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First 10 minutes. This was not long ball over the top. This was irresponsible, too cute, play along the back line.

Billikens simply took the ball and scored. Nothing fancy about it.

There is not much statistical promise in allowing 2 goals per match.

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Maryland tying with unranked Michigan tonight at home won't help.

Maryland player got a red card at 75 minutes. other interesting scores.....Virginia and duke 2-2 tie. Louisville and Syracuse 1-1 tie. Bowling Green 3 Evansville 1 ; Western Michigan 8 St. Bonaventure 0 ;

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First 10 minutes. This was not long ball over the top. This was irresponsible, too cute, play along the back line.

Billikens simply took the ball and scored. Nothing fancy about it.

There is not much statistical promise in allowing 2 goals per match.

Looking at the last 5 Mens College Cups, 2010 (MOST EXCELLENT YEAR) to 2014, we need significant improvement on goals against average:

Year Winner GP GA GAA

2014 Virginia 23 17 0.74

2013 Notre Dame 24 18 0.75

2012 Indiana 25 18 0.72

2011 UNC 26 18 0.69

2010 Akrron 25 16 0.64

EDIT: Looking at 2009 (a GOOD YEAR)

Year Team GP GA GAA

2009 Virginia 24 8 0.33

2009 RU Akron 25 7 0.28

As I've told numerous people, numerous times, I'm not diminishing 2010 whatsoever, but the 2009 Zips were better than the 2010 Zips even though they didn't win the Championship. The 2009 team was special to be able to play their beautiful, attacking/possession style and yet defend better than any other team. It's still painful to think of not giving up a single goal in the NCAA Tournament and yet not bringing home the Championship trophy.

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Looking at the last 5 Mens College Cups, 2010 (MOST EXCELLENT YEAR) to 2014, we need significant improvement on goals against average:

Year Winner GP GA GAA

2014 Virginia 23 17 0.74

2013 Notre Dame 24 18 0.75

2012 Indiana 25 18 0.72

2011 UNC 26 18 0.69

2010 Akrron 25 16 0.64

EDIT: Looking at 2009 (a GOOD YEAR)

Year Team GP GA GAA

2009 Virginia 24 8 0.33

2009 RU Akron 25 7 0.28

As I've told numerous people, numerous times, I'm not diminishing 2010 whatsoever, but the 2009 Zips were better than the 2010 Zips even though they didn't win the Championship. The 2009 team was special to be able to play their beautiful, attacking/possession style and yet defend better than any other team. It's still painful to think of not giving up a single goal in the NCAA Tournament and yet not bringing home the Championship trophy.

2009: 23W-2D-0L runners-up

The wound that will never heal!

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I was there, but entered the place after the two STL goals. It seemed like we dominated the entire rest of the game.

Does anyone know what the heck happened in those first 10 minutes? Seems impossible that they scored 2 goals early. We shut them down from mounting any kind of offense at all for the remainder of the game, and had tons of opportunities and near-misses ourselves.

The first STL goal was a sloppy ball in the box that we were unable to clear. The second goal a Zips player, who happened to be the last defender tried to beat a guy 1v1, slipped, lost the ball and STL forward made us pay. Two very uncharacteristic plays from the Zips that almost crushed us in the home opener. After that we dominated play.

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Looking at the last 5 Mens College Cups, 2010 (MOST EXCELLENT YEAR) to 2014, we need significant improvement on goals against average:

Year Winner GP GA GAA

2014 Virginia 23 17 0.74

2013 Notre Dame 24 18 0.75

2012 Indiana 25 18 0.72

2011 UNC 26 18 0.69

2010 Akrron 25 16 0.64

EDIT: Looking at 2009 (a GOOD YEAR)

Year Team GP GA GAA

2009 Virginia 24 8 0.33

2009 RU Akron 25 7 0.28

As I've told numerous people, numerous times, I'm not diminishing 2010 whatsoever, but the 2009 Zips were better than the 2010 Zips even though they didn't win the Championship. The 2009 team was special to be able to play their beautiful, attacking/possession style and yet defend better than any other team. It's still painful to think of not giving up a single goal in the NCAA Tournament and yet not bringing home the Championship trophy.

Firstly, great run against 3 quality teams and a gutty comeback v SLU and looking at schedule a WF win could be part of an amazing run. Congrats team and coaches and special play of Laryea and Najem.

As pointed out, GAA and giving 2 or more in 4 of 5 games is an issue, but it is a byproduct and given that of 206 D1 programs only 6 come in higher than the lofty 2.00 it is fortunate that goal scoring (2014 front and center issue) has bailed the team out in 2015. How things change, but credit staff inserting Balena and getting the best players more forward to add spark and variety.

As for pinning down GAA, it comes from containing SOG and maintaining a healthy Sa%avg. It is a 2 pronged issue.

SOG is Zips 31 to Opponents 29, so a 500 team level of back line defending thus far. 2009 Shots (cant find SOG#s) were 412 to 130, 2010 SOG 187 to 79. Has to get better (DM may have to work harder?)

Sa%age is 0.655 and they are not firing in upper 90 bullets. Routine stuff. Somewhere around 100th in nation and 5th/6 in MAC GK stats. 2009 Meves 0.873. 2010 0.771. Also has to get better. At current top 10 0.842 GAA Zips give 1.10 GAA and are over twice, not just under 5x the rest at 0.43.

TDS Rank, GAA, Sa%avg

1 Creighton 0.200 0.917

2 ND 0.000 1.000

3 UNC 0.500 0.875

4 UVA 1.000 0.778

5 Stanford 0.200 0.900

6 Oreg St 0.400 0.818

7 Clemson 0.800 0.778

8 WF 0.400 0.714

9 U Wash 0.000 1.000

10 UL 0.800 0.636

Avg 0.430 0.842

11 UA 2.000 0.655

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St. Louis is showing tonight that they are indeed a very good team...

they are playing at #19 Louisville tonight

St. Louis led 2-1 for most of 2nd half....Louisville scored at 88:44 on a header

they are getting ready to head to the first OT

in other top national games

#7 Wake Forest and #20 Elon were both 5-0-0 heading into their match tonight

Elon def. Wake 1-0

unranked Xavier went into South Bend and upset #2 Notre Dame 1-0

I hope that the billikens can get a win in OT....as that will help the zips in RPI

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