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#15 Wolfpack Prepped for NCAA Semifinals Match with Saint Louis
12/11/2025 8:38:00 PM | Men's Soccer
RALEIGH – No. 15 NC State men's soccer is set for its NCAA Semifinals match with Saint Louis. The game will start at 8:30 p.m. on ESPNU from First Horizon Stadium in Cary, N.C.
The match will be televised on ESPNU here, while live stats will be available on StatBroadcast here.
A Win on Friday Would…
• Be the 576th win in program history (575-493-120)
• Be the 258th win in Hubbard's head coaching career (257- 59-46)
• Be Hubbard's 26th victory at NC State (25-7-9)
• Be the first win over Saint Louis (0-2-2)
The Pack is Back
After defeating (7) Georgetown on the road by a 3-2 score, NC State advanced to the NCAA College Cup for the first time in over 30 years. The 2025 season is just the second-ever appearance for the red-and-white in the Final Four match, as the last feature of the Wolfpack was in 1990. If NC State were to advance to the championship match, it would be the
first time in program history. The victory would also mark the first-ever win over the Bilikens.
Series History
• Friday's meeting marks the fifth contest between the NC State Wolfpack and the Saint Louis Bilikens.
• The two met last in 2007, which resulted in a 1-1 draw. The only time they've met in the postseason was on Nov. 30, 1991, when Saint Louis ended NC State's season with a 3-0 win in the NCAA Quarterfinals in Saint Louis, Mo.
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.
• Two players are on the MAC Hermann trophy semifinalist list (Nikola Markovic and Donavan Phillip).
• 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.
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