Three months ago, more than 200 teams opened up the D-I Men's Soccer season. Today, just eight remain. After a Round of 16 that saw the top team in the country set even more records, two unranked teams attack the nets to the tune of 10 goals between them and three ACC teams stay alive, read on for a breakdown of Sunday's action before the Tournament starts again on Friday.

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*All pictures below are courtesy of their respective athletic departments.

	No. 2 Virginia 1, Portland 0 The second-seeded Cavaliers got a goal from Ari Dimas in the 46h minute, and then held on vice-tight over the final 20 minutes to blank an immensely talented Portland team, 1-0. The goal from Dimas was the very first of his career. Meanwhile, Virginia ran its unbeaten streak to 13 games and posted its 10th straight shutout, pushing goalie Diego Restrepo's shutout streak to 1127:34, breaking the great Tony Meola's school record. Watch the highlights here!
	Maryland 2, No. 10 Harvard 0 Maryland hasn't had to play on the road in the Tournament since 1997. But playing away from Ludwig Field hasn't seemed to affect the defending champs at all, with the Terps downing No. 7 seed Penn State, then blanking 10th-seeded Harvard. It took an epic effort from Zac MacMath in goal to keep the Crimson -- a team that scored three goals a week prior -- off the scoreboard, and goals from Billy Cortes and Casey Townsend to win Watch the highlights here!
	Drake 6, Boston College 4 We should have expected something like this. Two teams coming into the Tournament after torching their late-season schedules. Two offenses that can strike from anywhere. But it would have been nearly impossible to predict this. When the game ended, the Bulldogs were the ones moving on, the winners of a 6-4 offensive explosion. After falling behind early, senior-led Drake rallied back to tie it...and then never slowed. Watch the highlights here!
	No. 5 North Carolina 1, Indiana 0 When North Carolina scores first, few teams still left in the Tournament are better at making the rest of the day miserable for their opponents. And that's just what the Tar Heels did, getting a goal from Alex Dixon and then clamping down on an Indiana attack that had recently found its stride to post the 11th shutout of the season earn he Tar Heels' second straight national quarterfinal berth. Watch the highlights here!
	No. 8 Tulsa 1, No. 9 Northwestern 0 In a rain-drenched match in Tulsa, the hosts finally broke through in the 74th minute, getting a goal off the foot of Austin McNeill -- his team-leading 14th of the season -- and then held off Northwestern over the final 16 to earn the Golden Hurricane's first quarterfinal berth since 2004. They'll be taking on Akron, a team that Tulsa coach Tom MacIntosh called "one of the best teams in college soccer that I've seen in my 15 years of coaching." Watch the highlights here!
	No. 1 Akron 2, Stanford 0 Akron is now just three wins away from the first-ever 24-0-0 season in D-I Men's Soccer history. Of course, the Patriots were a win away from going 19-0-0 in 2007-08. But to date, few teams outside those New England Patriots have looked as dominant as Akron. On Sunday, the record-setting season continued with the Zips controlling the pace from the start, getting goals from stars Teal Bunbury and Anthony Ampaipitakwong and notching their program-record 16th shutout. Watch the highlights here!
	No. 3 Wake Forest 4, Duke 2 In the lone Round of 16 matchup between conference rivals, Wake Forest took another step toward a national championship that it seemed destined for last year, pounding away at the Duke defense all day, en route to the Demon Deacons' fourth quarterfinal appearance in four years. Zach Schilawski led the way with five points on the day, notching his third multi-goal game of the year. Watch the highlights here!
	No. 6 UCLA 2, USCB 1 Three years ago, UCSB ran over UCLA in the national championship game. On Sunday, the Bruins returned the favor, earning a berth in the national quarters for the first time since that year, climbing back from an early 1-0 deficit to move on. After UCSB scored in the 11th minute, two unanswered goals followed for the Bruins -- the first from Fernando Mongo just four minutes later, the second from Ryan Hollingshead in the 37th minute. Watch the highlights here!

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Photo Courtesy of Akron

We'll start with The Akron Watch this time around, after the Zips barely escaped a surging Michigan State team with a 2-1 win on Wednesday night. Despite Teal Bunbury's 15th goal of the season less than four minutes into the game, Akron couldn't score again until the 75th minute, when Blair Gavin sunk a penalty kick. But the Spartans, who have been scorching lately, put up one of the best fights the Zips have seen this year, tallying the first first-half goal Akron's allowed all season in this one. Said Akron coach Caleb Porter: "'We haven't been through much adversity and I think you can tell a lot about a championship-level team in the moments of adversity." Another dominating fun fact about Akron this year: the Zips have outscored their Big Ten opponents, 14-2 on the season.

