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. 16 Georgia Tech	19–11	—	39–16
No. 6 Florida State	17–10	½	37–13
No. 3 North Carolina	18–11	½	39–12
No. 22 N.C. State	17–11	1	33–18
No. 14 Clemson	18–12	1	41–15
Virginia	16–11	1½	32–17
Duke	17–13	2	36–18
Wake Forest	16–14	3	36–19
Miami	15–14	3½	31–23
No. 21 Louisville	15–15	4	35–20
Notre Dame	14–16	5	32–20
Virginia Tech	12–18	7	30–24
Boston College	11–19	8	26–28
Stanford	11–19	8	27–24
Pittsburgh	10–20	9	27–26
California	9–21	10½	22–30

Thursday-Saturday series
No. 16 Georgia Tech at Duke: Thursday: GT 7–6; Friday: Duke 14–4 (7 innings); Saturday: GT 8–2
No. 14 Clemson at Pittsburgh: Clemson swept 6–1, 11–2 and 13–6
Virginia at Virginia Tech: Thursday: Va. 12–2; Friday: VT 5–4; Saturday: Va. 3–1
Stanford at No. 22 N.C. State: Thursday: State 7–2: Friday: Stanford 4–3, 10 innings; Saturday: Stanford 6–3
Wake Forest at Louisville: Thursday: WF 14–4; Friday: WF 5–4; Saturday: UL 14–9
No. 3 North Carolina at No. 6 Florida State: Thursday: UNC 8–3: Friday: UNC 11–1, 7 innings; Saturday: FSU 5–4
Notre Dame at Miami: Thursday: ND 3–2; Friday: Miami 15–1, 7 innings: Saturday: ND 12–2
Boston College at California: Thursday: Cal 8–6; Friday: BC 10–9; Saturday: Cal 4–3, 10 innings

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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

Photo courtesy of UNC Athletics