NCAA Tournament 2025

[Sandon Mibut]

HALF:  St. Olaf 1 - Tufts 1

St. Olaf is having problem with Tufts' size in the box on set pieces, but Tufts had some problems of its own on that last play of the first half allowing a ball to bounce around near the six yard box before being cleared.

Tufts out-shooting St. Olaf 12-6 (4-1 SOG) and has 4 corners to 2 for St. Olaf.  The Ole's will want to limit that corner number in the second half.  Tufts has 7 fouls to 3 for St. Olaf and two Tufts players are carrying yellows into the second half.

St Olaf goalie made 2 great saves to keep them in it. Tufts has had quite a lot of good looks but it's even.

I disagree with both Tufts cards. And couple times I've thought ref is calling St Olaf foul but it's opposite.

[Kuiper]

HALF:  St. Olaf 1 - Tufts 1

St. Olaf is having problem with Tufts' size in the box on set pieces, but Tufts had some problems of its own on that last play of the first half allowing a ball to bounce around near the six yard box before being cleared.

Tufts out-shooting St. Olaf 12-6 (4-1 SOG) and has 4 corners to 2 for St. Olaf.  The Ole's will want to limit that corner number in the second half.  Tufts has 7 fouls to 3 for St. Olaf and two Tufts players are carrying yellows into the second half.

St Olaf goalie made 2 great saves to keep them in it. Tufts has had quite a lot of good looks but it's even.

I disagree with both Tufts cards. And couple times I've thought ref is calling St Olaf foul but it's opposite.

Agree on Hobday.  He kept St. Olaf in the game early on.  He was just shaky on the goal and one other play in the air where he came out for a ball and missed entirely.

I should have added that Bechtel was carded as well.  Something after the St. Olaf goal, but I couldn't tell what happened.

[Kuiper]

Our first VAR review for possible penalty in the box against St. Olaf, but ref rules no penalty.  Their feet were tangled and both players down.

[Sandon Mibut]

Ref very heavy-handed against Tufts

[D3Reporter]

Lights are too bright for this ref. Needs to get a grip.

[Kuiper]

Ref very heavy-handed against Tufts

Dezotell gets a yellow along with a player, presumably for complaining.  Tufts' card count up to 6

[Kuiper]

Tufts 2 - St. Olaf 1 in the 77th minute

The corner offense strikes again.  Taylor Feinberg didn't have a size advantage, but he had sealed off the defender and directed the ball to the opposite corner.

[paclassic89]

Ref very heavy-handed against Tufts

Ref has been fine. 

[ccfan123456]

This announcer is shambolic

[Kuiper]

I kind of wondered if St. Olaf would switch goalkeepers.  Hobday is a shot stopper, but not great in the air.  Carlson has 3-4 inches over him at 6'4" and probably is stronger in the air and in commanding his box.  We'll see.  There's height and then there's confidence to use it.

Oh, and another yellow card issued, although this one for St. Olaf and Charlie Pillar it looks like.

[Kuiper]

Fantastic save by Antic, making up for a really poor punch of the ball

Interesting that the St. Olaf keeper is coming up for every corner.

[Coach.myers]

Tufts looking to lock this down, classic NESCAC soccer. Excellent on set pieces and play low scoring games all season

[Kuiper]

FINAL:  Tufts 2 - St. Olaf 1

[Bucket]

Ref very heavy-handed against Tufts

Ref has been fine.

I didn't watch the entire game, so I can't reasonably comment on overall quality, but this astounds me:

7 cards on Tufts? They had 21 all season.

St Olaf's had 3 cards, so it's not like the official was card happy with all. Seems like Tufts partisans have a point.

[rdanie03]

Ref very heavy-handed against Tufts

Ref has been fine.

I didn't watch the entire game, so I can't reasonably comment on overall quality, but this astounds me:

7 cards on Tufts? They had 21 all season.

St Olaf's had 3 cards, so it's not like the official was card happy with all. Seems like Tufts partisans have a point.

As a Tufts partisan here's what I'll say. 5-6 of the cards were merited with one blatantly bad call. I think the bigger problem the jumbos had with the referee was a lack of consistency in what constituted a card. If both teams were held to the same standard, it probably would have finished with 5-6 cards each.