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).

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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 (current rankings)	Record/ TV
	August
5	Wednesday	W, 1–0	vs. No. 11 South Carolina	Exhib.
13	Thursday	W, 4–0	vs. Fairfield	1–0
16	Sunday	W, 8–0	vs. Quinnipiac	2–0
20	Thursday	W, 2–0	at No. 23 Arkansas	3–0
23	Sunday	L, 3–2	vs. No. 5 Michigan State	3–1
28	Friday	W, 3–0	at Shelbourne FC	Friendly
	September
3	Thursday	W, 2–1	at Arizona	4–1
6	Sunday	W, 1–0	at Arizona State	5–1
10	Thursday	W, 3–0	vs. California	6–1, 1–0 ACC
13	Sunday	W, 5–0	vs. NJIT	7–1
17	Thursday	W, 4–2	vs. No. 6 Duke	8–1, 2–0
20	Sunday	W, 5–0	vs. Alcorn State	9–1
25	Friday	W, 3–1	at No. 21 Virginia	10–1, 3–0
	October
2	Friday	W, 4–1	vs. No. 17 Notre Dame	11–1, 4–0
15	Thursday	W, 1–0	at Clemson	12–1, 5–0
18	Sunday	L, 3–1	at No. 4 Wake Forest	12–2, 5–1
23	Friday	W, 1–0	vs. No. 7 Stanford	13–2, 6–1
29	Thursday	7 p.m.	vs. SMU	ACCNE
	November
5	Thursday	7 p.m.	at No. 13 Louisville	ACCNE
8, 12, 15	Sunday, Thur., Sun.	ACC tournament	Semifinals, final in Cary
		NCAA tournament	(first four rounds at campus sites)
20-22	Fri.-Sun		First round
26	Thursday		Second round
29	Sunday		Third round
	December
4, 5	Fri., Sat.		Quarterfinals
10, 13	Thur., Sun.		Women’s College Cup Cary

Men

Date	Month/day	Time/score	Opponent (current ranks)	Record/ TV
	August
9	Sunday	W, 5–4	vs. Liberty	Exhib.
13	Thursday	L, 2–1	at Maryland	Exhib.
20	Thursday	T, 1–1	at No. 4 Georgetown	0–0–1
24	Monday	L, 3–2	at Memphis	0–1–1
28	Friday	W, 1–0	vs. VCU	1–1–1
	September
6	Sunday	T, 2–2	at California	1–1–2, 0–0–1 ACC
11	Friday	T, 2–2	vs. No. 1 Stanford	1–1–3, 0–0–2
15	Tuesday	7 p.m.	vs. American	ACCNE
19	Saturday	7 p.m.	vs. No. 27 Clemson	ACCNE
26	Saturday	7 p.m.	vs. Lipscomb	ACCNE
30	Wednesday	7 p.m.	vs. West Florida	ACCNE
	October
3	Saturday	5 p.m.	at Boston College	ACCNE
10	Saturday	7 p.m.	vs. Notre Dame	ACCNE
16	Friday	7 p.m.	at Pittsburgh	ACCNE
23	Friday	7 p.m.	at Duke	ACCN
27	Tuesday	6 p.m.	vs. Wm. & Mary	ACCNE
30	Friday	7 p.m.	vs. N.C. State	ACCNE
	November	ACC tournament	First 2 rounds on campus sites
4	Wednesday	First round
8	Sunday	Quarterfinals
12	Thursday	Semifnals	Cary
15	Sunday	Final	Cary
		NCAA tournament	First 4 rounds on campus sites
19	Thursday	First round
22	Sunday	Second round
28, 29		Third round
	December
4. 5	Sat., Sun.	Quarterfinals
11, 14	Fri., Mon.	Men’s College Cup	Cary

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