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.

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).

Date	Day/ month	Time/ score	Opponent/event (current ranks)	TV/ record
	February
16	Friday	W, 10–3	vs. Wagner	1–0
17	Saturday	W, 16–5	vs. Wagner	2–0
18	Sunday	W, 20–6	vs. Wagner	3–0
20	Tuesday	W, 8–7	vs. Elon	4–0
23	Friday	W, 2–1	vs. No. 13 East Carolina	5–0
24	Saturday	L, 7–4	vs. No. 13 East Carolina in Fayetteville	5–1
25	Sunday	L, 10–9	at No. 13 East Carolina	5–2
27	Tuesday	W, 8–2	vs. VCU	6–2
28	Wednesday	W, 12–3	vs. Longwood	7–2
	March
1	Friday	W, 12–2	vs. Princeton	8–2
2	Saturday	W, 11–2	vs. Princeton	9–2
3	Sunday	W, 13–6	vs. Princeton	10–2
5	Tuesday	W, 7–3	at Campbell	11–2
8	Friday	W, 2–1	vs. Pittsburgh	12–2, 1–0 ACC
9	Saturday	W, 7–3	vs. Pittsburgh	13–2, 2–0 ACC
10	Sunday	W, 6–5, 10 innings	vs. Pittsburgh	14–2, 3–0 ACC
12	Tuesday	W, 13–7	vs. Rutgers	15–2
13	Wednesday	W, 9–8	vs. Rutgers	16–2
15	Friday	L, 14–1	at Miami	16–3, 3–1 ACC
16	Saturday	L, 2–1	at Miami	16–4, 3–2 ACC
17	Sunday	W, 18–6, 7 innings (10-run rule)	at Miami	17–4, 4–2 ACC
19	Tuesday	W, 11–0, 7 innings (10-run rule)	vs. UNCW	18–4
22	Friday	W, 5–4	vs. Georgia Tech	19–4, 5–2 ACC
23	Saturday	W, 11–5	vs. Georgia Tech	20–4, 6–2 ACC
24	Sunday	W, 9–2	vs. Georgia Tech	21–4, 7–2 ACC
26	Tuesday	W, 10–8	vs. N.C. A&T	22–4
29	Friday	W, 6–5	at No. 8 Wake Forest	23–4, 8–2 ACC
30	Saturday	W, 10–6	at No. 8 Wake Forest	24–4, 9–2 ACC
31	Sunday	W, 14–10	at No. 8 Wake Forest	25–4, 10–2 ACC
	April
4	Thursday	L, 14–11	at No. 18 Virginia	25–5, 10–3 ACC
5	Friday	L, 7–2	at No. 18 Virginia	25–6, 10–4 ACC
6	Saturday	W, 12–7	at No. 18 Virginia	26–6, 11–4 ACC
9	Tuesday	L, 2–1	vs. No. 24 South Carolina in Charlotte	26–7
12	Friday	W, 13–0, 6½ innings (10-run rule)	vs. Notre Dame	27–7, 12–4 ACC
13	Saturday	W, 7–2	vs. Notre Dame	28–7, 13–4 ACC
14	Sunday	W, 10–3	vs. Notre Dame	29–7, 14–4 ACC
16	Tuesday	L, 5–4	vs. Coastal Carolina	29–8
18	Thursday	L, 9–8	at No. 17 N.C. State	29–9, 14–5 ACC
19	Friday	L, 5–4	at No. 17 N.C. State	29–10, 14–6 ACC
20	Saturday	W, 14–3	at No. 17 N.C. State	30–10, 15–6 ACC
23	Tuesday	W, 5–2	vs. Gardner-Webb	31–10
26	Friday	W, 8–1	vs. Virginia Tech	32–10, 16–6 ACC
27	Saturday	W, 6–3	vs. Virginia Tech	33–10, 17–6 ACC
28	Sunday	L, 4–3	vs. Virginia Tech	33–11, 17–7 ACC
30	Tuesday	W, 13–1, 6½ innings (10-run rule)	vs. Charlotte	34–11
	May
1	Wednesday	W, 19–2, 6½ innings (10-run rule)	vs. William & Mary	35–11
7	Tuesday	W, 16–10	vs. Campbell	36–11
10	Friday	W, 13–4 8 innings (10-run rule)	vs. Louisville	37–11, 18–7 ACC
11	Saturday	W, 6–4	vs. Louisville	38–11, 19–7 ACC
12	Sunday	W, 16–7	vs. Louisville	39–11, 20–7 ACC
16	Thursday	L, 5–3	at No. 11 Duke	39–12, 20–8 ACC
17	Friday	2 p.m.	at No. 11 Duke	ESPN3
18	Saturday	1 p.m.	at No. 11 Duke	ESPN3
21–26	Tuesday- Sunday	TBA	ACC tournament in Charlotte	ACCN
31	Friday	TBA	NCAA Regional	TBA
	June
1–3	Saturday- Monday	TBA	NCAA Regional	TBA
7–10	Friday- Monday	TBA	NCAA Super Regional	TBA
14–24	Friday- Monday	TBA	College World Series in Omaha, Neb.	TBA