A week after being profiled by NCAA.com, Monmouth set an all-time program record for wins with a 2-0 win over former NEC leaders Quinnipiac on Sunday. With a 15-1-1 record on the season, the Hawks broke the record of 14 wins set by the 2006 team. The win came after another victory on Friday, over CCSU, which followed Monmouths' first loss of the season two Sundays ago -- a loss that some expected to jolt the Hawks. But, a record-setting season for Monmouth looks very much back on the right track.

Michigan earned its 100th all-time win as a varsity program with a 2-1, double-overtime win over No. 12 Northwestern on Sunday. The Wolverines now close up their regular season with a game in Columbus against an Ohio State team that just took down Indiana, playing live on the Big Ten Network.

After tallying North Carolina's first hat trick in four years, the Tar Heels' Alex Dixon was named to the College Soccer News and Top Drawer Soccer Teams of the Week. It's impressive enough to notch a hat trick, especially for a power like North Carolina; it's a whole other thing to do it like Dixon did, with all three goals coming in a seven-minute stretch. Going into the Tar Heels' final two regular season games this week, it'll be interesting to see if the sophomore can keep it going. 

Connecticut, a team that fell out of the top-25 after opening at 2-2-2, clinched the Big East Blue Division title with a 3-0 win over Marquette on Monday. The win gave the Huskies their 18th Big East title in 27 years in the league, along with a first-round bye in the conference tournament -- they'll open with a quarterfinal match against Providence in Storrs on Nov. 7.

UMBC's all-everything duo of Andrew Bulls and Levi Houapeu, the No. 1 and No. 2 scorers in the nation in terms of points-per-game, were named the America East Striker and Midfielder of the Year, respectively. The Retrievers, who have trailed off ever since reaching the top-25 midway through the year, scratched out a No. 5 seed in the America East Tournament, where they'll play at Binghamton in a quarterfinal match on Saturday.

With a 1-0 win over Navy on Tuesday night, Maryland snapped a two-game scoreless drought. After being shut out in a loss to Wake Forest and a tie with Virginia, the Terps got back to their winning ways with a 10th-minute goal from Kaoru Forbess. Maryland closes up its regular season on Friday with a 7:30 p.m. match against The College of Charleston at Ludwig Field.

N.C. State's Ronnie Bouemboue Photo Courtesy N.C. State

In our weekend preview, we told you to watch out for San Diego State as an upset-seeker against No. 4 UCLA on Sunday. But before the Aztecs even got a chance to show themselves, the cross-town University of San Diego picked up one of two big West Coast surprises on Friday night, knocking off No. 17 Portland, 2-1, on the road. The loss was the Pilots' first since the season-opener.

Down the coast, the Pacific Northwest got revenge, as Washington followed up a 1-1 tie with UCLA last Sunday with a 2-0 win over No. 5 Cal in Berkeley on Friday night. The Huskies, who got goals from Matt Van Houten and Brad Keller, defeated the Golden Bears for the first time since 2005 and extended their unbeaten streak to five games.

In the ACC, where both top-25 matchups took place, No. 2 UNC and No. 6 Wake Forest played to a 2-2 draw, while No. 18 N.C. State picked up an upset over No. 9 Duke for the second straight year, winning, 1-0, on a goal from Ronnie Bouemboue with just 49 seconds left in double-OT. For Bouemboue, it was his second-straight game-winner in the Wolfpack-Blue Devils series, after he scored both goals in N.C. State's in Durham last year.

North Carolina takes on Wake Forest on Friday Photo Courtesy of Jeffrey Camarati, North Carolina

This time last year, Wake Forest had sawed down 11 straight opponents, slicing through defenses and trampling offense to an unblemished 11-0 mark to open the year - with only two of those wins coming by fewer than two goals. Before falling in the national semifinals, few teams in the history of D-I Men's Soccer had ever dominated like Wake had.

Snap to 2009 and see a No. 6 Wake Forest team grind out to a 7-2-1 start, including losses to ACC rival Virginia and upstart Charlotte, the latter of which came on Sept. 26. But also see a team that started the season young, very young, and without bearing much of any resemblance to last year. Also see a team that had to go without arguably its best player, in defender Ike Opara, for the last three weeks, with Opara playing in the U-20 World Cup.

