By R.L. Bynum

North Carolina’s women’s soccer team remained the unanimous No. 1 pick in the United Soccer Coaches poll, while the UNC men’s soccer team moved up five spots to No. 13.

Carolina remained the only Division I school with both soccer teams undefeated after the men’s team won Tuesday night at home 2–0 against Elon.

The women (8–0–4, 3–0–1 ACC) return home at 7 p.m. Thursday to face Miami (ESPN3) before visiting No. 22 Duke (down five spots) at 4 p.m. Sunday (ACC Network).

No. 13 is the men’s team’s highest ranking since it was also No. 13 on Aug. 30, 2022, one week before it fell out of the poll and wasn’t ranked the rest of last season. The men (5–0–4, 1–0–3) return to league play at 7:30 Friday night against No. 18 Syracuse in a home match.

Other ACC teams in the women’s poll are No. 2 Florida State, No. 9 Clemson, No. 11 Notre Dame and No. 17 Wake Forest. Other league teams in the men’s poll are No. 6 Wake Forest, No. 11 Notre Dame, No. 14 Duke, No. 18 Syracuse and No. 21 Louisville.

Both UNC teams played on the road in their only games last week. The women rolled to a 4–0 victory Saturday night over N.C. State and the men played Pittsburgh to a scoreless draw Friday.

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Women’s Top 25

Rank	School	Previous	1st-place votes	Poll points	Record
1	North Carolina	1	8	200	8-0-4
2	Florida State	2	0	188	8-0-1
3	Stanford	3	0	184	10-0-1
4	Penn State	4	0	177	10-0-2
5	UCLA	5	0	170	9-1-0
6	Arkansas	7	0	156	8-2-1
7	Texas Tech	14	0	134	11-0-2
7	Brigham Young	6	0	134	10-1-2
9	Clemson	8	0	129	9-1-2
10	Memphis	12	0	124	9-1-0
11	Notre Dame	10	0	123	7-1-3
12	Georgetown	11	0	113	7-1-4
13	South Carolina	15	0	98	8-1-3
14	Michigan	22	0	92	7-2-3
15	Southern Cal	19	0	89	7-2-0
16	Santa Clara	18	0	82	8-2-2
17	Wake Forest	25	0	59	8-1-2
18	Kentucky	NR	0	56	7-0-4
19	Alabama	9	0	55	7-2-4
20	Wisconsin	NR	0	42	8-2-3
21	Brown	NR	0	41	6-1-2
22	Duke	17	0	34	5-3-2
23	TCU	NR	0	31	8-3-2
24	Saint Louis	RV	0	20	9-2-2
25	Colorado	RV	0	18	10-2-0

Also receiving votes: Indiana (14), Oklahoma State (13), Pittsburgh (8), Xavier (8), Georgia (3), North Texas (2), Gonzaga (2), Michigan State (1).

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Men’s Top 25

Rank	School	Previous	1st-place votes	Poll points	Record
1	Marshall	1	7	199	10-0-0
2	Central Florida	3	0	187	5-1-2
3	West Virginia	4	1	186	8-0-2
4	SMU	2	0	177	7-1-1
5	Akron	5	0	169	6-0-4
6	Wake Forest	10	0	157	7-1-3
7	Portland	11	0	148	6-2-0
8	Georgetown	12	0	146	6-1-1
9	Missouri State	9	0	137	6-0-2
10	Stanford	6	0	133	5-1-3
11	Notre Dame	15	0	118	6-1-3
12	Northwestern	16	0	114	8-0-2
13	North Carolina	18	0	102	4-0-4
14	Duke	21	0	94	6-2-1
15	Vermont	14	0	84	7-1-2
16	Hofstra	19	0	83	8-1-2
17	Seattle	23	0	68	7-2-2
18	Syracuse	7	0	64	4-2-3
19	Penn State	25	0	49	6-1-3
20	Pittsburgh	RV	0	42	4-3-3
21	Louisville	8	0	23	7-2-1
22	San Diego State	17	0	19	6-1-2
23	Michigan State	13	0	18	5-0-4
24	Fordham	NR	0	12	5-1-3
25	UIC	20	0	10	7-2-1
25	Florida International	RV	0	10	5-2-2

Also receiving votes: Denver (9), Clemson (8), Oregon State (8), Washington (7), Virginia (4), Cal-Fullerton (4), Loyola Marymount (4), Oral Roberts (2), Saint Louis (2), Bryant (1), Western Michigan (1), New Hampshire (1).

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Women

Date	Month/day	Time/ score	Opponent	TV/ record
	August
14	Thursday	L, 2–0	at Tennessee	0–1
17	Sunday	W, 5–0	vs. Siena	1–1
21	Thursday	6:30	at Georgia	SECN+
24	Sunday	Noon	vs. Rice	ACCNE
28	Thursday	4 p.m.	vs. UNCG	ACCNE
31	Sunday	Noon	vs. Wisc.-Milwaukee
	September
4	Thursday	7 p.m.	vs. Alabama
7	Sunday	1 p.m.	vs. James Madison
11	Thursday	7 p.m.	at Virginia Tech
17	Wednesday	7 p.m.	vs. Florida State	ACCN
25	Thursday	6 p.m.	At Notre Dame	ACCN
	October
2	Thursday	7 p.m.	vs. Boston College	ACCN
5	Sunday	4 p.m.	vs. Pittsburgh
12	Sunday	1 p.m.	at Duke	ESPNU
17	Friday	6 p.m.	at SMU
23	Thursday	7 p.m.	at Miami
26	Sunday	1 p.m.	vs. Syracuse
30	Thursday	8 p.m.	vs. N.C. State	ACCN
	November		ACC tournament
2	Sunday		First round: Campus sites
6, 9	Thurs., Sun.	W, 2–1	Semifinals, final: Cary
			NCAA tournament
13	Thursday		First round Campus sites
	December	Women’s College Cup
5, 8	Fri., Mon.		CPKC Stadium Kansas City

Men

Date	Month/day	Time/score	Opponent (current rank)	TV/ record
	August
22	Thursday	W, 1–0	at UAB	1–0–0
25	Sunday	T, 0–0	vs. Cal Baptist	1–0–1
29	Thursday	W, 3–1	vs. FIU	2–0–1
	September
2	Monday	W, 6–0	vs. East Tenn. St.	3–0–1
6	Friday	T, 2–2	vs. St. John’s	3–0–2
13	Friday	W, 2–1	at Duke	3–0–2, 1–0 ACC
20	Friday	W, 2–0	vs. No. 18 N.C. State	4–0–2, 2–0 ACC
24	Tuesday	T, 0–0	vs. Mercer	4–0–3
28	Saturday	7 p.m.	vs. Cal	ESPN3
	October
4	Friday	7 p.m.	at No. 4 Clemson	ESPN3
8	Tuesday	7 p.m.	vs. College of Charleston	ESPN3
11	Friday	7 p.m.	at Notre Dame	ESPN3
15	Tuesday	6 p.m.	at William & Mary	Flo Sports
19	Saturday	6 p.m.	vs. No. 2 Pitt	ESPN3
27	Sunday	8 p.m. ET	at No. 1 Stanford	ESPN3
	November
1	Friday	7:30	vs. Boston College	ACCN
			ACC tournament
6	Wednesday	6 and 8	First round Campus sites	ACCN
10	Sunday	2, 4, 6, 8	Quarterfinals Campus sites	ACCN
14	Thursday	5:30 & 8	Semifinals in Cary	ACCN
17	Sunday	TBA	Final in Cary	TBA

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