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Duke University
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Duke Welcomes Santa Clara for Quarterfinal Matchup Friday
11/25/2021 6:10:00 PM | Women's Soccer
Match 21 – NCAA Championship Quarterfinals
No. 1 Duke (16-3-1) vs. Santa Clara (14-5-2)
Friday, Nov. 26, 2021 | 6 p.m. | ACCNX
Durham, N.C. – Koskinen Stadium
NEED TO KNOW
DUKE IN THE NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP
DUKE VS. SANTA CLARA
SCOUTING THE BRONCOS
HOME SWEET HOME
LAST TIME OUT: DUKE 7, ST. JOHN'S 1
STEPPING IT UP ON DEFENSIVE END
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No. 1 Duke (16-3-1) vs. Santa Clara (14-5-2)
Friday, Nov. 26, 2021 | 6 p.m. | ACCNX
Durham, N.C. – Koskinen Stadium
NEED TO KNOW
- No. 1-seeded Duke looks to punch its ticket to the College Cup for the fifth time in program history when it welcomes defending national champion Santa Clara to Koskinen Stadium for an NCAA Championship Quarterfinal matchup on Friday night.
- The match kicks off at 6 p.m. on ACC Network Extra with Chris Edwards and Cedric Burke on the call.
- After a pair of 1-0 victories got them through to the round of 16, the Blue Devils erupted for seven goals in a 7-1 win over St. John's on Sunday, Nov. 21.
- The seven goals tied a Duke record for an NCAA Championship match (11/17/2017 vs. Oklahoma State).
- This tournament marks Duke's 27th all-time appearance in the NCAA Championship, including its 18th in the last 19 years. The Blue Devils hold a 45-22-11 record in 78 tournament matches.
- Duke is playing as a No. 1 seed for the third time in program history (2011, 2017).
- The Blue Devils are set to play in their eighth NCAA Quarterfinal since 2011 (last 11 seasons).
- Duke is 38-15-10 in NCAA Championship matches under head coach Robbie Church.
- Michelle Cooper scored her 11th and 12th goals of the season against St. John's, surpassing Kelly Cobb (2011) for the most goals by a freshman in Duke program history.
- Graduate student Tess Boade's five goals in her NCAA Championship career are tied for the fifth-most in program history, while her 13 points in the tournament are tied for sixth.
- Duke's 0.49 team goals against average ranks third nationally and first among teams still playing in the NCAA Championship.
- First-team All-ACC goalkeeper Ruthie Jones ranks fifth nationally in goals against average (0.51), while her .821 save percentage is tops among keepers in the ACC.
DUKE IN THE NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP
- The Blue Devils are competing in their 27th all-time NCAA Championship and hold a 45-22-11 overall record in 78 tournament matches.
- A win on Friday would send Duke through to its fifth NCAA College Cup, which will be held at Stevens Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif. Both semifinal matches are slated for Friday, Dec. 3, with the winners advancing to the national championship match on Sunday, Dec. 5.
- Duke is set to play in the quarterfinals for the 12th time in program history and 10th time since the tournament expanded to a 64-team format in 2001. The Blue Devils are 3-6-2 all-time in quarterfinal matches.
- Just 202 days separate Friday and Duke's last match in the NCAA Quarterfinals -- a 0-0 draw against top-seeded Florida State with the Seminoles advancing in penalty kicks on May 9 in Cary, N.C.
- Robbie Church's squad was selected as one of four No. 1 seeds in this year's tournament, marking the third time in school history that Duke is the top seed in its region.
- Each of the previous two instances resulted in a College Cup appearance. Duke carried its No. 1 seed to the national final in 2011 and ran through competition en route to a semifinal appearance in 2017. The Blue Devils are 12-1-1 as a No. 1 seed.
- The Blue Devils are 38-15-10 under Church in the NCAA Championship. He las led Duke to the big dance in 19 of his 21 seasons in Durham.
- With its 7-1 win over St. John's in the round of 16, Duke advanced to the quarterfinal round of the NCAA Championship for the eighth time in the last 11 seasons (since 2011).
- The Blue Devils are one of two programs nationally with eight or more quarterfinal appearances in that span (Florida State – 9).
DUKE VS. SANTA CLARA
- Duke and Santa Clara have met four times, with the Blue Devils trailing the all-time series, 1-3-0.
- Each of Duke's three losses came in the 1990's, when the Broncos outscored the Blue Devils by a total of 15-2.
- After a 20-year hiatus, the series resumed on Aug. 31, 2019, with Duke earning a 3-2 overtime win at Koskinen Stadium in the Carolina Nike Classic.
- Then-sophomore Marykate McGuire netted the golden goal in the 2019 matchup, scoring in the 99th minute.
- Classmate Mackenzie Pluck scored Duke's first goal of the match in the 61st minute to bring the Blue Devils level at 1-1. Duke's second tally came in the 72nd minute, when Ella Stevens answered a cross sent in by McGuire.
