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Women's Soccer Notes: Tigers Continue Rise in Program Records, Nat'l Stats
October 27, 2015 | Women's Soccer
With the women's soccer team's 2-1 win at Harvard Saturday, the Tigers became the only unbeaten team in the league in Ivy play and put themselves three points from both an Ivy title share and the NCAA bid.
On the rest of the regular season:
Princeton has a three-point lead in the Ivy standings over Harvard, and no other team except the Tigers and Crimson are mathematically in contention for the title. If Princeton wins either of its last two games, it would clinch both a share of the Ivy title and the NCAA automatic bid, since it would have the first tiebreaker over Harvard thanks to Saturday's win if both teams finish 6-1. Both the outright Ivy title and the NCAA berth could be wrapped up Saturday, if Princeton defeats Cornell (1 p.m. at Roberts Stadium) and Harvard ties or loses to Dartmouth (1:30 p.m. at Harvard).
Princeton is 5-0 in the Ivy for the fifth time in program history. The 2001 and 2002 Tigers were tripped up in their bid for perfection in their sixth Ivy game. Only the 2004 and 2012 teams have gone 7-0 among Princeton teams, and only Dartmouth in 1993 and Harvard in 1996, 1999 and 2013 went 7-0 elsewhere in the league.
On the winning streak:
Princeton has won 10 games in a row to bounce back from a 2-3 start that included a three-game losing streak after a promising opening weekend. One loss came to Rutgers, 3-0, which is ranked fourth in the nation in the latest RPI and which Princeton had tied at the half, 0-0. Princeton outshot the next two opponents, Duquesne and Delaware, a combined 43-14, but each team left with a one-goal win.
Since then, Princeton has scored at least two goals in all 10 of the wins, its longest such streak since doing so in every game of a 12-game win streak in 2012, the last time the Tigers made the NCAA tournament.
Princeton's 10-game win streak is one of five double-digit streaks in program history. The team won 14 in a row in 1980, 12 straight in 2002 and 2012, and 10 straight in 2004 and now 2015.
Princeton's winning streak is the second-longest active winning streak in the nation. George Washington has won 11 in a row and South Alabama has also win 10 in a row. GW plays Thursday at Rhode Island, and South Alabama is off until its conference tournament begins Nov. 4.
Princeton is one of six teams in Division I with a perfect conference record, along with Stanford, South Alabama, Murray State, George Washington and Fairleigh Dickinson.
On individual records:
Junior Tyler Lussi has 12 goals this year, the last one giving Princeton a 2-1 lead at Harvard Saturday. She now has 40 goals in her career, the third-most in program history with still the rest of this season and all of next season to play. Linda DeBoer '86 had 41 goals in her career, and record holder Esmeralda Negron '05 had 47 in her career.
Freshman Mimi Asom scored her 10th goal of the season at Harvard, and she's the third freshman to reach double digits in a season at Princeton. DeBoer had 12 in 1982 and Lussi had 10 in 2013.
On coaching records:
Sean Driscoll tied his personal best win total as an NCAA head coach, matching his 12 wins with Manhattan in 2006.
Driscoll is just the second coach in program history to win 10+ games in his first season, joining the program's first coach, Bob Malekoff, who won 14 in 1980.
On the rankings:
Princeton has received votes in the last four NSCAA national polls with a high of 40 poll points this week. The Tigers have been ranked No. 1 in the Mid-Atlantic Region four weeks in a row. Each are the first such occurrences since 2012, prior to the current streak.
On statistical rankings:
Princeton jumped eight spots in this week's RPI to 38th. Of 338 Division I teams, the Tigers are the only team to have won all of their road games this season. Princeton is 5-0 on the road in 2015.
Princeton holds six top-10 Division I statistical rankings (through games of Oct. 26), including:
• Second in assists per game (2.87)
• Third in points per game (8.20)
• Fifth in goals per game (2.67)
• 10th in shots per game (19.07)
• Fourth in total assists (43)
• Ninth in total points (123)
The Tigers also hold six top-25 individual statistical rankings (through games of Oct. 26), all by Tyler Lussi. Among them:
• Lussi is 15th in goals per game (0.80), 12th in points per game (1.87), second in shots per game (5.80), 14th in shots on goal per game (2.27), 18th in total goals (12) and 21st in total points (28).
On awards:
Princeton has dominated the Ivy League's weekly honors this season:
• Mimi Asom is on an active streak of six straight Ivy Rookie of the Week awards and she captured her first Player of the Week honor this week.
• Tyler Lussi has received six career Ivy Player of the Week honors and three this season, tying her for the career record total and the season record total.
• Asom's six rookie honors are double the previous record.
• Princeton's six Player of the Week honors this year - two for Vanessa Gregoire, one for Asom and three for Lussi - give Princeton the record for Player of the Week honors in a season by one school.
• Asom's six rookie honors tie Princeton for the most rookie honors by a school in a season.
• Princeton's 12 total honors, combining player and rookie, shatter the previous record of seven by one school in a season.
Asom has been named to three of Top Drawer Soccer's National Teams of the Week this season while Lussi has twice been selected as an honorable mention on those teams. Lussi was also named the No. 50 player in the nation and Asom as the No. 13 freshman in the nation by the site.
Three current Tigers were All-Ivy honorees a year ago. Lussi, with 18 goals last season, the most regular-season goals in program history, was named the Ivy's Offensive Player of the Year, while Natalie Larkin was a second-teamer as a defender and Vanessa Gregoire was an honorable mention as a midfielder. Only Lussi earned All-Ivy recognition prior to last season among current players, earning honorable mention as a freshman in 2013.