Anonymous Eagle - The 2015 Big East Women's Soccer Conference TournamentYour home for coverage of Wisconsin's elite college athletics.https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/46843/anon-fave.png2015-11-09T09:45:55-06:00http://www.anonymouseagle.com/rss/stream/94300532015-11-09T09:45:55-06:002015-11-09T09:45:55-06:00Butler Wins 2015 Big East Women's Soccer Tournament<h3 class="link-title"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.bigeast.com/news/2015/11/8/WSOC_1108152504.aspx">Butler Wins 2015 Big East Women's Soccer&nbsp;Tournament</a></h3>
<div class="description"><p><p>All they needed was a random bouncing ball off a corner kick to defeat Providence 1-0 and earn a spot in the NCAA tournament.
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<br /><p>Click the link for highlights!</p></p></div>
https://www.anonymouseagle.com/2015/11/9/9696324/butler-wins-2015-big-east-womens-soccer-tournamentBrewtown Andy2015-11-07T09:56:05-06:002015-11-07T09:56:05-06:00Butler & Providence Pull Upsets In Big East WSOC Semifinals<h3 class="link-title"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.bigeast.com/news/2015/11/6/WSOC_1106152310.aspx">Butler & Providence Pull Upsets In Big East WSOC&nbsp;Semifinals</a></h3>
<div class="description"><p><p>The league's got recaps of Friday night's Women's Soccer tournament semifinals, including highlight videos of both Butler's win over St. John's and Providence advancing past Georgetown on penalty kicks.
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<br /><p>The Bulldogs and Friars square off for the automatic bid to the NCAA tournament on Sunday afternoon, with first kick at 12:30pm Central on Fox Sports 1.</p></p></div>
https://www.anonymouseagle.com/2015/11/7/9687810/butler-providence-pull-upsets-in-big-east-wsoc-semifinalsBrewtown Andy2015-11-06T10:39:02-06:002015-11-06T10:39:02-06:002015 Big East Women's Soccer Tournament Semifinals Preview<h3 class="link-title"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.bigeast.com/news/2015/11/5/WSOC_1105154308.aspx">2015 Big East Women's Soccer Tournament Semifinals&nbsp;Preview</a></h3>
<div class="description"><p><p>With Marquette bumped from the proceedings by Butler on Tuesday night, we turn things over to the league office for a preview of Friday night's semifinal action at Morrison Stadium in Omaha.
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<br /><p>#1 St. John's takes on #4 Butler in the first semifinal at 4:30pm Central time, while #2 Georgetown vs #6 Providence is the night cap starting at approximately 7pm Central. Both matches will be streamed live on the Big East Digital Network on <a href="http://foxsportsgo.com" target="new">Fox Sports Go</a>.</p></p></div>
https://www.anonymouseagle.com/2015/11/6/9681376/2015-big-east-womens-soccer-tournament-semifinals-previewBrewtown Andy2015-11-04T09:45:02-06:002015-11-04T09:45:02-06:00WSOC Season Ends In Big East Quarterfinals
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<p>The Golden Eagles fell in the Big East quarterfinals on Tuesday night, and that's going to do it for 2015.</p> <p>Earlier this season, Marquette beat Butler in the Butler Bowl by a score of 1-0 when Darian Powell put her head on a series of fortuitous volleys after a corner kick.</p>
<p>On Tuesday night, Butler beat Marquette in the Butler Bowl by a score of 1-0 when Shannon McDevitt put her foot on a series of fortuitous bounces after a corner kick.</p>
<p>Stupid mirror images.</p>
<p>The difference between Marquette's win and Butler's win is that the Bulldogs got the victory in the <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/big-east-basketball-tournament" class="sbn-auto-link">Big East tournament</a> quarterfinals, earning them a spot in the semifinals on Friday against top seeded St. John's. As a result of the loss, Marquette's season is over. The Golden Eagles sit at 8-8-4 on the season, and as of this past Monday, their RPI of 72 will not be anywhere near enough to get them into the 64 team <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/march-madness" class="sbn-auto-link">NCAA tournament</a> when the field is announced next week.</p>
<p>McDevitt's goal came in the 67th minute. It came off of a corner kick by Serina Kashimoto that Butler earned when a shot from Sophia Maccagnone went juuuuust high enough for Marquette keeper Amanda Engel to leap and poke it up and over the crossbar. On the corner, Marquette made the initial defense, but Butler's Randi DeLong sent it back in. It ended up bouncing towards the Marquette net, where Erin Holland tried to put a boot on it. She didn't quite get it, and it volleyed on towards Engel. Engel's hands and McDevitt's foot got to the ball at the same time, resulting in Engel going one way and McDevitt and the ball going the other. McDevitt was the one on her feet and she poked it home for the game winner.</p>
