D1 Baseball projects Tar Heels as a top-four NCAA seed

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.


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


UNC scores

Date(s)Day/
month
ScoresOpponent
(current rank)
Record
February
14–15Fri.-Sat.W, 5–1; W, 8–3;
W, 4–2
vs. Texas Tech3–0
18TuesdayW, 12–9vs. Kansas State4–0
22–24Sat.-Mon.W, 2–0; W, 11–6;
W, 6–4
vs. East Carolina
(DBAP, CH, G’ville)
7–0
25TuesdayW, 7–4vs. VCU8–0
26WednesdayW, 13–4vs. N.C. A&T9–0
28FridayW, 16–2vs. Stony Brook10–0
March
1–2Sat.-Sun.W, 6–1; W, 9–5vs. Stony Brook12–0
4TuesdayW, 6–4 (11)vs. No. 11
Coastal Carolina
13–0
7–9Fri.-Sun.L, 13–9;
W, 11–1 (7); L, 7–0
vs. Stanford14–2,
1–2 ACC
11TuesdayW, 7–3 (10)at UNCW15–2
14, 16Fri., Sun.L, 8–7; W, 6–4;
L, 5–0
at Louisville16–4, 2–4
19WednesdayL, 5–1vs. UConn16–5
21–23Fri.-Sun.W, 5–1; L, 3–2;
W, 10–0 (7)
at Boston College18–6, 4–5
25TuesdayW, 13–8vs. South Carolina
in Charlotte
19–7
28–30Fri.-Sun.W, 2–0; W, 4–2;
L, 4–2
vs. Miami21–7, 6–6
April
1TuesdayW, 11–1 (7)vs. Gardner-Webb22–7
3–5Thur.-Sat.W, 4–3; L, 9–5;
W, 8–7 (14)
vs. Duke24–8, 8–7
8TuesdayW, 12–10at Elon25–8
11–13Fri.-Sun.W, 11–1 (7);
W, 17–1 (7); W, 3–2
vs. Wake Forest28–8, 11–7
15TuesdayW, 14–4 (8)vs. Charlotte29–8
18–20Fri-Sun.W, 9–6; L, 10–6:
W, 7–5
at Virginia Tech31–9, 13–8
25–27Fri.-Sun.W, 15–5; L, 4–2;
W, 6–0
at Pittsburgh33–10, 15–9
29TuesdayW, 13–4vs. George Mason34–10
30WednesdayW, 14–3vs. Queens35–10
May
6TuesdayW, 10–1vs. Campbell36–10
8–9Thurs.-Fri.W, 8–1; L, 8–5vs. N.C. State37–11, 16–10
15–17Thurs.-Sat.W, 8–3;
W, 11–1 (7); L, 5–4
at No. 7 Florida State39–12, 18–11
ACC tournamentDurham
23FridayQuarterfinal: W, 7–3Boston College40–12
24SaturdaySemifinal: W, 7–5No. 7 Florida State41–12
25SundayFinal: W, 14–4No. 14 Clemson 42–12
Chapel Hill Regional
30FridayW, 4–0Holy Cross43–12
31SaturdayW, 11–5Oklahoma44–12
June
1SundayL, 9–5Oklahoma44–13
2MondayW, 14–4Oklahoma45–13
Chapel Hill
Super Regional
Best-of-3 series
6FridayW, 18–2No. 21 Arizona 46–13
7SaturdayL, 10–8No. 21 Arizona46–14
8SundayL, 4–3No. 21 Arizona46–15

Photo courtesy of UNC Athletics

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