SOC Faces No. 13 Vanderbilt in NCAA Second Round

Friday, November 16

Waco, TX

7:00 PM CT

Baylor

Vanderbilt

Tickets

Photo by: Baylor Photography

SOC Faces No. 13 Vanderbilt in NCAA Second Round

11/15/2018 2:33:00 PM | Soccer

Baylor Game Notes

Bears look for first-ever back-to-back Sweet 16 berth

WACO, Texas – No. 11 Baylor soccer (18-5-0, 8-1-0 Big 12) will look to keep its undefeated home record intact, facing No. 13 Vanderbilt (16-3-1, 8-1-1 SEC) in the second round of the NCAA Soccer Championship on Friday, Nov. 16, at 7 p.m. at Betty Lou Mays Soccer Field.

BU is hosting three other teams in Waco for both the second and third rounds of the tournament, with the winner of Baylor-Vanderbilt going on to face the winner of a Friday 3 p.m. match between Texas Tech and the No. 3 seeded-Virginia Cavaliers. The third round will take place at Betty Lou on Sunday, Nov. 18, at 7 p.m.

Baylor enters the NCAA postseason with a No. 2 national seed, the highest-ever bid earned by a BU squad after winning the 2018 Big 12 regular season title and finishing as the runner-up in the 2018 Big 12 Soccer Championship.

The Bears advanced to the second round after earning a 2-0 home victory over Abilene Christian on Saturday, Nov. 10.

Vanderbilt was the 2018 SEC regular season champion, but bowed out of the SEC Tournament after a 1-0 loss to Florida in the opening round. The Commodores topped Murray State, 4-0, in the opening round of NCAA tournament play.

For the first time in program history, all home matches will offer a free live video stream on Facebook.com/BaylorFutbol.

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MATCH INFO
Sat., Nov. 16 vs. Vandy @ 7:00 p.m. CT
Betty Lou Mays Soccer Field
Waco, Texas
Stats: BaylorBears.com/stats
Video: Facebook.com/BaylorFutbol
Tickets: BaylorBears.com/tickets
Clear bag policy is in effect

BAYLOR BEARS
2018 Record: 18-5-0
2018 Big 12 Record: 8-1-0
Head Coach: Paul Jobson
Career: 74-38-14 (6th season)
BU: 74-38-14 (6th season)

VANDERBILT COMMODORES
2018 Record: 16-3-1
2018 SEC Record: 8-1-1
Head Coach: Darren Ambrose
Career: 195-100-43 (19th season)
Vandy: 47-27-8 (4th season)
BU vs. Vandy Series
Series: First meeting

BAYLOR QUICK NOTES
* Baylor earned a No. 2 national seed, the highest-ever bid in the NCAA postseason for the Bears. BU is on its sixth run in the NCAA postseason and carries a 6-4-2 all-time record in tournament play. BU is hosting the second round in Waco for the third time, the first in the 64-team bracket format, and is making back-to-back trips into the tournament for the third time.
* Baylor saw its program-record 10-match winning streak and program-record-tying 21-match streak with at least one goal snapped in a 3-0 loss to West Virginia in the Big 12 Soccer Championship final.
* Baylor clinched its second-ever regular season Big 12 title with a 1-0 win over Oklahoma in the final match of the Big 12 slate, helped by an overtime loss by WVU versus Kansas. The regular season title was BU's first since 1998 and fourth overall conference title.
* Sixth-year head coach Paul Jobson was named the 2018 Big 12 Soccer Coach of the Year, the second time in program history a BU coach has garnered the accolade (Randy Waldrum, 1998).
* Julie James, Sarah King, Jennifer Wandt, and Camryn Wendlandt earned All-Big 12 selections, tying the program record for selections. Kayley Ables and Taylor Moon were also named to the Big 12 All-Freshman team. Baylor has now had at least one All-Big 12 selection for seven-straight seasons and at least one Big 12 All-Freshman selection for five-straight.
* Baylor has had at least eight wins in, now, 10-straight seasons and has won or advanced by shootout in at least one match at the Big 12 Championship 11 times in 16 appearances, including now seven in a row.
* Baylor has now had 10 or more wins in 12 of its 23 seasons as a program, seven of the last nine, and three-straight under sixth-year head coach Paul Jobson. The 15 wins for BU in 2017 and 2018 are the most since the 2012 squad set a program record with 19 wins.
* Baylor has posted back-to-back 15 win seasons for just the second time in program history (2011-2012).
* Baylor has outscored its opponents 27-2 at home this season, posting a perfect 11-0 record at Betty Lou Mays Soccer Field.
* Baylor's undefeated regular season home effort was the first time the Bears ran the table at home since 2012, with the 11 home wins standing as the most in a single-season in program history.
* Jennifer Wandt's sophomore season has included 12 solo shutouts, good for second in the Big 12 and fourth in the nation. She now sits at No. 2 on Baylor's career shutouts list (21) and has already set the program record for most in a single-season.
* As a team, Baylor's 0.609 shutout percentage is good for 10th in the country and second in the Big 12.
* Paul Jobson became Baylor soccer's all-time conference wins leader, improving to 24-18-6 career record in Big 12 play with a 3-1 win over Kansas, passing his wife and former Baylor head coach Marci Jobson (23-28-11) for the most conference wins in program history.
* Camryn Wendlandt scored her 10th goal of the season, the eighth time a BU student-athlete has reached double-digit goals and the first since 2012.
* Baylor totaled six Big 12 Player of the Week honors in 2018, tallying one Offensive POTW, two Defensive POTW, and three Freshman OTW.
* Senior midfielder Julie James was named one of 30 candidates for the Senior CLASS Award, recognizing excellence in community, classroom, character and competition. James is the first candidate for the award in program history.
* Camryn Wendlandt was named to the Google Cloud Academic All-District Women's Soccer NCAA Division I District 5 first team, giving BU a selection in consecutive seasons for the first time since 2012-13 after Precious Akanyirige's selection in 2017.
* Jennifer Wandt's assist in a 6-0 win vs. Nebraska marked the fifth time and just the third different BU goalkeeper to assist on a score in program history, the first since Michelle Kloss (vs. Prairie View A&M, 9/19/10).
* Jackie Crowther and Giuliana Cunningham scored goals within just 20 seconds of each other in the win over Nebraska, the quickest consecutive goals in program history.
* Raegan Padgett notched the fastest goal to start a match in program history, scoring the first goal vs. Samford (Aug. 19) just 35 seconds into the match.
* Baylor had 16 Academic All-Big 12 selections, leading the conference and remaining the league's all-time leader in academic honorees.
* From May 9-12, a group of current and former Baylor soccer student-athletes returned for the second-straight year to serve on a mission trip to Guatemala alongside Baylor FCA.

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