2016 Big East Men's Soccer Standings
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MEN’S SOCCER REPORT • OCT. 22, 2016 Contact: Kristin Quinn, Assistant Commissioner O: 646.663.3456 C: 914.819.8751 [email protected] @BIGEASTChamps 2016 BIG EAST MEN’S SOCCER STANDINGS #BEfútbol BIG EAST OVERALL Rec. Pts. H A Rec. Pct. H A N Streak Next Opponent THE WEEK AHEAD CREIGHTON (10/20) 4-0-1 13 3-0-0 1-0-1 8-2-3 .731 6-0-2 2-2-1 0-0-0 W1 at VILLANOVA (10/22) OCTOBER. XAVIER (RV) 3-1-1 10 2-0-1 1-1-0 7-4-3 .700 5-1-2 2-3-1 0-0-0 L1 at MARQUETTE (10/22) Saturday BUTLER (19/NR) 3-2-0 9 2-0-0 1-2-0 8-4-1 .654 5-1-0 1-3-1 2-0-0 L3 SETON HALL (10/22) 22 No. 10 CREIGHTON at VILLANOVABEDN 1 p.m. BEDN PROVIDENCE 3-2-0 9 2-1-0 1-1-0 8-5-0 .615 5-3-0 3-2-0 0-0-0 W4 at DePAUL (10/22) ST. JOHN’S at GEORGETOWN 1 p.m. ST. JOHN’S 2-1-2 8 2-0-1 0-1-1 6-3-4 .615 5-1-3 1-2-1 0-0-0 W1 at GEORGETOWN (10/22) PROVIDENCE at DEPAUL 2 p.m. SETON HALL at No. 19 BUTLERBEDN 7 p.m. VILLANOVA 2-2-1 7 1-1-0 1-1-1 7-5-2 .571 3-2-1 3-3-2 0-0-0 W1 CREIGHTON (10/22) BEDN XAVIER at MARQUETTE 8 p.m. DEPAUL 2-3-0 6 1-1-0 0-2-0 7-5-2 .571 5-2-0 2-3-2 0-0-0 W2 PROVIDENCE (10/22) GEORGETOWN 1-3-1 4 0-2-0 1-1-1 4-8-1 .346 3-3-0 1-4-1 0-1-0 W1 ST. JOHN’S (10/22) Wednesday SETON HALL 1-4-0 3 1-1-0 0-3-0 3-9-1 .269 2-3-1 1-6-0 0-0-0 L3 at BUTLER (10/22) 26 BUTLER at DEPAULBEDN 12 p.m. MARQUETTE 0-3-2 2 0-1-2 0-2-0 3-5-4 .417 2-3-3 1-2-1 0-0-0 L1 XAVIER (10/22) ST. JOHN’S at VILLANOVABEDN 3 p.m. CREIGHTON at XAVIER BEDN 7 p.m. (NSCAA/Soccer America Top 25); RV – receiving votes; # clinched a BIG EAST Championship berth; % clinched a first-round bye; $ regular season champion GEORGETOWN at SETON HALLBEDN 7 p.m. MARQUETTE at PROVIDENCEBEDN 7 p.m. WEEKLY AWARD WINNERS WEEKLY HONOR ROLL OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK Lewis Suddick, Butler, Fr., M – Scored the lone goal HARRY COOKSLEY, St. John’s for Butler in a 2-1 loss at St. John’s. His goal in the 65th RECENT RESULTS Jr., M/F (London, England) minute leveled the score at 1-1, the eighth goal for him OCTOBER this season. 19 VILLANOVA 4, Penn 0 The senior midfielder had a goal in each game this week as St. John’s Ricardo Perez, Creighton, Sr., M/F – Scored two goals in went 1-0-1 including an upset league win over No. 11 Butler at home. a 2-1 win over Marquette to keep Creighton at the top of 18 S.I.U.E. 1, XAVIER 0 Cooksley scored the lone goal in a 1-1 draw with Loyola during midweek the league standings. GEORGETOWN 4, Princeton 3 (2OT) non-conference play. He followed that up with the game-winning goal in the 85th minute in the Red Storm’s victory over the Bulldogs on Erik Rodriguez, DePaul, Sr., F – Notched the game-win- 15 PROVIDENCE 1, SETON HALL 0 Saturday night. Cooksley leads the Red Storm in points with 14 with ner in a 1-0 victory at Georgetown on Saturday, helping the Blue Demons win two in a row. He has connected on DePAUL 1, GEORGETOWN 0 four goals and six assists. the game-winner in the last two games. VILLANOVA 2, XAVIER 2 ST. JOHN’S 2, No. 11 BUTLER 1 Lucas Hodges, Villanova, Jr., M – Scored one of Villano- No. 6 CREIGHTON 2, MARQUETTE 1 va’s two goals in a 2-2 draw on Saturday at Xavier. He now leads the Wildcats with four goals on the season. DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK 11 ST. JOHN’S 1, Loyola MD 1 (2OT) MATT NANCE, Xavier Colin Hanley, Xavier, So., GK – Split a shutout on Tuesday XAVIER 3, Belmont 0 Jr., D (Washington, Mich.) in non-conference play and earned a tie against Villanova Tulsa 2, No. 6 CREIGHTON on Saturday as he came in with a 1-0 deficit. Had 0.55 goals against average for the week. In a 1-0-1 week for Xavier, Nance assisted on both ends of the pitch 10 No. 7 Denver 1, No. 9 BUTLER 0 as the defender helped the Musketeers to a non-conference shutout over Belmont during midweek play, then held Villanova under its season average for shots during a double-overtime draw. Nance helped Xavier on the offensive side of the ball as he led the team with five points (2G, #BEfutbol KICK OFF NOTES 1A) and