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#1 Pack Prepped to Travel to Pitt
9/25/2025 9:35:00 AM | Men's Soccer
RALEIGH – Top-ranked NC State men's soccer continues its road stint by traveling to Pittsburgh Friday night to face the Panthers at 7:30 p.m. on ACC Network.
The match will be streamed live here on ACC Network, while live stats will be available on StatBroadcast here.
A Win on Friday Would…
• Be the 568th win in program history (567-491-117)
• Be the 250th win in Hubbard's head coaching career (249- 57-43)
• Be Hubbard's 18th victory at NC State (17-5-6)
• Be the fourth win over Pittsburgh (3-5-1)
Reaching New Heights
In the fifth release of the United Soccer Coaches poll this season, NC State landed at the very top of the list. This marks the first time the program has ever been No. 1 in the country in this poll. This comes after the team is officially the only school in the league to not yet concede a goal. Eight games and eight shutouts, only one match was a draw. The last time a team had eight shutouts in its first eight games of the season was Creighton in 2011. The squad continues to prove it has one of the most dominant offenses as well as the most dominant defenses in the nation. The Pack has a scoring differential of 25-0, nearly half of that comes from forward Donavan Phillip, who currently sits with 12 total goals on the season. Phillip leads the team and the NCAA in scoring and has so far tabbed two hat tricks this season.
Series History
• Friday's meeting marks the 10th contest between the NC State Wolfpack and Pittsburgh Panthers.
• The Wolfpack last met with the Eagles in Pittsburgh in 2022, which resulted in a 1-4 loss.
• The Pack has not defeated the Panthers since 2016, which took place at Dail Soccer Stadium in Raleigh.
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.
• 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 six teams ranked nationally in the top-25 (No. 1 NC State, No. 6 Stanford, No. 12 Virginia, No. 13 Wake Forest, No. 16 Duke, and No. 21 Notre Dame).
• 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 (1.50 avg.), points per game (3.00 avg.) and shots on goal per game (2.88 avg.).
• The team leads the country in goal differential (25-0) and is for second in shots on goal per game with a 9.13 average.
• NC State is the ONLY school to not yet concede a goal.
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