Soccer Gets Blasted 4-0 by ODU

UNTLifer · October 28, 2018

Hope JH was giving starters the day off or something like that. A 4-0 loss to end the season going in to the CUSA Tournament isn't a good sign.

https://meangreensports.com/news/2018/10/28/womens-soccer-mean-green-lose-season-finale.aspx

Edited October 28, 2018 by UNTLifer

greenminer · October 29, 2018

WTH? This is the most un-Hedlund-like score ever.

Salsa_Verde · October 29, 2018

Seems like they took a game off.

untbowler · October 30, 2018

I understand resting starters, but losing 4-0 to middle of road team to close season, pretty much kills any chance of an at-large bid.

MeanGreenTexan · October 30, 2018

I wonder if the score was allowed to be inflated so that it's more apparent it was a "rest" game.

If it were 1-0, it might look like more of an actual struggle.

NorthTexan95 · October 30, 2018

I did a little investigating and found some interesting tidbits ...

1. Heading into this game we had the conference championship already wrapped up.

2. According to the recap, we rested several starters and three girls got their first playing time of the year.

3. If we had defeated ODU we would have played ... ODU ... in our first tourney game. I suppose Hedlund didn't feel a win was worth giving ODU any info for a meaningless game.

4. We play Rice on Halloween at 4:30 PM. Rice was the preseason favorite to win the conference yet they had to defeat Charlotte in their final game to make the tourney. Not sure what happened to them.

GrandGreen · October 31, 2018

7 hours ago, NorthTexan95 said:

I did a little investigating and found some interesting tidbits ...

1. Heading into this game we had the conference championship already wrapped up.

2. According to the recap, we rested several starters and three girls got their first playing time of the year.

3. If we had defeated ODU we would have played ... ODU ... in our first tourney game. I suppose Hedlund didn't feel a win was worth giving ODU any info for a meaningless game.

4. We play Rice on Halloween at 4:30 PM. Rice was the preseason favorite to win the conference yet they had to defeat Charlotte in their final game to make the tourney. Not sure what happened to them.

NT had the tournament first seed wrapped up. The loss allowed FAU to tie for the championship and dominate the all conference honors.

Obviously, Hedlund tanked the ODU game although it makes no sense. NT must play the preseason number 1 Rice in the first round which according to coaches, has the best offensive player in the league. Rice is the eight seed but maybe the most dangerous team in the tournament.

The lopsided loss to ODU has to hurt NT's seeding if they reach the tournament.

Mean Green Matt · October 31, 2018

10 hours ago, GrandGreen said:

NT had the tournament first seed wrapped up. The loss allowed FAU to tie for the championship and dominate the all conference honors.

Obviously, Hedlund tanked the ODU game although it makes no sense. NT must play the preseason number 1 Rice in the first round which according to coaches, has the best offensive player in the league. Rice is the eight seed but maybe the most dangerous team in the tournament.

The lopsided loss to ODU has to hurt NT's seeding if they reach the tournament.

We did end the regular season with an RPI of 28. I’m guessing we get an at large bid regardless of what happens in the conference tournament.

KRAM1 · October 31, 2018

Not a biggie at all. Now BEAT RICE!

blurbeard · November 1, 2018

Win Win Win! RPI is 28, our team beat Rice 2-0 and ODU the home team in the tournament lost tonight 3-2 OT! Guess we have the smarter coach, Hedlund rested his players against ODU and when you look at the stats she pretty much plyed her starters the whole game. Well it backfired, ODU is out and UNT will be playing La Tech Friday night at 7pm.

Mean Green Matt · November 1, 2018

9 hours ago, blurbeard said:

Win Win Win! RPI is 28, our team beat Rice 2-0 and ODU the home team in the tournament lost tonight 3-2 OT! Guess we have the smarter coach, Hedlund rested his players against ODU and when you look at the stats she pretty much plyed her starters the whole game. Well it backfired, ODU is out and UNT will be playing La Tech Friday night at 7pm.

True. Still concerned about the optics of a 4-0 loss when the committee is discussing seeding and home games.