SLU WOMEN'S SOCCER GAME NOTES & INFORMATION |
Game 22 |
Saint Louis (17-2-2) vs. Indiana (12-3-4) |
Date // Time |
Friday, November 10, 2023 // 7 p.m. CT |
Location |
St. Louis, Mo. (Robert R. Hermann Stadium) |
NCAA Digital Program |
Program |
Watch |
ESPN+ |
Live Stats |
NCAA.com |
Game Notes |
Saint Louis | Indiana |
•Saint Louis and Indiana square off Friday, Nov. 10, in an NCAA Women's Soccer Championship first-round matchup at Hermann Stadium. Kickoff is slated for 7 p.m.
•Links for live streaming, live stats and game notes for both teams are included in the table above.
•Making a sixth straight tournament appearance and eighth overall, No. 6 seed SLU brings a 10-game winning streak – the nation's second-longest current streak behind Memphis (15) – a school-record 10-game shutout streak and a 16-game unbeaten streak (14-0-2) into Friday's game. The Billikens, who captured the Atlantic 10 Conference regular-season title for a fifth time in six years, earned the league's automatic bid by winning the A-10 Championship, their sixth consecutive conference tournament crown.
•Indiana, which was awarded an at-large bid, finished fifth (6-2-2) in a tightly packed Big Ten Conference race that saw the top five teams separated by only three points. The Hoosiers fell 3-0 to Penn State in the Big Ten Championship quarterfinals.
•Indiana is SLU's second Big Ten opponent this season. The Billikens defeated regular-season co-champion Nebraska 3-2 Sept. 10 in Lincoln, Neb.
•The Billikens have a 1-1-1 record in the all-time series with Indiana. The Hoosiers claimed a 1-0 victory at SLU in 1998; the teams tied 1-1 the following year in Bloomington; and Saint Louis won 1-0 at home in 2003.
•Indiana is the second Big Ten opponent Saint Louis has faced during the Billikens' run of six straight NCAA Championship appearances. SLU suffered a second-round setback at Rutgers in 2021.
•Saint Louis is 71-8-7 (.866) in its last 86 games on the Hermann Stadium home pitch, a stretch that dates to the final home game of the 2015 campaign. In those 86 games, SLU outscored opponents 205-33, posted 55 shutouts, and allowed more than one goal just twice. This season, the Billikens are 9-1-1 with eight clean sheets and a 41-3 scoring advantage at Hermann.
•With 27 goals between them, A-10 Offensive Player of the Year
Emily Gaebe (15) and first-team All-Conference selection
Caroline Kelly (12) have combined for more goals this season than any duo in Saint Louis women's soccer history. Gaebe and Kelly are tied with Towson for the fourth-highest total in NCAA Division I behind combos from Texas (41), Nebraska (37), and Grand Canyon and Utah Valley (28).
•A-10 Goalkeeper of the Year
Emily Puricelli carries an .895 save percentage (fourth nationally) and a 0.50 goals against average (11th). Puricelli has not allowed a goal in her last 877:23 of action.
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Abbie Miller will play in her 106th game as a Billiken Friday night, breaking the program record set by
Hannah Friedrich.
•Indiana is led by two first-team All-Conference selections in junior goalkeeper Jamie Gerstenberg, who also was named Big Ten Goalkeeper of the Year, and graduate forward Paige Webber. Gerstenberg has 10 shutouts, a 0.76 goals against average and a .770 save percentage, while Webber leads the Hoosiers with 12 goals.
•Senior midfielder Anna Bennett has a team-high nine assists, and freshman defender Piper Coffield made the Big Ten All-Freshman team.
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