Women's Soccer 2016

It's still early, but based on what I've seen so far, this may be a best team they've ever had, even better than the 2012 team. The team chemistry is incredible. The firepower, not just of our forwards, but even our mids, is the best I've ever seen, not to mention how unselfishly they play. I'd be interested to see a comparison of this team to the 2012 in scoring and goals scored against us for the first seven games. I might have to look into that.



Update:

2012: BYU scored 15 goals and allowed 3 goals.

2016| BYU has scored 19 goals and allowed 6 goals.

It's not still early. BYU has now played 7 games. They have 19 on the schedule. This is a good team.

Hey NCAA, please reschedule the women's final four to this place so I can easily attend when BYU makes it. Oh and by the way, here's a hint: make it for a Thursday-Saturday. It will be a lot easier to just do that now so you don't need to change it later. :-)



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Stadium_%28Texas%29#/media/File:Pizza_Hut_Park.jpg

Not a lot of sites out there cover college soccer, but this one is one of the best. This new article lists BYU as the #3 contender for getting to the College Cup which is their final four. BYU is getting a lot of attention with the way they're beating up on some big name teams this year on the road.



http://herosports.com/news/d1-womens-soccer/chris-henderson-college-cup-contender-ladder

BlueK wrote:
Hey NCAA, please reschedule the women's final four to this place so I can easily attend when BYU makes it. Oh and by the way, here's a hint: make it for a Thursday-Saturday. It will be a lot easier to just do that now so you don't need to change it later. :-)



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Stadium_%28Texas%29#/media/File:Pizza_Hut_Park.jpg

Well, well. The NCAA hasn't yet named a new location for the women's soccer final four, but on their official site they have actually changed the dates from December 2nd (Friday) and 4th (sunday), to December 2nd and 3rd. BYU with a top 5 team this year has to have something to do with that. It only makes sense to cover that base right now that they find themselves having to find a new location.



http://www.ncaa.com/sports/soccer-women/d1

That's crazy. Within a couple of hours they changed it back to December 2nd and 4th. Interesting.

Another 3 goal win. Our front line is AWESOME, one of the best in the country. One goal for each of Hatch, Vasconcelos and Gomes. While it's still a win, it probably won't be a quality win to help us in the rankings or the RPI.

New rankings for this morning (September 19th)



#5 Top Drawer Soccer

#2 Hero Sports

New coaches poll out tomorrow. BYU was #6 on that last week.

Upcoming schedule:

vs Denver on 22 Sept 7 pm in Provo - broadcast on TheW.tv

vs Long Beach on 24 Sept 8 pm in Provo - broadcast on BYUtv

vs Santa Clara on 29 Sept 7 pm in Provo - broadcast on BYUtv



In fact, between BYUtv, TheW.tv and ESPNU, the remainder of BYU's games will be broadcast.

BYU #2 this week on the first NCAA rpi ranking.



BYU lost to #10 Nebraska, which doesn't look that bad in this context.



Top 50 wins over:

@ #17 Ohio State

@ #23 Utah

@ #25 Penn State

@ #45 Washington State



I don't think any other team in the country has four top 50 road wins right now.



http://www.ncaa.com/rankings/soccer-women/d1/ncaa-womens-soccer-rpi

BYU is #4 in the NSCAA Poll:



http://www.ncaa.com/rankings/soccer-women/d1

Tonight's game against Denver was really sad. Love that we won 7-0, but Denver was SO bad and it was such a sloppy, wet field that it wasn't even a challenge for BYU. We have an AWESOME team! The last goal came when the Denver defender tried to kick the ball back to the goalkeeper and, because of how much water was on the field, it slowed the ball down and if didn't make it to the keeper. Elise Flake got a hold of it and took it past rhe keeper to the goal. It was not pretty.

I hope a lot of subs got to play and no one got hurt.

Long Beach State coming tomorrow. They're actually a pretty good team with some quality wins this year and have played a tough schedule.

The subbed out the entire team and the keeper (got to see Sabrina Macias play). No injuries as far as I could tell.

Nerve-wracking 1-0 win tonight over Long Beach State. I was on the edge of my seat the whole game until our lone goal was scored because knew that, until we scored, the game was up for grabs. The only goal was scored by Ashley Hatch off a cross by Jocelyn Loomis in the 85th minute. That's Hatch's nation-leading 12th goal. Thankfully, the goal was late enough in the game that LBSU didn't have much time to put in the equalizing goal. Whew!



We are 9-1 folks! We go into conference play beginning Thursday at 7 PM MST.

#2 Virgina lost to Miami on Thursday and then tied #3 Florida State today, so there's a good chance BYU will move up to #3 and possibly #2 in the NSCAA Coaches Poll. Denver and Long Beach State both will hurt our RPI though. LBSU is 105th and Denver is 182nd.

SkystheLimit wrote:
#2 Virgina lost to Miami on Thursday and then tied #3 Florida State today, so there's a good chance BYU will move up to #3 and possibly #2 in the NSCAA Coaches Poll. Denver and Long Beach State both will hurt our RPI though. LBSU is 105th and Denver is 182nd.

BYU is still #2 on the RPI, so not hurt by the last two opponents. Also, LBS is probably the best team in their conference. They have 5 losses but their schedule has been pretty hard. They have a road win against rpi #19 USC. They've also played #2 BYU, #14 UCLA, #25 Penn St, and were competitive in all of those. They'll get a lot of wins in conference play, so their rpi will probably be top 75 by the end of the season.

The WCC schedule probably won't hurt our rpi all that much. 7/10 teams are in the rpi top 100. That's not the ACC, but it's comparable to the Pac 12. Compare that to the MWC that only has one team in the top 100 (USU at #77). If we win out we should be a #1 seed like in 2012.

Okay, I have a real beef about the Mac Hermann Trophy. What a joke! They pick the winner from a pool of 30 players chosen before the season even starts? If you're not on the watch list, you have no chance of winning it, even if you turn out to be the best, most awesome player. Ashley Hatch didn't make the watch list because she was injured most of last year. Yet she should be at the top of their list. Stupid and ridiculous to choose the pool before the season ever starts and exclude anyone who isn't on the list.