University of North Texas Athletics
Wednesday, October 24
Murfreesboro, Tenn.
6:00 P.M.
University of North Texas
at
Middle Tennessee
Mean Green Go For Number 14
10/24/2018 7:38:00 AM | Women's Soccer
DENTON — The Mean Green soccer team can clinch its 14th conference championship in its 24th season and its fifth in a row with a win Wednesday over Middle Tennessee.Â
The match begins at 6 p.m. CT and can be streamed online on CUSA.tv.
After beating Florida Atlantic on Friday 2-1, UNT put itself in the driver's seat of the regular season standings. The Owls and Mean Green are tied atop the standings but UNT has two games remaining while FAU has just one and the Mean Green (12-1-2, 7-0-1) now own the tiebreaker with the win on Friday.
The Blue Raiders (9-5-1, 4-3-1) will not be easy though.
Middle Tennessee's Peyton DePriest was the 2018 Preseason Offensive MVP and has scored a league leading seven goals in conference, which is one more than the Mean Green's Berklee Peters. DePriest scored last season in UNT's 4-1 win over the Blue Raiders in the conference tournament.
For the year, DePriest is averaging a league leading a goal a match.Â
DePriest isn't alone. Her teammate, Hannah Tillett actually leads the conference in total goals with 11.Â
In addition to having multiple offensive weapons is the fact that Middle Tennessee is battling for the spot to make the eight-team conference tournament. The Blue Raiders sit in a tie with Rice for seventh place in the standings and Charlotte is right on both of their heels in 9th but just one point behind.
North Texas' nationally recognized defense will be tested. But they've stepped.
The Mean Green, which has only allowed only five goals all year and has the nation's third-best goals-against average at .32 and posted a league leading 10 shutouts has held some of the conference's most potent offenses scoreless, including shutting out the league's top offense in Southern Miss in Hattiesburg on Sept. 20.
Scoring two goals on Wednesday should clinch the championship for UNT as they have yet to give up two goals all year and furthermore in the program's 24-year history they have won over 91 percent of matches where they score two or more goals. They have won the last 17 matches in a row where they have scored two or more goals dating back to Sept. 10, 2017 when they tied 3-3 with Indiana.
The match begins at 6 p.m. CT and can be streamed online on CUSA.tv.
After beating Florida Atlantic on Friday 2-1, UNT put itself in the driver's seat of the regular season standings. The Owls and Mean Green are tied atop the standings but UNT has two games remaining while FAU has just one and the Mean Green (12-1-2, 7-0-1) now own the tiebreaker with the win on Friday.
The Blue Raiders (9-5-1, 4-3-1) will not be easy though.
Middle Tennessee's Peyton DePriest was the 2018 Preseason Offensive MVP and has scored a league leading seven goals in conference, which is one more than the Mean Green's Berklee Peters. DePriest scored last season in UNT's 4-1 win over the Blue Raiders in the conference tournament.
For the year, DePriest is averaging a league leading a goal a match.Â
DePriest isn't alone. Her teammate, Hannah Tillett actually leads the conference in total goals with 11.Â
In addition to having multiple offensive weapons is the fact that Middle Tennessee is battling for the spot to make the eight-team conference tournament. The Blue Raiders sit in a tie with Rice for seventh place in the standings and Charlotte is right on both of their heels in 9th but just one point behind.
North Texas' nationally recognized defense will be tested. But they've stepped.
The Mean Green, which has only allowed only five goals all year and has the nation's third-best goals-against average at .32 and posted a league leading 10 shutouts has held some of the conference's most potent offenses scoreless, including shutting out the league's top offense in Southern Miss in Hattiesburg on Sept. 20.
Scoring two goals on Wednesday should clinch the championship for UNT as they have yet to give up two goals all year and furthermore in the program's 24-year history they have won over 91 percent of matches where they score two or more goals. They have won the last 17 matches in a row where they have scored two or more goals dating back to Sept. 10, 2017 when they tied 3-3 with Indiana.
| North Texas | 7-0-1 | 0.938 | 22 | 12-1-2 | 0.867 |
| Florida Atlantic | 7-1-1 | 0.833 | 22 | 10-7-1 | 0.583 |
| UAB | 6-3 | 0.667 | 18 | 9-6-1 | 0.594 |
| Southern Miss | 5-3-1 | 0.611 | 16 | 11-4-1 | 0.719 |
| Louisiana Tech | 4-3-2 | 0.556 | 14 | 11-5-2 | 0.667 |
| Old Dominion | 4-3-2 | 0.556 | 14 | 7-6-4 | 0.529 |
| Middle Tennessee | 4-3-1 | 0.563 | 13 | 9-5-1 | 0.633 |
| Rice | 4-4-1 | 0.500 | 13 | 6-8-1 | 0.433 |
| Charlotte | 4-5 | 0.444 | 12 | 8-8 | 0.500 |
| Marshall | 3-5-1 | 0.389 | 10 | 5-8-3 | 0.406 |
| UTEP | 2-5-2 | 0.333 | 8 | 7-8-3 | 0.472 |
| WKU | 2-5-2 | 0.333 | 8 | 4-8-4 | 0.375 |
| UTSA | 2-6-1 | 0.278 | 7 | 6-9-1 | 0.406 |
| FIU | 0-8-1 | 0.056 | 1 | 0-16-1 | 0.029 |
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