Wolfpack baseball seeded third for ACC Tournament

NC State was already locked into the three-seed for the ACC Baseball Tournament, which is starting Tuesday in Charlotte, regardless of the outcome of Saturday afternoon’s contest vs. Florida State, a slugfest that the Seminoles would win 15-11. The Wolfpack had won the series by winning the first two games by identical 6-4 scores.

With results of all ACC games in, now the Pack knows who will be in Pod C with NC State. It turns out a couple of teams that NC State swept, both on the road, during the regular season will join them.

Archrival UNC is the six seed and will aim to keep its late-season push to reach the NCAA Tournament. The Heels lost at Georgia Tech two out of three to end the regular season, but prior to that swept Louisville at home. The Wolfpack took all three against UNC in Chapel Hill, the first game on March 26 and then a double-header on March 29. NC State outscored UNC 23-6 in the three contests.

The 10 seed rounding out the region is Pitt, fading badly with a seven-game losing streak that included a three-game sweep by the Wolfpack in Pittsburgh on May 14-16. It just lost three in a row to Wake Forest in Winston-Salem to round out the regular season.

The Pack will be the last team to take a first pitch, playing Pitt on Thursday at 7 p.m. Its game against UNC is Friday at the same time. Both contests will be televised on RSN/ACC Network Extra. Pitt and UNC will play Tuesday at 7 p.m.

Earning the top seed in the pods is important because if all three teams split the round-robin with each other, seeding determines tiebreaker. That means the Pack only has to beat the winner of Tuesday's PItt-UNC contest to advance to the semifinals.

The winner of Pod C will face the victor from Pod B in the second semifinals game on Saturday, May 22, and that will be televised on ACC Network.

The title game is Sunday, May 30 at noon on ESPN2.

Here is a rundown of the pods, with game dates times announced Sunday

Pool A

1. Notre Dame (29-10 overall, 25-10 in the ACC)

8. Virginia (27-22, 18-18)

12. Virginia Tech (27-23, 16-20)

Pool B

2. Georgia Tech (28-21, 21-15)

7. Louisville (27-21, 16-16)

11. Clemson (24-26, 16-20)

Pool C

3. NC State (28-15, 19-14)

6. North Carolina (26-24, 18-18)

10. Pittsburgh (22-19, 16-17)

Pool D

4. Miami (32-17, 20-15)

5. Florida State (29-21, 20-16)

9. Duke (28-20, 16-17)

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