ACC Baseball News: Five Teams Heading to the Super Regionals

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The first weekend of the NCAA Baseball Tournament is now complete and the ACC did okay last weekend. Of the eight teams that were invited to the field, five of them survived and have advanced to next weekend’s Super Regionals phase. The five are Clemson, Florida State, North Carolina, North Carolina State, and Virginia. The key thing to note here is that all five of these teams were regional hosts last weekend. Having a home field does pay off sometimes.

The five teams moving on matches a record set by the league back in 2013. It is also the highest total for the ACC. No other conference in college baseball will have more than the five. It bodes well for a league that has had at least one team advance to the College World Series over the last 17 years that the event has been held. Multi-teams have made the trip to Omaha (11 times) during that time. 31 programs have reached the CWS in the past 17 years. That’s averaged out to just under two per season.

The Florida State Seminoles will be making their NCAA-leading 18th trip to the Supers. On Friday, they will host the UConn Huskies out of the Big East Conference. This is the Seminoles’ first trip to the Super Regionals since 2019. Last weekend, they won three games over Stetson and the University of Central Florida to advance. Florida State was named the eighth seed when the field was announced. UConn advanced by beating the Oklahoma Sooners on Monday night 7-1.

Another team that went 3-0 last weekend was Virginia. They opened the tournament by defeating St. John’s and then took care of Mississippi State twice to move on. This will be the Cavaliers’ ninth appearance in the last 15 years in the Super Regionals. They will meet Kansas State starting on Friday in Charlottesville, Virginia.

North Carolina State advanced for the sixth time in their program history. NC State defeated Bryant, South Carolina, and James Madison to move on. The Wolfpack never trailed in any game they played last weekend in the Raleigh Regional. Their reward for winning their regional is making a trip to Athens, Georgia to face the Bulldogs. Georgia is the seventh seed in this year’s field while the Wolfpack are the 10th seed in this year’s event.

The Clemson Tigers moved on by winning their regional. After an opening-game win over High Point, the Tigers took two from Coastal Carolina. This is the Tigers’ first trip to the Super Regionals since 2010. It is also the first trip in fourteen years. The sixth-seeded Tigers will meet Florida out of the SEC. The Gators won the Stillwater Regional.

The third-seeded North Carolina Tar Heels had the most difficult time moving on. First, it took a walk-off grand slam HR to defeat Long Island University last Friday. On Saturday, they knocked off LSU to reach the regional championship. On Sunday, the Tar Heels would fall to the Tigers to set up a win-or-go-home game on Monday night. The game would go to extra innings with the Tar Heels defeating the seven-time national champion 4-3 to advance. The Tar Heels will host West Virginia who will be making their first-ever trip to the Super Regional round.

With four of the five teams having home-field advantage for this weekend’s Super Regional round, there could be quite a lot of ACC baseball fans making plans to head to Omaha for this year’s College World Series.