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June 15, 2022
• Notre Dame (40-15) will represent the ACC at this year’s Men’s College World Series and will face No. 9 Texas (42-18) in its opening game on Friday evening at 7 p.m. ET (ESPN) at Charles Schwab Field Omaha in Omaha, Nebraska.
• The Fighting Irish advanced by winning five of six games away from home - first sweeping three straight in the Statesboro (Georgia) Regional, and then taking two of three in last weekend’s Super Regional at top-ranked Tennessee.
• The ACC has placed at least one team in each of the last 16 Men’s College World Series. A total of 29 ACC teams – nearly a quarter of the total field – have earned MCWS berths since 2006.
• Ninety-nine ACC teams have earned NCAA bids in the last 13 tournament years. The 14 current ACC teams have a combined 99 College World Series appearances.
• Three ACC teams rank among the top five nationally for most all-time tournament appearances: No. 2 Florida State (59), No. 3 Miami (48), and No. 5 Clemson (44).
• Notre Dame is making the third trip to Omaha in school history and the first in 20 years. The 2002 squad was the last Irish team to earn a bid prior to this season, when it knocked off top-ranked Florida State in three games to punch its ticket.
• Nine ACC teams were selected to compete in the 2022 NCAA Tournament, tying for the most of any conference. The ACC has placed at least six teams in the NCAA tournament for 18 straight years. This marks the sixth year since 2010 that at least eight ACC teams have landed spots in the field.
• The ACC leads all conferences with two of the five finalists for the Dick Howser Trophy, which is presented annually to the national player of the year. ACC Player of the Year Max Wagner of Clemson and Georgia Tech catcher Kevin Parada are among the remaining candidates for the honor, which will be announced Friday, prior to the start of the Men’s College World Series in Omaha.
• Georgia Tech’s Parada is also a finalist for the 2022 Golden Spikes Award and the Buster Posey Award, which is presented to the nation’s top catcher.
• Wagner and NC State freshman Tommy White each finished with 27 home runs, tying for the third-highest single-season total in ACC history. Parada hit 26 home runs this season and UNC freshman Vance Honeycutt hit 25. All four players set or tied program single-season marks.
• With two wins during this year’s NCAA Regional competition, Georgia Tech’s Danny Hall became NCAA Division I’s winningest active head coach with 1,348 career victories. Hall, whose career spans part or all of the last six decades, has posted 1,140 wins in his 29 years with the Yellow Jackets.