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The Sports Farmers Market Big 12 Soccer Championship is well underway in Kansas City, MO and we’re down to just four teams who can take home the tournament championship.The TCU Horned Frogs earned a first–round bye after being crowned Big 12 regular season champions for the third time in the last five years.
TCU drew Colorado after the Buffaloes defeated the Utah Utes 2-1 earlier in the week, and it is safe to say the Buffaloes were ready. Colorado jumped out of the gates and scored the opening goal after just 38 seconds courtesy ofSaturday’s match was eerily similar to that of the previous meeting between TCU and Colorado. When the Frogs traveled to Prentup Field in Boulder, Emerson Layne scored after 88 seconds before TCU scored six-unanswered goals.equalized with her second goal of the season.
BYU is now tasked with a matchup against the 1-seed TCU Horned Frogs, whom they lost to 4-1 back on Sep. 19 in Fort Worth.The 10-seed Baylor Bears entered Saturday’s match as severe underdogs against a Texas Tech team that finished second in the Big 12 behind TCU by just three points. But despite that narrative, the Bears clawed their way to an early 1-0 lead after forwardput the Red Raiders ahead with her second goal of the campaign.
Despite falling behind early, the Red Raiders thoroughly dominated the Bears. Texas Tech outshot Baylor 21-to-9 with 10 shots on targets.With the win on Saturday, Texas Tech will face the Kansas Jayhawks as the nightcap match on Wednesday, Nov. 6.The Kansas Jayhawks are headed to the Big 12 Tournament semifinals for the first time since 2019. 6-seed Kansas had controlled much of Saturday’s match against West Virginia, outshooting the Mountaineers 15-to-6 with nine shots on target.
It was a stalemate between the two sides that took the match into overtime. A scoreless overtime period then advanced the match into double-overtime where it took until the 101st minute to see a breakthrough.placed a right-footed shot into the back of the net to win the match for Kansas in double-overtime. It marks the first time Kansas has made the semifinal round since 2019–also the last time the program had won the Big 12 Tournament.
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