NCAA Statistics

UP leads the nation in scoring avg and is #4 in goals against.

NCAA Women's Soccer
Division I
Scoring Offense
Through Games 10/18/2009


Rank Name Team Games Goals Per Game
1 Portland 15 56 3.73
2 Stanford 15 54 3.60
3 Florida St. 14 47 3.36
4 Nebraska 16 53 3.31
5 Southeastern La. 14 44 3.14
6 Middle Tenn. 16 49 3.06
7Charlotte 16 49 3.06
8 Louisiana Tech 17 51 3.00
9 Charleston So. 16 45 2.81
10 Boston College 15 42 2.80

NCAA Women's Soccer
Division I
Goals-Against Average
Through Games 10/18/2009


Rank Name Team Games GA Team Min GAA
1 Samford 14 4 1335 0.270
2 Dayton 15 5 1478 0.304
3 South Carolina 16 6 1467 0.368
4 Portland 15 6 1350 0.400
5 North Carolina 14 6 1287 0.420
6 Rutgers 17 8 1613 0.446
7 Boston College 15 8 1374 0.524
8 Arkansas 16 9 1520 0.533
9 Michigan St. 14 8 1344 0.536
10 LSU 16 9 1509 0.537

http://www.ncaa.com/sports/w-soccer/stats/ncaa-w-soccer-stats-index.html

I think when it comes down to it, the GAA is a far more important statistic as the defenses get better and the goals stop coming in bunches of 6 or 7.

We and BC are the only ones on both lists.

harryb wrote:We and BC are the only ones on both lists.

Err....Is that "Samford" or Stanford?

Stanford has given up 9 goals....

And Samford, only 4! (albiet not against the stiffest competition, but 4 goals is impressive!)

Florida St. and Stanford are the only teams who score more goals than our goal differential.

UNC is weird. They pound UCLA and Notre Dame but can't score against VTech and Auburn.

"offense wins games, but defense wins championships" is a pretty relevant truism that stretches across many sports.

With our young back line goose eggs have been hard to come by, especially in conference as our only shut out came against Duke. I was upset we gave up a goal to Clemson late the other day, no excuse for that. I highly doubt our goals against average improves after Thursday night against UNC, it could get ugly.

FSU Fan - I think it safe to say all Pilot fans will be rooting for you Thursday. Good luck!!