By R.L. Bynum

Five teams are within 1½ games of first place entering the final week of the ACC baseball season, meaning North Carolina still has work to do to earn one of four double-byes in the ACC tournament.

The Tar Heels (37–11, 16–10 ACC), who stayed at No. 4 in the D1 Baseball poll Monday for the third consecutive poll, split a pair of games with N.C. State, which moved up three spots to No. 13, before the scheduled third game on Sunday was rained out.

Florida State (36–11, 16–8), which stayed at No. 2 in the poll, is alone in first place entering its series with UNC next weekend in Tallahassee, Fla., beginning on Thursday (7 p.m., ACC Network).

UNC’s scheduled Tuesday home game against UNCW was canceled late Monday afternoon.

The single-elimination ACC tournament is set for May 20–25 at Durham Bulls Athletic Park.

The latest D1 Baseball NCAA tournament projection, released before the weekend results, has UNC as the No. 7 overall seed, meaning that the Tar Heels would host a Super Regional. The projection has Ole Miss, Iowa and Holy Cross playing in the Chapel Hill Regional.

UNC has fallen to No. 11 in the RPI, but it is still second in the ACC behind No. 9 Florida State. Clemson is No. 14, Louisville is No. 22, Georgia Tech is No. 23 and N.C. State is No. 25.

The Wolfpack (32–16, 16–9) and Georgia Tech (37–15, 17–10) are a half-game back, with the Tar Heels a game back and Duke (35–16, 16–1) 1½ games back.

After taking two of three games at Clemson over the weekend, Duke went from unranked to No. 20, and the Tigers fell six spots to No. 15. Louisville is the only other ACC team in the poll, dropping one spot to No. 21 after losing two of three over the weekend at Georgia Tech.

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D1 Baseball Top 25

Rank	Team	Record	Last week	Previous
1	LSU	40-12	2-1	3
2	Florida State	36-11	3-1	2
3	Texas	40-10	2-2	1
4	North Carolina	37-11	2-1	4
5	Oregon	38-13	5-0	5
6	Auburn	36-15	3-0	8
7	Oregon State	37-12-1	3-0	10
8	Arkansas	41-11	1-2	7
9	Vanderbilt	36-16	2-2	11
10	Georgia	40-13	1-2	6
11	Coastal Carolina	41-11	4-0	14
12	UC Irvine	38-11	4-0	13
13	N.C. State	32-16	2-1	16
14	UCLA	37-14	3-1	18
15	Clemson	38-15	1-3	9
16	West Virginia	40-10	1-3	12
17	Tennessee	39-13	2-2	15
18	Alabama	39-13	3-1	23
19	Southern Miss	38-13	3-0	21
20	Duke	35-16	3-1	NR
21	Louisville	34-17	2-2	20
22	Troy	37-16	3-2	19
23	Florida	35-18	2-2	NR
24	Dallas Baptist	36-13	3-0	NR
25	Northeastern	41-9	4-0	NR

Dropped out: Oklahoma, Arizona, Ole Miss and Southern Cal.

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ACC standings

	League	GB	Overall
No. 3 Georgia Tech	25–5	—	45–9
No. 2 North Carolina	22–8	3	43–10–1
No. 11 Florida State	19–11	6	38–15
No. 23 Boston College	17–13	8	36–20
Wake Forest	16–14	9	38–18
Miami	16–14	9	36–17
Virginia Tech	15–15	10	29–23
Virginia	14–16	11	35–20
N.C. State	14–16	11	32–21
Stanford	13–17	12	27–25
Notre Dame	13–17	12	30–21
Louisville	13–17	12	30–26
California	12–18	13	29–25
Pittsburgh	11–19	14	30–23
Clemson	10–20	15	31–25
Duke	10–20	15	24–29

Thursday-Saturday series
Notre Dame at Pittsburgh — Pitt, 6–3; ND, 6–4; ND, 21–10 (7)
Virginia at Louisville — Va., 8–3; UL, 12–2; UL, 10–5
Miami at No. 11 Florida State — FSU, 7–6 (11); FSU, 11–1; Miami, 7–4
Wake Forest at Duke — WF, 7–2; WF, 7–2; Duke, 7–3
Clemson at Virginia Tech — VT, 5–1; VT, 2–1; Clemson, 10–7
No. 3 Georgia Tech at No. 23 Boston College — GT swept 9–0, 14–1, 15–2 (7)
No. 2 North Carolina at N.C. State — UNC, 9–4; UNC, 17–7 (8); State, 7–2
Stanford at California — Stanford, 7–6; Cal, 4–3; Cal, 2–1
End of regular season
ACC tournament
Tuesday through May 24
Truist Field in Charlotte