And see, most of all, a team that's managed to fight stay afloat, heading into a crucial matchup with in-state and ACC rival North Carolina at Spry Stadium on Friday night. On alumni weekend - the 1989 ACC champ Demon Deacons team will be honored at halftime - Wake Forest plays its biggest game of the year.

They've learned to battle - hard - to earn wins, and that'll come in handy on Friday night in a clash of two teams in the top half of D-I Soccer's premier conference. UNC, with nine points in the league, leads the way, with Wake Forest's six giving the Deacons the third spot.

Zack Schilawski leads the way offensively for Wake Forest with five goals, including four in his last two games - both Wake blowouts: 5-1 over Virginia Tech and 3-0 over UNC Greensboro. Schilawski's 13 points are joined at the top of the offensive charts by Austin da Luz's six assists and two goals for 10 total points.

For UNC, the nation's 22nd-ranked offense at 2.11 goals per game, Michael Farfan and Billy Schuler come into the game with 10 points each, both on four goals and two assists.
The game also features two of the nation's top goalies, in Wake's Akira Fitzgerald (0.82 GAA, .833 save percentage) and North Carolina's Brooks Haggerty (0.48 GAA, .838 save percentage).
 

Two teams that share a town border came into the season with far, far different expectations. N.C. State looked like a team that might make a run at the ACC title, with a cloud of question marks hanging over much of the rest of the conference. For Duke, the Blue Devils amounted to largely an afterthought.

Then the season started. The Blue Devils started rolling out upsets - first over Virginia, and most recently over then-No. 2 Maryland last Friday - and bounded into the top-10. Down the road in Raleigh, the Wolfpack haven't struggled, certainly, but they've been without The Big Win. Of the three ticks outside the win column this year, two of them have come to teams ranked in the top-10 - a 2-1 loss to North Carolina on Sept. 12 and a 1-1 tie with Maryland a week later.

On Friday night, N.C. State, the owner of a three-game win streak, gets that chance. Last year, the Wolfpack pulled off an upset over then-No. 18 Duke in Durham, and this time around, against a Duke team that fell earlier this week to unranked but streaking Davidson, look for the 'pack to look to win  prove that they should be counted among the league and nation's elite.

But they'll have to do it against a team that's given up just three goals in 551 minutes of action at home. Discounting the four-goal downpour from Davidson, the Blue Devils had allowed just seven goals in nine games.

For Duke, Cole Grossman paces the offense, with 13 points on four goals and five assists. On the other side, N.C. State's duo of Ronnie Bouemboue (who scored both goals in the Wolfpack's upset of Duke on the road last year) and Alan Sanchez lead the way for the men in red, putting up five goals and 15 total points, and six assists and 12 points, respectively.


New Hampshire @ No. 25 UMBC - Saturday, 1 p.m. - Live Stats
New Hampshire's coming off a 2-1 comeback win over No. 16 Boston U on Wednesday, while UMBC is trying to win its second straight after a loss at Vermont last weekend ended its season-opening, nine-game win streak, but more recently after the Retrievers recovered with a 2-0 win over Stony Brook on Wednesday. UNH is a good squad, but UMBC has been nasty at home. If this game were in Durham -- UMBC's had a tough time on the road in-conference over the past year -- the scales might tip toward the Wildcats. But as-is, watch one of the nation's best offenses, in UMBC, get to work against an upstart UNH club.

St. John's (N.Y.) @ No. 3 South Florida - Saturday, 7:30 p.m.
The Bulls took their second loss in-conference this week, falling to No. 12 Louisville, 1-0. Expect them to look to rebound. Hard. Now sitting at just 3-2-1 in the BIG EAST, they'll be taking on a team that was once ranked as high as No. 1 in some polls earlier in the season.

Cornell @ No. 8 Harvard - Saturday, 7 p.m. - Live Stats
This game looks lopsided from the start, with Harvard possessing one of the nation's best offenses and a record that features just one loss - to No. 6 Wake Forest. But Cornell's resurgence this year - featured this week on NCAA.com - has been dramatic, and expect a battle up in Ithaca in front of the Big Red alumni.

No. 21 Northwestern @ Penn State - Sunday, 1 p.m. - Live Stats | Watch
Few teams are playing better soccer right now than Northwestern, who opened Big Ten play last Sunday with a win over then-No. 15 Ohio State, and who's now riding a three-game win streak. But on Sunday, the Wildcats will hit a team that's gotten just as hot as they have, meeting a Penn State team that's gotten better as the season's progressed, getting the most recent victory of a three-game win streak over defending conference champ Michigan State last Sunday. It'll be physical and it'll be fast...but what else is a Big Ten game like?

