MVC Tourney Semifinal at #9 Missouri State

Bradley Soccer will visit regular-season champion Missouri State in semifinal action of the 2020-21 MVC Men's Soccer Championship Tuesday night

Jill Catus

Bobby Parker, Associate AD for Communications Soccer 4/12/2021 4:01:00 PM

SPRINGFIELD, MO - Four of the league's five teams begin the chase for the 2020-21 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Soccer Championship and an automatic berth into the NCAA Tournament when the postseason kicks off with semifinal action Tuesday night. As the tournament's No. 4 seed, Bradley will visit regular-season Valley champion and ninth-ranked Missouri State in the second semifinal game.

2020-21 MVC Men's Soccer Championship | Semifinal #2
Game 11: Bradley (2-6-2, 1-6-1 MVC) at #9 Missouri State (9-1-0, 7-1-0 MVC)
Date: Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Time: 6:00 pm
Where: Springfield, MO (Allison South Stadium)
TV/Video Streaming: ESPN+
Audio: N/A
Live Stats: MissouriStateBears.com
Tickets: 35 percent stadium capacity | MSU Tickets Information

Setting the Stage
• Four of The Valley's five teams advanced to the 2021 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Soccer Championship with the two semifinal games being hosted Tuesday by regular-season league champion Missouri State and tourney No. 2 seed Drake.
• Bradley is the No. 4 seed for this year's tournament and will visit Missouri State Tuesday night.
• The Bradley-Missouri State winner will advance to Saturday's championship game against either Drake or Loyola Chicago.
• While attempting to reach its 10th MVC Tournament championship game, Bradley will be looking to halt a 7-game winless streak since claiming a 1-0 win against Evansville March 4 at Eureka College.
• Missouri State is looking to bounce back from its first setback of the season, a 2-0 home loss Thursday to Loyola Chicago that snapped a MVC-record, 25-game regular-season winning streak.

Series History
41st Meeting • Missouri State leads 27-9-4 (.725) • MSU leads 15-4-2 (.762) at Missouri State
• Missouri State has won seven consecutive meetings since Bradley's last series victory, a 4-0 win Oct. 17, 2015 at Shea Stadium.
• Since securing the most-lopsided win in series history in that 2015 victory, Bradley has totalled only two goals in the last seven meetings against the Bears.
• Missouri State's 27 wins in the series are the most by one team against Bradley in the program's 34-year history.
• The Bears won both of this season's regular-season matchups in shutout fashion, earning a 3-0 victory Feb. 27 at Allison South Stadium and following up with a 1-0, overtime win March 18 at Shea Stadium.

In The MVC Tournament
• Bradley and Missouri State both are competing in their 20th MVC Men's Soccer Championship semifinal games.
• With four MVC regular-season championships and three MVC Tournament titles, Bradley is the only active Valley men's soccer member to claim multiple regular-season and tournament championships.
• The Braves are seeking their first Valley championship since winning the 2013 title at Shea Stadium, having previously won the MVC Tournament in 2007 (at Creighton) and 2010 (Shea Stadium).
• Missouri State now owns nine regular-season MVC titles, but the Bears have not won the postseason tournament since claiming its lone championship in 1999 by downing the Braves in overtime, 2-1, at Bradley's Becker Park.
• Missouri State is 8-7-4 all-time in the MVC Tournament semifinal round, while Bradley is 9-9-1 in the semis.

Lack Of Tourney Experience
• Bradley's 31-man roster includes 23 student-athletes who have never appeared in a postseason game for the Braves.
• Only five current Braves have ever started a MVC Tournament game and none of the team's four goalkeepers have ever appeared in a conference postseason game.
• With five career MVC Tournament goals, graduate forward Gerit Wintermeyer is the only current Brave to register a postseason point in his career.
• Bradley's entire 31-man roster has totaled 10 career MVC Tournament starts among 18 total appearances and two of those appearances were from 2020-21 redshirt Nick Feeney.

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Players Mentioned

#30 Nick Feeney: F; 5' 10"; Junior; Sockers FC Chicago

#9 Gerit Wintermeyer: F; 6' 3"; Graduate Student; FC Kaiserslautern

Players Mentioned

#30 Nick Feeney
: 5' 10"; Junior; Sockers FC Chicago
: F

#9 Gerit Wintermeyer
: 6' 3"; Graduate Student; FC Kaiserslautern
: F

MVC Tourney Semifinal at #9 Missouri State

Bradley Soccer will visit regular-season champion Missouri State in semifinal action of the 2020-21 MVC Men's Soccer Championship Tuesday night

Players Mentioned

#30 Nick Feeney

#9 Gerit Wintermeyer

Players Mentioned

#30 Nick Feeney

#9 Gerit Wintermeyer