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Date(s)	Day/ month	Times/ scores	Opponent (current rank)	Record/ TV *
	February
13–14	Fri., Sat.	W, 9–4; W, 12–2 (7); W, 4–3 (11)	vs. Indiana	3–0
17	Tuesday	W, 10–0 (7)	vs. Richmond	4–0
18	Wednesday	W, 5–3	vs. Longwood	5–0
20–22	Fri.-Sun	W, 10–0 (8); L, 10–3; T, 3–3	vs. East Carolina	6–1–1
24	Tuesday	W, 9–1	vs. N.C. A&T	7–1–1
25	Wednesday	W, 13–3 (7)	vs. VCU	8–1–1
27–28	Fri., Sat.	W, 16–3 (7); W, 12–2 (7)	vs. Le Moyne	10–1–1
	March
1	Sunday	W, 21–1 (7)	vs. Le Moyne	11–1–1
3	Tuesday	W, 5–1	vs. Elon	12–1–1
6–7	Fri., Sat	L, 13–3 (7); L, 9–2; W, 8–7 (12)	vs. Virginia	13–3–1, 1–2 ACC
10	Tuesday	W, 13–3 (7)	vs. Bucknell	14–3–1
13–15	Fri.-Sun.	W, 8–1; W, 6–2; W, 10–2	at California	17–3–1, 4–2
18	Wednesday	W, 8–2	vs. UNCG	18–3–1
20–22	Fri.–Sun.	W, 11–1 (8); L, 2–0; W, 7–6	vs. Louisville	20–4–1, 6–3
24	Tuesday	W, 9–1	vs. South Carolina in Charlotte	21–4–1
28, 29	Sat., Sun	W, 6–5; W, 13–7; W, 15–10	at Notre Dame	24–4–1, 9–3
31	Tuesday	W, 5–4 (14)	vs. Campbell	25–4–1
	April
2–4	Thur.-Sat.	L, 6–1; W, 5–2; W, 8–7	vs. Boston College	27–5–1, 11–4
7	Tuesday	W, 8–4	vs. Charlotte	28–5–1
10–12	Fri.–Sun.	L, 9–5; W, 6–4 (14); W, 12–5	at Clemson	30–6–1, 13–5
14	Tuesday	W, 14–5	vs. UNCW	31–6–1
17–19	Fri.-Sun.	W, 5–2; W, 14–4 (8); L, 5–2	vs. No. 2 Georgia Tech	33–7–1, 15–6
21	Tuesday	W, 9–2	vs. High Point	34–7–1
23–25	Thur.–Sat.	W, 3–1; L, 3–1; W, 22–5 (7)	at Duke	36–8–1, 17–7
28	Tuesday	L, 12–2	vs. Coastal Carolina	36–9–1
	May
3	Sunday	W, 13–0 (7) (non-conference game)	vs. Duke	37–9–1
8–10	Fri.-Sun.	W, 4–1; W, 12–2 (8); W, 7–3	vs. Pittsburgh	40–9–1, 20–7
12	Tuesday	W, 13–7	at UNCW	41–9–1
14–16	Thur.-Sat.	W, 9–4; W, 17–7 (8); L, 7–2	at N.C. State	43–10–1, 22–8
		ACC tournament	Charlotte
22	Friday	W, 10–4	Quarterfinal vs. Virginia Tech	44–10–1
23	Saturday	W, 13–5	Semifinal vs. Pittsburgh	45–10–1
24	Sunday	L, 13–6	Championship vs. No. 2 Ga. Tech	45–11–1
		NCAA tournament
		Chapel Hill Regional
29	Friday	W, 8–0	VCU	46–11–1
30–31	Sat.–Sun.	W, 7–5, W, 9–3	East Carolina	48–11–1
	June
		Chapel Hill Super Regionals
5–7	Fri.–Sun.	L, 9–5, W, 4–0, W, 4–3	Southern Cal	50–12–1
		College World Series	Omaha, Neb.
12	Friday	W, 6–2	No. 18 Ole Miss	51–12–1
14	Sunday	7:09 p.m.	No. 9 West Virginia	ESPN

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