No. 4 UCLA @ San Diego State - Sunday, 5 p.m. - Live Stats
There are a ton of reasons to watch UCLA play (or follow along at the Live Stats link) right now. Can the Bruins' Kyle Nakazawa boost his six-game scoring streak that's seen him account for seven and assist on two more of UCLA's last 10 goals? Can the Bruins add another to their six-game win streak? Or, can the Aztecs get back to the winning form that saw them go unbeaten through six games -- including a 4-2 win over then-No. 6 UCSB -- before a loss to Oregon State on Sunday? We can find out the answers to this questions on Sunday. Together.

Two Fridays ago, Maryland looked to be ready to set the pace in the ACC, with the then-No. 4 Terps dropping No. 2 North Carolina, 1-0. Today, the Terps find themselves out of the top-10, coming in at No. 11 as the recipients of two tough losses last week -- the first to unranked George Mason on Tuesday, then another to No. 14 Duke on Friday night.

But, after a poll last week that looked like a tornado hit it, this week's looks relatively tame. Only two teams exited the top-25, with two more -- Drake and previously ranked Dartmouth -- taking their spots at No. 22 and 24, respectively. Two more left the top-10, with Indiana also falling after a 3-0 loss at UCSB on Friday night. In their places climb those Gauchos (up to No. 7 after taking No. 11 last week) and Duke, with the not-so-surprising-anymore Blue Devils firing five spots up to No. 9.

Photo Courtesy of Duke

Meanwhile, Akron maintained its hold on the top spot, despite scoring only six goals and posting two shutouts in two wins last week against Ohio State and Florida Atlantic. In doing so, Michael Nanchoff, who -- along with his legendary Akron family -- was profiled by NCAA.com last week, earned a spot on his third straight Team of the Week, this time on the College Soccer News squad, after two straight weeks on the Soccer America team. The Zips earned a total of 575 points, including all 23 first-place votes.

Just below the Zips sits North Carolina, who rose up from No. 5 after a huge ACC win over Virginia, which the Tar Heels took, 1-0 in OT. South Florida's in third now, up from No. 6 last week, thanks to a shutout win over Cincinnati.

UCLA stood firm in the No. 4 spot, after a weekend that saw the Bruins go 1-0-1, downing Oregon State and tying Washington. The win marked Kyle Nakazawa's sixth straight game with a goal and pushed UCLA's unbeaten streak to six games.

Into the fifth spot slides Pac-10 rival Cal, whose conference win over then-No. 20 (and now No. 23) Stanford moved the Golden Bears up one spot in the polls.

A 5-1 win over Virginia Tech couldn't offset Wake Forest's loss earlier in the week to Charlotte, as the Demon Deacons fell to No. 6 after standing at No. 3 last week. For Charlotte, who snapped Wake Forest's nation-leading non-conference win streak and tacked on a win over Furman on Saturday, the 49ers made the biggest jump up, now finding themselves at No. 15, up seven spots from No. 22.

Rounding out the top-10 are No. 8 Harvard and No. 10 Monmouth, who both hung onto their spots from a week prior with wins over Yale and Fairleigh Dickinson, respectively.

In the second stratus, the big risers included N.C. State (up six spots to No. 18), Portland (up four to No. 17) and Northwestern (who dropped Ohio State in its Big Ten opener to shoot up to No. 21).

UMBC led teams taking the biggest hits, as the Retrievers plummeted seven spots to No. 25 after taking its first loss of the year in its first game in America East play, falling 3-1 at Vermont. Higher up the poll, but falling five spots, was Indiana, whose loss in Santa Barbara trumped a 3-0 win over then-No. 20 Kentucky earlier in the week.

FRIDAY
No. 2 Maryland lost to No. 14 Duke, 2-0
No. 3 Wake Forest def. Virginia Tech, 5-1
No. 4 UCLA def. Oregon State, 3-1
No. 5 North Carolina def. No. 12 Virginia, 1-0 (2 OT)
No. 7 Cal def. No. 20 Stanford, 1-0
No. 9 Indiana lost to No. 11 UCSB, 3-0
No. 10 Monmouth tied Sacred Heart, 0-0
No. 21 Portland def. Santa Clara, 1-0
No. 24 North Carolina State def. Boston College, 2-1 (OT)

No. 11 UCSB went into Friday's game with No. 9 Indiana hoping to set the all-time NCAA regular season attendance record. While the ticket sales fell just a little short of expectation -- the 10,114 in the bleachers did set a school record -- very little else did on Friday for the Gauchos, who celebrated the five-year anniversary of its legendary 2004 team with a 3-0 win over Indiana at Harder Stadium.

