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D1 Baseball preview. Austin Wilhite gets a write-up as best freshman.
https://d1baseball.com/weekend-preview/weekend-preview-acc-primer/
https://d1baseball.com/weekend-preview/weekend-preview-acc-primer/
The Coastal is now the Land of Not Quite Right:
UNC 9-3
PITT 6-6
VT 6-6
UVA 5-7
Duke 5-7
Miami 5-7
GT 4-8
Pitt & Va Tech 2nd & 3rd... does not compute. & VT was swept by Pitt last weekend.
If conference play ended today, we'd get the #12 seed, thanks to a tiebreaker over Notre Dame. 12/14 teams make the tournament.
The tournament field was 8 teams through the 2013 tournament. For the next 3 tournaments (2014-2016), the field was 10 teams with the bottom 4 teams (seeds 7-10) playing a "play in" round. Of note... Georgia Tech will forever be the ONLY team to ever win the tournament out of the play-in round (2014).Goodness, I thought only 8 made it in. We might be able to hang on to 14th place in the league. We'll be battling Pitt and Norte Dame the whole way. I think BC has a lock on 14th.
The schedule really does "ease up" after Louisville though which is promising and I think the only ranked team that we play after them is Virginia. Both of those series are at home too which should give us a slight advantage (though it hasn't yet).Must say... I was surprised to see how HIGH we landed in the RPI rankings after last night's road win over Auburn. We're up to 27th... highest ranking of the season. Here is how the ACC sits as of today. Based on this.. our conference schedule really softens for the back half of the season. However and unless we shore up the pitching situation (in general)... we won't be able to fully take advantage of that.
#3 UNC
#4 Clemson
#8 Louisville
#13 UVA
#15 Wake Forest
#27 Ga Tech
#44 FSU
#65 NCST
#68 Miami
#71 Pitt
#122 Va Tech
#123 Duke
#131 BC
#133 Notre Dame
I think it was @GTNavyNuke who pointed out last night we're basically halfway through the season and the prospects (based on performance) of Ga Tech making the post-season (NCAA bid) are not promising. There seems to be very little evidence to support this.... BUT this is my team and I will keep simply hoping there will be a turn by enough guys who have under-performed to this point for a better 2nd half of the season. It's been frustrating for sure.
A look at our schedule... I noticed we have not lost 3 in a row all season. And the last time we won 2 in a row was the 1st two games v Belmont...over a month ago. Need that to end right now.