MEN’S NEWS … The Stanford’s women’s 11-0-0 start has overshadowed the Cardinal men’s remarkable turnaround. It takes a 6-1-0 record into Pac-10 play, which begins Friday when it travels to Berkeley to face archrival Cal.

Stanford, ranked No. 17 this week, has already matched its output of only 14 goals last season when it finished 4-11-3 — quite a feat when you consider that the Cardinal’s best attacker, Bobby Warshaw, was moved to center back.

Stanford, which hasn’t qualified for the NCAA Tournament since 2002 when it lost to UCLA, 1-0, in the final, has been bolstered by the return of sixth-year senior Evan Morgan and fifth-year senior T.J. Novak, who were injured early last season.

* RECORD CROWD? UC Santa Barbara’s emergence as a national power has created several intersectional rivalries. The Gauchos will host Indiana on Friday in a rematch of their 2004 NCAA Division I final the Hoosiers won penalty kicks.

The match will be broadcast live on Fox Soccer Channel (11 p.m. ET/8 p.m. PT), and UCSB will be shooting for a regular-season record crowd. The school record at Harder Stadium is 9,749, set last November when the Gauchos hosted Cal Poly. The national record is 22,512 for the 1980 Bronze Boot game between Saint Louis and reigning national champion SIU-Edwardsville at Busch Stadium.

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* LIBERTY ROLLS. One of the most dominant teams in the country has been Liberty, who began the week ranked first in scoring (3.2 goals per game) and third in defense (0.33 goals per game). The Flames head into Big South action at Coastal Carolina on Saturday with a 5-1-1 and shutout streak of 346 minutes.

A trio of sophomores — Darren Amoo and Phillip Aseweh from Ghana and Timothy Bullock from nearby Forest, Va. — have combined for 14 goals in seven games. None was much of a factor or part of the team last season. Amoo started four games before suffering a season-ending injuries. Bullock made only four appearances off the bench, while Aseweh played at Virginia Tech.

(Click here to hear Coach Jeff Alder talk about Liberty’s successful start.)