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by PurpleGeezer on Mon Oct 26, 2009 1:14 am

Topdrawer has no love for UNC:

by PurpleGeezer on Mon Oct 26, 2009 1:17 am

Soccer America on the game:

* FOXHOVEN NETS FOUR MORE. Danielle Foxhoven became the first player in Portland history with two four-goal games in the same season when she scored four times in the No. 2 Pilots' 8-0 win over San Francisco. Foxhoven also scored four goals against Gonzaga in a 7-0 win. She has has now recorded three hat tricks and 21 goals this season. Sophomore Halley Kreminski became the fifth different Pilot to record a hat trick this season when she scored the last three goals against USF to the delight of 4,059 Portland fans who withstood the cold and rain.

by **A_Fan** on Mon Oct 26, 2009 9:19 am

What cold and rain?

by PurpleGeezer on Mon Oct 26, 2009 10:13 am

Santa Clara and Oregon State made it into the SA ranking this week. CAL and TAMU are gone...

Soccer America Women's Top 25
Monday, Oct 26, 2009 7:00 AM ET
[COLLEGE] Thanks to its 3-2 win over North Carolina, Florida State moved into third place in the Soccer America Women's Top 25. Stanford and Portland remained 1-2. For the complete Top 25 rankings ...

Soccer America Men's Top 25
TEAM (2009 RECORD) PREVIOUS
1. Stanford (17-0-0) 1
2. Portland (16-1-0) 2
3. Florida State (13-2-1) 5
4. North Carolina (12-3-1) 3
5. UCLA (14-2-1) 4
6. Boston College (13-2-1) 6
7. Notre Dame (14-3-1) 7
8. Maryland (12-2-2) 8
9. BYU (14-2-2) 11
10. UCF (14-3-1) 14
11. Rutgers (12-2-4) 15
12. Marquette (13-4-2) 18
13. Ohio State (13-2-2) 19
14. Florida (13-4-2) 20
15. South Carolina (15-2-1) 10
16. Virginia Tech (12-4-0) 13
17. Wake Forest (12-3-2) 12
18. USC (12-5-0) 9
19. LSU (11-4-3) 16
20. Missouri (12-4-3) 23
21. Washington State (11-4-1) 21
22. Dayton (12-0-5) 25
23. Mississippi (11-4-2) 17
24. Santa Clara (12-5-1) NR
25. Oregon State (10-5-1) NR
25. Penn State (9-5-2) NR

by PurpleGeezer on Mon Oct 26, 2009 3:44 pm

Here's a shocker....

Danielle Foxhoven was named WCC Player of the week.

by ShipstadPilot11 on Mon Oct 26, 2009 3:48 pm

Geezaldinho wrote:CAL and TAMU are gone...

Not good to see two of our opponents drop from the rankings, especially the opponent that beat us.

by PurpleGeezer on Mon Oct 26, 2009 3:52 pm

ShipstadPilot11 wrote:
Geezaldinho wrote:CAL and TAMU are gone...

Not good to see two of our opponents drop from the rankings, especially the opponent that beat us.

You are a glass half empty kind of guy.

Two of out opponents just replaced them, and we beat them both.

Makes us look better in wins against ranked opponents.

by ShipstadPilot11 on Mon Oct 26, 2009 4:14 pm

Geezaldinho wrote:

You are a glass half empty kind of guy.

Two of out opponents just replaced them, and we beat them both.

Makes us look better in wins against ranked opponents.

Wouldn't you rather get beat by a higher ranked team than a lower ranked team? I am by no means crying "woe is us!" and it is great to see both SCU and OSU creep in there.

Either way I am incredibly happy with this team and I wish I could see them play this fall! The Friday-night atmosphere at Merlo is one that I miss greatly.

by purple haze on Mon Oct 26, 2009 7:56 pm

Let's just beat them all and let the chips fall where they may. OSU Beavers are on the rise -- I thought maybe the Ducks would do it this season, but Beavers are for real.

by UPSoccerFanatic on Mon Oct 26, 2009 11:14 pm

purple haze wrote:Let's just beat them all and let the chips fall where they may.