Just up the coast, No. 20 Stanford's six-game win streak came to an end in its Pac-10 opener with No. 7 Cal, as Golden Bear leading scorer Andrew Wiedeman tallied the game's lone goal to send Cal to a 1-0 win over the Cardinal.

Heading East to the ACC, two wild results capped off a day that saw four top-25 matchups.

In Chapel Hill, North Carolina got a goal from Cameron Brown in the 109th minute to break a 0-0 tie and send No. 5 UNC to a 1-0 double-OT win over No. 12 Virginia, who just two weeks ago upset No. 2 Wake Forest. With the win, the Tar Heels start their ACC season at 3-1 and take the top spot in the conference.

Just down Tobacco Road, No. 14 Duke handed No. 2 Maryland a 2-0 loss in Durham. The win gave the Blue Devils their first win in the ACC since knocking off then-No. 16 Virginia on Sept. 11. For Maryland, the loss came after the Terps fell to unranked George Mason on Tuesday.

Check back on Saturday for more from Friday!

Friday night brings us four top-25 matchups as the season begins to pick up speed, with two big ACC clashes and two more on the West Coast - including one that could feature the largest crowd in NCAA Men's Soccer history.


Five years ago, soccer claimed Santa Barbara. In the fall of 2004, a Gaucho team that played in a town with a friendly, if fleeting, relationship with soccer converted the seaside city into a soccer circus. While a UCSB team that, after winning its first-ever NCAA Tournament game two years prior, blasted to the College Cup final, the crowds got bigger. And bigger. And bigger.

By the time the Gauchos took on VCU in the national quarterfinals, 11,214 fans showed up at Harder Stadium, amounting to one of the largest crowds in the history of D-I Men's soccer.

On Friday, the No. 11 Gauchos commemorate that 2004 team, the one that lost in PK's to Indiana, on a night when the ninth-ranked Hoosiers come to town for a nationally televised affair. Fourteen players from that team are expected to be in attendance on a night when the place looks to be packed. UCSB officials are predicting a crowd at Harder that could break the NCAA all-time regular season attendance record of 12,224, set in 1987.

And what they'll see is a battle between one of the premier teams in the history of college soccer and one that's begun to settle into the elite. Indiana, the owner of seven national championships, has been a fixture on the NCAA scene for decades. UCSB, who won its first and only title in 2006, hasn't left the spotlight since that '04 season.

Last weekend, the Gauchos recovered from a 4-2 loss to San Diego State on Friday with a win over then-No. 23 UC Irvine on Sunday. The nation's 18th-ranked offense (2.22 goals per game) is led offensively by freshman Michael Nonni, whose four goals, five assists and 13 points are all tops on the team. For Indiana, who re-entered the top-10 after a one-week hiatus, hasn't lost since the Hoosiers fell to top-ranked Akron on Sept. 18, rattling off wins over FIU, Wisconsin and No. 13 Kentucky. Will Bruin (5 goals, 11 points) and Andy Adlard (two goals against Kentucky) lead the way for the Hoosiers.

Read more about it here (or here or here).


Last Friday, Maryland couldn't have gotten much higher, with captain Kevin Tangney - profiled on NCAA.com last week - scoring the game-winning goal in the 89th minute to send the Terps (then No. 4) over ACC nemesis and then-second-ranked North Carolina at Ludwig Field with a 1-0 win. On Tuesday, the Terps fell. Hard. On the road at George Mason, Maryland couldn't find the net, taking a 2-0 loss to the unranked Patriots.

"It was a very un-Maryland like performance tonight and I take full responsibility for not having us ready today," head coach Sasho Cirovski said in the Maryland released. "We just weren't very connected today."

It's a safe bet that a coach of the caliber of Cirovski will make sure the defending champs are ready for Friday's 7 p.m. test in Durham.

They'll be facing a Duke team that rode through its first five games undefeated, parading into the Top-25 with an OT win over Maryland on Sept. 12 (listen to the NCAA.com podcast with Duke's twin walk-ons, Dan and Chris Tweed-Kent, the former of whom scored the game-winner against Virginia) but one that's fallen off a bit lately. Though the Blue Devils did pick up a win over Elon on Tuesday, the win came after two losses in three games - although, to be fair, one was a 2-1 loss to UNC. The other came at the hands of a red-hot Boston College team, which picked up its fourth straight win in the process - a streak that ended on Tuesday with a loss to Siena.