<p>Marquette's two best looks at the net came with seconds left on the clock in both halves. Darian Powell missed the net just barely to the left as the first half expired, and if it was one, maybe two feet to the right, it would have found beaten Butler keeper Madison Card. It was Powell again for MU's very final shot at the net as regulation expired. After a Jacie Jermier shot was blocked with 12 seconds left, Powell was able to collect the ball and blast a shot on frame with five seconds remaining. Card made the save on that shot, easily catching it to preserve her clean sheet.</p>
<p>Highlights, including McDevitt's goal and Powell's shot at the end of the first half, courtesy of the Big East Digital Network:</p>
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<p>With the season over, there's only one thing left to do. THANK YOU to Marquette's three seniors: Amanda Engel, Jacie Jermier, and Ann Marie Lynch. Those three women have been an invaluable part of the Marquette women's soccer program for the last four years (five in the case of redshirt senior Jermier), including some of the biggest wins in Marquette women's soccer history. The last two years may not have matched up to the standards of their first years in Milwaukee, but we still celebrate them for the time, energy, and effort that they've devoted to Marquette.</p>
https://www.anonymouseagle.com/2015/11/4/9668874/marquette-womens-soccer-season-comes-to-an-endBrewtown Andy2015-11-03T14:58:19-06:002015-11-03T14:58:19-06:00#6 Providence Eliminates #3 DePaul
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<p>#6 seed Providence knocked off #3 seed DePaul in Chicago on Tuesday afternoon by a final of 1-0. With the win, the Friars advance to the Big East semifinals this coming Friday in Omaha, while the loss means DePaul will have to wait for the NCAA selection show to see if their season will continue.</p>
<p>After a scoreless first half that had the two teams tied in shots at five each, Providence finally broke through in the 80th minute. With a ball volleying around the 18 yard box in front of DePaul keeper Alejandria Godinez, PC's Morgan Thomasian fired a shot at the net. Given the velocity and direction, it seems likely that Godinez was going to swallow that one up for her fifth save of the match. But Kathryn Hiller stuck her leg out and tipped the ball towards the far post. Godinez never had a chance to reel the redirection in and keep the match scoreless.</p>
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<p>Providence will face off with #2 seed Georgetown in one of the two semifinals on Friday at Creighton's Morrison Stadium.</p>
https://www.anonymouseagle.com/2015/11/3/9666024/2015-big-east-womens-soccer-tournament-providence-1-depaul-0Brewtown Andy2015-11-03T09:00:03-06:002015-11-03T09:00:03-06:002015 Big East WSOC Quarterfinals Preview
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<figcaption>It'd be awfully fun to see this nine or ten more times this week. | <a href='http://Facebook.com/MUWomensSoccer'>Facebook.com/MUWomensSoccer</a></figcaption>
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<p>We've got two matches on Tuesday, one in the afternoon, one at night.</p> <p>We begin the march to crown a Big East women's soccer champion today with two matches. Convienently, because DePaul refuses to install lights in their soccer facility, we get one afternoon game and one night game. The winners of today's game advance to Friday's semifinals in Omaha, where Creighton's Morrison Stadium will host the final two rounds of the tournament. St. John's and Georgetown are the #1 and #2 seeds respectively, and they've earned byes out of this round and will face the winners of today's games in the semifinals.</p>
<p>Both matches today are available on Fox Sports Go through the Big East Digital Network, as will be the case for Friday's doubleheader in Omaha. Fox Sports 1 will carry the women's soccer title game live on Sunday afternoon.</p>
<h4 style="text-align: center;">Match #1: #6 Providence at #3 DePaul</h4>
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<b>When:</b> Tuesday, November 3, 2015, at 1pm Central</div>
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<b style="font-weight: bold;">Where:</b> Wish Field in Chicago, IL</div>
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<b style="font-weight: bold;">Audio/Visual:</b> The Big East Digital Network on <a href="http://foxsportsgo.com" style="background-color: #ffffff;">Fox Sports Go</a> has the video stream, plus there's <a href="http://www.friars.com/gametracker/launch/gt_wsoccer.html?event=1440980&school=prov&sport=wsoccer&camefrom=&startschool=&">live stats</a>.</div>
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<b style="font-weight: bold;">Regular Season Meeting:</b> Providence won at home, 2-0, on October 22</div>