Right on, from a team perspective. Win out! That's what counts.

by PurpleGeezer on Tue Oct 27, 2009 1:24 am

Soccer times

October 26, 2009

(Records include games of Sunday, October 25)
-- First-place votes in parentheses --

Rank School Record Pts LW
1 Stanford (16) 17-0-0 400 1
2 Portland 16-1-0 384 3
3 UCLA 14-2-1 362 4
4 Florida State 13-2-1 343 7
5 North Carolina 12-3-1 319 2
6 Boston College 13-2-1 312 6
7 Notre Dame 14-3-1 309 8
8 Wake Forest 12-3-2 255 5
9 Brigham Young 13-2-2 221 12
10 Central Florida 14-3-1 220 16
11 (tie) Rutgers 13-2-4 211 10
11 (tie) Maryland 12-2-2 211 14t
13 Florida 13-4-2 203 17
14 South Carolina 15-2-1 199 9
15 Ohio State 13-2-2 183 18
16 Southern California 12-5-0 172 11
17 Virginia Tech 12-5-0 158 13
18 Louisiana State 11-4-3 125 14t
19 Washington State 11-4-1 123 20
20 Santa Clara 12-5-1 114 22
21 Texas A&M 11-5-2 75 21
22 Georgia 13-4-1 72 19
23 Marquette 13-4-2 46 nr
24 Dayton 12-0-5 33 nr
25 Missouri 11-4-3 28 nr

Key: Pts - Total points. LW - Last week's ranking. t - tie. nr - no ranking

Dropped out: No. 23 California, No. 24 Purdue, No. 25t Mississippi, No. 25t St. John's.

by eProf on Tue Oct 27, 2009 7:52 am

Geezaldinho wrote:Soccer times
October 26, 2009

(Records include games of Sunday, October 25)
-- First-place votes in parentheses --

Rank School Record Pts LW
1 Stanford (16) 17-0-0 400 1
2 Portland 16-1-0 384 3

Stanford got all 16 first-place votes (at 25 points each), for a total of 400. Since 24*16 is 384, this means that Portland got every single (24-point) second-place vote.

by PurpleGeezer on Tue Oct 27, 2009 10:55 am

What a turnaround. In all these polls UNC is rated below the two teams it crushed at the start of the season.

NSCAA National Rankings
NCAA Rankings National Women
Division I National Poll - October 27, 2009

Rank School Prev. W-L-T
1 Stanford (32) 800 1 17 - 0 - 0
2 Portland 765 3 16 - 1 - 0
3 UCLA 716 4 14 - 2 - 1
4 Florida State 687 7 13 - 2 - 1
5 Notre Dame 665 6 14 - 3 - 1
6 North Carolina 632 2 12 - 3 - 1
7 Boston College 585 8 13 - 2 - 1
8 Central Florida 510 11 14 - 3 - 1
9 Rutgers 506 9 13 - 2 - 4
10 Florida 493 12 13 - 4 - 2
11 Wake Forest 474 5 12 - 3 - 2
12 Maryland 457 13 12 - 2 - 2
13 South Carolina 399 10 15 - 2 - 1
14 Santa Clara 354 16 12 - 5 - 1
15 Ohio State 346 19 13 - 2 - 2
16 LSU 270 17 11 - 4 - 3
17 Virginia Tech 268 15 12 - 5 - 0
18 USC 263 14 12 - 5 - 0
19 BYU 230 21 14 - 2 - 2
20 Texas A&M 207 20 11 - 5 - 2
21 Washington State 165 23 11 - 4 - 1
22 Purdue 130 18 9 - 4 - 3
23 Indiana 99 24 10 - 3 - 2
24 Charlotte 86 25 15 - 2 - 1
25 Penn State 53 RV 9 - 5 - 2
Number in parentheses indicates first place votes

Also receiving votes: Georgia 49, Washington 26, Dayton 26, Marquette 23, Mississippi 13, Memphis 12, San Diego 7, St. John's 5, Missouri 5, Cal Poly 4, Duke 2, Georgetown 1, Miami 1

by FANatic on Tue Oct 27, 2009 11:38 am

So we are finally the consensus #2 team in the country.

Win our last two games and we should be a consensus #1 seed in the NCAA Tournament.

Anything other than a #1 seed would be criminal, IMHO.

Question: Does our ridiculous goal differential help our RPI in any way?

by PurpleGeezer on Tue Oct 27, 2009 12:18 pm

FANatic wrote:
Question: Does our ridiculous goal differential help our RPI in any way?

No.

the official NCAA policy is to ignore scores and concentrate on results. That goes across all sports and is somewhere in the manual.

It's got to get people's attention, though.

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