Men’s Soccer to Face South Florida

Missouri State at South Florida
Game Info	Oct. 17, 6:00 p.m. Live Stats \| Watch
Location	Tampa, Fla.
Site	Corbett Stadium
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On The Pitch
• The Missouri State Bears face South Florida in an American Conference match-up on the road on Friday, Oct. 17 at 6:00 p.m. MoState's next two opponents, USF (7-0-5) and Drake (5-0-6), are two of the eight remaining Division I teams without a loss this season.
• The Bears are 3-5-2 on the season. The Bears lost their latest match against Creighton, 1-0 conceding a goal in the 89th minute. They tied against No. 7 Saint Louis, with a scoreline of 1-1. They defeated Temple in their American Conference opener, 4-0.
• Fumiya Shiraishi has scored or assisted 9-of-14 goals scored by the Bears this season. He is a three-time American Conference Offensive Player of the Week, the first Bear in history to win three offensive weekly conference award honors in a single season.
• Senior goalkeeper Will Lowry is third in Bears career leader in goals-against-average, with an 0.73 average. The record holder Michael Creek held an 0.69 average from 2018-21. Lowry ranked fifth nationally in 2024 in goalkeeper goals against average (.674), letting past only nine goals in more than 1,200 minutes of play.
• South Florida leads the series 1-0-0. The Bulls beat the Bears in their last meeting in 2015, 2-0 at Corbett Stadium in Tampa, Fla.
• Missouri State has achieved three straight 12-win seasons under head coach Michael Seabolt.
• Since the beginning of the 2019 season, Missouri State holds the best Division I overall record of 86-20-12 (.780), second best conference record of 47-5-4 (.875) and fifth-best home record of 48-9-6 (.810). The Bears had the 15th-best win percentage in 2024 (.722).
• MSU has made six straight NCAA appearances, joining Clemson, Georgetown, Indiana, Marshall, Wake Forest and Pittsburgh as the only seven DI teams in the nation to make every tournament since 2019.
• Missouri State was ranked in the first two United Soccer Coaches Polls in 2025 and has been ranked in at least one poll in eight consecutive seasons.
• The Bears are in their first season in the American Conference in 2025 after spending the previous 34 seasons in the Missouri Valley. MoState enjoyed plenty of success in the MVC, with the program's 12 regular season championships, four conference tournament crowns and nine NCAA Tournament appearances all coming since 1997.
• MSU is picked to finish fifth in the American Conference this season with a first-place vote. The Bears are just two points from second in a tight preseason poll, and Alex Matthews is a preseason all-league selection. Matthews is also one of 29 players on the Hermann Trophy Watch List, given annually to the nations top player.
• The Bears return four all-Missouri Valley Conference selections from a season ago, including first-team pick Alex Matthews and second-team choices James Jennings, Fumiya Shiraishi and Will Lowry.

Men’s Soccer to Face South Florida

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Players Mentioned

James Jennings

Will Lowry

Alex Matthews

Fumiya Shiraishi

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