<p style="text-align: left;">Providence's win over DePaul earlier this season may have been the match that decided the Big East regular season title. At 12-7-0 and 5-4-0 in league play, it's still surprising that the Friars found a way to beat the Blue Demons (12-3-4, 6-1-2 Big East). Mind you , the "way" they found was scoring a goal in the first few minutes of the game and then catching a lucky break to get an own goal as insurance before the half was over. The loss was the first for DePaul in league play since 2013, when they lost to St. John's in their regular season finale and also dropped a 2-0 decision to Marquette in the Big East title game that season.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Amazingly, both teams need the win here to prolong their NCAA tournament hopes. I don't think anyone's surprised to think that a middle of the road team like Providence would be on the outside looking in nor to find out that their RPI is drifting around down at #78 in the most recent update. What is surprising, though, is to see DePaul's RPI at 59. If you were filling a field of 64 entirely based just on RPI, the Blue Demons would be getting bounced from the field because of the automatic bids to the tournament. It's possible, even though it seems weird to say, that DePaul will need that tournament title and automatic bid to make sure that they reach the NCAAs for the third consecutive season.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The two names to keep an eye on here are PC's Catherine Zimmerman and DPU's Elise Wyatt. Zimmerman leads the Big East in shots this season, although her 112 attempts have only resulted in six goals. Meanwhile, Wyatt had the third most shots in the league with 71, but was much more productive. She finished second in the league in points and goals, with her 12 tallies tying a DePaul single season record. In her free time, Wyatt also managed to tie for ninth in the Big East in assists.</p>
<h4 style="text-align: center;">Match #2: #5 Marquette at #4 Butler</h4>
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<b>When:</b> Tuesday, November 3, 2015, at 6pm Central</div>
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<b style="font-weight: bold;">Where:</b><b> </b>Butler Bowl in Indianapolis, IN</div>
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<b style="font-weight: bold;">Audio/Visual:</b><b> </b>The Big East Digital Network on <a href="http://foxsportsgo.com" style="background-color: #ffffff;">Fox Sports Go</a> has the video stream, plus there's <a href="http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=109055">live stats</a>.</div>
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<b style="font-weight: bold;">Regular Season Meeting:</b><b> </b>Marquette won at Butler, 1-0, on October 25</div>
<p>We find ourselves with an interesting situation with the two games in this year's quarterfinals: The two teams that are hosting the tournament matches lost to their respective visitor during the regular season meeting. DePaul falling at Providence might have been the most surprising result of the regular season (with Marquette losing at Seton Hall right behind that one), but Marquette's win over Butler was one of the more dissonant results you'll ever see.</p>
<p>While Marquette got the win on a goal from Darian Powell in that game on a bit of a ping-pong volley in front of the Butler net, the Bulldogs weren't able to capitalize on Marquette getting whistled for a season high 21 fouls in the match. Here's what's so odd about that: Marquette was the least foul prone team in the league at that point of the season, and even now, they're still averaging the second fewest fouls at 8.5 per match. How did they end up getting whistled for nearly three times that in a 90 minute stretch? The world may never know.</p>
<p>Powell is the only Golden Eagle in the top 10 in the league in goals this season with seven, while Butler has two players on the list. Halle Stelbasky has nine goals on the season, although she's only scored twice against Big East opponents. Senior midfielder Sophia Maccagnone has seven goals to sneak into the top 10 along with three other players who are tied with her and Powell.</p>
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<p>One final match day, and nothing's been officially decided other than which six teams will be in the conference tournament.</p> <p>We have five matches left in the Big East women's soccer regular season. Heading into the final match day on Friday, no one has clinched a Big East tournament seed, although we know which six teams will be in the field. Four teams can still end up with at least a share of the regular season title or even just get a bye to the semifinals. Three teams can still end up with the #1 seed. Five teams can end up finishing sixth. All six teams could end up hosting one of the two quarterfinal matches by the end of the day on Friday.</p>
<p>What I'm saying is that there's a lot of moving parts. Let's try to explain what's on the line on Friday.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">1) St. John's (6-1-1, 19 points)</h3>
<h5 style="text-align: center;">Final Match: at Providence, 6pm Central, BEDN</h5>
<p>As always, if you hold the top spot by yourself at the start of the final day, you control your own destiny. If St. John's beats Providence, they win the regular season title and the #1 seed in the Big East tournament. Things get slightly more complicated from there, but the Red Storm has the advantage of playing after the second and third place teams already will have finished their matches. A loss could send the Red Storm as low as third place, because they'd still end up winning a tiebreaker with Marquette. If St. John's happens to draw with Providence, they could end up tied with Georgetown and/or DePaul. Georgetown holds the tie breaker against SJU courtesy of a 3-1 win, while tying with DePaul earlier this year means it's hard to say which tiebreaker will end up creating the difference in that scenario.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">2) DePaul (5-1-2, 17 points)</h3>
