CU Soccer (10-3-4 overall, 4-2-4 in conference play) is the 1st CU sport to finish off its regular season for this academic year as they're scheduled to host the Utah Utes (8-5-4, 5-3-2) Friday (tomorrow) night. Of course, being the last regular season home match, it will be an emotional one as 9 CU players will be recognized and celebrated as part of Senior Day festivities. (The 9 being honored are named in the cubuffs.com preview article I plan on linking to and quoting right after this post.)
Note - As of yesterday, the NCAA's official RPI ratings (https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/soccer-women/d1/ncaa-womens-soccer-rpi ) has CU at #54 and Utah at #80.
In the Big 12 standings (https://big12sports.com/standings.aspx?path=soc), the Buffs are in a 3 way tie for 7th place with 13 points. The Utes are 1 point ahead of the Buffs, so a CU win tomorrow would guarantee they'd move up at least one spot. (The 4th place team is 4 points ahead of CU, so there is no mathematical chance anymore they get a 1st round bye at the Big 12 tournament which begins next Wednesday in KC.) Depending on how the final match goes for CU and the teams around them, looks like the highest they can finish is 5th and the lowest is 9th.
As with the other home matches so far this season, looks like a video stream for this week's match will be available for those with a premium ($) ESPN+ subscription. (See more details and links near the bottom of this post.)
Go Buffs!!!
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More on Utah -
Roster - https://utahutes.com/sports/womens-soccer/roster
Stats - https://utahutes.com/sports/womens-soccer/stats/2024
Schedule/ results - https://utahutes.com/sports/womens-soccer/schedule
Their preview article for the match with the Buffs - https://utahutes.com/news/2024/10/23/utah-soccer-travels-to-boulder-to-close-out-regular-season.aspx
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Media links:
Link to links to Live stats for all CU matches in every sport - https://www.statbroadcast.com/events/statbroadcast.php?t=1&gid=colo . The direct link for this match is https://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=531656.
Live Video: The match is scheduled to be provided through the premium ($) ESPN+ subscription service, available either on the ESPN app or at https://www.espn.com/espnplus/player/_/id/2d9bc425-4642-48e8-a0d9-c1a6a2124c05 .
Match notes (If blank, they weren't available as I type this.) - https://cubuffs.com/documents/2024/10/23/SOC_2024_Game18_Utah_notes.pdf
Note - As of yesterday, the NCAA's official RPI ratings (https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/soccer-women/d1/ncaa-womens-soccer-rpi ) has CU at #54 and Utah at #80.
In the Big 12 standings (https://big12sports.com/standings.aspx?path=soc), the Buffs are in a 3 way tie for 7th place with 13 points. The Utes are 1 point ahead of the Buffs, so a CU win tomorrow would guarantee they'd move up at least one spot. (The 4th place team is 4 points ahead of CU, so there is no mathematical chance anymore they get a 1st round bye at the Big 12 tournament which begins next Wednesday in KC.) Depending on how the final match goes for CU and the teams around them, looks like the highest they can finish is 5th and the lowest is 9th.
As with the other home matches so far this season, looks like a video stream for this week's match will be available for those with a premium ($) ESPN+ subscription. (See more details and links near the bottom of this post.)
Go Buffs!!!
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More on Utah -
Roster - https://utahutes.com/sports/womens-soccer/roster
Stats - https://utahutes.com/sports/womens-soccer/stats/2024
Schedule/ results - https://utahutes.com/sports/womens-soccer/schedule
Their preview article for the match with the Buffs - https://utahutes.com/news/2024/10/23/utah-soccer-travels-to-boulder-to-close-out-regular-season.aspx
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Media links:
Link to links to Live stats for all CU matches in every sport - https://www.statbroadcast.com/events/statbroadcast.php?t=1&gid=colo . The direct link for this match is https://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=531656.
Live Video: The match is scheduled to be provided through the premium ($) ESPN+ subscription service, available either on the ESPN app or at https://www.espn.com/espnplus/player/_/id/2d9bc425-4642-48e8-a0d9-c1a6a2124c05 .
Match notes (If blank, they weren't available as I type this.) - https://cubuffs.com/documents/2024/10/23/SOC_2024_Game18_Utah_notes.pdf
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