ACC Nation baseball power poll — May 18
The regular season is complete and the ACC Tournament begins Wednesday in Jacksonville. This is unofficial, since the ACC won’t release the seedings until Sunday afternoon, but it appears this is the way things will shape up: Division A will consist of No. 1 Miami, No. 4 NC State, No. 5 Georgia Tech and No. 8 Clemson. Division B is No. 2 FSU, No. 3 UNC, No. 6 UVa. and No. 7 Wake Forest.
Each team will play a round-robin schedule against the other three teams in its division. The teams with the best round-robin record in each division will play for the championship on Sunday, May 25, at 1 p.m. We’ll post a game schedule and official seedings when the ACC releases them.
But what is the fun of posting tournament brackets without giving you a guess? Miami has too much offense not to make it out of Division A and Carolina has too much pitching not to reach the finals in Division B. Miami then makes up for losing his weekend to Carolina by beating the Heels and taking the tourney title.
Then again, Wake Forest was the No. 8 seed last season and reach the championship game, so who knows.
On with the rankings.
12. Virginia Tech (6-24, 23-32) — beat W&M 10-5, lost two of three to Duke (2-4, 8-5, 5-7)
11. Boston College (9-21, 26-26) — beat UConn 11-9, lost two of three to Wake (3-10, 0-2, 11-7)
10. Maryland (9-21, 30-26) — won at Delaware 4-0,
9. Duke (10-18-1, 37-18-1) — beat Campbell 10-5, won two of three at VT (4-2, 5-8, 7-5)
8. Wake Forest (13-16, 24-29) — lost at Elon 16-15, won two of three at BC (10-3, 2-0, 7-11)
7. Clemson (11-18-1, 30-25-1) — beat College of Charleston 12-6, won three of three at Central Florida (9-1, 7-3, 8-5)
6. Virginia (15-15, 36-19) — beat VMI 6-5 (11 inn.), lost two of three to GT (4-2, 8-14, 7-9)
5. N.C. State (18-11, 37-18) - beat NC A&T 17-6, lost two of three at FSU (12-2, 0-1, 1-8)
4. Georgia Tech (16-14, 38-17) — lost to Georgia 3-2, won two of three at UVa. (2-4, 14-8, 9-7)
3. Florida State (24-6, 46-9) — beat Savannah St. 10-0 (7 inn.), won two of three against NC State (2-12, 1-0, 8-1)
2. Miami (23-5, 43-8) — beat North Florida 5-2, lost two of three to UNC (12-2, 6-10, 11-12)
1. North Carolina (22-7, 45-10 ) — beat Winthrop 4-1, won two of three at Miami (2-12, 10-6, 12-11)
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