax did once they started becoming a legit winning team.
Only got outclassed twice this year, both out of conference (other one was a 6-1 loss early in the year).
Last year was pretty good with 2 final fours and an elite 8, but it does seem like we lose a lot early in the NCAAs.
Losing to PENN … I get it. Losing by 3? Pretty crappy.
Still not as bad as the first round loss to SMU with Lalas and Andracki the year after losing in the Soccer finals to UCLA. Still remember the 15 annoying SMU fans and the beating drum.
Still would trade a B1G title over a first round win, and RU punched through the men’s barrier. Hopefully it removes pressure from other men’s teams (ex. Lacrosse, Baseball) and Soccer gets momentum next year.
That was a 2nd round NCAA game in 1991. RU beat ODU in the 1st round the week before losing to SMU. Was a tough loss to the Mustangs nonetheless.
The 1993 loss in the NCAA 1st round to Hartwick stung quite a bit for me as that team could have and probably should have made a deeper run.
As an aside, I saw this a couple times in the background during the TV coverage at Yurcak Field but one of the banners along the far sideline that lists the men's college cup/final 4 appearances incorrectly lists 1991. They should fix that to 1990 (also the NCAA finalist year, which is listed separately above on that banner in larger letters), unless they don't like to duplicate seasonal listings like at the RAC with men's and women's hoops tournament appearances/advancements, then they need to just remove the 1991.
Last time IU faced MU in the NCAA tourney was just 18 months ago in the COVID-delayed Spring 2021 season, in the title game. MU won the natty 1-0. IU will be seeking some measure of revenge from not winning their 9th title that season.
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