2006 Men's Soccer Thread

[blueness]

Preseason MVC Poll is out today:

MVC Men’s Soccer Preseason Poll
1. Creighton (6) 48
2. Missouri State (1) 40
3. Bradley 31
4. Drake 28
5. Eastern Illinois 18
6. Evansville 18
7. Western Kentucky 13
(First place votes in parenthesis)


2006 College Soccer News Preseason Top 30 National Poll

1. Maryland
2. SMU
3. North Carolina
4. Connecticut
5. Penn State
6. Virginia
7. Akron
8. UCLA
9. New Mexico
10. Creighton
11. South Florida
12. Duke
13. Indiana
14. California
15. Clemson
16. Notre Dame
17. St. John’s
18. UNC-Greensboro
19. Wake Forest
20. Old Dominion
21. UC Santa Barbara
22. San Francisco
23. Cal State Northridge
24. San Diego State
25. Virginia Tech
26. Santa Clara
27. Saint Louis
28. Wisconsin-Milwaukee
29. South Carolina
30. Ohio State

[outpost]

Curious as to how many were in attendance when Creighton played Akron in an exhibition tourney on Friday.......also saw on the MVC website that CU was playing Clemson today.

Drake only drew about 1,300 for a recent exhibition game with Notre Dame.

EDIT - Never mind, just found out that the Jays drew 2,018 for the Akron game.

[DUBulldog]

Drake only drew about 1,300 for a recent exhibition game with Notre Dame.

I don't know much about soccer attendance, but I think that was Drake's largest crowd ever for a soccer game.....I wouldn't know for sure, I've never been to one.

[Majik45]

Creighton was playing in Akron this weekend and had 4 teams that could make deep runs into the NCAA tourney this year. I'm not quite sure why these were exhibition games, but to have Creighton win this event is a pretty big deal.

[Coasterbill42]

Missouri State's attendance should jump WAYYYYYYYY up this year since we are now playing at Plaster.

[smsandmsuson]

Missouri State's attendance should jump WAYYYYYYYY up this year since we are now playing at Plaster.

when did this happen...and just my opinion since ive played at Plaster and Cooper, but i would rather play on natural grass...feels better on the feet and doesnt hurt when you slide...

[blueness]

The move for CU from Tranquility (in West Omaha) to Morrison Stadium (on-campus) obviously gave avg. attendance a boost for CU home games.
Attendance is roughly a little over 2000/game since the move.

But strangely enough, most of the top attended game(s) were still at Tranq.

(Every game from the 2003 season on is at Morrison)

Top Home Crowds in Bluejay History
1. 5,743 vs. Stanford (exhibition), Aug. 26, 2005 (L, 0-1)
2. 4,407 vs. Saint Louis, Aug. 31, 1997 (W, 1-0)
3. 4,345 vs. Virginia (exhibition), Aug. 28, 1993 (T, 2-2)
4. 4,029 vs. UMKC (exhibition), Aug. 27, 2004 (W, 1-0)
5. 3,860 vs. SMU, Nov. 21, 1992 (L, 0-1)
6. 3,483 vs. Butler, Aug. 29, 2003 (T, 0-0 2OT)
7. 3,397 vs. UNLV, Sept. 3, 1994 (W, 3-0)
8. 3,120 vs. Duke, Sept. 2, 1994 (L, 1-3)
9. 3,097 vs. Saint Louis, Sept. 11, 1993 (W, 1-0)
10. 3,065 vs. UMKC, Sept. 27, 1996 (L, 0-1)


If I'm not mistaken, however, the biggest crowd in the state's history was the 2005 Class A (like 5-A) Boys State Championship at Morrison.

[blueness]

Through Sept. 19, 2006

MVC STANDINGS (Conference Play Has Yet To Begin)

Eastern Illinois 7-2
Missouri State 5-1-2
Evansville 5-2
Creighton 4-2-2
Bradley 3-4-1
Drake 3-4-1
Western Kentucky 2-4-1

No Valley Teams Ranked in This Weeks NSCAA Top25, but several are on the brink (as told by the Midwest Region Rankings)

September 19, 2005 Midwest Region Poll
1 SMU (#3 Nationally)
2 Memphis (#15 Nationally)
3 UAB (#25 Nationally)
4 Creighton
5 Kentucky
6 Eastern Illinois
7 Missouri State
8 Valparaiso
9 Evansville
10 Western Illinois

[MoState417]

Missouri State's attendance should jump WAYYYYYYYY up this year since we are now playing at Plaster.

Yeah they are trying to kill the soccer program, you cant recruit if you play on field turf. Cooper was a great place to play.

You heard it here first, this move will cost us to lose Jon Leamy as a coach and will cause are program to fall.

:banghead:

[smsandmsuson]

Yeah they are trying to kill the soccer program, you cant recruit if you play on field turf. Cooper was a great place to play.

You heard it here first, this move will cost us to lose Jon Leamy as a coach and will cause are program to fall.

:banghead:


anyone know why they switched???...thought it was a bad move as well...but i dont think it will cause our program to fall...

[eomaha.com]

:jays:

http://www.eomaha.com/standings.jpg

[JJClamdip]

:sleeping:

[Fetz86]

Bradley beats CU 2-1 to win the Conference, and earn the #1 seed in the conference tourney.

[Mikovio]

Here are the Tournament pairings....

2006 State Farm MVC Tournament

Wed., Nov. 1 -- No. 3 Missouri State vs. No. 6 Eastern Illinois, 5 p.m.
Wed., Nov. 1 -- No. 4 Drake vs. No. 5 Evansville, 7:30 p.m.

Fri., Nov. 3 -- No. 2 Creighton vs. Missouri State/Eastern Illinois, 5 p.m.
Fri., Nov. 3 -- No. 1 Bradley vs. Drake/Evansville, 7:30 p.m.

Sun., Nov. 5 -- Title Match, 1 p.m. (FSN Midwest)

[eomaha.com]

Same situation as last year... hopefully history will repeat itself.

[smsandmsuson]

Same situation as last year... hopefully history will repeat itself.

It did for the Bears...losing to a team they had no business losing too...:ranting: :banghead: :cursing: :doh:

[blueness]

#2 Creighton vs. #1 Bradley
MVC Championship
1 PM

TV: FSN Midwest (live)

[CUJay]

CU scores with 4 seconds left in regulation to send it to overtime, then scores again 5 or 6 minutes into overtime.

:jays:

[blueness]

Creighton at U of Washington
NCAA First Round
9PM Central Time
Friday Nov. 10, 2006

*Live stats:
http://www.gocreighton.com

(left side of the front page has the link)


Winner plays at Santa Clara on Wednesday

[blueness]

Creighton goes down in flames.

3-0 loss.