By R.L. Bynum

Two teams in Pool A of the ACC tournament have very different momentum heading into this week’s ACC tournament at Charlotte’s Truist Field.

Top-seeded North Carolina (41–12) stayed at No. 7 after winning two of three over the weekend at Duke while No. 8-seed Wake Forest (36–19) plummeted 14 spots to No. 22 after getting swept at N.C. State.

The No. 3-seed Wolfpack (32–19) jumped five spots to No. 12 while the No. 6-seed Blue Devils (35–18) fell six spots to No. 17.

No. 2-seed Clemson (40–13), which scored 33 runs during its three-game home sweep of Boston College last weekend, moved up one spot to No. 3.

This is the first time UNC has been in the top 10 on consecutive weeks since they were in the top six for the first three polls in 2019.

UNC, which plays Pittsburgh (26–27) at 3 p.m. Thursday and Wake Forest at 7 p.m. Friday in pool play, is the top ACC team in the Baseball America poll at No. 3 (up one spot) and the RPI at No. 4,

Other ACC teams in the D1 Baseball poll are No. 5-seed Florida State (39–14), which remained at No. 10 after a 2–2 week, and No. 4-seed Virginia (40–14), which moved up two spots to No. 16 after a home weekend sweep of Virginia Tech.

The only UNC nonconference opponent still in the poll is No. 9 East Carolina (40–13), after South Carolina (33–21), which No. 1 Tennessee (46–10) swept over the weekend, fell out of the poll.

D1 Baseball Top 25

Rank	Team	Record	Last week	Previous
1	Tennessee	46–10	4–0	1
2	Kentucky	39–12	2–1	2
3	Clemson	40–13	3–0	4
4	Texas A&M	44–11	2–1	5
5	Arkansas	43–12	1–2	3
6	Oregon State	41–13	2–1	6
7	North Carolina	41–12	2–1	7
8	Oklahoma	34–18	2–1	12
9	East Carolina	40–13	3–0	13
10	Florida State	39–14	2–2	10
11	Georgia	39–14	1–2	9
12	N.C. State	32–19	3–0	17
13	UC Santa Barbara	39–12	4–0	22
14	UC Irvine	41–11	3–1	15
15	Mississippi State	36–19	3–1	16
16	Virginia	40–14	3–0	18
17	Duke	35–18	1–2	11
18	Arizona	33–20	1–2	14
19	Oklahoma State	36–16	2–0	19
20	Indiana State	39–11	3–0	20
21	Louisiana	40–16	2–1	21
22	Wake Forest	36–19	0–3	8
23	Oregon	37–16	3–0	23
24	Texas	35–20	3–0	25
25	Southern Miss	37–18	3–1	NR

Dropped out: South Carolina

ACC tournament

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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	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