#18 WASHINGTON STATE (3-0-0, 0-0-0 Pac-12)
at Nebraska (3-0-1, 0-0-0 Big 10)
| Fri., Aug. 31 | 5 p.m. PT
Television | BTN2GO
Live Statistics | WSUCougars.com
OPENING XI
> Washington State enters the weekend unbeaten on the year having won three-straight. The longest winning streak to start a season for WSU is 7 done in 2015.
> WSU enters the third week ranked #18, its highest ranking since 2015.
> WSU is one of 36 teams in DI still unbeaten and untied in 2018.
> Nebraska is the highest ranked team the Cougars have faced so far in 2018 coming in what would be #26 in the USC poll.
> Last season, WSU upset #14 Nebraska, 1-0, in Pullman, one of five top-25 shutouts for the Cougars in 2017.
> Freshman
Mykiaa Minniss earned the Cougars' second-straight Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week award on Aug. 28.
> Five different Cougars have scored the team's six goals on the year.
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Maddy Haro ranks No. 5 in the nation with four assists in three games. She needs two more assists to tie for No. 10 all-time in career assists with 13.
> GK
Ella Dederick enters the week with a shutout streak of 259:25 minutes.
> GK
Ella Dederick has 20 career shutouts, one shy of tying Katie Hultin (2002-05) for 2nd all-time in WSU history.
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Morgan Weaver enters the weekend tied for No. 10 all-time in career goals scored with 17.
MINNIS NABS PAC-12 DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Two weeks into the 2018 season the defense of the Washington State soccer team has made a name for itself as freshman center-back
Mykiaa Minniss nabbed the Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week award. She became the first freshman of the season to earn a weekly award in the Pac-12 Conference. For the week she led the defense to another shutout while scoring her first collegiate goal as well.
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