By R.L. Bynum

North Carolina, the No. 4 overall seed in the NCAA tournament, moved up one spot to No. 6 in the latest D1 Baseball poll for its highest rank in five years.

It’s the first time UNC has been in the top 10 in three consecutive polls since the Tar Heels were in the top six for the first three polls of 2019 and the highest rank since they were No. 3 on March 3 of that season.

Carolina remained No. 3 in the Baseball America poll, is No. 3 in the Perfect Game ranking, No. 4 in the NCBWA poll and No. 5 in the USA Today poll.

The Tar Heels (42–13) open play in the Chapel Hill Regional at 6 p.m. Friday at Boshamer Stadium against Long Island (33–23), and will play reigning NCAA champion LSU (40–21) or Wofford (41–18) on Saturday in either a loser’s bracket game at noon Saturday or a winner’s bracket game at 5 p.m. Saturday.

LSU returned to the poll at No. 24 after making a run to the SEC tournament championship game.

Duke (39–18) jumped five spots to No. 12 in the poll after winning the ACC title last weekend in Charlotte.

Carolina swapped spots in the poll with Oregon State (42–14), which fell one spot to No. 7, in the only change in the top 8. The top 3 in the poll are No. 1 Tennessee (50–11), No. 2 Kentucky (40–14) and No. 3 Clemson (41–14).

Other ACC teams in the poll are No. 9 Florida State (42–15; up one spot), No. 11 N.C. State (33–20; down one spot), No. 18 Virginia (41–15; down two spots) and No. 19 Wake Forest (38–20; up three spots).

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D1 Baseball Top 25

Rank	Team	Record	Last week	Previous
1	Tennessee	50–11	4–1	1
2	Kentucky	40–14	1–2	2
3	Clemson	41–14	1–1	3
4	Texas A&M	44–13	0–2	4
5	Arkansas	43–14	0–2	5
6	North Carolina	42–13	1–1	7
7	Oregon State	42–14	1–1	6
8	Oklahoma	37–19	3–1	8
9	Florida State	42–15	3–1	10
10	Georgia	39–15	0–1	11
11	N.C. State	33–20	1–1	12
12	Duke	39–18	4–0	17
13	UC Santa Barbara	42–12	3–0	13
14	East Carolina	43–15	3–2	9
15	Arizona	36–21	3–1	18
16	Oklahoma State	40–17	4–1	19
17	Mississippi State	38–21	2–2	15
18	Virginia	41–15	1–1	16
19	Wake Forest	38–20	2–1	22
20	Indiana State	42–13	3–2	20
21	UC Irvine	43–12	2–1	14
22	Louisiana	40–18	0–2	21
23	Southern Miss	41–18	4–0	25
24	LSU	40–21	4–1	NR
25	Dallas Baptist	44–13	4–0	NR

Dropped out: Oregon and Texas

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Chapel Hill Regional

At Boshamer Stadium
Friday’s results
No. 1 North Carolina 4, Holy Cross 0
No. 2 Oklahoma 7, No. 3 Nebraska 4
Saturday’s results
Nebraska 4, Holy Cross 1; Holy Cross eliminated
North Carolina 11, Oklahoma 5
Sunday’s results
Oklahoma 17, Nebraska 1; Nebraska eliminated
Oklahoma 9, North Carolina 5
Monday’s result
North Carolina 14, Oklahoma 4
UNC (45–13) advances to Super Regional against No. 21-ranked Arizona (42–18), which won the Eugene Regional on Sunday night with a 14–0 win over Cal Poly. Game 1 of the best-of-3 series is Friday at Boshamer Stadium.

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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

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