By R.L. Bynum

After taking two of three games in a weekend series against Virginia Tech during a 3–1 week, North Carolina moved up three spots to No. 12 in the D1 Baseball Top 25.

The Tar Heels (33–11, 17–7 ACC) lead the ACC Coastal Division by three games over No. 11 Virginia (33–12, 14–10), which moved up three spots after a 3–1 week, and No. 10 Duke (30–14, 14–10), which fell six spots after a 1–3 week.

UNC, which is No. 7 in the Baseball America poll and No. 13 in the College Baseball Central Top 25, has the best league record in the ACC, topping Atlantic Division leader Clemson (34–9, 15–6), which moved up a slot to No. 4 going 2–2 last week.

UNC is No. 7 in the RPI, with Clemson No. 4 and Florida State No. 6. The Tar Heels are 6–8 against top 25 RPI teams, 6–1 against teams with RPIs between 26 and 50 and 20–2 against teams 51 or lower.

Other ranked ACC teams are:
—No. 7 Florida State (34–9, 13–8), which moved up three spots after taking two of three at Duke in a 3–1 week.
—No. 13 Wake Forest (27–16, 12–12), which sank five spots after losing two of three at Notre Dame.
—No. 20 N.C. State (25–16, 12–9), which moved up one spot after losing to East Carolina but sweeping three games from Ball State.

With a solid Hokies team not even ranked, the ACC looks like one of the stronger leagues in the country.

“I said at the beginning of the year, I thought it will come down to the last weekend as far as hosting national seeds, winning your division and winning the overall,” UNC coach Scott Forbes said. “It’s just how tough it is. I literally think that that’ll happen. Even the teams that may be quote at the bottom, if you don’t play [them well] you’re gonna lose.”

No. 5 East Carolina (35–8), which moved up two spots after a 4–0 week and leads the American Athletic Conference at 14–4, is one of two ranked nonconference teams the Tar Heels have faced. No. 15 South Carolina (29–14) jumped nine spots after a 2–1 week.

Coastal Carolina (27–17) went from No. 13 to unranked after a 0–5 week.

Carolina plays a pair of nonconference games before the six-day break for final exams, which start Thursday.

The Tar Heels face Charlotte at 7 p.m. Tuesday (ACC Network). After sweeping Memphis two weekends ago, the 49ers (20–24) have lost three of their last four games and dropped two of three to UAB over the weekend.

Charlotte, which is tied for third in the American standings at 9–9, lost 5–3 at UNC last season when it earned an NCAA tournament berth and finished 36–28.

On Wednesday, UNC hosts William & Mary (26–18) at 6 p.m. (ESPN3). The Tribe has lost seven of their last eight games after dropping two of three over the weekend at home against UNCW. W&M, which went 32–25 last season, is sixth in the CAA at 9–9.

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D1 Baseball Top 25

Rank	Team	Record	Previous
1	Texas A&M	38–6	1
2	Arkansas	37–7	2
3	Tennessee	37–7	3
4	Clemson	34–9	5
5	East Carolina	35–8	7
6	Oregon State	33–10	9
7	Florida State	34–9	10
8	Kentucky	33–9	4
9	UC Irvine	32–8	12
10	Duke	30–14	6
11	Virginia	33–12	14
12	North Carolina	33–11	15
13	Wake Forest	27–16	8
14	Oklahoma State	30–14	19
15	South Carolina	29–14	24
16	Mississippi State	29–15	NR
17	Vanderbilt	31–13	11
18	Louisiana	33–13	17
19	Georgia	31–12	20
20	N.C. State	25–16	21
21	Arizona	26–16	16
22	Oklahoma	26–15	18
23	Alabama	28–16	23
24	Indiana State	31–9	25
25	Utah	29–13	NR

Dropped out: Coastal Carolina (which was No. 13) and Oregon (which was No. 22).

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UNC scores

Date(s)	Day/ month	Scores	Opponent (current rank)	Record
	February
14–15	Fri.-Sat.	W, 5–1; W, 8–3; W, 4–2	vs. Texas Tech	3–0
18	Tuesday	W, 12–9	vs. Kansas State	4–0
22–24	Sat.-Mon.	W, 2–0; W, 11–6; W, 6–4	vs. East Carolina (DBAP, CH, G’ville)	7–0
25	Tuesday	W, 7–4	vs. VCU	8–0
26	Wednesday	W, 13–4	vs. N.C. A&T	9–0
28	Friday	W, 16–2	vs. Stony Brook	10–0
	March
1–2	Sat.-Sun.	W, 6–1; W, 9–5	vs. Stony Brook	12–0
4	Tuesday	W, 6–4 (11)	vs. No. 11 Coastal Carolina	13–0
7–9	Fri.-Sun.	L, 13–9; W, 11–1 (7); L, 7–0	vs. Stanford	14–2, 1–2 ACC
11	Tuesday	W, 7–3 (10)	at UNCW	15–2
14, 16	Fri., Sun.	L, 8–7; W, 6–4; L, 5–0	at Louisville	16–4, 2–4
19	Wednesday	L, 5–1	vs. UConn	16–5
21–23	Fri.-Sun.	W, 5–1; L, 3–2; W, 10–0 (7)	at Boston College	18–6, 4–5
25	Tuesday	W, 13–8	vs. South Carolina in Charlotte	19–7
28–30	Fri.-Sun.	W, 2–0; W, 4–2; L, 4–2	vs. Miami	21–7, 6–6
	April
1	Tuesday	W, 11–1 (7)	vs. Gardner-Webb	22–7
3–5	Thur.-Sat.	W, 4–3; L, 9–5; W, 8–7 (14)	vs. Duke	24–8, 8–7
8	Tuesday	W, 12–10	at Elon	25–8
11–13	Fri.-Sun.	W, 11–1 (7); W, 17–1 (7); W, 3–2	vs. Wake Forest	28–8, 11–7
15	Tuesday	W, 14–4 (8)	vs. Charlotte	29–8
18–20	Fri-Sun.	W, 9–6; L, 10–6: W, 7–5	at Virginia Tech	31–9, 13–8
25–27	Fri.-Sun.	W, 15–5; L, 4–2; W, 6–0	at Pittsburgh	33–10, 15–9
29	Tuesday	W, 13–4	vs. George Mason	34–10
30	Wednesday	W, 14–3	vs. Queens	35–10
	May
6	Tuesday	W, 10–1	vs. Campbell	36–10
8–9	Thurs.-Fri.	W, 8–1; L, 8–5	vs. N.C. State	37–11, 16–10
15–17	Thurs.-Sat.	W, 8–3; W, 11–1 (7); L, 5–4	at No. 7 Florida State	39–12, 18–11
		ACC tournament	Durham
23	Friday	Quarterfinal: W, 7–3	Boston College	40–12
24	Saturday	Semifinal: W, 7–5	No. 7 Florida State	41–12
25	Sunday	Final: W, 14–4	No. 14 Clemson	42–12
		Chapel Hill Regional
30	Friday	W, 4–0	Holy Cross	43–12
31	Saturday	W, 11–5	Oklahoma	44–12
	June
1	Sunday	L, 9–5	Oklahoma	44–13
2	Monday	W, 14–4	Oklahoma	45–13
		Chapel Hill Super Regional	Best-of-3 series
6	Friday	W, 18–2	No. 21 Arizona	46–13
7	Saturday	L, 10–8	No. 21 Arizona	46–14
8	Sunday	L, 4–3	No. 21 Arizona	46–15

Photo courtesy of UNC Athletics by Ainsley Fauth; graphic via @ACCBaseball