It’s been a long time since the men’s soccer team has put together a Big East regular season that’s worth getting excited about.
Over the last decade, the team made the Big East Tournament just once in 2012 but was immediately knocked out by Villanova in a 3-1 first-round loss. Before 2012, the team had only made the Big East Tournament on two other occasions since 2006 and was knocked out by their first-round opponents both times.
It’s been even longer since the Pirates finished a Big East regular season with a winning record – 15 years, to be exact – and that was when program Hall of Famer and former U.