North Carolina State University Athletics
Men’s Soccer Travels to Georgetown for NCAA Quarterfinal Match
12/4/2025 9:08:00 PM | Men's Soccer
RALEIGH – For the first time in 33 years, NC State men's soccer returns to the NCAA Quarterfinal to face the No. 7 seed Georgetown. The NCAA Tournament Elite Eight match is set for Friday at 6 p.m. at Shaw Field in Washington, D.C.
The match will be televised on ESPN+ here, while live stats will be available on StatBroadcast here.
Fans wishing to attend the match must purchase tickets online here.
A Win on Friday Would…
• Be the 575th win in program history (574-493-120)
• Be the 257th win in Hubbard's head coaching career (256- 59-46)
• Be Hubbard's 25th victory at NC State (24-7-9)
• Be the fourth win over Georgetown (3-0-0)
Series History (leads 3-0-0)
• Friday's meeting marks the fourth contest between the NC State Wolfpack and the Georgetown Hoyas.
• The two met last in the 2024 NCAA Second Round in Washington, which resulted in a 2-0 victory for the Pack.
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.
• Three players were on the MAC Hermann trophy watch list (Logan Erb, 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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