PORTLAND, Ore. – Portland Pilots Men's Soccer achieved their highest ever final postseason ranking in the United Soccer Coaches poll on Saturday, ranking sixth nationally.
Portland's sixth-place ranking is the highest in any poll since 1988, when they finished second in both the ISAA Coaches Poll as well as the Soccer America poll. In the Soccer America polls, Portland also ranked as high as seventh after the 1992 season, their previous highest before this season.
Portland was omnipresent in the top 25 this season after entering the year unranked. Portland ranked in the top 10 for 10 straight weeks, ranking as high as first in the United Soccer Coaches Top 25 poll, their first time atop those rankings and the first time atop any poll since 1992.