<h5 style="text-align: center;">Final Match: vs Marquette, 2pm Central, BEDN</h5>
<p>Ok, now we get goofy. DePaul needs a win over Marquette and a St. John's loss to take the top seed in the tournament. If DePaul and Georgetown both win, the Blue Demons will stay in front of the Hoyas, regardless of how anyone else performs.</p>
<p>There is still a possibility that DePaul falls as far as sixth place. If they lose, the possibility exists that Georgetown, Marquette, Butler, and Providence would all pass them. Obviously, MU would pass them since the Golden Eagles are only one point back, but the Bulldogs and Friars are only two points back, and their wins wouldn't affect anyone else. That 2-0 loss to Providence back on October 22nd looms very large for DePaul right now.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">3) Georgetown (5-1-2, 17 points)</h3>
<h5 style="text-align: center;">Final Match: vs Creighton, 1:30pm Central, BEDN</h5>
<p>Pretty much everything that I just said about DePaul applies to Georgetown. They're still alive for the league title, but they would need a win over Creighton, a SJU loss or draw AND a DPU loss or draw to get there. If GU wins and SJU draws then the Hoyas would be the #1 seed, but they'd have to share the league title with the Red Storm. If that all happens PLUS DePaul wins, then it all gets very confusing as to who ends up getting the top seed.</p>
<p>As is the case with DePaul, Georgetown could still end up as far south as sixth. The three teams below them in the standings currently all have games against teams that are either out of the picture or in front of Georgetown already, so wins by those three combined with a Hoyas loss will send GU tumbling down to the bottom of the playoff picture.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">4) Marquette (5-2-1, 16 points)</h3>
<h5 style="text-align: center;">Final Match: at DePaul, 2pm Central, BEDN</h5>
<p>Here we have our final team that's still eligible for the regular season title. IF Marquette beats DePaul, and IF St. John's loses to Providence, and IF Georgetown either draws with or loses to Creighton, then the Golden Eagles get to share the regular season title with the Red Storm. They can't end up as the #1 seed, as St. John's defeated Marquette 3-0 earlier this season, but it would still mean a bye into the Big East semifinals in Omaha.</p>
<p>That scenario is the only way that Marquette gets their way into a bye to the semifinals. Wins by Georgetown or St. John's would keep the Golden Eagles in the four pack of teams that will play in the quarterfinals, but they do have the inside track on hosting a quarterfinal match. If MU's match with DePaul ends in a draw or a loss by Marquette, then they could end up falling down as far as the sixth and final spot, so pretty much anything is up for grabs on Friday afternoon in Lincoln Park.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">5) Butler (5-3-0, 15 points)</h3>
<h5 style="text-align: center;">Final Match: vs Xavier, 6pm Central, BEDN</h5>
<p>The Bulldogs can not win the Big East title. That's off the table. Also off the table: getting a bye to the semifinals. While Butler has a tiebreaker with Georgetown, they'd also need a DePaul loss to get there because they don't have the advantage against the Blue Demons. A DePaul loss means a Marquette win, which keeps the Golden Eagles a slight step in front of Butler.</p>
<p>The best that Butler can do is host a quarterfinal match. They'll need to defeat the Musketeers first of all, and then need a Marquette or a Georgetown loss for that to happen. That's actually kind of a likely scenario, as DePaul would have to be favored against Marquette. Marquette gets the advantage in case of a MU loss and Butler draw courtesy of Sunday's 1-0 win. Funny how that works. Sixth place is still on the table for BU if they lose or draw and Providence bumps off St. John's.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">6) Providence (5-3-0, 15 points)</h3>
<h5 style="text-align: center;">Final Match: vs St. John's, 6pm Central, BEDN</h5>
<p>As the Friars are tied with Butler right now, we can basically take everything position related that we just figured out about Butler and just apply it to Providence. There are only two differences: Butler will stand in front of Providence if both teams end up winning or drawing in their matches, and Providence has the head-to-head tiebreaker with DePaul, but not with Georgetown. In fact, DePaul is the only team in front of PC in the standings that the Friars do own the tiebreaker against, and they can't end up in a tie with St. John's if they pull of the home win in their season finale.</p>
https://www.anonymouseagle.com/2015/10/28/9623330/your-2015-big-east-womens-soccer-tournament-scenariosBrewtown Andy