But every game in the ACC matters, and in a series that's split, 5-5, over the last 10 games, expect a thriller here.


The ACC's top two defensive teams square off in yet another battle between ranked teams from the Atlantic Coast Conference, six of whose teams are in the top-25, with another (Boston College) sitting just outside. The Cavs, the top-ranked defense in the conference, have posted a 0.47 GAA this year, with the Tar Heels putting up a 0.60 clip.

But the disparity here lies on offense, with the Tar Heels scoring at a rate of 2.25 per game and Virginia at just 1.25. And playing in front of a hostile Fetzer Field crowd won't help Virginia. UNC's Michael Farfan's four goals lead the team, while Billy Schuler and Cameron Brown's three apiece pace the attack. For Virginia, Neil Barlow and Toni Tchani have scored three each.


Last year, the Cardinal scored 14 times. In 17 games. They've hit that number in seven games this year, en route to six straight wins and their first ranking in the NSCAA poll this year, at No. 20 this week. On Friday night, they open Pac-10 play with by far their toughest opponent of the year, in the archrival Golden Bears.

For Cal, 2009's gone off with only one hiccup - a 2-1 loss to New Mexico in the Stanford Nike Classic last Friday, followed up with a 3-0 win over Air Force on Sunday. The goals have come in bunches, with Andrew Wiedeman leading the way with 19 points on eight goals and three assists (fourth in goals- and fifth in points-per-game in the NCAA). As a team, the Bears sit at 11th nationally in scoring offense, at 2.5 goals per game.

But they'll be taking on a Stanford team that, as the scoring's gone up, hasn't wavered defensively, giving up only six goals in 14 games.

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*Top-25 matchups in bold*

FRIDAY
No. 2 Maryland @ No. 14 Duke, 7 p.m. - Live Stats
No. 3 Wake Forest @ Virginia Tech, 7 p.m. - Video
No. 4 UCLA @ Oregon State, 10 p.m. - Live Stats
No. 5 North Carolina vs. No. 12 Virginia, 7 p.m. - Live Stats
No. 7 Cal vs. No. 20 Stanford, 7 p.m. - Live Stats
No. 9 Indiana @ No. 11 UCSB, 11 p.m. - Live Stats | Audio | TV: Fox Soccer Channel
No. 10 Monmouth @ Sacred Heart, 4 p.m. - Live Stats | Video
No. 13 Kentucky vs. UAB, 4:30 p.m. - Live Stats
No. 21 Portland @ Santa Clara, 10 p.m. - Live Stats
No. 24 North Carolina State vs. Boston College, 7 p.m. - Live Stats

SATURDAY
No. 1 Akron @ Florida Atlantic, 7 p.m. - Live Stats
No. 6 South Florida vs. Cincinnati, 7:30 p.m. - Live Stats | Video
No. 8 Harvard @ Yale, 7 p.m. - Live Stats
No. 16 BU vs. Stony Brook, 7 p.m. - Live Stats | Audio | Video
No. 17 Louisville @ DePaul, 1 p.m. - Video
No. 18 UMBC @ Vermont, 1 p.m. - Video
No. 19 Old Dominion vs. UNC-Wilmington, 7 p.m. - Live Stats
No. 22 Charlotte @ Furman, 7 p.m.
No. 23 Brown @ Columbia, 7 p.m.

SUNDAY
No. 4 UCLA @ Washington, 5 p.m. - Live Stats
No. 10 Monmouth @ Fairleigh Dickinson, 1 p.m.
No. 15 Ohio State vs. No. 25 Northwestern, 2 p.m. - Live Stats | Video
No. 21 Portland @ St. Mary's (Calif.), 5 p.m. - Live Stats

After a weekend that spared only a handful of teams in the top-25 from upsets and saw just five teams in the top-10 emerge without a loss, the NSCAA poll looked understandably...altered on Monday.

Akron, who destroyed Bowling Green, 6-0, hung onto first. Only one other team in the country held its position. Two teams fell out of the top-10, seven dropped out of the top-25 and seven more replaced them - led by now-undefeated Ohio State in the 15th spot.

