NC State
(14) Louisville
#5 Wolfpack Hosts Louisville in the First Round of ACC Tournament
11/4/2025 4:32:00 PM | Men's Soccer
RALEIGH – Now in the postseason slate of the season, fifth-ranked NC State claims the No. 3 seed of the ACC Tournament and is prepared to welcome No. 14 seed Louisville at Dail Soccer Stadium on Wednesday at 6 p.m.
The match will be televised on ACCNX here with commentary by Andrew Sanders and Brad Sweeney, while live stats will be available on StatBroadcast here.
Due to construction on Morrill Dr., fans should expect major delays and allow more time to arrive on campus. For egress, patrons will be directed to use Cates Ave. to Pullen Road or Dan Allen Dr. to access Western Blvd.
A Win on Wednesday Would…
• Be the 572nd win in program history (571-492-120)
• Be the 254th win in Hubbard's head coaching career (253- 58-46)
• Be Hubbard's 22nd victory at NC State (21-6-9)
• Be the sixth win over Louisville (5-5-2)
Series History
• Wednesday's meeting marks the 13th contest between the NC State Wolfpack and the Louisville Cardinals.
• The Wolfpack last met with the Cardinals last season, meeting in Raleigh as the final regular season match at home, where the Pack broke Louisville's four-game win streak over them with a 1-0 victory
Quick Notes
• The Wolfpack started the season ranked at No. 14 in the preseason United Soccer Coaches poll, where it finished last season. After just week one of the regular season, the squad landed at eighth in the country, the last time the program was ranked that high was in September of 2018.
• The team has bested its highest-ever ranking in the United Soccer Coaches poll three times this season. The previous best for the program was No. 8 set in 2018, this season the team has landed at No. 8, No. 5, No. 2, and finally No. 1.
• After being picked to finish eighth in a highly-competitive Atlantic Coast Conference, NC State finished third, just one league win away from sharing the regular season title with Virginia.
• A win over Queens to start the season moved the team's season-opening record under Marc Hubbard to 2-0.
• A crowd of 5,083 fans at the game vs. North Carolina on Sept. 5 set a new Dail Soccer Stadium attendance record.
• NC State was the last school in the entire NCAA to concede a goal.
• Six players were mentioned in TopDrawerSoccer's midseason Players to Watch list. Donavan Phillip at No. 1, Nikola Markovic at No. 16, Logan Erb at No. 21, Tyler Caton at No. 49, Taig Healy at No. 62, and then Riley Moloney at No. 7 on the freshmen list.
Across the ACC
• Donavan Phillip leads the league in shots, shots on goal, goals, and points.
• Taig Healy leads the league in assists.
• Logan Erb leads in goals against average, saves, and shutouts per game.
• The ACC holds three teams ranked nationally in the top 25 (No. 4 Virginia, No. 5 NC State, and No. 7 Stanford).
Across the NCAA
• Donavan Phillip shares the lead in the country for total goals (15), leads in goals per game (1), is fifth in points per game (2.07) and is fifth in shots on goal per game (2.07).
• The team is for second in the country in goal differential (37-4), leads shutout percentage (.750), and is fourth in shots on goal per game with a 8.00 average.
• Logan Erb is second in the country in goals against average (0.262 avg.) and is third in save percentage (0.895).
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