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No. 8 Men’s Soccer Hosts FIU Friday Night
8/28/2025 11:51:00 AM | Men's Soccer
RALEIGH – Eighth-ranked NC State men's soccer prepares to host Florida International Friday night at 6 p.m. at the Dail Soccer Stadium.
The match will be streamed live here on ACC Network Extra with commentary by Andrew Sanders and Danny Cameron, while live stats will be available on StatBroadcast here.
A Win on Friday Would…
• Be the 563rd win in program history (562-491-116)
• Be the 245th win in Hubbard's head coaching career (244- 57-42)
• Be Hubbard's 13th victory at NC State (12-5-5)
• Be the third win over Florida International (2-0-0)
Series History
• Friday's meeting marks the third contest between NC State and Florida International. The two have only ever met in the '80s.
• The Wolfpack claimed two wins over the Panthers, first by a 2-1 score in 1981 in Raleigh and then by a 3-0 victory in 1984 at a neutral location.
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.
• 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 3,241 at the second home game against Wofford broke the men's soccer attendance record for Dail Soccer Stadium.
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 10 teams ranked nationally in the top-25 (No. 3 Pittsburgh, No. 4 Stanford, No. 5 Wake Forest, No. 6 Clemson, No. 8 NC State, No. 9 Duke, No. 11 Virginia, No. 12 Virginia Tech, No. 15 North Carolina, and No. 17 California).
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