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#5 Men’s Soccer Faces North Carolina in Conference Opener
9/4/2025 1:12:00 PM | Men's Soccer
RALEIGH – Fifth-ranked NC State men's soccer is set to face North Carolina at home in its conference opener on Friday night at 7:30 p.m.
The match will be streamed live here on ACC Network with commentary by Joseph Malfa and Devon Kerr, while live stats will be available on StatBroadcast here.
A Win on Friday Would…
• Be the 564th win in program history (563-491-116)
• Be the 246th win in Hubbard's head coaching career (245- 57-42)
• Be Hubbard's 14th victory at NC State (13-5-5)
• Be the 23rd win over North Carolina (22-54-14)
Series History
• Friday's meeting marks the 91st contest between the NC State Wolfpack and North Carolina Tarheels.
• The Wolfpack last beat the Tarheels 1-0 in 2018 in Raleigh when North Carolina was ranked first in the nation. The two have met four times since then, resulting in two draws and two losses for NC State.
• In the era of the USC poll (started in 1996), this marks just the second time that the two have met while NC State was ranked and North Carolina was unranked. The only other time was in 1997.
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).
• 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.
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 seven teams ranked nationally in the top-25 (No. 1 Stanford, No. 3 Clemson, No. 5 NC State, No. 7 Wake Forest, No. 8 Virginia Tech, No. 10 Pittsburgh, and No. 14 Duke).
Across the NCAA
• Donavan Phillip is tied for first in the NCAA in shots on goal per game with an average of three.
• The team is tied for sixth in the country in goal differential, tied for 11th in total goals with 10, and third in shots on goal per game with a 10.33 average.
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