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#2 Wolfpack Makes First Road Trip to Boston College
9/18/2025 12:57:00 PM | Men's Soccer
RALEIGH – Second-ranked NC State men's soccer hits the road for its first away match and second conference meeting of the season with a meeting at Boston College on Friday at 7 p.m.
The match will be streamed live here on ACC Network Extra, while live stats will be available on StatBroadcast here.
A Win on Friday Would…
• Be the 567th win in program history (566-491-117)
• Be the 249th win in Hubbard's head coaching career (248- 57-43)
• Be Hubbard's 17th victory at NC State (16-5-6)
• Be the 11th win over Boston College (10-8-4)
Series History
• Friday's meeting marks the 23rd contest between the NC State Wolfpack and Boston College Eagles.
• The Wolfpack last met with the Eagles in Raleigh in 2023, which resulted in a 2-0 victory.
• Up until last season, NC State and Boston College faced each other every season since they first met in 2004. Four matches between the two have gone to overtime.
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.
• Through two weeks of competition, the Pack was boosted to the No. 5 spot, marking the program's highest-ever ranking in the United Soccer Coaches poll (which began in 1996).
• In the fourth poll of the season, the Pack was pushed to No. 2 in the nation, marking a new program high for the United Soccer Coaches poll.
• NC State was picked to finish eighth in a competitive Atlantic Coast Conference that features four of the nation's preseason top 10 teams according to the United Soccer Coaches Poll.
• A win over Queens to open the season on Thursday 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 Friday, Sept. 5 set a new Dail Soccer Stadium attendance record.
Across the ACC
• NC State is one of two ACC schools (other being Duke) to feature at least four players on the TopDrawerSoccer Preseason Top-100 Players to Watch List.
• The ACC holds five teams ranked nationally in the top-25 (No. 1 Wake Forest, No. 2 NC State, No. 3 Stanford, No. 14 Clemson, and No. 19 Duke).
• NC State is the only ACC school to not yet concede a goal.
Across the NCAA
• Donavan Phillip leads the country in goals per game with 1.43 average and leads in shots on goal per game with 3.00 average.
• The team leads the country in goal differential (23-0) and is in second in shots on goal per game with a 9.57 average.
• NC State is one of three schools to not yet concede a goal.
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