2016 ACC Baseball Championship

Wolfpack Baseball, as well as most of the rest of the ACC…not to mention 3/4’s of the Big four…will be in Durham this week for the 2016 ACC Baseball Championship.
1/4 of the Big Four will be at home 8 miles away. See I KNOW it’s 8 miles because Dick Vitale tells me so, incessantly, at least twice every year.

But I digress…

Congrats to Wake and Duke for sliding in under the wire. And to BC as well. Well done, Eagles.

And Heels…..Memorial Day weekend is always a big time at the beach. So maybe consider a last minute get away. I mean it’s not like you’ll be going to class or studying, so what I’m saying is….treat yourselves and enjoy the time off.

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Final ACC Standings

Atlantic

Schools	Conf W-L-T	Conf PCT	W-L-T	PCT
Louisville	22-8-0	.733	46-10-0	.821
Florida State	16-10-0	.615	34-19-0	.642
NC State	15-13-0	.536	34-18-0	.654
Clemson	16-14-0	.533	38-18-0	.679
Boston College	13-15-0	.464	31-19-0	.620
Wake Forest	13-17-0	.433	32-23-0	.582
Notre Dame	11-17-0	.393	27-27-0	.500

Coastal

Schools	Conf W-L-T	Conf PCT	W-L-T	PCT
Miami	21-7-0	.750	43-10-0	.811
Virginia	19-11-0	.633	36-18-0	.667
Duke	14-15-0	.483	33-21-0	.611
Georgia Tech	13-16-0	.448	35-20-0	.636
North Carolina	13-17-0	.433	34-21-0	.618
Pitt	10-18-0	.357	25-26-0	.490
Virginia Tech	6-24-0	.200	19-36-0	.345

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2016 ACC Baseball Championship

The Seeds

(1) Miami
(2) Louisville
(3) UVa
(4) FSU
(5) NC State
(6) Clemson
(7) Duke
(8) BC
(9) GT
(10) Wake

The Pools

Pool A – (1)Miami, (4)FSU, (5) NC State, winner of (8)BC/(9)GT
Pool B – (2)Louisville, (3)UVa, (6)Clemson, winner of (7)Duke/(10)Wake

The Games

Tuesday, May 24 – RSN/ESPN3

11am – (10)Wake at (7)Duke – Wake 4-3, Wake advances to pool play
3pm – (9)GT at (8)BC – GT 6-0, GT advances to pool play

Wednesday, May 25 – RSN/ESPN3

11am – (5)NC State at (4)FSU
3pm – (9)GT at (1)Miami
7pm – (10)Wake at (2)Louisville

Thursday, May 26 – RSN/ESPN3

11am – (6)Clemson at (3)UVa
3pm – (9)GT at (4)FSU
7pm – (5)NC State at (1)Miami

Friday, May 27 – RSN/ESPN3

11am – (6)Clemson at (2)Louisville
3pm – (10)Wake at (3)UVa
7pm – (9)GT at (5) NC State

Saturday, May 28 – RSN/ESPN3

11am – (10)Wake at (6)Clemson
3pm – (4)FSU at (1)Miami
7pm – (3)Uva at (2)Louisville

Sunday, May 29 – ESPN2

12noon – Championship

Full RSN affiliates listing

Tickets

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A Quick Recap of How it Works…

Tuesday’s games are single elimination. Loser goes home, winner enters pool play in their respective pool.

Wednesday thru Saturday is pool play. Every team plays the other teams in their pool once. If you go 3-0 you are assured of a berth into Sunday’s championship game. If you go 2-1 and tied with only one other team, whoever won the head to head game moves on. If you’re tied with two other teams at 2-1, the highest seeded team moves on…regardless of the head to head results.

For this reason, it is in our best interests to take care of business early and take both FSU and Miami down early. One of them will beat the other, preventing a 3 way tie with two higher seeded teams…Pack moves on.

Of course that is theoretical at best. Because if we lose to the lower seeded team and are tied with only them, they’d move on.

So just beat everybody and remove all doubt…is what I’m saying.

Sunday’s Championship Game is of course a single winner takes all. Not a best 2 out of 3 like in Omaha.

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A (Very Brief) Hosting/National Seed Mention

We’ll probably host an NCAAT regional at home as long as we don’t go 0-fer in our pool in the ACCT.

We will not be a national seed unless we get to Sunday. And probably not even unless we take the whole enchilada. And maybe not even then. But we will be playing at least two teams with top level RPI (Miami and FSU) and potentially a 3rd if we make it to Sunday. Which will certainly help our resume. But right now the biggest thing we need to do is win some games.

FWIW, Pack’s RPI currently is #7. Unfortunately, poll voters were less enthused by our series win over Carolina than we all were.

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Some Highlights from Last Weekend