No. 1 seed West Virginia and No. 6 seed Oklahoma wil meet in the 2014 Big 12 Soccer Championship final at 3:30 p.m. CT on Sunday at Swope Soccer Village in Kansas City, Missouri. Both schools advanced in penalty kick shootouts following scoreless stalemates on Friday and will now play for the conference's automatic berth into the NCAA Division I Soccer Championship.
#1 West Virginia 0, #5 Texas 0 (WVU advances on PK's, 6-5)
Recap | Box Score | Photos | Highlights
#6 Oklahoma 0, #7 Baylor 0 (OU advances on PK's, 3-2)
Recap | Box Score | Photos | Highlights
West Virginia, who joined the Big 12 Conference in 2012, are seeking their fifth conference championship in the past three years. The Mountaineers have finished in first place in each of the past three regular season campaigns with a 21-1-2 combined conference record and are the defending champions for the postseason tournament after defeating Oklahoma State in the final a year ago. This year, head coach Nikki Izzo-Brown -- Big 12 Coach of the Year for a third straight time in 2014 -- has led her side to a 17-game unbeaten streak entering Sunday's final and a No. 9 national ranking.
Oklahoma -- last-place finishers in the Big 12 standings a year ago and picked to again finish last in this year's pre-season poll -- will be seeking their first ever Big 12 soccer title and will play in the tournament final for the second time in school history. In 2010, the Sooners faced in-state rival Oklahoma State and fell in a penalty kick shootout after a 1-1 draw in regulation, their only previous shootout in the Big 12 tournament prior to Friday. A No. 6 seed has never won the Big 12 Soccer Championship in its 19-year history and the only lower seed to lift the trophy was seventh-seeded Oklahoma State in 2003.
The schools only meeting in 2014 came on Oct. 26 in Morgantown, West Virginia when the home side earned a 3-1 victory. Oklahoma is 0-3-0 in three all-time games against the Mountaineers.
Tickets for Sunday's final are available for $9 and can be purchased online at Ticketmaster.com or at the Swope Soccer Village gates. The match will be nationally televised live on FOX Sports 1 with Dave Barnett and Jessica Stamp.
