By james art RALEIGH, NC – 12th-ranked NC State men’s soccer (8-2-5, 3-2-2) heads west to Winston-Salem to take on Wake Forest (7-4-5, 3-2-2 ) for Friday night’s regular-season finale to determine conference tournament seeding.
Kickoff at Spry Stadium is set for 7:00 p.m., and the game will be televised on ACC Network Extra with stats here .
A win on Friday would…
• Be the 559th win in program history (558-489-116)
• Be the 241st win of Hubbard’s career as a head coach (240- 53-42)
• Be Hubbard’s 9th win at NC State (8-2-5)
• Be 13th win over Demon Deacons (12-33-6)
Series History (Tracks 12-33-6)
• Friday’s game marks the 52nd meeting between the Wolfpack and Demon Deacons. NC State is looking to beat Wake Forest for the first time since 2005 and earn its first win in Winston-Salem since 1993.
• The streak began in 1979, and the two have competed every year since then.
Quick notes
• The Wolfpack has been ranked (United Soccer Coaches Poll) in five of the 10 weeks of the season so far. In doing so, they marked their first time in the top-25 since the 2019 season. The Week 10 rankings put NC State at No. 12, their highest ranking since the 2018 season. • NC State was picked to finish 11th in the competitive Atlantic Coast Conference, which featured five of the top 10 teams in the country prior to the season.
• The ACC has seven teams nationally ranked in the top-25 (#2 Clemson, #3 Pitt, #5 Duke, #8 North Carolina, #12 NC State, #20 SMU and #22 Stanford)
• The Wolfpack won their ACC opener 2-1 on Sept. 6 at home. This marks the first game for any California sport to be played as a member of the ACC.
• A 7-0 win over Winthrop in Raleigh marked the first time the program had scored seven goals since September 1996.
• Tyg Healy was named to the USL2 Team of the Year from his time with the Seacoast United Phantoms over the summer.
• goalkeeper, Logan Erbwas named the ACC Defensive Player of the Week on Oct. 8 after shutting out No. 2 Stanford on the road and recording five saves in the game.
• Scored an impressive 5-1 win over No. 10 SMU at home to record the first win in the rankings Mark Hubbard era. It was also the program’s first top-10 win since October 2018.
Across the ACC
• Next, Hakim Karamoko is ranked 10th in the ACC in goals scored with seven and ninth in shots with 38 total shots and an average of 2.53 shots per game.
• goalkeeper, Enzo Carvalho leads the ACC in saves with a .781 save percentage, is second in goals against average with a .909 average and fifth in saves per game with a 3.13 average.
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