MURFREESBORO, Tenn.— It's been a long road for the Middle Tennessee soccer team since it last took the field in the Conference USA Championship against Rice. In just one more day, when the Blue Raiders take the field again for the first time since that day, it'll mark 450 days that the painful wound that the 4-2 loss to the Owls has been festering.
Certainly, a long time to be nursing that wound, it'll be a welcome sight for Middle Tennessee when it starts it's 2021 season against Lipscomb on Friday. For a moment that's been 450 days in the making, it'll be the first opportunity to continue adding fuel to the fire that started on the day the Blue Raiders fell in the 2019 conference title game.