scored goals in both of Xavier’s matches. • BIG EAST men’s soccer has entered the turn in WATCH #BEFUTBOL the league schedule with five matches complete. Creighton leads the standings with a 4-0-1 record ON @BIGEASTDigitaL and 13 points. Xavier has jumped up to second GOALKEEPER OF THE WEEK with a 3-1-1 record (10 points), leaving Butler and QUENTIN LOW, DePaul Providence to tie at third with nine points each. Jr., GK (Long Grove, Ill.) • If the season were to end before Saturday’s SATURDAY, OCT. 22 1 p.m. CREIGHTON at VILLANOVA Goalkeeper Quentin Low had a 1-0 week in goal as he made three saves matches, the last two teams into the tournament Villanova Soccer Complex in a 17-shot match against Georgetown. The junior keeper helped the field would be St. John’s and Villanova. Butler would Blue Demons hang on to a 1-0 victory for three points in the league have the No. 3 seed with a head-to-head win over PXP: Jon Mozes standings, moving DePaul up to seventh with six points. Providence. 1 p.m. ST. JOHN’S at GEORGETOWN • Providence goes into Week 6 tied for third with Shaw Field Butler and on a four-game winning streak. Butler PXP: Dan Helfrich needs to win to snap its three-game skid. Analyst: Tom Greaser FRESHMAN OF THE WEEK • Creighton head coach Elmar Bolowich earned win ALISTAIR JOHNSTON, St. John’s No. 370 last weekend, his 90th win at the helm Fr., M (Aurora, Ontario) 7 p.m. SETON HALL at BUTLER of the Bluejays program. Providence coach Craig Butler Bowl Johnston scored the first goal in St. John’s 2-1 win over No. 11 Butler Stewart has 99 career wins and will be on the hunt PXP: Mark Minner on Saturday in league play. Johnston is third on the Red Storm in points for No. 100 on Saturday. with eight and ties Cooksley for second in goals with four. • Georgetown has the seventh-hardest schedule in 8 p.m. XAVIER at MARQUETTE the country according to the NCAA, Butler’s is 17th, Valley Fields Villanova tied for 18th with NC State. PXP: Patrick Reed • Nineteen of the final 20 games will be on BEDN. BIG EAST CONFERENce 655 THIRD AVENUE • NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10017 WWW.BIGEAST.COM BROADCAST & TOURNAMENT INFORMatiON Men’s Soccer on the BIG EAST Digital Network The BIG EAST announced its fall lineup for the BIG EAST Digital Network (BEDN) on Thursday featuring 86 regular-season contests and five championships across five sports: men’s soccer, women’s soccer, volleyball, field hockey and cross country. With the launch of the 2016 Fall BEDN schedule, the league released a new Twitter handle, @BIGEASTdigital, dedicated to the Digital Network. The social media platform will carry high- lights, teasers, original programming and news from BIG EAST Digital Network correspondents, complimenting content on BIGEAST.com. Pro- gramming for the 2016-17 season includes 73 women’s basketball games, 70 men’s and women’s soccer matches, plus 15 volleyball, 10 baseball, 10 softball and six lacrosse games and one field hockey contest. BEDN will also cover all 36 BIG EAST Championships, which are presented by Jeep. BEDN, the BIG EAST’s branded channel on FOX Sports Go, will showcase conference soccer matches in the fall, streaming 35 men’s game and 35 women’s games, which includes full coverage of the opening weekend for both men’s and women’s soccer and all games during the final two weekends of the regular season. BEDN men’s soccer coverage kicks off Saturday, Sept. 17 and concludes Nov. 6 and No. 10 with the BIG EAST Championship First Round and Semifinals. FOX Sports GO is currently available for iOS, Android, Kindle Fire tablets and Fire phones, select Windows devices, and on desktops through FOXSportsGO.com. Fans can download the mobile app for free from the iTunes App Store, Google Play, Amazon App Store and Windows Store. FOX Sports Go’s authenticated distribution is more than 90 million homes averaging more than three million streams per month. In 2015, FOX Sports Go became available internationally. In September 2016, the app was also available on Roku and Apple TV.