I'm greatly encouraged by the season so far but would caution against expectations of replicating the success of the women's team in the ACC (at least for this year). Some points:
1) Although we beat two teams when they were ranked, both of those teams are now 0-4.
2) The 4 teams we have played are a collective 0-14-2.
3) We have won exactly 8 ACC games in the last 8 seasons. Four of those wins are against NC State including our only 2 road wins. We didn't win a league game last year (we did have 3 ties).
4) Even when we went to the Final 4 in 2007 we were only 4-3-4 in the ACC.
5) The 12 team ACC (FSU, GT and UM don't play men's soccer) has 7 teams in the rankings. Massey has 10 teams in the top 36 including #'s 1, 2, 3 and 4. We have to play all 4 plus #13 UVa and #36 Duke.

Anything near .500 in the ACC should get us in the NCAA tournament. The program is on a generally upward arc since Briz took over in 2009. He seems to be cementing his position for at least the near future.