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Noting ACC Baseball – March 21
• Wake Forest, Louisville and Virginia enter the week as consensus top-10 teams, with none ranked lower than ninth in any national poll. Wake Forest continues to be ranked as high as No. 2 by USA Today Coaches and D1Baseball. Louisville is ranked No. 2 by Collegiate Baseball and No. 3 by Baseball America. Virginia is ranked as high as No. 5 by Collegiate Baseball.
• Miami turned heads last weekend with a three-game sweep of then-No. 15 Virginia Tech. The Hurricanes took over the top spot in the still-early Coastal Division standings at 5-1, one game ahead of second-place Virginia. First baseman CJ Kayfus, who keyed the Hurricanes offensively and was voted the ACC Player of the Week, has also been named a National Player of the Week by Collegiate Baseball and Perfect Game/Rawlings.
• The busy non-conference midweek non-conference schedule resumes today with 11 games set for Tuesday and eight more for Wednesday. Included is Florida State’s home game against top-five Florida on Tuesday night (7 p.m., ESPN) and the home openers for Boston College and Notre Dame. ACC teams currently own a 153-42 record against non-conference opposition (.785), including a 112-18 record in home games.
• The renewal of the Duke-North Carolina rivalry begins Thursday evening in Chapel Hill. The best-of-three series opener will be the second of eight conference games that ACC Network will feature on Thursday nights throughout the spring, with all eight contests being conference matchups. Upcoming games following this week include Wake Forest at Clemson (March 30, 7 p.m.), Clemson at Florida State (April 6, 8 p.m.), Miami at North Carolina (April 13, 7 p.m.), Miami at Louisville (April 27, 7 p.m.), NC State at Notre Dame (May 4, 7 p.m.) and Florida State at Louisville (May 18, 7 p.m.). In addition to the Thursday games, ACCN coverage in 2023 will be highlighted by all four days of pool play and the semifinals of the ACC Baseball Championship May 23-28 from Durham Bulls Athletic Park in Durham, N.C. ESPN2 will televise the title game on Sunday, May 28.
Upcoming ACC Schedule
Tuesday, March 21
Boston College at Northeastern, 3 p.m.
Valparaiso at Notre Dame, 4 p.m.
Towson at Duke, 4 p.m.
High Point at Virginia, 4 p.m.
North Carolina A&T at North Carolina, 6 p.m.
NC State at UNC Wilmington, 6 p.m.
Elon at Wake Forest, 6 p.m.
Wofford at Georgia Tech, 6 p.m.
Western Kentucky at Louisville, 6 p.m.
Winthrop at Clemson, 6 p.m.
Florida at Florida State, 7 p.m. (ESPN)
Wednesday, March 22
Kent State at Pitt, 3 p.m.
Sacred Heart at Boston College, 4 p.m.
Georgetown at Virginia, 4 p.m.
Gardner-Webb at Duke, 4 p.m.
VMI at Virginia Tech, 4 p.m.
Clemson at Kennesaw State, 6 p.m.
FAU at Miami, 6 p.m.
Thursday, March 23
Duke at North Carolina, 7 p.m. (ACCN)
Friday, March 24
Virginia Tech at Pitt, 3 p.m.
NC State at Boston College, 4 p.m.
Duke at North Carolina, 6 p.m.
Clemson at Georgia Tech, 6 p.m.
Florida State at Virginia, 6 p.m.
Miami at Wake Forest, 6 p.m.
Louisville at Notre Dame, 8 p.m. (ACCN)
Saturday, March 25
Duke at North Carolina, 2 p.m.
NC State at Boston College, 2 p.m.
Virginia Tech at Pitt, 3 p.m.
Louisville at Notre Dame, 3 p.m.
Clemson at Georgia Tech, 4 p.m.
Miami at Wake Forest, 4 p.m.
Florida State at Virginia, 8 p.m.
Sunday, March 26
Miami at Wake Forest, Noon
Clemson at Georgia Tech, 1 p.m.
Florida State at Virginia, 1 p.m.
Louisville at Notre Dame, 1 p.m.
NC State at Boston College, 1 p.m.
Virginia Tech at Pitt, 1 p.m.
Tuesday, March 28
Boston College at UConn, 3:05 p.m.
Duke at Liberty, 4 p.m.
Old Dominion at Virginia, 5 p.m.
Butler at Notre Dame, 5 p.m.
Georgia Tech at Georgia State, 6 p.m.
Coastal Carolina at North Carolina, 6 p.m.
Louisville at Cincinnati, 6 p.m.
Wake Forest at High Point, 6 p.m.
UNC Greensboro at NC State, 6 p.m.
Pitt at Penn State, 6 p.m.
Virginia Tech at VMI, 6 p.m.
Clemson vs. College of Charleston, 6 p.m. (at Columbia, S.C)
Florida State vs. Florida, 7 p.m. (at Jacksonville, Fla.; ACCN)
Wednesday, March 29
FIU at Miami, 6 p.m.
Thursday, March 30
Wake Forest at Clemson, 7 p.m. (ACCN)
Friday, March 31
Georgia Tech at Boston College, 4 p.m.
North Carolina at Notre Dame, 6 p.m.
Wake Forest at Clemson, 6 p.m.
Louisville at NC State, 6 p.m.
Pitt at Duke, 6 p.m.
Florida State at Miami, 7 p.m.
Virginia at Virginia Tech, 8 p.m. (ACCN)
Saturday, April 1
Wake Forest at Clemson, 2 p.m.
Pitt at Duke, 3 p.m.
North Carolina at Notre Dame, 3 p.m.
Georgia Tech at Boston College, 4 p.m.
Louisville at NC State, 4 p.m.
Florida State at Miami, 7 p.m. (ACCN)
Virginia at Virginia Tech, 7 p.m.
ACC Baseball in the NCAAs
• At least one ACC team has reached the College World Series each of the last 16 years in which the event has been held, and multiple ACC teams reached the CWS 10 times during that span.
• Led by College World Series participant Notre Dame, 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. The 2022 season marked the sixth year since 2010 when at least eight ACC teams landed spots in the field.
• The ACC has placed a total of 29 teams in the past 16 College World Series, an average of nearly two per season.
• 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).