RALEIGH, N.C. – The No. 19 ranked North Carolina State men’s soccer team departs Wednesday night for its final non-conference meeting of the regular season against William & Mary. Kickoff at Martin Family Stadium in Williamsburg, Virginia, is set for 5 p.m.
The game will be streamed live here on FloFc and live stats will be available here.
If we win on Wednesday
• It was the 557th win in program history (556-489-116).
• 239th win of Hubbard’s head coaching career (238-53-42).
• Seventh win for Hubbard at NC State (6-2-5).
• 7th win over the Tribe (6-5-1).
Series history (6-5-1 lead)
• Wednesday’s game will be the 13th time the Wolfpack and Tribe have met. The two teams have been deadlocked for the past 13 days with a score of 16-16.
• The most recent game in the series was played in Raleigh in 2022, with the Pac winning 2-1.
• Three games in the series went to overtime (2013, 2017, 2018).
simple notes
• The Wolfpack finished 24th and 18th in the Week 3 and Week 4 rankings (United Soccer Coaches Poll), respectively, for the first time since the 2019 season. After tying with No. 2 Stanford and No. 24 Virginia Tech on the road, it returned to the rankings at No. 23 in the nation on October 15th, and after a 1-1 tie with No. 21 on October 22nd. He rose to 19th place. 5-1 win over Hofstra and No. 10 SMU.
• North Carolina State was selected to finish 11th in the competitive Atlantic Coast Conference, which features five of the nation’s top 10 preseason teams.
• Week 9 of the season, the Pack is ranked No. 9 in the ACC standings after seven weeks of conference play.
• The ACC holds seven teams ranked in the nation’s top 25 (No. 3 Clemson, No. 5 Pitt, No. 7 Stanford, No. 10 Duke, No. 11 North Carolina, No. 19 North Carolina State, and No. 21 SMU).
• The Wolfpack won their first ACC game at home on Sept. 6 by a score of 2-1. This was the first time California sports played as a member of the ACC.
• A 7-0 win over Winthrop in Raleigh marked the first time the program has scored seven goals since September 1996.
• Tyg Healy was named to the USL2 Team of the Year during his summer with the Seacoast United Phantoms.
• Goaltender Logan Erb was named the ACC’s Secondary Defensive Player of the Week on Oct. 8 after making five saves in a shutout of No. 2 Stanford on the road.
• Recorded the first ranked win of the Mark Hubbard era with an impressive 5-1 home victory over No. 10 SMU. This is the program’s first top 10 finish since October 2018.
Beyond ACC
• Midfielder Tyg Healy ranks 10th in the ACC with 34 total shots and an average of 2.62 shots per game.
• Goaltender Enzo Carvalho ranks fourth in the ACC in saves with a .750 average save percentage, seventh in goals against with a 1.045 average and sixth in saves per game with a 3.00 average.
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