ACC baseball power poll — April 28
Virginia took the largest drop this week and, if I could have justified it, I would have dropped them farther. If it wasn’t for Clemson, UVa. would be the most disappointing team in the ACC this year.
Sure, the Cavaliers have 32 wins overall and a winning record in the conference, but they haven’t won a series from a quality opponent yet. Look at the teams we have ranked ahead of the Wahoos. Virginia was swept by both FSU and Miami and lost two of three to both Duke and NC State. Eleven of Virginia’s conference wins came against the bottom four teams in our power poll.
You can argue that, since the FSU, Miami, Duke and NC State series were on the road, it’s tough to fault the Cavaliers too much. OK, then we’ll find out what this team is made of in May when North Carolina and Georgia Tech come to Charlottesville. The guess here is it won’t be pretty for UVa.
Enough Virginia bashing. On with the poll.
12. Virginia Tech (4-20, 18-26) — beat Radford 5-4, lost three at Clemson (5-13, 7-8, 2-10)
11. Boston College (5-19, 20-24) — beat Harvard 5-4, lost three at NC State (1-5, 2-3, 4-14)
10. Wake Forest (7-16, 16-28 ) — lost at Elon 19-10, won at Coastal Carolina 8-7, lost two of three at GT (1-12, 6-14, 7-5)
9. Maryland (8-16, 26-21 ) — beat Old Dominion 6-5 (10 inn.), lost at Towson 12-3, lost two of three at Duke (12-8, 2-10, 1-2)
8. Clemson (10-13-1, 24-20-1) — won at Western Carolina 6-0, won at Presbyterian 12-7, won three against VT (13-5, 8-7, 10-2)
7. Virginia (13-11, 32-15) — beat Georgetown 9-1, lost to William & Mary 6-5, lost three at Miami (0-1, 3-4 (10 inn.), 0-10)
6. Duke (8-14-1, 31-14-1) — won at UNC-Greensboro 10-3, won at Davidson 8-7, won two of three against Maryland (8-12, 10-2, 2-1)
5. Georgia Tech (12-12, 31-13) — won at Mercer 16-9, won two of three against Wake (12-1, 14-6, 5-7)
4. N.C. State (15-8, 30-13) - lost at UNC-Greensboro 8-7 (10 inn.), won three against BC (5-1, 3-2, 14-4)
3. Florida State (19-5, 35-7) — lost two of three at UNC (4-11, 13-5, 1-2 (10 inn.))
2. North Carolina (18-5, 38-8 ) — won at Charlotte 17-0, beat High Point 10-5, won two of three against FSU (11-4, 5-13, 2-1 (10 inn.))
1. Miami (20-2, 36-5) — lost to Florida International 6-3, won three against UVa. (1-0, 4-3 (10 inn.), 10-0)
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Yes Virginia has been a little disappointing and they have disappointed me a little bit this season but they can make it all back up with a 8 game winning streak starting tommorrow against Mount St Marys. They have a 3 game set both at home vs UNC and GT. They sweep both of them they will finish 40-15 and atleast be a 3 or 4 seed in the tourney. I just hope they can do well and have another regional plus I am going to 7 of the 8 games.
My poll would be:
1. Miami
2. UNC
3. FSU
4. UVA
5. NCS
6. GT
7. Duke
8. WF
9. Clemson
10. MD
11. VT
12. BC
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