NC State seeks program’s first Men’s College Cup title, matching up against Washington

RALEIGH – Seeking its first-ever national championship, No. 15 NC State‘s season finale against Washington will take place on Monday, December 15 at 7 p.m. (ET) at First Horizon Stadium in Cary, N.C.

The match will be televised on ESPNU, while live stats will be available here.

A Win on Monday Would…

• Be the 577th win in program history (576-493-120)
• Be the 259th win in Hubbard’s head coaching career (258- 59-46)
• Be Hubbard’s 27th victory at NC State (26-7-9)
• Be the first win over Washington (0-0-0)

The Pack is Back

After defeating (7) Georgetown on the road by a 3-2 score, NC State advanced to the NCAA College Cup for the first time in over 30 years. The 2025 season is just the second-ever appearance for the red-and-white in the Final Four match, as the last feature of the Wolfpack was in 1990.

At First Horizon Stadium in Cary, N.C., NC State advanced to the national championship for the first time in program history by defeating Saint Louis 2-1 in front of over 10,000 fans. Now facing Washington in the title game, the Wolfpack must get past the Huskies in the first-ever meeting of these two teams.

Series History

• Monday’s meeting marks the first-ever contest between the NC State Wolfpack and the Washington Huskies.

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.
• The team has bested its highest-ever ranking in the United Soccer Coaches poll three times this season. The previous best for the program was No. 8 set in 2018, this season, the team has landed at No. 8, No. 5, No. 2, and finally No. 1.
• After being picked to finish eighth in a highly-competitive Atlantic Coast Conference, NC State finished third, just one league win away from sharing the regular season title with Virginia.
• A crowd of 5,083 fans at the game vs. North Carolina on Sept. 5, set a new Dail Soccer Stadium attendance record.
• NC State was the last school in the entire NCAA to concede a goal.
• Six players were mentioned in TopDrawerSoccer’s midseason Players to Watch list. Donavan Phillip at No. 1, Nikola Markovic at No. 16, Logan Erb at No. 21, Tyler Caton at No. 49, Taig Healy at No. 62, and then Riley Moloney at No. 7 on the freshmen list.
• Two players are on the MAC Hermann trophy semifinalist list (defender Nikola Markovic and forward Donavan Phillip).