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ACC Weekend Slate Sees Postponements, Time Changes

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• Six ACC series remain slated for this weekend, but COVID-19 and the weather forecast have already altered the schedule. No. 3 Louisville’s home series versus No. 16 Pitt was canceled following positive results, contact tracing and subsequent quarantining within the Panthers baseball program. Meanwhile, North Carolina’s home series versus Miami is now set to begin with a 3 p.m. doubleheader on Friday due to the threat of heavy rain in Chapel Hill on Saturday. The starting time for Virginia’s home game versus Duke on Friday has been pushed up two hours to 6 p.m.

• Both ACC divisions are in the midst of tight races heading into the final month of the regular season.  Louisville continues to lead Notre Dame by a few percentage points in the Atlantic Division. Georgia Tech and Pitt sit one game behind first-place Virginia Tech in the Coastal Division, and Miami is just 1½ games out of first place in the Coastal.

• Two ACC teams rank among the nation’s top-five in fielding percentage with Notre Dame leading the country at a .988 clip and NC State checking in at No. 3 with a .985 fielding percentage. The Fighting Irish have made just 12 total errors in 25 games this season, while the Wolfpack has only committed 16 in 29 games.

• As Georgia Tech prepares to welcome Florida State, Yellow Jackets head coach Danny Hall sits just one win shy of 1,300 for his career. Hall is poised to become just the fourth active NCAA Division I coach to reach the 1,300-win plateau, and he currently ranks 20th on the D-I all-time list in total wins.

• Seven ACC teams are ranked in at least one of the six major polls this week, with Louisville ranked among the top 10 by five publications (as high as No. 3 by Perfect Game). Notre Dame owns three top-10 rankings (as high as No. 6 by Baseball America).

• All-session ticket books and weekend passes for the 2021 ACC Baseball Championship, scheduled for May 25-30 at Truist Field in Charlotte, North Carolina, are now on sale. Visit CharlotteKnights.com or by call the Charlotte Knights Ticket Office at 704-274-8282. 

ACC By The Numbers

2 - The ACC boasts the two leading active NCAA D-1 coaches in terms of winning percentage -- Louisville’s Dan McDonnell (.715) and Virginia’s Brian O’Connor (.702). 

3 - Three ACC teams rank in the top five nationally for most all-time NCAA tournament appearances: No. 2 Florida State (57), No. 3 Miami (46), and No. 5 Clemson (44). 

6 - The Atlantic Coast Conference has placed at least six teams in each of the last 16 NCAA tournaments.

10 - At least two ACC baseball teams have earned national seeds in each of the last 10 NCAA tournaments.

14 - At least one ACC team has reached the College
World Series in Omaha each of the previous 14 years in which it has been held, and multiple ACC teams reached the CWS nine times during that span.

26 - The ACC has placed a total of 26 teams in the past 14 College World Series, an average of just under two per season.

82 - Eighty-two (82) ACC teams have earned NCAA bids in the last 11 tournament years.

96 - The 14 current ACC teams have a combined 96 College World Series appearances.

1,100 (plus) - In Georgia Tech’s Danny Hall (1,299) and NC State’s Elliott Avent (1,129), the ACC claims the NCAA Division I’s No. 4 and No. 7 active coaches in terms of total victories.