In the top-10, No. 2 Maryland was rewarded for knocking off then-No. 2 North Carolina with a late goal on Friday night, jumping up two spots, while UNC fell to fifth. UCLA, who took two wins over unranked teams, bounded up from No. 10 to No. 5. Heading back to the ACC, Wake Forest used a win over No. 8  Harvard (still at No. 8) to make its way up to No. 3.

South Florida and Cal fell to No. 6 and No. 7, respectively, after weekend losses, while UCSB's win over UC Irvine on Sunday wasn't enough to offset a loss to San Diego State, as the Gauchos sunk from No. 7 to No. 11. The other team to fall out of the top-10, Louisville, plummeted from No. 9 to No. 17 after a weekend that saw the Cardinals fall, 4-0, to Notre Dame on Friday and tie Marquette, 2-2, on Sunday.

The two top-10 evacuees created room for Indiana to make its way from No. 13 to No. 9 after a win over Wisconsin and for Monmouth to continue its meteoric rise to new heights, surging to No. 10 - the program's highest-ever ranking - after starting the year at 8-0-0.

Other interesting movers & shakers start with the Buckeyes, who downed defending Big Ten champs and No. 21 Michigan State on Sunday to blow out to the program's best-ever start. Look for them to be tested on Wednesday when OSU heads to Akron.

Virginia and Duke didn't suffer too much for losses to Clemson and BC, respectively, falling from No. 11 to No. 12 and No. 12 to No. 14, in that order. But Dartmouth, who fell to Hartwick, and Creighton, who fell to Portland, did, as both the Big Green and Blue Jays dropped from No. 15 and No. 17 to the Others-Receiving-Votes section.

And finally, UMBC cracks the top-25. The owner of two of the nation's top three scorers, in Andrew Bulls (first) and Levi Houapeu (third), the Retrievers are playing great soccer. And oh yeah - they're still undefeated, at 9-0-0.

Top-25 Results from Friday, Sept. 25

A wild Friday saw only two teams in the top-10 win, and one came by default, as No. 4 Maryland beat No. 2 North Carolina with an 89th-minute goal in a big ACC clash between top-5 teams. Meanwhile, four top-10 teams in action took losses to teams outside the top-25.

No. 2 North Carolina lost to No. 4 Maryland, 1-0
No. 3 South Florida lost to West Virginia, 1-0 in OT
No. 4 Maryland beat No. 2 North Carolina, 1-0
No. 5 California lost to New Mexico, 2-1
No. 7 UCSB lost to San Diego State, 4-2
No. 9 Louisville lost to Notre Dame, 4-0
No. 10 UCLA beat San Diego, 2-1
No. 12 Duke lost to Boston College, 2-0
No. 13 Indiana beat Wisconsin, 1-0
No. 17 Creighton beat Washington, 1-0
No. 18 St. John's (N.Y.) lost to Connecticut, 1-0
No. 23 UC Irvine beat Princeton, 2-1
No. 24 Cal St. Northridge tied Denver, 0-0
No. 25 Brown tied Santa Clara, 1-1

Maryland's Kevin Tangney celebrates his goal while UNC players look on during Maryland's 1-0 win over the Tar Heels on Friday night.

Friday wasn't supposed to be a big night outside of College Park, Maryland, where Maryland took on North Carolina. It was, with four wins by unranked teams over clubs in the top-10 and big finishes all across the country, massive.

In front of a Maryland-record crowd of 6,946 at College Park, the hosts took down No. 2 UNC, 1-0, in a rematch of last year's national championship pairing. The lone goal came off the foot of Maryland captain and defender Kevin Tangney, profiled this week by NCAA.com.

Meanwhile, No. 9 Louisville was blown out by Big EAST rival Notre Dame, 4-0. The Irish, after plummeting out of the top-25, struck back with four second-half goals to drop the Cardinals.

Third-ranked South Florida took its first loss of the season, falling 1-0 to West Virginia in Morgantown. A faulty clear by USF gave the ball to West Virginia's Alex Silva, who delivered a pass to Abel Sebele, who in turn slid a shot past Jeff Attinella to send the Mountaineers to the win.

But there's more. A lot more.

On the West Coast, the opening game of the Stanford Nike Classic wasn't kind to fellow Bay Area team California, as the fifth-ranked Bears took a 2-1 loss to New Mexico.

Just down the coast, No. 7 UCSB stumbled against SoCal rival San Diego State, falling, 4-2. SDSU junior Raymundo Reza led the way with two goals and an assist in the win.

Back in the East, Connecticut made a big statement in the Big EAST, knocking off No. 18 St. John's (N.Y.), 1-0. Kwame Watson-Siriboe tallied the game-winner in the 40th minute to lead UConn.

