Virginia Soccer | Cavaliers Search seventeenth ACC Championship Against SMU Sunday

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — The top-seeded and No. 4-ranked Virginia males’s soccer staff (12-1-4) is about to face off with seventh-seeded No. 25-ranked SMU (10-4-4) within the ACC Men’s Soccer Championship match on Sunday (Nov. 16) at First Horizon Stadium in Cary, N.C. Kickoff is about for 1 p.m. on ESPNU.

Admission
Championship recreation tickets are $15 prematurely and $20 on gameday. Tickets solely can be found on-line and no walk-up gross sales will likely be accessible. Fans can buy tickets on-line utilizing this link.

Exclusive group pricing can be accessible for teams of 10 or extra, together with distinctive on-field alternatives. For particulars, go to theACC.com/groups or contact tickets@theacc.org.

How to Follow:
Sunday’s match in opposition to SMU will air on ESPNU, which is offered by way of the ESPN app and at WatchESPN.com for purchasers who’ve the ACC Network as a part of their TV subscription. Links to each the printed and dwell stats can be found at VirginiaSports activities.com. Fans also can get updates by following this system’s official Twitter account (@UVAMenSoccer).

For Openers: 

• UVA enters the sport using a 14-game unbeaten streak – the third longest in NCAA Division I and one among simply six groups with an lively unbeaten streak of 10+ video games (Vermont, Princeton, UVA, UCSB, Sacred Heart, Furman).
• The Cavaliers went undefeated in ACC play with a file of 5-0-3. It marks the primary time Virginia went unbeaten in ACC play was in 2001 when the staff went 6-0-0, the identical season UVA final earned the highest seed within the match
• The match 1-seed has solely received the occasion as soon as since 2014 (#1 Wake Forest def. #6 UVA on PKs, 2017).

Hoos within the ACC Tournament

• Virginia is about to make its twenty first look within the ACC Tournament Final (11 titles, 9 defeats)
• UVA and Clemson have received 16 complete ACC Championships, a seventeenth would give Virginia essentially the most of any present ACC program
• UVA has appeared in 54-percent of the match’s 39 championship video games
• The Cavaliers have received 4 ACC titles in Cary, N.C. and suffered two defeats in title video games
• Virginia holds an all-time file of 50-21-14 within the ACC Men’s Soccer Championship

A Sweep on the Line

• Virginia received the season’s first assembly at SMU 1-0 to clinch the ACC common season title
• The final time Virginia received each a daily season and match title was in 2019 (Coastal Division)
• Prior to the ACC’s implementation of divisions, Virginia final swept the outright common season and match titles in 1995
• The Cavaliers shared a daily season title with Duke and NC State earlier than occurring to win the match title in 1997
• The first assembly between UVA and SMU this season remained scoreless by way of 83 minutes till Bacary Tandjigora netted the winner within the 84th minute, the staff’s newest game-winner of the season.
• Tandjigora entered instead within the 83rd minute as a striker and scored the winner 80 seconds later

NCAA Selection Committee Ranking

• The Cavaliers have been ranked No. 3 within the NCAA Division I Men’s Soccer Selection Committee’s top-16 rankings introduced Friday night (Oct. 17)
• Based on outcomes by way of video games of October 14, Princeton, Stanford, Virginia and Portland acquired the highest 4 seeds. The high 4 seeds are essential, as if the seeds maintain these 4 groups would have the chance to host quarterfinal matches with a bid to the Men’s College Cup on the road.
• The rating relies on the factors used to pick and seed the 48 groups for the Division I Men’s Soccer Championship and in no explicit order consists of power of schedule, Rating Percentage Index, head-to-head competitors, outcomes versus widespread opponents, power and outcomes in opposition to non-conference opponents, late season efficiency within the final eight video games and power and outcomes in opposition to convention opponents.

Results Against Top-10 Opposition

• Virginia was examined early with a run of three consecutive matches in opposition to opponents ranked within the nation’s top-10. The Cavaliers went 2-0-1 in opposition to No. 8 Virginia Tech (T, 2-2), No. 6 Louisville (W, 1-0) and No. 1 Wake Forest (W, 6-3).
• The stretch marked the primary time UVA matched up with three-straight top-10 opponents since 2022 when Virginia went 2-1-1 in opposition to No. 3 Syracuse, No. 10 Pitt, No. 10 Denver and No. 2 Duke.
• The final time UVA opened ACC play with back-to-back highway matches in opposition to top-10 foes was in 2000, when No. 11 Virginia posted a 2-0 win at No. 5 Wake Forest earlier than defeating No. 10 North Carolina 3-1 in Chapel Hill.
• UVA then went on to topple No. 2 NC State (W, 1-0) on the highway.
• The Cavaliers maintain a file of 97-76-39 in opposition to top-10 opposition all-time
• Since the beginning of 2022, Virginia has recorded 14 optimistic outcomes (wins or attracts) in opposition to top-10 opponents with eight of these outcomes approaching the highway:

Result	Opponent	Date
W, 1-0	at No. 3 Syracuse	9/24/22
W, 3-1	at No. 10 Pitt	9/30/22
T, 0-0	vs No. 2 Duke	10/7/22
T, 2-2	at No. 3 Syracuse	*11/9/22
T, 1-1	vs No. 9 Marshall	*11/20/22
T, 1-1	at No. 9 JMU	9/12/23
W, 3-0	vs No. 8 Louisville	9/29/23
W, 1-0	vs No. 10 UNC	10/27/23
W, 1-0	vs No. 8 JMU	10/8/24
W, 2-0	at No. 9 Pitt	11/10/24
T, 2-2	at No. 8 Virginia Tech	9/5/25
W, 1-0	at No. 6 Louisville	9/13/25
W, 6-3	vs No. 1 Wake Forest	9/19/25
W, 1-0	at No. 2 NC State	10/5/25

*Opponent superior on penalties in postseason play

The Virginia Standard

• As an 11-seed in 2024, the Cavaliers earned a primary spherical bye within the NCAA match for the third consecutive season.
• UVA is one among simply 5 applications to earn first-round byes in every of the final three seasons and is the one program that earned a number of top-eight seeds in that span.
• The Cavaliers the Cavaliers have reached the ACC Semifinal in three of the final 4 seasons