ACC/Big Ten Challenge Awaits Field Hockey

No. 11 Syracuse vs. No. 13 Ohio State: Sunday | Sept. 7 | 2 p.m. | Columbus, Ohio | Buckeye Varsity Field

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From the Start

– Time to hit the highway for Syracuse subject hockey because the No. 11 Orange head for Central Ohio for the ACC/Big Ten Challenge this weekend.

– The Orange tackle two top-20 Big Ten opponents at Buckeye Varsity Field, main off with No. 16 Rutgers on Friday (1 p.m.) earlier than taking over host No. 13 Ohio State on Sunday (2 p.m.).

– Both video games can be streamed on Big Ten Network Plus this weekend with dwell stats by OhioStateBuckeyes.com.

– This can be Syracuse’s first foray into the ACC/Big Ten Challenge since becoming a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference in 2013. 

– The Orange are coming off a sizzling begin to the 2025 season, selecting off Lock Haven 15-0 Friday earlier than dispatching Fairfield 5-2 on Sunday.

– Sunday’s sport in opposition to the Buckeyes options two of probably the most explosive offenses within the early phases of the season sees a Syracuse group that averages a national-best 10.0 targets per sport in opposition to an Ohio State group that boasts 8.00 targets per sport, tied for second within the nation.

With a Win Friday

– Syracuse would win its third sport in a row, the very best opening stretch of video games beneath head coach Lynn Farquhar since her first yr on the helm, going 5-0 to open 2023.

– The Orange would win back-to-back video games over the Scarlet Knights for the primary time since claiming 11 straight wins from 2004-2017, a majority of which got here in the course of the group’s Big East rivalry days.

– Improve Syracuse to 3-1-0 in opposition to Big Ten groups beneath head coach Lynn Farquhar.

– Run Syracuse’s neutral-site profitable streak in opposition to Rutgers to 4 in a row, with the earlier three wins coming in Storrs, Connecticut (2010), Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (2001) and Boston, Massachusetts (1995). The Orange are 3-2-0 at impartial websites all-time in opposition to the Scarlet Knights.

Filling the Scoresheet

– The Syracuse offense was an unstoppable power throughout opening weekend, racking 20 targets in opposition to two video games.

– ‘Cuse leads the nation in targets per sport, averaging a heft 10.0 an outing whereas common 31.0 factors per sport, additionally a nationwide greatest.

– Bo van Kempen, later named ACC Offensive Player of the Week, scored 9 targets in these two video games in opposition to Lock Haven and Fairfield, together with six in opposition to Lock Haven, a program report and probably the most for an ACC Player since at the least 2017. 

– Pati Strunk stamped her identify within the Syracuse report books as effectively, shelling out six assists in opposition to Lock Haven. 

– Despite the 15-0 consequence, it was not a college report for targets in a sport; Syracuse buried 16 targets in opposition to Big East foe Georgetown in the course of the 2008 common season.

– Nearly half of the Syracuse roster offered factors throughout opening weekend as 12 completely different Orange tallied at the least one level over the weekend.

Protect Coyne

– Like a financial institution vault, you must defend the Coyne.

– The Orange are off to a clear begin for the 2025 season, going 2-0 throughout opening weekend.

– Under head coach Lynn Farquhar, Syracuse is 12-5 at J.S. Coyne Stadium. 

– The Orange went 6-2 at dwelling final season due to back-to-back wins over Stanford and No. 18 California late within the season.

– Syracuse went 4-3 at J.S. Coyne Stadium in 2023, struggling its first dwelling setback for the reason that finish of the 2021 season within the Virginia sport.

– That double additional time loss in opposition to No. 6 Virginia in 2023 snapped a 13-game dwelling profitable streak on the midpoint of final season.

– Since the brand new floor at J.S. Coyne Stadium was put in in 2016, following the group’s nationwide championship, the Orange have amassed a 54-20 (.730) general report at Coyne and maintain an everyday season report of 46-17 (.730). 

– Syracuse has two excellent dwelling common seasons in that span: 9-0 in 2022 and 6-0 in 2016.