Wolverines to Take to Road to Battle Rutgers, No. 25 Indiana

The University of Michigan women's soccer team (7-3-3, 3-2-1 Big Ten) hits the road for its final two-match road swing of the season, traveling to Piscataway, N.J., to take on Rutgers (6-5-3, 2-3-1 Big Ten) on Thursday (Oct. 12) at 6 p.m. at Yurcak Field. The week will conclude with a 3 p.m. Sunday (Oct. 15) matchup against No. 25-ranked Indiana (10-1-3, 4-1-1 B1g Ten) at Armstrong Stadium in Bloomington. Thursday match will be braodcast live on Big Ten Network, and Sunday's contest will be streamed live on B1G+.

Notes

• Michigan enters the week at No. 24 in the NCAA RPI.

• The Wolverines have outscored opponents 19-11 on the season, highlighted by a 12-3 advantage in the goal column despite a 97-79 shot deficit.

• Senior Sammi Woods leads the team in goals with eight, ranking her fourth in the conference and No. 37 nationally. She is Michigan's career active goals leader with 24.

• Freshman Gabrielle Prych is tied for 15th nationally among freshmen with five goals, and is tied for the team lead in assists with four. She is coming off the first multi-assist match of her career, with helpers on both of U-M's goals against Michigan State (Oct. 6).

• Michigan enters the week with 10 points in Big Ten Conference play, putting U-M sixth in the table prior to tiebreakers. The top four teams will host Big Ten Tournament quarterfinals matches on Sunday, Oct. 29 at campus sites prior to the semifinals and finals of the tournament being contested at Jesse Owens Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, on Nov. 2-5.

• Senior Sarah Bridenstine registered her second multi-assist match of the season against Maryland (Oct. 1) after marking two helpers against Western Michigan (Sept. 10). Bridenstine and junior defender Avery Peters are tied for the team lead in assists with four each, and the duo has accounted for nearly half of U-M's 21 total assists on the season. The eight assists from the pair are the most for a defensive unit since 2013.

• The Wolverines have one student-athlete from the state of New Jersey in freshman Stella Tapia (Montclair) as well as one from the state of Indiana in sophomore Jenna Lang (Columbus).

• In the NCAA RPI, future opponents Rutgers (47), Indiana (38), Iowa (45) and Ohio State (33) are all ranked in the top 60.

• The all-time series between U-M and Rutgers is dead even at 4-4-1. The Wolverines took the most recent game with a 3-2 win over No. 14 Rutgers in Ann Arbor in 2022. The year prior, Michigan defeated the fourth-ranked Scarlet Knights in the 2021 Big Ten Tournament championship after falling to them 4-1 earlier in the season.

• U-M holds a 17-7-5 lead in the series against the Hoosiers. Michigan had drawn or lost the previous five games but had won the previous seven matches before that from 2010-17.