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No. 5 Men’s Soccer Welcomes Stetson Wednesday Night
9/9/2025 4:44:00 PM | Men's Soccer
RALEIGH – Fifth-ranked NC State men's soccer moves back into non-conference action, welcoming Stetson to Dail Soccer Stadium at 6 p.m. Wednesday night.
The match will be streamed live here on ACC Network Extra with commentary by Andrew Sanders and Chaz Montero, while live stats will be available on StatBroadcast here.
A Win on Wednesday Would…
• Be the 564th win in program history (563-491-117)
• Be the 246th win in Hubbard's head coaching career (245- 57-43)
• Be Hubbard's 14th victory at NC State (13-5-6)
• Be the first-ever win over Stetson (0-1-1)
Series History
• Wednesday's meeting marks just the third contest between the NC State Wolfpack and Stetson Hatters.
• The Wolfpack last met with the Hatters in 2024 in Raleigh which resulted in a 1-1 draw.
• NC State previously lost to Stetson on the road 0-2 in 2023 as part of the George Kiefer era of the program.
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.
• A crowd of 5,083 fans at the game vs. North Carolina on Friday, September 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 eight teams ranked nationally in the top-25 (No. 2 Clemson, No. 4 Wake Forest, No. 5 NC State, No. 6 Louisville, No. 8 Stanford, No. 14 Virginia Tech, No. 19 Duke, and No. 21 North Carolina).
• NC State is one of two schools in the ACC to not yet concede a goal.
Across the NCAA
• Donavan Phillip is tied for second in the NCAA in shots on goal per game with an average of three.
• The team is tied for eighth in the country in goal differential and third in shots on goal per game with a 9.50 average.
• NC State is one of eight schools in the NCAA to not yet concede a goal.
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