Baseball heads to Greensboro looking to continue run

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After sweeping Duke over the weekend, NC State is now the No. 7 seed in the ACC Baseball Tournament, which gets underway Wednesday. The Pack will open up the tournament against the No. 2 seed Clemson. Here’s more coverage of the action in Greensboro.

GoPack: NC State schedules for three night games in ACC Tourney

Complete pairings and starting times have been announced for the 2010 Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Championship, which will be held Wednesday through next Sunday (May 26-30) at Greensboro’s NewBridge Bank Park, and NC State will play all three of its Division B games at 8 p.m.

The Wolfpack will open on Wednesday night vs. Clemson, then will have Thursday off. NC State will return to action on Friday night vs. Georgia Tech. The Pack will wrap up Division B play on Saturday at 8 p.m. vs. Virginia Tech.

N&O: Pack makes ACC; Tar Heels lose out

N.C. State is in, and North Carolina is out.

That’s the situation when it comes to the ACC baseball tournament beginning Wednesday in Greensboro.

Both schools finished up three-game sweeps of their final weekend series Saturday.

N.C. State (36-20, 15-15 ACC) actually sneaked past Boston College (29-26, 14-16) for the seventh of eight spots in the tournament.

BC (29-6, 14-16), after losing six of its previous seven conference games, beat No. 6 Georgia Tech (44-11, 21-9) in its season finale Saturday to finish tied with the Tar Heels (35-21, 14-16) for the eighth spot.

Go here for the complete TV schedule for this week.

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7 Responses to Baseball heads to Greensboro looking to continue run

  1. ruffles31 05/24/2010 at 11:42 AM #

    Pack is finding their groove at the end of the year. Good time to find it. Hopefully we can make some noise this weekend. Would love to get back to the NCAA tournament. At least we have a constant time this week of games. Should help us (it can’t hurt).

    I did find this piece of pro-UNC, anti-NCSU writing in the N&O article interesting to say the least:

    The Heels’ season probably isn’t over, however. Despite missing the ACC tournament, North Carolina has a good chance of getting an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament.

    The Heels’ official NCAA RPI (at No. 30 heading into the weekend) is likely to improve after sweeping the Hokies, who were ranked No. 12 by Baseball America and had an RPI of 27 by the NCAA before the three losses to the Heels.

    N.C. State, on the other hand, will probably have to win the ACC tournament to advance. The Pack’s RPI, at No. 59 entering the weekend, won’t likely improve nearly enough to move into at-large bid territory, even with a strong showing at the ACC tournament.

    Now, I don’t disagree with the information about State. But I have never heard of a team that didn’t make their conference tournament still making the NCAA tournament. That would be a first. And then he makes it sound like it is a done deal. Really?

  2. WolftownVA81 05/24/2010 at 12:02 PM #

    At least we control our own destiny. I’ve only watched one game this year on TV but am hoping to catch the tournement. Go Pack.

  3. awsmothers 05/24/2010 at 12:16 PM #

    Ruffles… A team not making their conference tournament has happened many times in the past (especially in the SEC, not completely certain about the ACC, although I believe that it has happened)… BUT, I had the EXACT same thought upon reading the N&O’s “analysis / assumption” of the Holes & Pack’s chances of earning an NCAA berth… More wishful thinking from the Baby-blue-eyed NC media, trying to boost their own morale, by tearing down the accomplishments of others! It absolutely destroys them to acknowledge that not only did NC State put an end to Duke’s season with the weekend sweep, but more than likely did the same to the Holes… But I honestly hope unc gets in the NCAAs, they send them here to Myrtle Beach, so Coastal Carolina can kick their A$$ once and for all… But, then it’ll just begin the annual hype about how great the Holes football is going to be (Top 25, ACC Champs, Butch is awesome talk), only to go 7-5 and LOSE yet again to their Daddy… NC State!

  4. wolfpacktexx 05/24/2010 at 1:12 PM #

    Shortly after NCSU executing a series sweep this weekend to get into the ACC tourney I started hearing the noise that NCSU would need a conference championship to get into the NCAA tournament and UNC CH has no worries but a yellow brink road due to their RPI and ranking.

    I simple do not understand this. I have carefully examined their records and I cannot see a UNC justification or a body of work that shines over the Wolfpack’s.

    Both have the same record. 36 -20.
    NCSU has the better ACC conference record.
    Below is their ACC record comparison. The Pack has series wins over UVA and Ga Tech, while UNC went “O for” – 0-6
    UNC only series wins worth noting was Va Tech just recently and Clemson going 2-1.

    NCSU UNC
    UVA 2-1 0-3
    Ga Tech 2-1 0-3
    Fla St 1-2 1-2
    Clemson 0-3 2-1
    Miami 1-2 0-3
    B College 0-3 NA
    Va Tech NA 3-0
    Maryland 3-0 2-1
    Duke 3-0 1-2
    Wake 2-1 3-0

    Out of conference UNC does not seem to have any big wins I can see . A series sweep over Michigan and a win over St john’s which both team’s RPI’s are lost in the weeds. The rest are locals. NCSU at least has UC Irvine and E Carolina.

    A friend of mine (Tarhole) was tiring to justified UNC’s resume worthy of the NCAA bid and referenced their 2-1 Home series win against State as one of their accomplishments. Great, State is not in the NCCA automatic bid conversation so how can you use that as a resume builder?
    Am I missing something – ? Is UNC entitled with RPI blessings…

  5. bradleyb123 05/24/2010 at 3:16 PM #

    I’ve noticed in a couple of different articles that they mention BC as the team that forced Carolina out. No mention of State, whatsoever. It’s like they didn’t want to give us any credit for winning and keeping them out. But if we lost any of those games with Duke, we’d have been out, and Carolina would have been in.

  6. fvpackman 05/24/2010 at 5:47 PM #

    We could have lost 1 game to Duke and still went in as the 8 seed.

    fv

  7. elvislives 05/24/2010 at 6:28 PM #

    We all feel your pain wolfpacktexx. Just seems like more entitlement for UNX. If State plays well in the ACC tournament I’d hope the selection committee will reward based on performance rather than reputation. Unfortunately, history is not on the Wolfpack’s side.

    State and Carolina also both played (and lost) to the currently ranked #4 team in the country, Coastal Carolina. State lost on a neutral field, Carolina lost at home. Not sure if the neutral field will impact the RPI, a loss is a loss.

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