Hokie ClubBLACKSBURG - The Virginia Tech women's soccer team enters the 2019 NCAA Women's Soccer Championship with a 12-4-2 mark and welcomes Xavier, the regular season and postseason Big EAST champions, to Thompson Field for a first round match starting on Friday at 5 p.m. The Hokies will look to continue their home success in the postseason, as they hold a 5-1-1 mark all-time at home in the NCAAs. However, the Musketeers will be looking to become the second Big EAST team to win an NCAA game in Blacksburg (Georgetown in 2012) and continue its win streak over the Hokies (five straight, last was in 2000).
Tickets for the NCAA match with Xavier are $5 and will be available for purchase with cash at the Thompson Field gates on Friday - gates open at 4 p.m. Virginia Tech students can get in free with their Hokie Passport.
GAMEDAY INFORMATION - Gameday Central
Friday, November 15 - 5 PM
Thompson Field, Blacksburg, Virginia
vs. #24 Xavier Musketeers (16-3-2, 7-2-0 Big EAST Champs)
Head Coach: Nate Lie (3rd season)
Record at school: 34-19-9; career: same
Series: Xavier leads 5-0-1; Last: Oct. 29, 2000 (L, 3-1)
Live Stats: CLICK HERE
Broadcast: ACC Network Extra; Link: CLICK HERE
Xavier Preview/Game notes: CLICK HERE
2019 NCAA interactive bracket: CLICK HERE
Top Notes for the Hokies (link to Game Notes pdf packet)
Tech in the NCAA postseason
- Overall, the Hokies own a 12-10-1 record in their 10 previous appearances in the NCAA Championship, which includes a 5-1-1 mark in matches played in Blacksburg.
- Friday's match will mark the fifth first round game played at home for Tech, with the Hokies posting a 3-1 mark in the prior four. The last NCAA match Tech hosted in Blacksburg resulted in a 4-0 win over Cincinnati, Nov. 14, 2015.
- Overall, the Hokies have won four straight first round matches, including last year's 1-0 upset victory at No. 4 seed and 17th-ranked Texas. They are 6-4 in their previous 10 first round battles.
- Tech is making its 11th NCAA appearance as a program, its second straight and the seventh under head coach Chugger Adair.
- In his six previous trips to the NCAAs, Adair is 10-6-1 and has just one loss in a first round match.
- Under Adair, Tech has been knocked out three times by ACC teams, twice by Big 10 foes and once by a Big EAST team - Georgetown, Nov. 11, 2012 (a 3-2 OT first round loss).
- That defeat to the Hoyas is the only loss Tech has suffered in the NCAAs in Blacksburg and are unbeaten in its last six.
- Tech has outscored its opponents 17-4 in NCAA home matches with five shutouts. In first round matches, Tech has a 12-3 edge with three clean sheets.
- The Hokies have not allowed a goal in an NCAA first round match since the Hoyas overtime game winner back in 2012 (270 straight minutes).
- Tech has not allowed a goal at home in an NCAA match overall since the 63:20 mark versus No. 9 Santa Clara on Nov. 24, 2013. The Hokies held the Broncos scoreless the rest of the way and have not yielded a goal since (316:40 straight minutes).
Tech versus the Musketeers
- All-time, the Hokies are 0-5-1 against their former Atlantic 10 opponent Xavier as the teams played each other six times from 1995-2000 with the Musketeers having won the last five.
- Putting that in perspective, not a single one of Tech's freshmen were born when the two teams faced each other the last time (Oct. 29, 2000) and sophomore Emily Gray was just 24 days old.
- Interestingly, Tech has played only one other team in its history (Florida State, 0-18-2 all-time) more than three times without ever earning a win, while they seem to struggle against New Jersey based teams (0-3 all-time versus Rutgers and Seton Hall and 0-2 against Monmouth).
- Xavier comes in ranked No. 24. All-time, Tech is 4-8-2 against teams ranked between No. 21-25, but under Chugger Adair, the Hokies are 2-1-1.
Double figures in wins and shutouts
- Prior to 2008, Tech reached the 10-win plateau just once (2004, 11) and has since posted at least 10 victories in a season 11 times, including a nine-year stretch from 2008-16. The 12 wins this season are the most since the 2015 season.
- Chugger Adair has won at least 10 matches in eight of his nine season at Tech.
- The Hokies have 10 shutouts this year marking just the sixth time they have recorded 10+ clean sheets in a single season (2011-14, 2018-19).
- The 10 shutouts through 18 matches is tied for the second most at this point in a season with the 2011 and 2014 squads, while the 2012 team had 11 at this point and 12 after its 19th match.
- The 14 goals allowed by Tech this year are the third fewest 18 matches in (12, 2013; 13, 2014), while the 2014 squad posted a shutout in its next contest to keep its number at 13 through 19.
For more notes, click on the pdf link above