- Friday will be the first time the two national powerhouse programs face off in the NCAA Championship.
- The Blue Devils have played 16 matches all-time against teams currently in the West Coast Conference, accumulating a 6-7-3 record.
SCOUTING THE BRONCOS
- Santa Clara travels to Durham after earning three straight one-goal wins in the NCAA Championship -- 1-0 vs. Stanford in the first round, 2-1 vs. No. 3 seed Georgetown in the second round, and 2-1 vs. Wisconsin in the round of 16.
- The defending national champions own a 14-5-2 overall record this season and finished 8-1-0 in the West Coast Conference.
- With a double-overtime win over Saint Mary's on Nov. 6, Santa Clara clinched a share of its second consecutive WCC title.
- Jerry Smith's team is making consecutive appearances in the NCAA Quarterfinals for the first time since 2004 and 2005.
- Redshirt senior Kelsey Turnbow paces the Bronco attack with 10 goals and 11 assists for 31 points.
- Junior Izzy D'Aquila has netted seven goals, including the game-winner in overtime of Santa Clara's second-round match versus No. 3 seed Georgetown on Nov. 19.
- Sophomore Kylie Foutch has started seven matches in goal this season, including each of the Broncos' three NCAA Championship games. She has recorded 38 saves (.731 save pct.) with four shutouts.
HOME SWEET HOME
- Duke will look to capitalize on one of the best home-field advantages in the nation provided by Koskinen Stadium on Friday.
- The Blue Devils boast a 48-6-7 record at the venue since the start of the 2017 campaign, including a 12-2-0 mark this season.
- Duke has outscored its opponents 38-8 at home this season.
- The 5-0 win over East Carolina on Sept. 9 marked head coach Robbie Church's 150th career victory at Koskinen. He is currently 156-38-28 in home matches at Duke.
- Duke is 25-2-1 in NCAA Championship matches played in Durham.
LAST TIME OUT: DUKE 7, ST. JOHN'S 1
- After scoring one goal in each of their previous six matches, the Blue Devils erupted for a season-high seven tallies in a 7-1 win over St. John's in the round of 16 on Sunday, Nov. 21.
- The seven goals tied Duke's record for most in an NCAA Championship match. The other time the Blue Devils scored seven in postseason play was a 7-0 victory over Oklahoma State on Nov. 17, 2017 in the second round.
- Freshman Michelle Cooper came out of the gates with three shots on goal in the first four minutes. Her third found the back of the net to put Duke in front at the 3:03 mark.
- It marked Duke's earliest goal in a match this season.
- After Tess Boade gave her team a commanding 2-0 lead in the 26th minute, Cooper struck again just 45 seconds later. It was her 12th goal of the year, setting a Duke freshman record.
- The Blue Devils responded to a St. John's goal early in the second half with four more tallies of their own.
- Two came from the foot of Olivia Migli, marking her third career brace and first since March 17, 2021.
- Mackenzie Pluck scored her fifth goal of the season in the 62nd minute, while Grace Watkins wrapped up the scoring with her second of the year in the 82nd minute.
- The six-goal margin of victory was the second-largest past the second round of the tournament by any team since 2001.
STEPPING IT UP ON DEFENSIVE END
- The Blue Devils' 10 goals allowed this season are tied for the second-fewest nationally and are the fewest among teams still competing in the NCAA Championship.
- Duke's 0.49 goals against average ranks third nationally.
- The Blue Devils have recorded 12 shutouts, the second-most in the ACC. Duke has held opponents off the scoreboard in seven of its last nine contests, with just three total goals yielded in that span.
- Duke has allowed more than one goal in a match just twice this season -- a 2-1 double-overtime loss to NC State on Oct. 7, and a 2-1 defeat to Wake Forest in the ACC Tournament on Oct. 31.
- The Blue Devils recorded five consecutive shutout wins from Oct. 10-28, marking the eighth time in program history that Duke recorded a clean sheet in five or more straight games (1992 -- 5; 1997 -- 5; 2004 -- 7; 2011 -- 5; 2015 -- 5; 2016 -- 5; 2017 -- 5).
- Prior to a goal by Wake Forest in the first half of their ACC Tournament match, the Blue Devils had held opponents scoreless for the previous 478 minutes and 53 seconds -- the sixth-longest streak in program history. They enter Sunday's match having not yielded a goal in their last 186 minutes and 29 seconds of play.
- Duke held North Carolina scoreless on Sept. 17 for the first time in a 28-match span for the Tar Heels. On Oct. 24, the Blue Devils kept Florida State off the board for the first time in its last 17 games.
- Graduate student Caitlin Cosme, sophomore Katie Groff and sophomore Emily Royson anchor the Duke back line and have each logged over 1,500 minutes this season.
- Duke is 15-1-0 when scoring first this season and 10-0-0 when leading at halftime.
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