The Mustangs will get their regular season started with a two-game road trip this weekend.
First up for SMU is No. 10 Michigan State on Friday.
This will be the first all-time meeting between SMU and Michigan State however, it should be noted that the Mustangs are 29-6-4 all-time in season openers.
Michigan State ended 2013 with a 2-1 loss to eventual NCAA champs Notre Dame in the elite eight of the National Tournament.
The Spartans 3-2-1 conference record landed them the three seed in the Big Ten Tournament, where they made it to the championship round only to fall to Indiana.
Michigan State finished 2013 with an overall record of 14-6-3.
The Spartans also return leading scorer Tim Kruetz and stud keeper, Zach Bennet, who started all 23 matches for Michigan State in goal.
After battling it out with Michigan State in East Lansing, SMU will travel over to Ann Arbor to face off against Michigan.
It will be the first match ever between SMU and the Michigan Wolverines.
Michigan received votes in the NSCAA preseason poll after ending 2013 with a 8-7-3 record and being eliminated in the first round of The Big Ten Tournament.
The Wolverines return two big scorers in James Murphy and TJ VanSlooten. Michigan also returns goalkeeper Adam Grinwis.
So far in 2014, Michigan has played one exhibition match- a 1-0 loss to Louisville.
What you need to know about the 2014 Mustangs:
-Seniors Damian Rosales and Andrew Morales and junior Jacob Speed were named to College Sports Madness All-American Athletic Conference Preseason Teams on Aug. 13.
Rosales, who was honored as a first-team selection, was a unanimous All-American Athletic Conference preseason selection a season ago and started all 17 matches for the Mustangs. In 2013, he was tied for second on the team in assists, and he enters the 2014 season with 56 appearances in an SMU uniform, the most of any current Mustang.
Second-team selection Morales, who is in his third season on the Hilltop, led SMU in goals and total points in 2013. The Rocky Mount, North Carolina, native played in all 17 matches.
Speed was also named to the second-team after appearing in every game a season ago.
-In three exhibition matches on the Hilltop, the Mustangs only conceded one goal. Following a goal in the 47th minute of the first match against Houston Baptist, SMU keepers combined for just over 223 minutes of scoreless action.
-SMU outshot its opponents 37-25 in preseason action, including a 14-8 advantage in shots on goal.
-The American Athletic Conference announced the 2014 men’s soccer preseason poll and the SMU men’s soccer team was picked to finish sixth in the Preseason Coaches’ Poll.
-The Mustangs return 12 letter winners from the 2013 squad.
-SMU welcome 10 student-athletes to the Hilltop for the 2014 season, including a pair of transfers who enrolled during the spring semester. The 2014 fall enrollees include seven true freshmen and a junior transfer.
