North Carolina State University

RALEIGH, NC – One other thrilling yr of NC State Soccer kicks off because the Wolfpack begins their 2024 marketing campaign towards Western Carolina on Aug 29^th at 7 p.m. from Carter Finley Stadium.
 
The Wolfpack will look to stay good towards the Catamounts as they enter the matchup 7-0 all-time.  This can mark the fifth time the sport vs. WCU has been the Wolfpack’s season opener. Within the collection, NC State has averaged 47 factors per recreation, in comparison with simply 9.1 for WCU. The Pack has shut the Catamounts out twice – together with the final assembly in 2019.
 
Followers unable to attend Carter-Finley can catch the motion on the ACC Community HERE. Stay Stats can be found HERE.
 
Wolfpack Notes
• NC State enters the 2024 marketing campaign as certainly one of simply 5 professional­grams within the Energy 4 that has received eight or extra video games in every of the final 4 seasons.
 
• Head coach Dave Doeren is coming into his twelfth season at NC State – tied for the sixth-longest tenure amongst present FBS coaches.
 
• The Wolfpack has offered out 14 straight video games (together with the season opener vs. Western Carolina) – the longest sellout streak in class historical past. The LaTech and Northern Illinois con­assessments are additionally offered out, which is able to run that streak to 16 straight.
 
• Ten Wolfpack gamers are on the preseason watch lists for 15 nationwide awards.
 
• QB Grayson McCall has thrown 88 profession touchdowns with simply 14 interceptions. He is additionally rushed for 18 scores.
 
• Every of the Wolfpack’s place coaches returned for the 2024 season. The defensive workers is now coming into its fifth season collectively.
 
• 4 gamers on the Wolfpack offense who will probably be taking part in their first recreation for the Wolfpack towards Western Carolina have all performed towards NC State of their careers.
 
• Up to now three seasons, no different P4 college has picked off extra passes than the Wolfpack. NC State has tallied 51 in­terceptions within the 2021, ’22 and ’23 seasons mixed, three greater than some other P4 college and the second-best mark in all the FBS (WKU had 55).
 
• NC State has received 23 of its final 27 video games in Carter-Finley Sta­dium.