By R.L. Bynum

North Carolina is a top-four national seed in D1 Baseball’s latest NCAA tournament projection.

The prediction lists the Tar Heels (41–12), who won the ACC Coastal Division and the No. 1 seed in the ACC tournament with the best league record (22–8), as the No. 4 overall seed, hosting Oregon, UNC Greensboro and Cornell in the Chapel Hill Regional.

It further illustrates that UNC could probably go 0–2 at this week’s ACC tournament at Charlotte’s Truist Field and still be a top-8 national seed, which comes with the right to also host a Super Regional if the Tar Heels advance.

The field will be announced next Monday at noon.

D1 Baseball projects the SEC to get 11 teams in the field, with the ACC getting eight and the state of North Carolina getting seven teams.

Four of the seven state teams are projected to play in the same regional as another N.C. team. In addition to UNCG being projected to play in Chapel Hill, projected No. 11 seed N.C. State is seen as hosting UNC Wilmington, and projected No. 15 seed East Carolina is predicted to host Duke.

Three other ACC teams are projected as regional hosts — projected No. 6 seed Clemson, No. 9 Florida State and No. 12 Virginia — with Georgia Tech listed as the No. 3 seed in the Knoxville Regional and Wake Forest projected to play in the Athens Regional, with Georgia projected as a No. 8 seed.

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ACC tournament

At Durham Bulls Athletic Park
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Tuesday’s first round
No. 16 California 12, No. 9 Miami 2, 8 innings
No. 12 Virginia Tech 7, No. 13 Stanford 4
No. 15 Pittsburgh 13, No. 10 Louisville 11
No. 14 Boston College 5, No. 11 Notre Dame 4, 10 innings
Wednesday’s second round
California 14, No. 8 seed Wake Forest 12
No. 5 Clemson 6, Virginia Tech 1
No. 7 Duke 4, Pittsburgh 3
Boston College 12, No. 6 Virginia 8
Quarterfinals
Thursday’s results
No. 1 seed Georgia Tech 10, California 3
Clemson 7, No. 4 seed N.C. State 6
Friday’s results
No. 2 seed Florida State 14, Duke 7
No. 3 seed North Carolina 7, Boston College 2
Saturday’s semifinals
Clemson 9, Georgia Tech 4
North Carolina 7, Florida State 5
Sunday’s championship
North Carolina 14, Clemson 4

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UNC schedule

Date(s)	Day/ month	Times	Opponent (current rank)
	February
13–15	Fri.-Sat.	4, noon, 1	vs. Indiana
17	Tuesday	4 p.m.	vs. Richmond
18	Wednesday	4 p.m.	vs. Longwood
20–22	Fri.-Sun.	4 (Greenville; ESPN+), 2 (DBAP), 2 (CH)	vs. East Carolina
24	Tuesday	4 p.m.	vs. N.C. A&T
25	Wednesday	4 p.m.	vs. VCU
27–28	Fri., Sat.	4 p.m., 2 p.m.	vs. Le Moyne
	March
1	Sunday	1 p.m.	vs. Le Moyne
3	Tuesday	4 p.m.	vs. Elon
6–8	Fri.-Sun.	4, 2, 1	vs. Virginia
10	Tuesday	4 p.m.	vs. Bucknell
13–15	Fri.-Sun.	9, 5, 4	at California
18	Wednesday	4 p.m.	vs. UNCG
20–22	Fri.-Sun.	8, 2, 1 Friday on ACCN	vs. No. 8 Louisville
24	Tuesday	6:30	vs. South Carolina in Charlotte
27–29	Fri.-Sun.	6:30, 3, 1	at Notre Dame
31	Tuesday	8 p.m., ACCN	vs. Campbell
	April
2–4	Thur.-Sat.	6, 6, 2	vs. Boston College
7	Tuesday	7 p.m., ACCN	vs. Charlotte
10–12	Fri.-Sun.	6, 2, 12:30 (Sunday on ACCN)	at No. 19 Clemson
14	Tuesday	6 p.m.	vs. UNCW
17–19	Fri-Sun.	6, noon, 1 (Saturday, Sunday on ACCN)	vs. No. 5 Georgia Tech
21	Tuesday	6 p.m.	vs. High Point
23–25	Thu.-Sat.	7, 6, 3 (Thursday on ACCN)	at Duke
28	Tuesday	7 p.m., ACCN	vs. No. 6 Coastal Carolina
29	Wednesday	6 p.m.	vs. Queens
	May
3	Sunday	2 p.m., ACCN (non-conference game)	vs. Duke
6	Wednesday	6 p.m.	vs. Winthrop
8–10	Fri.-Sun.	6, noon, 1	vs. Pittsburgh
12	Tuesday	6 p.m.	at UNCW
14–16	Thurs.-Sat.	7, 6, 1 (Thursday on ACCN)	at No. 17 N.C. State
19–24	Tues.-Sun.	ACC tournament (ACCN, ESPN2 for final)	Charlotte
29–31	Fri.-Sun.	NCAA Regionals	Campus sites
	June
5–7	Fri.-Sun.	NCAA Super Regionals	Campus sites
12–22	Fri.-Mon	College World Series	Omaha, Neb.

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