The Huskies men\u2019s soccer team has moved to the top of the national rankings, after winning its fifth game against a ranked opponent on Saturday, with a 2-0 win over No. 15 St. John\u2019s in the opening match of its Big East schedule.<\/p>\n
Soccer America <\/em>has ranked the Huskies (8-0-0, 1-0-0 Big East) No. 1 in the nation for the first time since Nov. 19, 2007, a season in which UConn advanced to the NCAA Quarterfinals.<\/p>\n Last season, the Huskies were ranked as high as No. 2 on Oct. 5. UConn opened the 2011 campaign ranked No. 5 in the Soccer America <\/em>preseason poll.<\/p>\n Connecticut is followed in the poll by fellow traditional powers Maryland, Creighton, North Carolina, and Akron. Louisville, at No. 9, is the next-ranked team from the Big East Conference. The Big East currently has six programs ranked in the top 25: <\/strong>No. 1 UConn, No. 9 Louisville, No. 11 Notre Dame, No. 13 USF, No. 15 St. John\u2019s, and No. 25 West Virginia.<\/p>\n The Huskies will host in-state foe Yale on Tuesday night at Joseph J. Morrone Stadium beginning at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Huskies have a double cause for celebration, with Coach Ray Reid celebrating his 350th win on Sept. 9. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":47318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[55],"class_list":["post-47297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-05 16:33:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47297"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47531,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47297\/revisions\/47531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/47318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47297"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=47297"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=47297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}