Stay tuned for more on Saturday!

No. 2 North Carolina (5-0-1, 2-0-0 ACC) vs. No. 4 Maryland (4-1-1, 1-0-1 ACC)
Friday, 8 p.m. (ET) - College Park, Md. | Fox Soccer Channel
In a rematch of last year's national championship combatants, the stakes are high. Both teams currently occupy the top two spots in an ACC that doesn't forgive any losses. For Maryland, the Terps are a team looking to find a way to re-ignite its offense, while for UNC, the Tar Heels are looking to avenge three losses to Maryland last year and earn its first win over the Terps since 2003.

Maryland started slow last year. The Terps haven't crawled this year, per se, but they've had trouble lighting up the scoreboard. Only once in Maryland's six games have the Terps scored more than two goals, when they plastered 7 on Duquesne on Sept. 15. They've put up only two, total, in the last two games, tying N.C. State last Saturday and just clipping St. Peter's, 1-0, on Tuesday.

For North Carolina, a win on Friday would give the Tar Heels their first 3-0 ACC start since 1968. But it hasn't been all smooth sailing for North Carolina, who just escaped a matchup with unranked ETSU with a 2-1 OT win on Tuesday after two straight 2-1 wins over N.C. State and Duke, respectively.

Ludwig Field set a Maryland men's soccer attendance record when the Terps opened with UCLA at home. Expect this crowd to make that one look like it was cheering for a chem lecture.

No. 8 Harvard (6-0) @ No. 6 Wake Forest (4-1-1)
Saturday, 7 p.m. - Winston-Salem, N.C.
Segueing from chem lectures...Harvard is undefeated. That's right. The Crimson started the year among the unranked, but wins over in-town rivals Boston College and Boston University, among others, have vaulted the Crimson to their highest ranking ever (No. 6 in the Soccer America poll), tied with the 2007 team.

And it's not just the wins that have gotten them there. This team can score. A lot. Andre Akpan hasn't slowed at all from his record-setting pace through three years in Cambridge, racking up a team-best six goals and four assists for 16 points (second in the nation in ppg, at 3.2), and Brian Rogers (11 points) has followed close behind. Plus, Austin Harms is pretty good in net, posting three shutouts, a .35 GAA and a .913 save percentage.

They'll be taking on a Wake Forest team that's hungry, after a loss to Virginia last weekend, but one that will be without arguably its top player, with reigning ACC Defender of the Year Ike Opara playing for the U-20 National Team in the FIFA U-20 World Cup. [LINK http://wakeforestsports.cstv.com/sports/m-soccer/spec-rel/092409aaa.html]

The Deacons, who roared through the regular season last year, still look to be a good way away from clicking, but the talent is certainly there. Look for a team playing a little shorthanded to rise up and defend its home against a Harvard club that will be looking to exploit a defense without its central cog.

No. 23 UC Irvine (5-2) @ No. 7 UC Santa Barbara (5-1-1)
Sunday, 9:30 p.m. - Santa Barbara, Calif.
Both of these Southern California powers open up Big West play on Sunday, when the Anteaters travel to Santa Barbara to clash with the Gauchos. And while Irvine's looking to stay ranked, UCSB's looking to dig into the top-10 after a week that saw the Gauchos down Milwaukee, then come back late to tie Wisonsin, 1-1, at the Milwaukee Panther Classic.

For UCI, look to Amani Walker (4g, 2a - 10 pts) to lead the way for the offense, while goalkeeper Andrew Fontein's brandishing an 0.95 GAA and four shutouts. Meanwhile, UCSB, the 13th-ranked offense in the country at 2.43 goals per game, have gotten 112 points from Michael Nonni, while Sam Hayden's posted an 0.95 GA and three shutsouts in net.

But to get there, Irvine has to get past Princeton on Friday, with UCSB matching up with San Diego State on the same night - both tough, tough draws.

UNDEFEATEDS
-    Akron looks to keep its perfect 6-0-0 record alive against Bowling Green on Saturday.
-    For as-yet-unranked UMBC, the Retrievers bring their 7-0-0 record to La Salle on Saturday.
-    Monmouth and its 6-0-0 mark meet up with Loyola (Md.) on Saturday.
-    Finally, 6-0-0 Stetson brings its perfect ledger to the Jacksonville/Nike Invitational, where it'll play the College of Charleston - just five votes out of the top-25 - on Friday and Alabama A&M on Sunday.