Indiana men\u2019s soccer is atop the college soccer landscape for the first time since the first poll of the 2021 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
No other Big Ten team is in the top 25, but both Maryland and Michigan are receiving votes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The poll is also littered with former Indiana opponents.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At No. 20 is the University of San Francisco<\/a>, which Indiana defeated 3-2 on Aug. 24. And rounding out the list is Saint Louis, which fell eight spots to No. 24 following a loss to the Hoosiers.\u00a0<\/p>\n Indiana also notched three Big Ten Player of the Week<\/a> honors \u2014 graduate student Holden Brown fielded his second-straight Goalkeeper of the Week award, redshirt junior Breckin Minzey secured Defensive Player of the Week and junior Collins Oduro earned Offensive Player of the Week honors.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Hoosiers play their first game as the top-ranked team in the nation against Michigan at 8 p.m. Saturday at Bill Armstrong Stadium.<\/p>\n Follow reporters Elakai Anela (elakai_anela<\/a> and eanela@iu.edu<\/a>) and Mateo Fuentes-Rohwer (@mateo_frohwer<\/a> and matfuent@iu.edu<\/a>) for updates throughout the Indiana men’s soccer season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indiana men\u2019s soccer is atop the college soccer landscape for the first time since the first poll of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-132315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}