The Butler women's soccer team will host DePaul on Sunday as it begins postseason action.
 
The Bulldogs (10-4-4, 5-2-3 BIG EAST) are coming off a come-from-behind win over Villanova that propelled them into the No. 3 seed in the postseason conference tournament.
 
The Blue Demons (5-7-6, 3-3-4 BIG EAST) tied Providence on Thursday to secure the No. 6 seed and final spot in the tournament. Conference victories for DePaul this season included No. 18 Georgetown, Seton Hall, and St. John's, and the side had three additional matches end in a draw.
 
Butler and DePaul battled to a scoreless draw in their regular-season meeting in Chicago.
 
No. 3 Butler vs No. 6 DePaul
DATE/TIME:    Sunday, November 3 // 1PM
LOCATION:     Indianapolis // Sellick Bowl
LIVE VIDEO:     FloSports
LIVE STATS:     butlersports.com/StatBroadcast
TICKETS:           butlersports.com
 
Bulldog Bits
        (as of 10/31/24)

• Talia Sommer leads the BIG EAST (24th nationally) with a .607 shot accuracy and also leads with 27 total points (26th). She is 2nd in the conference (41st) with 8 goals, 2nd (51st) with 7 assists, and 2nd (74th) with 3 game-winning goals.
• Anna Pierce is 2nd in the BIG EAST (57th nationally) with 7 shutouts. She is 3rd (86th) with a .944 goals-against average and 3rd (97th) with a .798 save percentage.
   
• Talia Sommer was named BIG EAST Offensive Player of the Week after she dished out an assist on four of Butler's five total goals vs St. John's and at Creighton.
• Sommer's brace vs. Villanova (last Thursday) was her third this season. She has four multi-goal matches in her career.
   
• The 2024 season is the seventh in the past eight seasons that Butler has finished the regular season in one of the top-three spots of the conference standings.
   
• Prior to this season's draw between Butler and DePaul, the visiting team had won the previous two matches, in 2022 and 2023.
• Butler's most recent win (2-1) was in 2022 in Chicago.
• DePaul's most recent win (2-1) was in 2023 in Indianapolis.
• In all five matches played from 2018-2021, the home team won.
• The teams are tied, 4-4-2, in the most recent ten matches, since 2016.