ACC Baseball Tournament Set – Pack & Heels to play primetime on Saturday night

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The ACC has announced the pools for this year’s ACC Baseball Tournament; and with eight teams ranked in the RPI’s Top 40 this year’s tournament could end up being one of the best ever! You can click here for the bracket.

NC State resides in ‘POOL B’ and will play a round-robin format with arch-rival and #2 seeded UNC-CH, #6 Miami, and #7 Wake Forest.

Under the pool-play format, each team will play one game against each of the other three opponents in its division Wednesday-Saturday (May 23-26). The two teams with the best records within their respective division brackets will advance to the title game on Sunday, May 27, with the winner earning the ACC’s automatic berth into the NCAA Tournament.

The Wolfpack’s schedule is as follows:

Wednesday: Miami vs. NC State (3 p.m. ET, RSN)
Thursday: Wake Forest vs. NC State (7 p.m. ET, RSN)
Saturday: NC State vs. UNC (7 p.m. ET, RSN)

Isn’t it interesting that the NC State-UNC rivalry should mean so much to the ACC that they pick the game as the premier game in the Tournament to showcase on Saturday night in primetime? No further comment is needed here about the ‘wise’ decision to have these schools only play each other once per year in basketball in the future

The following is the entire schedule as this thread highlights. It is a positive for the Pack to have Friday off…but, of course there was NO WAY that the ACC would give State the day off and not also give it to the Tar heels. 🙂

Wednesday, May 23
11 a.m. – Florida State vs. Georgia Tech
3 p.m. – NC State vs. Miami
7 p.m. – UNX vs. Wake Forest

Thursday, May 24
11 a.m. – Virginia vs. Clemson
3 p.m. – UNX vs. Miami
7 p.m. – NC State vs. Wake Forest

Friday, May 25
11 a.m. – Virginia vs. Georgia Tech
3 p.m. – Florida State vs. Clemson
7 p.m. – Miami vs. Wake Forest

Saturday, May 26
11 a.m. – Clemson vs. Georgia Tech
3 p.m. – Florida State vs. Virginia
7 p.m. – UNX vs. NC State

Sunday, May 27
Noon – Championship Game

All 13 games of this year’s ACC Baseball Championship will be televised for the sixth straight year. RSN, a regional network that covers the entire conference footprint, will carry 12 total games on Wednesday through Saturday. Please check http://bit.ly/2012ACCBase for local affiliates and stations. Sunday’s noon championship game will televised nationally by ESPN2.

All games will live-streamed via the Internet by ESPN3. In addition, Sirius 93 will broadcast all 13 games live via satellite radio, and every game with exception of the Wednesday and Friday 7 p.m. games will also be broadcast live via satellite radio on XM 190. Live stats will be available at the ACC Baseball Championship site.

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4 Responses to ACC Baseball Tournament Set – Pack & Heels to play primetime on Saturday night

  1. wolfbuff 05/21/2012 at 11:53 AM #

    Not to defend the ACC’s decision not to have us play Cheatolina in basketball twice a year. But my guess is the primary reason they made the State/Cheatolina baseball game the primetime game on Saturday is that we’re both very good teams and most likely, this will be deciding game for Pool B. They would have been stoopid to make us play earlier.

    For what it’s worth, I preferred the double elimination format. The opportunity existed for any two teams to match up on Sunday – albeit one of them could have to win twice.

  2. 61Packer 05/21/2012 at 3:53 PM #

    Double elimination is baseball, pod play is soccer. And what is the point of the ACC expanding and at the same time not allowing 1/3 of its members to participate in the championship tourney? I don’t get it.

  3. state73 05/21/2012 at 4:38 PM #

    Doing away with a double elimination tourney is just another example of what is wrong with the ACC. I hope our AD is being proactive in exploring all of our options. To hell with unx.

  4. fvpackman 05/21/2012 at 7:30 PM #

    Double Elim kills the pitching staff for the ncaa’s…pretty much every major conf does the same….the acc was one of the last to go to it…if we want to make Omaha the format we have is just fine….

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