COLLEGE PARK, Md. - No. 10 seeded Maryland will travel to South Bend for a battle with No. 7 seed Notre Dame on Sunday at 2 p.m. in the third round of the 2015 NCAA Men's Soccer Championship.
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By the Numbers: Maryland Dominance
8 - Maryland has appearances in the College Cup since 1998 - the most in the country
15 - Maryland has advanced to the postseason in 15 straight years
35 - Maryland is making its 35th appearance in the NCAA tournament
18 - Maryland has reached the NCAA round-of-16 in 18 of the last 22 years - the most in the country
4 - Every four year player since 1998 has been a part of at least one College Cup team.
3 - National championships (1968, 2005, 2008)
terps take down defending national champs
• Freshman Eryk Williamson scored his fifth goal in as many games as the No. 10 Maryland men's soccer defeated Virginia, 1-0, at Ludwig Field last Sunday evening.
• The Terrapins (11-5-5) controlled the contest throughout and held a 23-8 shot advantage over the Cavaliers (10-5-3).
• Williamson's tally came in the 38th minute as he collected a free kick from Corboz and sealed the shot from short range to the right of the goal. The assist was Corboz's team leading 10th of the season.
scouting notre dame
• Notre Dame (11-4-6) advanced to its first-ever Atlantic Coast Conference championship game this season after defeating Virginia and Wake Forest. The Irish beat Tulsa in penalty kicks to punch their ticket to the third round.
• Jon Gallagher leads the offense with nine goals and three assists. Seven players boast three or more goals in 2015. The Irish have allowed a mere four goals in the first half all season.
• The all-time series is deadlocked at 2-2-2. The last time the two programs met in the NCAA tourney, Notre Dame edged the Terps to win the 2013 national championship.
Maryland draws with irish to open season
• In a rematch of the 2013 national championship game, the then-No. 13-ranked Maryland men's soccer team played to a scoreless draw with then-No. 4 Notre Dame in the opening game of the adidas/IU Credit Union Classic.
• Maryland started five new players, including freshmen Sebastian Elney, Eryk Williamson, Diego Silva, and Amar Sejdic. A total of eight rookies made their Terrapin debuts against the Fighting Irish.
• Cody Niedermeier, who notched his first start as a Terp after sustaining two season-ending injuries in three years at Maryland, racked up three saves en route to his first career shutout.
• Maryland outshot Notre Dame by a decisive 7-1 mark in the first 45 minutes. The Terps held a 22-10 advantage in the category for the match but managed only four shots on goal.
Williamson Coming on strong
• After going the first 16 games of his Terrapin career without a goal, freshman Eryk Williamson has been instrumental to the Terps' offensive success as of late.
• The Alexandria, Va., native boasts five goals in the last five games, including the game-winner against Virginia on Sunday. Williamson was tabbed to the Big Ten Championship All-Tournament Team after recording two goals on the weekend.
terps win fourth straight tourney title
• Maryland captured its fourth-straight conference tournament crown when it upended top-seeded Ohio State, 2-0, in Columbus.
• Goalkeeper Cody Niedermeier and midfielder Tsubasa Endoh were named Most Valuable Defensive and Offensive Player of the tournament, respectively. Eryk Williamson joined the duo on the all-tournament team. The rookie forward has four goals in the last four games.
• Sunday's championship is Maryland's 32nd conference title overall and eighth tournament crown.
niedermeier leads terps to B1G finals
• Goalkeeper Cody Niedermeier made four saves in the shootout to lift No. 3 seed Maryland past second-seeded Indiana, 3-2, in penalty kicks in the semifinals of the 2015 Big Ten Men's Soccer Championship.
• Mael Corboz, Emmanuel Korvah and Connor Smith made their penalty kicks as two of the premier programs in all of college soccer battled to a 1-1 tie through 110 minutes. Senior Tsubasa Endoh scored the Terps' lone goal in regulation. Maryland will have a shot at its fourth-straight league tournament championship when it faces top-seed Ohio State on Sunday. It was the fourth consecutive season that Maryland's semifinal matchup has been decided in overtime or penalty kicks.
• Endoh gave Maryland an early advantage with his third goal of the season in the 10th minute. Freshman Eryk Williamson played the role of facilitator when his pass from the far sideline found a streaking Endoh and the Tokyo-native finished from six yards for the 1-0 lead.
six Terps snag all-B1g honors
• Senior Mael Corboz led a group of six Terrapins who earned All-Big Ten Conference Men's Soccer postseason awards.
• Corboz was tabbed a first team selection for the second consecutive season. Senior Tsubasa Endoh, juniors Alex Crognale and Chris Odoi-Atsem and freshman Sebastian Elney all garnered second team honors. Eryk Williamson joined fellow classmate Elney on the All-Freshman team.
• Corboz, a midfielder from Green Brook, N.J., played in all 17 matches for the Terps in 2015, racking up a team-high nine assists and adding a pair of goals. The senior captain was also named a Senior CLASS candidate early this season.
• Endoh picked up his first career all-conference honor after scoring three goals and adding four assists while playing in all 17 matches in the midfield for Maryland. The Tokyo-native posted a team-high two game-winning goals in 2015.
• Crognale and Odoi-Atsem helped guide the Terps to eight shutouts this season, including clean sheets against #4 Notre Dame and #17 Washington in addition to conference foes Michigan, Michigan State and Indiana. Crognale, who hails from Gahanna, Ohio, also racked up a career-high two goals. It was the second straight all-conference nod for Odoi-Atsem, a defender from Mitchellville, Md.
• Elney paced the Terps offensively as a rookie in 2015, posting a team-high six goals and adding a pair of assists. A forward from Boca Raton, Fla., Elney's overtime game-winner against then-No. 1 UCLA has been viewed nearly 370,000 times online.
• Williamson has played in all 17 matches for the Terrapins, notching 16 starts. He picked up his first two career goals in a pivotal win against No. 16 Rutgers to close the regular season. The Alexandria, Va., native has also posted three assists this season.
• Additionally, junior goalkeeper Cody Niedermeier was named a Sportsmanship Award honoree.
Meet the new guys
• The Terps have 13 newcomers on this year's roster, including 11 freshmen. Rookies Connor Smith, Sebastian Elney, Amar Sejdic, DJ Reeves, Andrew Samuels, Jorge Calix, Eryk Williamson, Paul Bin, Aaron Franco, Diego Silva, and Dayne St. Clair join St. John's transfer Cody Albrecht and Eastern Florida JUCO standout Ivan Magalhaes on this year's squad.
Corboz named senior class candidate
• Maryland senior midfielder Mael Corboz has been named a candidate for the 2015 Senior CLASS Award.
• In the classroom, Corboz maintains a 3.4 GPA as an engineering major at Maryland and is a senior captain and leader of a youth-laden 2015 squad that includes 11 freshmen.
• Corboz started a non-profit called the Healthy HeartBeets that focuses on educating children from lower-income areas regarding healthy eating. It started as a means of providing information about affordable alternatives to fast food but eventually became a larger nutrition education program through which he went to different schools and talked to young children about what they typically eat and taught them about healthier alternatives to those specific products.
• A first-team All-Big Ten selection in 2014 after leading the Big Ten in goals scored (10), Corboz was named the Big Ten Championship Most Valuable Player after notching the game-winner against Indiana in the title game. He led the Terps to both regular season and tournament titles in Maryland's inaugural season in the Big Ten.
